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Losing pandemic benefits meant losing a lifeline for many Black and older people

Two million Californians lost their unemployment benefits last September when four pandemic-era federal programs ended. Some workers scrambled to find jobs, just as employers had hoped. But others, who’d been trying to find steady work for months, had their safety net pulled out from under them.

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Feds cite ‘disturbing’ past of California Jan. 6 defendant, fight his request to move trial

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal prosecutors are slamming efforts by a California man accused in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to have his charges dismissed, his past criminal history hidden from public view and to have his upcoming trial moved from Washington, D.C., to Sacramento.

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Clyburn backed by acclamation as Democrats fill out leadership team - Roll Call

House Democrats approved outgoing House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn as assistant Democratic leader, among other posts.

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Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California

Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal.

The Conversation

The most lopsided and closest ballot measures in California history

Welcome to the Thursday, December 1, Brew.

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Commentary: In the UC strike, professors can’t keep up with grading. Students will suffer

When graduate teaching assistants strike, my work becomes impossible. I’m a professor at the University of California as we see the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. My 250 students — mostly new to UC San Diego this fall — have lost their teaching assistants to the picket line.…

Los Angeles Times

California warden who feds say regularly sexually assaulted inmates heads to court

Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, convicted in the Varsity Blues college admission fraud case, were hardly the biggest offenders at the federal prison in Dublin, Calif.

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Report: California gun data breach was unintentional

California's breach of personal information for hundreds of thousands of gun owners earlier this year was the result of poor training and lack of technical expertise

The Independent UK

Lieu elected vice chair of House Democratic Caucus

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ted Lieu won a four-way contest Wednesday to be the next House Democratic Caucus vice chair, replacing fellow Californian Pete Aguilar, who was elected to serve as caucus chair.

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House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as Congress’ first Black party leader

WASHINGTON — House Democrats tapped Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York on Wednesday to lead them in the next Congress, and elected California Rep. Pete Aguilar as House Democratic Caucus chair.

Los Angeles Times

Biden announces new national monument near Nevada-California border

SAN JOSE, Calif. — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he will establish a new national monument across a vast landscape on southern Nevada’s border with California to protect an area sacred to 12 Native American tribes and rich with big horn sheep, Joshua tree forests, desert tortoises, ancient petroglyphs…

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Who is the new US Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries?

Jeffries becomes the first Black politician to lead a party in the US Congress, succeeding Representative Nancy Pelosi.

Al Jazeera

California Awards $20M Grant To Electric Motorcycle Startup Ryvid

Irvine, California-based electric motorcycle startup Ryvid receives a $20M grant from the California Competes Tax Credit program.

RideApart

Terrell Owens says man he punched at CVS threatened him, fan

Retired NFL star Terrell Owens said a fight caught on camera in which he punched a man in a CVS parking lot was the result of an “aggressor” threatening him and a fan he was talking to at the California store

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #39

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Salon

GOP rebels threaten McCarthy speaker bid

Rep. Andy Biggs says there are about 20 "pretty hard nos" in the Republican Party against McCarthy

Los Angeles Times

House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as Congress’ first Black party leader

WASHINGTON — House Democrats tapped Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York on Wednesday to lead them in the next Congress, and elected California Rep. Pete Aguilar of California as House Democratic Caucus chair.

The Independent UK

Virginia cop posed as teen to groom, extort California girl

A Virginia sheriff’s deputy posed as a 17-year-old online to groom and sexually extort a teenage girl in California before he killed her mother and grandparents and set fire to their home

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Lieu elected vice chair of House Democratic Caucus - Roll Call

House Democrats on Wednesday elected California Rep. Ted Lieu to be vice chair of the party caucus next year.

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California gave drivers a new option for gender on their IDs. Here’s how many took it

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Four years after California began issuing nonbinary IDs, fewer than 16,000 people have asked the state for a little piece of plastic with their gender marked by an X rather than an F or M.

Los Angeles Times

Black and Latino residents burned out of Palm Springs seek city reparations

LOS ANGELES — Pearl Devers was too young to understand why her mother was bundling her and her brothers up and fleeing their family home on tribal land in Palm Springs, California.

Los Angeles Times

Nearly 20% of California water agencies could see shortages if drought persists, state report shows

LOS ANGELES — Most of California’s urban water agencies believe they have enough supplies to last through another seven months of drought, but nearly 20% of them — including many in Southern California — say they could be facing significant shortages, according to a new state report.

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Layoffs mount: Twitter, tech, biotech firms chop 900-plus Bay Area jobs

SAN JOSE, California — Twitter and other companies have unveiled plans to chop more than 900 Bay Area jobs in a fresh round of tech and biotech layoffs that could jolt the region’s increasingly wobbly economy.

Los Angeles Times

Despite losing school board races, California conservatives confident in new playbook

For conservatives running for school boards in California, any dream of a "red wave" proved to be a dud as Republican candidates, including a member of an extremist right-wing group, lost in most races across the state.

Daily Mirror

'I found out my friend was a murderer - and I was next on his list'

Nedra Calloway, from California, claims to have found out that she was next on convicted murderer Kevin Sterling Jones' hit list from recordings shared with the police by an informant

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