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California bill could mean more mentally ill people detained

A new proposal in the California Legislature could allow more people with mental illnesses to be detained against their will

The Independent UK

Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, is denied parole by California board

Sirhan Sirhan, 78, shot RFK in June 1968. A parole panel ruled that Sirhan lacks insight into what led him to shoot the U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate.

Chicago Sun-Times

Parole denied for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan for 17th time

Parole was approved in past, but overruled by California governor Gavin Newsom

The Independent UK

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Newsom gets good marks in new poll but faces test with budget crisis

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is California's most popular high-profile politician, but that could be tested by voter concerns over his ability to handle the state's estimated $22.5 billion deficit, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

Los Angeles Times

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan returns to 16th parole hearing

Two years ago, a California parole board voted to free Robert F

The Independent UK

Mother pleads with police to keep searching for son swept away from SUV in floodwater

‘I don’t want him to think we moved on. I need to feel that he’s somehow still with us,’ mother says

The Independent UK

Newsom rescinds California's COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's COVID-19 state of emergency officially ends Tuesday, bringing a symbolic close to one of the most challenging chapters of state history and of Gov. Gavin Newsom's political career.

Los Angeles Times

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George Skelton: Newsom cares more about almond growers than California's salmon fishery

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom bills himself as a protector of wildlife, so you wouldn't think he'd take water from baby salmon and give it to almonds.

Los Angeles Times

California dangles bonuses for nursing homes that add staff

SACRAMENTO, California — California is revamping how it rewards nursing homes to get them to improve patient care.

Tribune News Service

Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

California's coronavirus emergency declaration is ending

The Independent UK

California governor vows to change law blocking new housing

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to reform a landmark state environmental law after it was used to block needed student housing at the University of California, Berkeley

The Independent UK

California explores private insurance for immigrants lacking legal status. But is it affordable?

A doctor found cysts in Lilia Becerril’s right breast five years ago, but the 51-year-old lacks health insurance. She said she can’t afford the imaging to find out if they’re cancerous.

Tribune News Service

Climate Action Corps expands, paying more Californians to fight climate change

LOS ANGELES -- Inside a small warehouse, tucked behind a shuttered pawn shop in the heart of Hollywood, Crystal Lipps took the handle of a large black rolling cart loaded with donated boxes of carrots, bananas and other fresh food that once would have been destined for a landfill.

The Orange County Register

Pipeline debate at center of California carbon capture plans

Twenty years into climate change efforts, California is now relying heavily on a controversial technology — capturing climate pollution from industry and piping it underground, where it's supposed to remain permanently

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Melinda Henneberger: ‘I never asked to join this club,’ says Jennifer Siebel Newsom after Weinstein sentencing

Victims of sexual violence have one hell of an ally in the newly unshackled Jennifer Siebel Newsom, feminist documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. And in one way, I’m sorry about that.

Reason

New NTSB Report Highlights Useless, Premature Regulatory Push After East Palestine Derailment

Plus: Ex-felons and the right to vote, Gavin Newsom's plan to cap oil company profits collides with reality, and more...

Los Angeles Times

Conflict brews over Gov. Newsom's student transfer guarantee plan for ultracompetitive UCLA

LOS ANGELES — For thousands of community college students who vie each year to transfer to ultracompetitive UCLA, it sounds like a dream: Complete required coursework, meet a specified grade-point average and earn guaranteed admission to the most popular university in the nation.

Los Angeles Times

Amid an overdose crisis, a California grant that helps harm reduction programs is drying up

LOS ANGELES — Every day that she can, Bella walks through the glassy door on a spartan stretch of Los Angeles that is emblazoned with the motto "Save a life! Narcan Here."

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California tries to cap oil company profits. Figuring out how is challenge

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly five months after Gavin Newsom initially called for a penalty on excessive oil company profits, the governor and lawmakers in Sacramento appear no closer to deciding how to prevent the kind of gasoline price spikes that Californians experienced last year.

Tribune News Service

Tesla will base engineering HQ in Palo Alto at former H-P site

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Tesla has decided to base its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto at a former Hewlett-Packard site, the company's top boss Elon Musk announced on Wednesday.

InsideEVs

Tesla Will Base Its Global Engineering Headquarters In California

Tesla did not provide details about the implications of the move, such as how many jobs will be created and the incentive package likely offered by California.

Tribune News Service

California says it can no longer afford aid for COVID testing and vaccination of migrants

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States.

Salon

High gas prices lead to climate rollback

Industry lobbyists' well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation

Ballotpedia

Biden holds lead in PredictIt’s 2024 presidential election market

As of February 21, 2023, PredictIt’s 2024 presidential market shows President Joe Biden (D) leading at $0.36, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at $0.29, and former President Donald Trump (R) at $0.27. Biden has held the lead in this market since January 22, 2023. No other candidate has…

Los Angeles Times

With all this rain and snow, can California really still be in a drought? Look deeper

LOS ANGELES — Only weeks after a series of atmospheric rivers deluged California, the state is once again bracing for powerful winter weather that could deliver heaps of rain and snow, including fresh powder at elevations as low as 1,500 feet.

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