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SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom came close but couldn’t quite bring himself to say it: The drought’s over. It’s disappointing when a governor won’t acknowledge what ordinary citizens already know because …

WASHINGTON —  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this …

WASHINGTON —  A Pennsylvania woman linked to a far-right extremist movement was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she invaded then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say …

Los Angeles County supervisors were in agreement Tuesday: The Probation Department is failing. Many officers say they’re too traumatized to come to work. Living quarters for youths are decrepit and …

WASHINGTON —  Angela Blount doesn’t watch videos of police violence. She didn’t watch the video of Memphis, Tenn., police beating Tyre Nichols, a Black motorist who later died of his injuries. …

WASHINGTON —  Former President Trump’s White House failed to report more than 100 gifts from foreign nations worth more than a quarter-million dollars, and federal officials have been unable to find …

Reports that the Biden administration is threatening to ban TikTok, the most downloaded and one of the most heavily used apps in the country, caused users to erupt in suspicion …

Longtime Los Angeles County supervisor and trailblazing Latina politician Gloria Molina announced Tuesday she is battling terminal cancer. In a Facebook post, Molina, 74, wrote that the cancer, which she …

WASHINGTON —  President Biden on Monday blamed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and closure of Signature Bank on former President Trump’s 2018 decision to scrap some Obama-era banking regulations. “Unfortunately, …