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Gavin Newsom hits out at Dem failure to make clear that GOP-run states have worse gun crime

California governor has criticised Democratic messaging consistently over last several months

The Independent UK

California governor signs laws to boost housing production

Two new laws in California will let developers bypass local governments to build housing on commercial land

The Independent UK

New California law requires employers to report pay data. What does it mean for businesses?

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed the state's pay transparency law that will require California businesses to disclose compensation and demographic data for their workers starting next year.

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California becomes first state to ban testing of harmful chemicals on dogs and cats for consumer products

The law goes into effect on 1 January

The Independent UK

Firearms groups challenge California gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban

Firearms groups have filed a widely anticipated legal challenge against a California gun law modeled after Texas' vigilante antiabortion legislation.

Los Angeles Times

Gavin Newsom for president? He’s impressing Democratic insiders with blasts at Republicans

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public slugfests with the governors of Texas and Florida over immigration and abortion is generating important national attention. But perhaps even more importantly — assuming he has further political aspirations — his more aggressive demeanor is endearing him to influential Democratic insiders.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Editorial: Solitary confinement is torture. Gov. Newsom can limit it in California

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

Los Angeles Times

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RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan challenges his parole denial

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F

The Independent UK

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US senators eye narrow fixes to raise bar for election challenges

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California bans unnecessary pesticide, chemical testing on dogs and cats

LOS ANGELES — California will ban the testing of harmful chemicals on dogs and cats, effectively becoming the first state in the United States to remove the option for companies seeking to learn about the harmful effects from their products.

Los Angeles Times

Newsom signs bill allowing California IDs for immigrants in the country illegally

LOS ANGELES — Throughout her life in California, Kassandra Merlos has relied on her Mexican passport as her sole form of identification.

Los Angeles Times

New California abortion laws set up clash with other states

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed more than a dozen laws aiming to make California an abortion sanctuary state

The Independent UK

Newsom signs 13 abortion protection and reproductive health bills

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 13 abortion protection and reproductive health bills Tuesday, codifying the final pieces of California’s campaign to counter the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Los Angeles Times

Too much spending for Gavin Newsom? California governor cites costs in vetoes, signaling a leaner budget

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Gov. Gavin Newsom decides the fate of the hundreds of bills still on his desk, a pattern has emerged with those he has declined to sign: veto messages emphasizing budgetary discipline.

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California bill to accelerate undergrounding of power lines awaits governor's signature

A bill that supporters say will help reduce the incidence of deadly wildfires — especially in the Northern California service territory of Pacific Gas & Electric — by streamlining efforts to place power lines underground awaits the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Los Angeles Times

California kindergarten saw big enrollment drop during pandemic. What's happening now?

LOS ANGELES — No grade level suffered a steeper enrollment drop during the COVID-19 pandemic than kindergarten, driven by what many parents saw as the futility of placing a 5-year-old in front of a computer all day.

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Caravan pressures Gov. Newsom to extend unemployment benefits to undocumented Californians

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With hundreds of bills awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto or approval, dozens of undocumented immigrant workers and allies are crossing the state in a two-day vehicle caravan to pressure him to sign legislation that would extend unemployment benefits to all Californians regardless of immigration status.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

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Editorial: Gov. Pritzker, don’t follow California in banning gas-powered car sales

Taking aim at climate change, California last month announced plans to phase out the sale of new, gasoline-powered vehicles. As of 2035, the Golden State will allow only electric vehicles (EVs) to be sold new, though used-car sales will remain unrestricted.

The Independent UK

Arizona abortion clinics send women to other states

Women seeking abortions across Arizona were forced to find alternatives beyond the state’s borders after a court ruling last week cleared the way for prosecutors to charge doctors and others who help a woman end a pregnancy unless her life is in danger

Los Angeles Times

Newsom vetoes bill aimed at preventing light pollution

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have dimmed the light pollution emanating from state buildings, writing that the proposed law was an "overly broad mandate" whose costs California is currently ill-equipped to cover.

Los Angeles Times

It just got harder in California to steal and then sell catalytic converters

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Sunday that he signed legislation to crack down on rampant vehicle catalytic converter theft by making it illegal for recyclers to buy the valuable car part from anyone other than the legal owner or a licensed dealer.

Los Angeles Times

New law will remove the word 'squaw' from California place names

In a ceremony joined by Native American tribal leaders, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that will remove the word "squaw" from nearly 100 geographic features and place names across California.

Salon

Can this law solve the plastic crisis?

Thanks to a law signed this past June, there could be much less plastic waste in California within a decade

Los Angeles Times

Proposition 31 will let California voters decide whether they want to ban flavored tobacco products

California voters will decide in November whether to uphold or block a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 that banned the sale of certain flavored tobacco products, an effort by anti-tobacco advocates to stop a youth vaping crisis and weaken the industry's influence in the state.

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