Tag: California

California law mandating gender-neutral toy aisles now in effect

Asher Notheis · January 2, 2024 10:12 am

In this Wednesday, May 14, 2014 photo, a customer departs a Pizza Hut restaurant location, in Boston. Yum Brands, parent company of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC, reports quarterly financial results on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

California’s war on fast food

Washington Examiner · January 2, 2024 6:55 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an event in San Francisco in November. California on Monday became the first U.S. state to offer comprehensive health insurance to all undocumented immigrants, a plan expected to expand to roughly 700,000 residents living in the Golden State. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Finance and Economy

Newsom extends free healthcare to 700,000 illegal immigrants despite record budget deficit

Breanne Deppisch · January 1, 2024 11:06 am

The political arm for the National Pork Producers Council, a trade group composed of 42 affiliated state pork producer associations, failed to report recently on financial disclosures who gave it $9,706 in March

Ahead of the Trend

Farmers concerned about effects of California’s new animal welfare law

Washington Examiner · January 1, 2024 9:02 am

California’s sweeping ban on concealed carry firearms to go into effect Jan. 1

Rachel Schilke · December 31, 2023 4:47 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, flanked by Attorney General Xavier Becerra, right, answers a question concerning a lawsuit the state will likely file against President Donald Trump over his emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif.

Energy and Environment

The most significant climate measures passed by states in 2023

Nancy Vu · December 31, 2023 3:00 am

Volunteers begin decorating flowers for the 2024 Kaiser Permanente Rose Parade Float at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale, California, on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023.

Rose Parade rings in new year with 135th event

Jenny Goldsberry · December 31, 2023 3:00 am

There's the estimated $80 billion a year the U.S. spends on incarceration at all levels.Â (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Law requires California police to use suspect’s pronouns upon release of mugshot

Jenny Goldsberry · December 30, 2023 11:37 am

FILE - Yellow crime tape blocks off an area near a mall parking area where two Baltimore city police officers were shot and a suspect was killed as a U.S. Marshals' task force served a warrant, July 13, 2021, in Baltimore, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Teenage boy uses ‘multiple weapons’ to kill parents and injure sister: Police

Christopher Hutton · December 30, 2023 10:23 am

Individuals from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico were locked in the truck's cargo area. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

California takes the gold medal for state more people left than anywhere else in 2023

Anna Giaritelli · December 30, 2023 6:30 am

Teachers and their supporters hold signs, chant, and rally the crowd with bullhorns on the first day of a teacher's strike in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 1, 2023.

Teachers strikes cost students weeks of school in 2023

Jeremiah Poff · December 30, 2023 5:00 am

FILE - A B-2 bomber flies over spectators at Arrowhead Stadium before the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tennessee Titans on Jan. 19, 2020, in Kansas City, Missouri.

B-2 stealth bomber to fly over Rose Parade following absence last year

Asher Notheis · December 30, 2023 4:00 am