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California says it will dismantle death row. The move brings cheers and anger

The state's corrections department says it aims to move all condemned inmates to other state prisons and off death row by the end of the year.

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Rental application fees add up fast in a tight market. But limiting them is tough

California is the latest in a string of states and cities to try and save renters money on repeated application fees. But legal aid attorneys say the laws are proving difficult to enforce.

WEKU

Child vaccination rates, already down because of COVID, fall again

Child vaccination rates dipped into dangerous territory during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were shuttered, and most doctors were only seeing emergency patients.

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Editorial: California’s budget gets back to reality

It was fun while it lasted. But 2023 will be the year that reality comes back to the California budget.

Los Angeles Times

Melinda Henneberger: I thought Rep. Katie Porter was different. Her disrespect for California says otherwise

In the weeks now that Californians have been lashed by high winds during epic rainstorms and multiple mudslides as a series of atmospheric rivers moves through the state, I’ve heard from friends across the country, asking if we’re OK. So it’s weird that Rep. Katie Porter seemed not to have…

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Frantic search continues for boy, five, swept away in California floods

Kyle Doan, pulled into raging waters as he and his mother, Lindsy Doan, were trying to escape sudden flooding

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Court Rejects Challenge to California's Disclosure of Certain Gun Owner Records to Researchers

From Judge Larry Alan Burns' decision today in Doe v. Bonta (S.D. Cal.): Five California registered gun owners have filed suit to prevent Rob Bonta, Attorney General of the State of California, from enforcing a California law that permits the State to disclose their personal identifying information to bona fide…

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Nearly all of California exits the worst drought categories in US Drought Monitor

LOS ANGELES — The latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor showed an extraordinary sight: Deep splotches of dark red and purple signifying the worst levels of drought have been erased from California's map almost completely.

Los Angeles Times

LA County COVID-19 deaths hit new winter high. Why?

LOS ANGELES — The number of COVID-19 deaths reported weekly in Los Angeles County has hit the highest point of the season, underscoring the continued deadly risks of a disease that has ripped through the community for nearly three years.

Los Angeles Times

Jailed for life for stealing $14

David Coulson was imprisoned in California under draconian ‘tough on crime’ laws stemming from the 1990s. Now campaigners are calling for reform, reports Sam Levin

The Guardian - UK

Next stop Chicago? In-N-Out burger expanding east of Texas for first time

The beloved Southern California burger chain announced plans for a new location in Tennessee in 2026 and teases more shops to follow in other states.

Chicago Sun-Times

US renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman

The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed five places in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman

The Independent UK

Berkeley's People's Park is again in a fight for the ages, now over UC student housing

People's Park — among California's most contested and colorful patches of public land and a '60s era symbol of free speech and community power — is again embroiled in a battle for the ages, this time involving the University of California, Berkeley, a key environmental law and the acute student…

Los Angeles Times

Dying for your high: The untold exploitation and misery in America’s weed industry

Sareth Sin, 67, died upright, seated in a plastic chair, on Christmas Day. He was asphyxiated by fumes from the generator he ran to chase the desert chill out of a cannabis greenhouse on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.

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Justin Roiland of ‘Rick and Morty’ charged with domestic violence

The co-creator of the animated Adult Swim program “Rick and Morty” reportedly faces domestic violence charges in Orange County, California.

Los Angeles Times

Floodwaters could strand Monterey County residents, turn peninsula into an island

All eyes will be on Monterey County, California, on Thursday and Friday as officials warn that flooding could cut off the Monterey Peninsula from the rest of the state and shut down major roadways, including Highways 1 and 68.

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AMA Supercross Postpones Oakland Round Due To Severe Weather

The Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship cancels its second round of 2023 at Oakland, California’s RingCentral Coliseum due to severe weather.

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Eli Lilly, insulin makers sued by California over prices

Eli Lilly & Co., Novo Nordisk AS and Sanofi were sued by California over insulin prices, which the state claims are inflated through unfair and deceptive practices and disproportionately affect low-income households and people of color.

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The Independent UK

California latest to sue drug companies over insulin prices

California says it will sue the companies that make and promote much of the nation's insulin

The Orange County Register

Jonathan Lansner: Fewer Californians quit their job, but workers are still the boss

Has the California worker lost the nerve to quit and ceded control of the workplace back to the boss?

Los Angeles Times

ExxonMobil publicly denied global warming for years but quietly predicted it

In perhaps one of the most cynically ironic twists in the field of climate science, new research suggests ExxonMobil may have had keener insight into the impending dangers of global warming than even NASA scientists but still waged a decades-long campaign to discredit research into climate change and its connection…

The Independent UK

Series of drenching California storms put dent in drought

Atmospheric rivers pounding California since late last year have coated mountains with a full winter’s worth of snow and begun raising reservoir levels but experts say it will take much more to precipitation to reverse the effects of years of drought

Evening Standard

Missing five-year-old boy told mum ‘be calm’ before being swept away in California

“Yesterday I got to the point where I think I ran out of tears.”

ABC News

The Loop: Russia releases US Navy veteran, New York nurses end strike, and 'atmospheric river' wreaks havoc in California — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

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Two veto referendum campaigns and California executive departments disagree on when referendums suspend fast food workers and oil and gas laws

The campaign Save Local Restaurants filed 1 million signatures for a veto referendum to overturn California Assembly Bill 257 (AB 257), also known as the FAST Act, on Dec. 5, 2022. At least 623,212 signatures must be valid. Counties have until Jan. 25, 2023, to check a random sample of…

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