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Lyle Menendez will face parole board a day after brother Erik was denied release. Follow every key event from arrest to parole hearings 35 years later

Erik will be eligible again in three years; the two brothers have spent 30 years in prison for the murder of their parents

A panel of two California commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again. A parole hearing for his brother Lyle Menendez, who is being held at the same prison in San Diego, is scheduled for Friday morning.

Erik Menendez has been denied parole by panel of California commissioners

Panel declines to grant parole to Menendez, convicted over parents’ deaths, while brother Lyle faces hearing on Friday

Signing comes day after Texas House sent GOP plan to add five seats on fast track to passage

Congressional redistricting – the process of drawing electoral districts to account for population changes – was conceived by the Founding Fathers as a once-per-decade redrawing of district lines following the decennial U.S. census. Today it has devolved into a near-constant feature of American politics – often in response to litigation,…

Dozens of sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, resulting in visitors being told to stay away for now

Retaliatory strike against gerrymandered maps in Texas now heads to voters in a special election this November

Trump’s demand for new district maps in Republican-led states sparked a redistricting fight of the midterm elections.

Republican-controlled Texas and Democratic-run California were set Thursday to forge ahead on creating new congressional maps, in a cutthroat struggle to tilt the outcome of next year's US midterm elections before voters even cast a ballot.