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Newsom signs gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial gun control bill modeled after Texas’ vigilante abortion law on Friday, teeing up a legal battle with a U.S. Supreme Court friendly to Second Amendment groups and firearm owners.

Los Angeles Times

Truckers are holding the Oakland port captive. Can Newsom end the standoff?

The Port of Oakland has been brought to a grinding halt this week as hundreds of protesting truckers hold a key commerce hub captive. The action — following a similar one at Southern California ports last week — has dealt another blow to supply chains already reeling from pandemic delays.

Tribune News Service

California OKs 'baby bonds' to help combat child poverty

California has approved trust funds for some children from low-income families who lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19

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Newsom to sign gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign a controversial gun control bill modeled after Texas' vigilante abortion law on Friday, teeing up a legal battle with a U.S. Supreme Court friendly to 2nd Amendment groups and firearm owners.

Los Angeles Times

New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure

California is punching back against two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a gun control law patterned after a Texas anti-abortion law

The Independent UK

California’s Trees Are Dying, And Might Not Be Coming Back

According to new research published in AGU Advances, scientists have quantified California’s loss of tree cover and how it evolved, showing in unprecedented detail the loss of trees over the span of 37 years.

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Devin Nunes drops California lawsuit against man he claims was ‘Twitter cow’s’ spouse

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Devin Nunes has dropped his lawsuit against a constituent whom he said inspired a cyber-stalking campaign against him and was married to the so-called Twitter cow that teases him online.

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Peele Skewers Modern Obsessions with 'Nope' Film, Theme Park Attraction

"Nope," Jordan Peele's latest withering horror-satire about our modern obsession with attention and spectacle, lands in movie theaters -- and at a fittingly Instagram-friendly Los Angeles theme park attraction -- this Friday. The Oscar-winning writer-director -- who is widely credited with elevating and revitalizing the horror genre with "Get Out"…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How ready is California to help if Congress kills Obamacare subsidies?

The state of California is ready with $304 million to help lower- and middle-income consumers pay for health insurance if federal subsidies end. But the fund will cover only a fraction of what would be lost.

Tribune News Service

Anita Chabria: Why are we botching the monkeypox response? Blame homophobia

California state Sen. Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, was at a birthday gathering of mostly gay men recently when the conversation turned to monkeypox.

Los Angeles Times

Nurse-midwives want to provide abortions. They're struggling to get trained

LOS ANGELES — When Ariela Schnyer was choosing where to get trained as a nurse-midwife, California stood out for an important reason: The state would allow clinicians like her to provide abortions.

Los Angeles Times

‘A better life.’ How a Facebook community helps thousands fleeing California for other states

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Hundreds of thousands of residents have fled California for other states during the pandemic and it seems as though most of them have found a virtual home on one of Terry Gilliam’s Facebook pages. His groups – Leaving California and Life After California – have a combined…

Tribune News Service

Tearing out her lawn was like therapy after a year of illness and grief

LOS ANGELES -- Even here, in the scorching summer heat of Altadena, California, Seriina Covarrubias' front yard feels cool and inviting under the dappled shade of a magnificent elm tree.

Los Angeles Times

Bryce Miller: Complicated case of horse racing trainer Peter Miller returns to Del Mar

DEL MAR, Calif. — Walking outside of his barn at Del Mar racetrack, one of the most successful and controversial horse racing trainers in Southern California turned to an owner ambling alongside.

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Michael Hiltzik: How the University of California betrays its doctors, students and patients on abortion

One year ago, the University of California Board of Regents voted to approve an uncompromising policy governing the terms of partnerships between UC's medical schools and Catholic hospital systems.

Tribune News Service

California is clawing back some COVID-19 rent relief it gave to tenants and landlords

California is demanding that thousands of tenants and landlords who were approved for emergency rental assistance during the pandemic return the money — often months after it has been spent — sometimes for vague or unspecified reasons.

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Tesla Production Sites By Model Assignment, Capacity: July 2022

Tesla, the world's largest electric car manufacturer, in its latest quarterly report shows an updated installed capacity info of four of its plants.

Los Angeles Times

Dramatic NASA photos reveal Lake Mead water levels at lowest point since 1937

LOS ANGELES — Recent satellite images from NASA show the dramatic water loss that has occurred over the last 22 years at drought-stricken Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir and a lifeline for California, neighboring states and Mexico.

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The Independent UK

Six Turpin siblings were abused and forced to eat vomit by foster family after rescue from parents, lawsuits claim

California’s Riverside County being sued along with foster care provider

Roll Call

At the Races: Marriage 47, pill 8 - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

Reason

Fight Fire With Fire

What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.

Reason

Truckers Shut Down California Port Fighting for the Right To Be Their Own Bosses

The terrible consequences of A.B. 5 keep coming.

Chicago Sun-Times

California governor wants UCLA to explain move to Big Ten

Gavin Newsom — an ex officio member of the University of California Board of Regents — is among others asking how the move will benefit all student-athletes, as well as how to mitigate the financial effects it will cause to UC Berkeley, California’s other public university in the Pac-12.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Watch: Ferocious mako shark, fisherman engage in tug of war

A prominent Southern California shark tagger has documented his tug of war with a ferocious mako shark, he said, to showcase the species’ “beauty, power, and strength.”

Los Angeles Times

Planned Parenthood clinic in this conservative desert town is now a refuge for Arizonans seeking abortions

EL CENTRO, Calif. — On a recent Monday afternoon, all the abortion appointments at Planned Parenthood-Imperial Valley Health Center were already booked up for the week.

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