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'It's California placing burdens on the criminal justice system without understanding why,' county prosecutor says of Adam Gray-endorsed Racial Justice Act

Sitting on death row in 2009, John Jacobson Jr., known as the "Yacht Killer," talked about murdering married couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks to obtain the money for a sex-change surgery. Five years earlier, Jacobson lured the Hawkses onto their boat off the California coast, tied them to the vessel's anchor, and threw them overboard before grabbing a beer from the fridge and starting to fish.

As Kamala Harris aggressively tacks to the center in her run for the presidency, back in her notoriously progressive birthplace of Oakland, one of her closest associates is also seeking national office.

As Kamala Harris aggressively tacks to the center in her run for the presidency, back in her notoriously progressive birthplace of Oakland, one of her closest associates is also seeking national office.

California's teachers' unions were reeling after losing a landmark court case. A judge had issued a blistering ruling essentially accusing them of

Democratic congressional candidate Derek Tran told "Obama bro" podcaster Jon Lovett that his Korean-American opponent, Rep. Michelle Steel (R., Calif.), is "not the right fit" for the district because of her race. Lovett edited the remark out of the published podcast and transcript."But you know, we’ve always knew [sic] that Steel is not the right fit for the district. You know, she's Korean-American," Tran told Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama and host of the political podcast Lovett or Leave It. "This is a district that has been carved out for Vietnamese American, and the people know that."

California's largest teachers' union has poured unprecedented amounts of campaign dollars into local affiliates trying to boot conservative board

California’s largest teachers’ union has poured unprecedented amounts of campaign dollars into local affiliates trying to boot conservative board members in school districts that have become battlegrounds for gender ideology policies, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of campaign finance disclosures.

California voters have begun unwinding the Golden State's soft-on-crime experiment, ousting Los Angeles's progressive district attorney George Gascón and restoring some criminal penalties for drugs and theft.

California's powerful air regulators late Friday night approved mandates for fuel sellers to cut carbon emissions or buy carbon credits, arguing that the move would push people into buying electric vehicles.