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SAN FRANCISCO—Parental rights advocates and other community members urged California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto more bills that favor transgender ideology, in a Sept. 24 seminar opposing Assembly Bill 957 in San Francisco. The governor had vetoed AB 957 just a couple of days before the seminar, which was hosted …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign, to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t be giving unemployment checks to workers on strike, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoing a bill Saturday that had been inspired by high-profile work stoppages in Hollywood and the hotel industry. Newsom, a Democrat, says he supports workers and often benefits from campaign contributions from …

United Parcel Service (UPS) is now hiring 10,000 people—with pay ranging between $21 and $23 an hour—in Southern California to prepare for the upcoming holiday season, a UPS spokesperson told The Epoch Times. Jobs are available for applicants in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino, and Ventura counties. Nearly 80 …

California’s K–12 schools will be required to provide students with access to gender-neutral restrooms during school hours, due to a state bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week. Senate Bill 760, introduced in February by State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), mandates that all schools should have at least one …

California legislators have passed a first-in-the-nation bill to crack down on understaffed chain pharmacies and cut down on medication dispensing errors. After passing in the Senate Sept. 13 on a vote of 30-9 with one senator not voting, Assembly Bill (AB) 1286 dubbed the “Stop Dangerous Pharmacies Act,” authored by …

Evicting a tenant in California may soon prove more difficult after state lawmakers passed a bill that would require proof by a landlord for what’s known as a “no fault” eviction. Senate Bill 567, authored by Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), would also mandate 12 months of occupancy for …

The California Legislature passed a bill Sept. 13 that would prohibit social media sites from sharing content that sexually exploits minors, with fines ranging from $1 million to $4 million. The bill would also require such sites to allow minors shown in such posts the ability to delete them, and provide platforms …

California has taken another leap forward in efforts to ban indoor smoking, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 626 into law earlier this month, which closes loopholes in the state’s existing law, from the 1990s, which allowed 20 percent of guestrooms in a hotel, motel, or other similar lodging …

Policy adaptations announced Sept. 21 by the California Department of Insurance aim to increase availability and bring insurers back to the state, following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order (pdf), issued the same day, requesting the department’s commissioner act to address the state’s insurance crisis. “It is critical that California’s insurance …