Gavin Newsom

States and cities are oscillating between criminalization and providing social support to address a problem that affects all corners of the country

The weakness shown by the president at the debate against Trump has triggered all kinds of speculation about hypothetical substitutes to run in the November election

The state government has been transferring the death row population in the infamous San Quentin prison to dozens of penitentiaries across California. EL PAÍS visited Kevin Cooper, who has been awaiting execution for 39 years for a crime he maintains he didn’t commit

President Joe Biden addresses the nation, saying ‘there’s the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos’

The justices on Monday will consider a challenge to rulings that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment

Democrats in the state Legislature passed the law last year in part as an acknowledgement that many of the more than 500,000 people who work in fast food restaurants are not teenagers

The proposition, before voters on the March 5 ballot, would require counties to spend 60% of funds for mental health on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems

A set of 14 bills that were two years in the making aims to correct centuries of racism in a state with 2.6 million African Americans, but the initiative will face an uphill battle in the state legislature

Newsom’s salmon strategy includes a controversial proposal to seek voluntary agreements with major farmers over how much water they can take out of the rivers and streams

The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would have prohibited people from carrying concealed guns in 26 places including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos

The police report about Christian Ziegler was filed Oct. 4 about an incident two days earlier in a private home

The governors of Florida and California laid out their antagonistic visions for the future of the United States in an unprecedented television face-off

The federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by lack of affordable housing, a pandemic that economically wrecked households, and lack of access to mental health and addiction treatment

David DePape, who faces up to 50 years in prison, admitted that he broke into the Pelosis’ home on Oct. 28, 2022, intending to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage and ‘break her kneecaps’

A federally required January count estimated that on any given night there were more than 75,500 homeless people in the county, with well over 46,000 of them in the Los Angeles city limits

The bust came as two states and several cities in the U.S. have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms and their active ingredient, psilocybin. About 20 other states have active legislation on changing laws

Washington and Beijing have made overtures to each other in recent weeks as they prepare for a meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit

Joseph David Emerson faces 83 counts of attempted murder after Sunday’s incident en route to San Francisco

The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless

The legislation vetoed Saturday would have allowed those 21 and older to possess psilocybin, the hallucinogenic component in what’s known as psychedelic mushrooms, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and mescaline

Butler is a longtime fundraiser and strategist in the state’s Democratic circles and was the head of Emily’s List, a national organization that raises money for women candidates who support abortion rights

Once she is sworn in, Laphonza Butler will be the only Black woman in the Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ California senator

The state’s minimum wage for all other workers — $15.50 per hour — is already among the highest in the United States

The new law adds an 11% tax on top of federal taxes — making California the only state with its own tax on guns and ammunition, according to the gun control advocacy group Brady

California started banning official travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ+ people in 2017, starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee

The mandatory raise would apply to all fast food restaurants in California that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationwide