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The law goes into effect on 1 January

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

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.

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.

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US senators eye narrow fixes to raise bar for election challenges

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

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

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.

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.