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Americans celebrated the United States' 241st birthday in both joyous and serious ways, from flashy firework displays for massive crowds to small-town parades. Tuesday's events even went international, as U.S. senators travelled to Afghanistan and spent the holiday with the troops and an Independence Day exhibition took Major League Baseball to London.
On June 28, hundreds traveled to Sacramento for an emergency protest against Speaker Rendon's efforts to kill SB 562 for this year. This is one of the rallies held outside as others went inside the Capitol to lobby legislators.
Rep. Jeff Denham, center, faces constituents angry about his vote to repeal Obamacare during a town meeting held in Riverbank, Calif., on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. On the surface, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision this week to delay a vote on the Senate's health care bill might seem frustrating to the House Republicans who backed a measure to rip up Obamacare.
He personally sent packing a so-called single-payer universal healthcare bill that was virtually all fluff with little substance. Then he was viciously attacked by the nurses union that pushed the bill, playing bully politics.
The GOP may be in dire straits in California, but a flurry of recent moves suggests the party of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon is not willing to abandon the 2018 gubernatorial race, as it did four years ago. The big question is if the party will be able to marshal enough support behind a Republican candidate for governor and avoid a repeat of last fall's Senate campaign, which, thanks to the top-two primary, was fought between two Democratic candidates.
Brown-Holmes announced that three Chicago police officers have been indicted on felony charges that they conspired to cove... . FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2015, file photo, Chicago police officers line up outside the District 1 central headquarters in Chicago, during a protest for the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Gov. Jerry Brown, unveiling his revised budget plan in May, signed a $183.2-billion state spending plan on June 27. Gov. Jerry Brown, unveiling his revised budget plan in May, signed a $183.2-billion state spending plan on June 27. Gov. Jerry Brown placed his signature Tuesday on a $183.2-billion state budget, a spending plan that boosts public schools and programs aimed at California's less fortunate while stashing away an additional $1.8 billion in the state's long-term cash reserves. The budget is the first crafted since President Trump's election and includes money for a few programs that Democrats insisted were a necessary response to the changing political times.
Both houses of the California Legislature recently approved a joint resolution calling the federal government to continue protecting Berryessa Snow Mountain and other national monuments in California. The joint resolution was authored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, with co-authors Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Santa Rosa; state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa; and state Senator Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg.
SpaceX is going for a weekend double-header with a planned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, just two days after a successful satellite launch from Florida. SpaceX is going for a weekend double-header with a planned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, just two days after a successful satellite launch from Florida.
Xavier Becerra, California's combative attorney general, has become the Golden State's face of resistance to the Trump administration's domestic initiatives, the blunt voice rejecting the president's attempts to roll back the progressive immigration and environmental policies so central to California's sense of itself. At a June 16 press conference, for example, Becerra pushed back against stricter immigration enforcement, saying his office would review conditions at immigrant detention facilities in conjunction with a legislative measure that prohibits local governments from renting out jail beds to U.S. Immigration and Customs.
Officials say U.S. military chiefs will seek a six-month delay before allowing transgender individuals to enlist in their services. Officials say U.S. military chiefs will seek a six-month delay before allowing transgender individuals to enlist in their services.
Free speech on college campuses attracted congressional attention on Tuesday as a Senate panel questioned students, academics and lawyers after the abrupt cancellation of several high-profile speeches from California to Texas. Students and academics insisted the golden rule is for the speech to go on as long as violence can be prevented, dismissing the idea of intolerance.
Police say a vehicle struck pedestrians on a road in north London, leaving several casualties and one person has been arrested. A New York City man who says the city didn't do enough to keep him from drunkenly jumping out of the back of a moving ambulance has filed a lawsuit.
California's Dianne Feinstein turns 84 on Thursday and is displaying signs that she's headed for a re-election campaign, not a retirement party. While the Democrat has been coy when asked about seeking a fifth full term next year, her political committee, unambiguously titled Feinstein for Senate 2018, raised more than $650,000 in the first three months of this year in a cue she is looking ahead.
Rep. Jackie Speier said Friday that she has the "greatest sympathy" for House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who is in critical condition after being shot in the hip by a gunman, and says his actions cannot be forgotten. Ms. Speier was shot in 1978 with Rep. Leo Ryan during a visit to Jonestown where many of his constituents had family members.
In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Debbie Ziegler, mother of Brittany Maynard, speaks to the media after the passage of legislation, which would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives, at the state Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif.
California doctors and dentists will get a raise for treating low-income patients under legislation headed to Gov. Jerry Brown. The Legislature voted Thursday to spend $546 million on higher payments for health care providers using revenue from a $2-per-pack tobacco tax increase approved by voters last year.
A new California law allows people who are no longer in jail to challenge old convictions, a move that could offer deportation relief to immigrants as President Donald Trump's administration targets those with prior crimes. The law - known as "Criminal procedure: postconviction relief" - allows people who have claims of innocence, or people whose attorneys failed to warn them about the immigration consequences of a plea deal, a way of challenging those convictions.
Gilbert Feliciano, center, and other delegates supporting Kimberly Ellis chant for an opportunity to speak after the election of a new California Democratic Party chairperson on the final day of the party's convention in Sacramento on May 21, 2017. Gilbert Feliciano, center, and other delegates supporting Kimberly Ellis chant for an opportunity to speak after the election of a new California Democratic Party chairperson on the final day of the party's convention in Sacramento on May 21, 2017.