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California's Democratic AG Seeks to Keep State's Top Law Job
Rob Bonta was one of 120 ambitious yet relatively obscure California state lawmakers just last year, but now he’s on the cusp of an election that could allow him to become the most populous state’s top lawman for nearly a decade.
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Sherri Papini Sentenced to 18 Months for Kidnapping Hoax
A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state search.
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California First to Make Firms Disclose Social Media Policies
California will impose first-of-its-kind requirements on social media companies to publish their policies for removing disturbing content including hate speech, with details on how and when they remove that content, under a bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Lawmakers Adjourn in Heat Wave, Leave Governor in Hot Seat
California lawmakers adjourned this year’s legislative session at the onset of a protracted triple-digit heat wave that fed some of their final debates over climate change and keeping the lights on by propping up an aging nuclear reactor.
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California Declares State of Emergency Over Monkeypox Outbreak
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday declared a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak.
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California Lacked Safeguards for Gun Owner Info: Experts
Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.
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California Eyes Banning Loitering for Prostitution Arrests
California lawmakers on Monday finally sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a hot potato of a bill that would bar police from making arrests on a charge of loitering for prostitution, nine months after the measure passed the Legislature.
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California Legislative Races Feature Intraparty Struggles
Democrats in deep blue California have a virtual lock on overwhelming majorities in the state Legislature for the foreseeable future. But there still is election drama as voters choose among candidates for 100 legislative seats in Tuesday’s primary election.
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California Moves to Embrace Cryptocurrency and Regulate It
California became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations.
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California Inmate Overdoses Plummet Under Drug Program
The spiraling number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations among California prison inmates fell dramatically during the first two years of a program that uses prescribed drugs to treat more incarcerated addicts than any such program in the country, officials said Tuesday.
