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Editorial: Democrats’ gas tax holiday is a bad idea

With inflation and price hikes pinching household budgets, Democrats are desperately looking for ways to show voters they’re doing something to ease the pain ahead of midterm elections — and the latest proposal is a gas tax holiday.

Los Angeles Times

Kabul to California: how the ‘hip-hop family’ mobilised for young Afghans

With breakdancers, artists and parkourists facing a bleak future under the Taliban, a global network stepped in to help, drawing on the activist spirit of rap culture

The Guardian - UK

California tribe confronts crisis of missing, murdered women

A Native American tribe has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women

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Sharks’ playoff hopes continue to fade with trade deadline now one month away

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The three times in the last seven years that they’ve been out of a playoff spot by the time the NHL trade deadline rolled around, the Sharks have been sellers, trading players on expiring contracts to contending teams for draft picks.

Tribune News Service

Dog once declared deceased is reunited with owner in California after going missing 12 years ago

A dog in California that was reported missing in 2010 and recorded as "deceased" in 2015 is being returned to her family after 12 years.

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Biden To Restore California Waiver For Setting Vehicle Emission Laws

A new way of thinking.

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Extremists see opportunity as fury over Covid rules erupts in rural California

Local officials are being ousted and threatened as extreme rhetoric takes over once-staid public meetings

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Prof. Jonathan Turley (GW) on the Trump Civil Incitement Opinion

From today's item in The Hill: When Trump's lawyers said his language was largely indistinguishable from that of many Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Mehta chided them for playing "a game of what-aboutism." That "what-aboutism," however, is precisely the point. The selective imposition of liability for speech is the…

Reason

500-pound black bear nicknamed ‘Hank the Tank’ wreaks havoc in California

Hank broke into his latest home on Friday – and neither homeowners or wildlife officials seem entirely sure what to do about him

The Independent UK

Fresh off Super Bowl, Eric Weddle named head coach at California HS

Eric Weddle will take over as the head coach at Rancho Bernardo High School in California in 2023.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Dead California family mystery unfolds

Mom, dad, infant, and family dog all mysteriously died while hiking California’s Sierra National Forest last year

Salon

Bill aimed at converting California municipal courses to housing is back — for a third time

Groups feel that the bill targets golf, because there is no mention of soccer, baseball stadiums or tennis facilities.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The desperate last text from dying dad that failed to send because of poor signal

The married couple perished alongside their baby daughter and family dog in a Californian forest

Manchester Evening News

‘We’re in danger of forgetting’: congressman’s warning 80 years after Japanese American incarceration

Congressman Mark Takano, whose family was forced into camps, calls for vigilance amid ‘nefarious nostalgia’

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California’s first surgeon general on Covid: ‘Greatest collective trauma’ of a generation

Dr Nadine Burke Harris is an expert on how childhood trauma can affect health. That proved to be valuable expertise during the pandemic

Los Angeles Times

Another effort to tax 'extreme wealth' in California is launched in Legislature

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A handful of Democrats in the state Legislature are pushing again for a tax on "extreme wealth" in California, a move they say could bring the state billions in revenue by raising taxes on households worth $50 million.

The Guardian - US

Black workers accused Tesla of racism for years. Now California is stepping in

The company has been hit with several discrimination lawsuits but this from a government agency may have wider implications

The Guardian - US

California family made numerous calls for help on fatal hike, phone data shows

Authorities were able to re-create the family’s hiking path using data, including GPS locations and photos, from their phones

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LA County forecasts indoor mask mandate easing by late March

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County’s indoor mask mandate will likely be lifted by the end of next month, a top health official said this week, though that timetable could potentially be even shorter should the federal guidance on face coverings change.

Chicago Sun-Times

Heather Mack’s daughter should live with me, murdered mom’s friend says in revealing new court filing

SNEED EXCLUSIVE: Diana Ellis has made a move in Cook County court for Stella, 6, to come live with her in California. But the filing opens a window into the fraught relationship between Sheila von Wiese-Mack and her daughter before she was killed in Bali.

The Independent UK

Legal questions mount amid San Francisco rape kit DNA case

The revelation that the San Francisco police crime lab used a sexual assault victim’s DNA against her in an unrelated property crime case — and the allegation that it may be a common practice in California — has prompted a national outcry among law enforcement, legal experts, lawmakers and advocates

Tribune News Service

Newsom wants to let private California citizens sue gun dealers, similar to Texas abortion ban

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — If the U.S. Supreme Court will allow private citizens in Texas to sue over abortion, it ought to allow private citizens in California to sue over gun violence, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

Reason

There Is Little Evidence That Mask Mandates Had an Important Impact During the Omicron Surge

Case trends in states with mandates were very similar to case trends in states without them.

Reason

Biden Administration Files Dubious Lawsuit Challenging Missouri's Gun Sanctuary Law [Updated with a Note on State Courts]

The suit deserves to fail for much the same reasons as Trump-era attacks on immigration sanctuaries.

Los Angeles Times

California lawmakers want to crack down on public meeting disruptions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California school boards, city councils and boards of supervisors would have clearer authority to remove disruptive participants from their meetings under a bill introduced Thursday in the Legislature that aims to protect local officials from harassment and verbal abuse.

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