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FBI Raids California Prison Facing 63 Lawsuits Over Systemic Sexual Abuse
Four days after 12 lawsuits alleged abuses by 23 prison employees, the FBI raided the prison known as “the rape club.”
California Push to Expand Abortion Care Providers May Prove Boon to Rural Areas
More than 40 percent of counties in California lack clinics that provide abortion.
“Back to Normal” Pandemic Policies Are Harming Those Most in Need of Protection
Public health advocates in California and Oregon fear contagion as public schools implement relaxed COVID policies.
San Francisco Becomes Largest US City to Back Gaza Ceasefire
The city's resolution calls on the Biden administration and Congress to follow suit.
California Faculty Association Escalates Strike Actions Ahead of Contract Battle
Demands include paid family leave, gender-inclusive restrooms, rules for expanding workloads and campus police reforms.
Growing Number of States Extend Health Coverage to Undocumented Immigrants
Eleven states and Washington, D.C., are expanding health insurance programs to cover over 1 million immigrants.
DeSantis and Newsom’s Shouting Match Seems Unlikely to Shift Tide of GOP Primary
Ron DeSantis needed to do something dramatic to shift the dynamics against him in the GOP primary. That didn’t happen.
Forest Defense Is About More Than the Trees. It’s About Our Collective Future.
Of the 2 million acres of old growth redwood forests that once existed in the Pacific Northwest, only 2 percent remain.
Media Blame Homelessness on Substance Abuse. The Data Tell a Different Story.
As a California-based homelessness researcher and physician, I know we’re misdiagnosing the problem.
War Against Renewables Takes Terrifying Turn in Newsom’s Nuke-Powered California
PG&E now says it won’t test its reactor in Diablo Canyon for deadly embrittlement this year as planned.