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Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes will succeed the ousted Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

WASHINGTON — When Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt limit, there are some structural advantages in favor of emerging from the fight this summer without tanking financial markets that didn’t exist in 2011, a similar moment in U.S. political history.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source of nearly one-third of California’s water supply — is at its highest level since 1995, boosting hopes that an end to the drought is near, but also raising concerns that a few warm spring storms could melt it…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Investigations at California’s largest prison for women into sexual abuse and assault claims are continuing, and the acting warden who oversaw a probe that identified at least 22 potential victims has been moved out of the prison.

The top of the USA TODAY High School Sports boys basketball Super 25 holds firm.

The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in northern California, seriously injuring himself, his wife and their two young children, was charged with attempted murder.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It is very rare that anything monumental gets done in America's political system without strong public support. That's certainly the case with gun control.

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The owner of a mushroom farm that was the scene of last week’s deadly mass shooting acknowledged Monday that its onsite worker housing — where the accused gunman lived and that a county supervisor had called “deplorable” — wasn’t permitted or up to code and…

FRESNO, Calif. — Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux gave a brief update Monday on the investigation into the cartel-style massacre of six people in Goshen, including a 16-year-old mother and her 10-month-old baby.