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SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed California’s budget to close an estimated $46.8-billion deficit through $16 billion in spending cuts and temporarily raising taxes on some businesses. Lawmakers passed …

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s Dakota Smith and David Zahniser steering the ship, with help from David Wharton. Newsletter Get …

President Biden’s widely panned debate performance Thursday night in Atlanta has many prominent Democrats asking a simple question: What do we do now? Swapping out Biden for someone else is …

AUSTIN, Texas —  The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and …

Kinky Friedman, author, singer-songwriter and former Texas gubernatorial candidate, died Thursday after a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Friedman was 79. “He died peacefully,” close friend Kent Perkins, who knew …

“I hope Joe Biden runs for president.” That was the headline of a column I wrote back in March of 2019. I believed then that “at a time when Trump …

This week, 13 young Hawaiian plaintiffs were set to take the state’s Department of Transportation to trial for failing to make real headway on reducing planet-warming pollution. Instead, on the …

WASHINGTON —  In the presidential debate former President Trump insisted repeatedly that if he had still been in the White House, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine and Hamas would not …

California students will have to complete a course in pocketbook economics — balancing a checkbook, managing credit cards, avoiding scams — to graduate from high school under a bill that …

WASHINGTON —  When Jamaal Bowman first ran for Congress, he chastised his opponent — a 16-term Democratic congressman who chaired a powerful House committee — as disconnected from his suburban New …