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Newsom will not contest parole for former Manson follower Leslie Van Houten

Gov. Gavin Newsom will not challenge a California appellate court’s decision to allow parole for Leslie Van Houten, moving the former follower of Charles Manson closer to release following more than 50 years behind bars.

Los Angeles Times

Gavin Newsom urges DoJ to investigate Florida over ‘unconscionable’ transportation of migrants

The California governor’s letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland says it is “unconscionable to use people as political props”

The Independent UK

Taxpayers Pony Up for Transit Systems They'll Never Use

The median resident of Southern California takes zero transit trips annually, and only 2 percent of the region's population frequently uses mass transit.

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California’s youth prisons have shuttered — and prompted an end to this secretive group

What was once the nation’s largest network of youth prisons is no more.

Tribune News Service

California officials join Texas sheriff in calling for federal investigation into DeSantis migrant flights

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into the transportation of migrants to Sacramento as part of a program overseen by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Los Angeles Times

Yashar Ali's future income is forfeit until Getty heir is paid in full, judge says

LOS ANGELES — Yashar Ali must forfeit his future earnings until his debt to a Getty heir is paid in full.

Los Angeles Times

It’s been one month since 36 migrants arrived in Sacramento. Here’s what their lives are like

It was just after lunch at Saint Anthony Church in Sacramento, and six Venezuelan migrants were playing an intense, but fumbling game of basketball.

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Kingmaker California? US House control could hinge on district battles in famously liberal state

California is again emerging as a critical battleground in the fight to control the U.S. House

The Independent UK

Trump maintains lead in 2024 Republican presidential primary polling average and PredictIt market

As of July 4, 2023, former President Donald Trump (R) holds a lead in both RealClearPolitics’ (RCP) Republican presidential primary polling average and PredictIt’s Republican presidential primary market.

Ballotpedia

Hope and uncertainty linger as California turns the page on state-run youth prisons

California has moved responsibility for youth prisons to the county level, the final step toward local control in a yearslong reform effort aimed at keeping young offenders closer to home and prioritizing rehabilitation over punishment

The Independent UK

The hate has not stopped – but what has caused California anti-Asian crimes to drop?

AAPI community leaders met new hate crime data with trepidation and caution – though reported anti-Asian hate crimes decreased in 2022, the number was still the second-highest since at least 2001, and anti-Asian rhetoric and violence are still widespread.

Tribune News Service

George Skelton: Sorry, founders, we've never been created equal

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Fourth of July should never be celebrated without revisiting the hallowed words that crown the Declaration of Independence and symbolize the American Dream.

Los Angeles Times

Newsom hits the road to campaign for Biden in Idaho, building his own base in red states

At a private fundraiser in the middle of Donald Trump's America, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was on a mission to help President Joe Biden.

Los Angeles Times

California tried and failed to ban for-profit ICE detention centers. What does that mean for other states?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — California's landmark ban on private prisons and immigrant detention facilities saw its fate sealed when a federal court officially repealed the 2020 law.

Los Angeles Times

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The Guardian - UK

China, Myanmar and now Darfur ... the horror of genocide is here again

Each time it happens, the world insists: ‘never again’. But the political and moral blindspots that allow these atrocities will persist until the lessons of history are learned

The Guardian - US

President centers ‘Bidenomics’ as 2024 re-election campaign gathers pace

Joe Biden’s team focuses on voters’ dim perception of president’s handling of economy despite signs of positive performance

Tribune News Service

Gavin Newsom gets $380 million for San Quentin reforms. But he won’t commit to prison closures

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was able to wrest budget dollars from skeptical lawmakers for his plan to reform San Quentin State Prison — but the spending plan does not commit to closing more facilities, as some Democrats wanted.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Southpaw Newsom is shelled by lawmakers on plans for a delta tunnel

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom recently said that he didn't understand why sports stadiums could be built quickly but other major projects couldn't. If he really didn't know, he probably just learned.

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Michael Smolens: DeSantis takes a brief off-ramp from immigration to bash San Francisco

It turns out dumping deceived migrants in unwitting communities was just a warmup act for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Al Jazeera

First-of-its-kind reparations panel issues report in California

A nine-member task force in the US has published a 1,075-page report identifying ways to redress the harms of slavery.

Tribune News Service

California is off to a slow fire season so far, but Newsom, fire leaders urge readiness as summer begins

With reservoirs full and snow still deep across the Sierra Nevada following one of the wettest winters in recent decades, California is off to a slow start this year to fire season.

Los Angeles Times

California’s reparations proposal moves to Newsom, state lawmakers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After two years of deliberations, California’s Reparations Task Force on Thursday is sending its final report and recommendations to the state Capitol, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers will ultimately decide how the state should atone for slavery.

Los Angeles Times

Tulare Lake floodwaters now receding, Newsom’s office says. ‘We’ve turned a corner’

After months of concern that Sierra Nevada snowmelt would send torrents of water into an already flooded Tulare Lake and inundate more communities and infrastructure, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has announced that the waters of the resurgent lake have finally begun to recede.

Los Angeles Times

The most lucrative majors? Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers

LOS ANGELES — Elijah Calderon, after a yearlong training program at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, is poised to earn about $105,000 annually as a power lineman. Once he becomes a journeyman in three to four years, he stands to make about $165,000 — and potentially much more with overtime.

The Independent UK

California Black reparations task force concludes historic 2-year work

California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force wraps up its historic work with a final report to lawmakers

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