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Hillary Clinton backs Eleni Kounalakis for California governor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- After her friend and former boss lost the presidential race in 2016, Democrat Eleni Kounalakis remembers Hillary Clinton urging women to run for public office.

Los Angeles Times

Book FINALLY returned to library after nearly 100 years with thousands in fines

Jim Perry returned Benson Lossing's "A History of the United States" to the St Helena Public Library in California 96 years after it was due in 1927

Daily Mirror

Minnesota is latest state to pass bill protecting gig workers

Minnesota's bill, which would guarantee a minimum wage for gig workers, follows similar efforts in California, Massachusetts, and Washington.

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Boy, 4, swept away in river found dead a day after body of sister, 8, also discovered

The siblings, a four-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl, were swept away in the turbulent water of Kings River in Fresno County, California, where the water levels were high

Daily Mirror

Population losses hit Northern California cities much harder than Southern California cities

Cities in Northern California saw more severe drops in population during the pandemic than those in Southern California, new census data show, with Bay Area communities hit particularly hard.

Los Angeles Times

California’s fentanyl problem is getting worse

California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of the money has been used to distribute fentanyl test strips and the overdose reversal drug naloxone, as well as deliver medical care to people who are homeless. The state has an opioid awareness…

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California unlikely to run short of electricity this summer thanks to storms, new power sources

California regulators say the state is unlikely to run short of electricity this summer, thanks to new power sources and a wet winter that filled reservoirs to restart hydroelectric power plants shuttered during the drought

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launches bid for 2024 GOP presidential nomination

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday — a diminished figure in his party after a steady fall in polls in recent months, but still the top rival to former President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles Times

California Seeks Federal Approval For Its Combustion Engine Ban In 2035

The state has set aggressive targets that include requiring 35 percent of new cars sold in 2026 use some form of electric propulsion.

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One in five deaths among young Californians tied to fentanyl

Drug overdoses kill two to three times as many in state as car accidents, data shows

The Guardian - US

Florida’s Ron DeSantis launches 2024 bid for White House

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday — a diminished figure in his party after a steady fall in polls in recent months, but still the top rival to former President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles Times

Walmart illegally sold brass knuckles to Californians. Now it will pay $500,000 fine

LOS ANGELES -- Walmart has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle allegations that it illegally sold brass knuckles to Californians through its website, according to state Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: California teaches Florida and Texas a lesson in ESG

Back in 2015 when California had the seventh-largest economy in the world, outperforming the rest of the US, economist Irena Asmundson attributed her native state's trajectory to a government increasingly in harmony with the diversity of its constituents. The cost of clean energy will “continue to fall” because of the…

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FedEx hit with $2 million jury award to deaf worker claiming supervisors yelled, spit on him

Younes Mchaar transferred from his FedEx package-handler job in Virginia to a similar position in San Jose, California, hoping to leave behind the disability discrimination he experienced at work as a deaf person. Instead, he found more of the same, and worse: Managers mocked him, yelled at him, and one…

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Target axes Pride merch over MAGA gripes

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the move was part of a "systematic attack on the gay community" around the U.S.

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Virgin Orbit shuts down after selling key assets to 3 aerospace companies

California-based Virgin Orbit said it will permanently cease operations after selling key assets to Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch and Launcher.

Fortune

California's biggest ghost town just sold for $22.5 million

40 years ago, it was home to 4,000 people.

The Guardian - UK

Long story: book returned to California library nearly a century late

Benson Lossing’s A History of the United States was checked out in 1927 and returned this month

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Prince Harry and Meghan spark 'beginning of the end' fears after claims he's staying in US hotel rooms without her

Royal expert Kara Kennedy speculated that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could be on the brink of breaking up, following reports that he rents a hotel room near their Montecito mansion in California to spend some alone time.

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California wants to store floodwaters underground. It's harder than it sounds

Even during epic floods, California is trying to prepare for the next drought by capturing water from this year's epic winter storms.

Tribune News Service

‘Insulting,’ ‘unrealistic’: Will lawmakers halt Newsom’s plan to reform San Quentin prison?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two months after Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his plan to transform San Quentin State Prison from a maximum-security prison into a rehabilitation and education facility within the prison system, lawmakers are pushing back saying his proposal lacks a detailed strategy behind it.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Colorado River water deal gives California another reprieve. For now

The Colorado River deal announced Monday is more of a temporary reprieve than a solution to plummeting water supplies. The deep water cuts for California, Arizona and Nevada will tide over thirsty residents and farmers only until the end of 2026.

Tribune News Service

California fines Walmart $500,000 over illegal online brass knuckle sales

Walmart will pay $500,000 to settle California authorities’ claims that the retail giant sold brass knuckles illegal in the state through its website, Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday.

The Orange County Register

Prosecutors worry ex-California police chief could turn his Jan. 6 trial into a ‘circus’

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Federal prosecutors are raising concerns that a former Orange County, California, police chief’s court filing, with dozens of pages of seemingly rhetorical conspiracy-oriented questions, could signal he plans to turn his Jan. 6 insurrection trial into a “circus.”

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Safety Rights for Key California Workers Could Be Tightened: Kiplinger Economic Forecasts

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