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LOS ANGELES — Their motives for mass murder appeared to be different — workplace enmity, law enforcement officials said, or personal resentment, or a political conflict in a homeland across the ocean.

Mounting frustration over GOP electoral losses has incited a contentious leadership battle that pits a prominent California Republican against the party's national leader.

For years, many states have set ambitious goals and incentives to promote renewable electricity projects. Now, more of those states are turning their attention to the transmission lines, substations and transformers needed to get that electricity from wind farms and solar plants into homes and businesses.

Do a pair of back-to-back mass shootings in California suggest that older men will be the next generation of mass murderers?

After a deadly wave of mass shootings in the United States last year — including one in Buffalo, New York, and another at a school in Uvalde, Texas — that collectively killed 31, California's Democratic-controlled Legislature responded by quickly passing more than a dozen laws meant to prevent gun violence…

A series of four attacks have upended communities across the state, from a city to farming towns

While the running joke may be that there are too many lawyers in the world, in many rural places in the United States, there are demonstrably too few.

Nick Sands, the brother of Julian Sands, who has been missing for 12 days in California, has said ‘I know in my heart that he has gone’

Chunli Zhao, 66, was arrested on suspicion of seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder

Half Moon Bay shooting unfolded less than two days after massacre in Monterey Park

Raising taxes on the super wealthy is a hurdle that even the nation’s most left-leaning states have yet to overcome.