Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump. The session will start Dec. 2.

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California is one of the nation’s bluest states, yet voters engaged in ticket-splitting and broke with the state's dominant ...

Republicans promote a tougher policy on crime, but progressives say the California election results show an unfair economy.

In 2016, Trump famously scorned California for wasting water by allowing its major rivers to reach the ocean. More recently, at a September campaign speech in Rancho Palos Verdes, Trump said he will ...

California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug possession — and reform-oriented district attorneys in Los Angeles and ...

The false declaration of urgency achieves what Newsom apparently wants: national media coverage that otherwise probably wouldn’t happen.

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California’s state Senate will be at least 50% women for the first time in history, and, depending on a few undecided races, could reach overall gender parity.

Las políticas fronterizas del presidente electo podrían afectar el comercio, la privacidad y las familias inmigrantes que ...