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California se ha posicionado como un refugio para inmigrantes tanto documentados como indocumentados, pero en algunos aspectos la vida en Texas no es muy diferente
Column: Newsom and DeSantis hogged the spotlight, but didn’t move the needle. Harris and Haley could
Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis argued the culture wars on live TV, but neither has a shot at the Oval Office. Why are we ignoring the two women who will decide the race?
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California has positioned itself as a haven for both documented and undocumented migrants, but in some ways, life in Texas isn’t much different, a detailed poll of immigrant attitudes shows. There’s only so much one state can do.
Largely ignored during the trial of David DePape, the man who attacked Paul Pelosi, were the conspiracy theories that drove him. They’re now becoming mainstream.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how incarceration is done in the Golden State, using concepts pioneered in Scandinavia. California prison guards visited Norway to see what it would mean.
Ohio voted to enshrine abortion rights in its Constitution. If more states follow suit, abortion foes may seek a federal ban — which would affect California.
The death of Dianne Feinstein and her replacement by Laphonza Butler fulfills a pledge Gavin Newsom made. But not without some issues along the way.
Even as insurers flee California, lawmakers couldn’t hammer out a deal to fix the collapsing market. Inaction will only make disasters more expensive.
Activists in San Francisco opened a pop-up safe injection site to protest federal, state and local roadblocks that value politics over lives.
Paradise, Calif., was devastated by the Camp fire in 2018. Five years later, its residents have mixed feelings on the town that has risen from the ashes, and the lives they have rebuilt.
