The longest-ever government shutdown could be coming to an end soon, a welcome relief for the federal workers who’ve gone without pay to the Californians who’ve faced delays in key food benefits. In a ...

A proposed bill in the California Senate aims to provide consistent regulation for California’s scrap metal recycling facilities, including Oakland’s Radius Recycling, whose West Oakland plant caught ...

Tom Homan, acting director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, spells out then-President Donald Trump's immigration policy in 2018. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Dieog) Attorney General ...

A top federal election official who falsely claimed Democrats need “illegal citizens” to vote to win elections and publicly mused about committing voter fraud herself must rescind those statements or ...

Amid well-publicized struggles over staffing and budget cuts at the National Park Service, two U.S. senators have a somewhat counterintuitive proposal: They want to make a couple of Southern ...

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California’s two U.S. senators don’t have to run again for at least four more years, but they’ve got millions of dollars on hand to use in their next campaigns, new Federal Election Commission reports ...