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  • FILE – California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on June 28, 2022. Bonta announced a lawsuit accusing multiple companies that make or promote insulin of keeping prices too high. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)Health

    Insulin in the U.S. costs 7 times as much as in Canada. California is suing insulin makers for scheming to illegally increase the price

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Pulido stands by the shore at Harbor Lake.Health

    California is trying to pay reparations to the victims of forced sterilization. It may not find all of them

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Gas prices are advertised at over eight dollars a gallon at a gas station Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Los Angeles. California lawmakers are preparing to return to work for a special session on gas prices. State lawmakers are scheduled to convene on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, to swear-in new members and elect leaders for the 2023 legislative session. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)Finance

    California Gov. Newsom’s plan to deal with supersized oil company profits? Fine them and give the money back to drivers

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Mark ZuckerbergFinance

    The plunging stock market is taking a bite out of California’s wealthy—and the Golden State’s ability to pay for things

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, that he will call a special session of the state Legislature on Dec. 5, to pass a new tax on oil companies in response to high gas prices, while talking to reporters in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)Finance

    Gavin Newsom aims to punish oil companies for ‘rank price gouging’ as California gas prices hit $6.39 per gallon

    By Adam Beam, Kathleen Ronayne, and others
  • Gavin NewsomPolitics

    Gavin Newsom signs 2 new laws to tackle ‘the original sin of the state of California, and that’s the issue of housing and affordability’

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • State Sen. Connie LeyaHealth

    California passes bill that would make vasectomies cheaper for men: ‘Californians must be able to decide for themselves if and when they have children’

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Universal health care in CaliforniaPolitics

    California lawmakers to debate universal health care proposal

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • People wearing face masks go shopping at a shopping center in San Mateo, California, the United States, Dec. 10, 2021.Health

    California brings back mask mandate as COVID cases rise

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Volunteers set up the stage as Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder is scheduled to speak at an Asian Rally for Yes Recall at the Asian Garden Mall in Little Saigon, Westminster, California, on September 4, 2021. – The recall election, which will be held on September 14, 2021, asks voters to respond two questions: whether Newsom, a Democratic, should be recalled from the office of governor, and who should succeed Newsom if he is recalled. Forty-six candidates, including nine Democrats and 24 Republicans, are looking to take Newsom’s place as the governmental leader of California. (Photo by RINGO CHIU / AFP) (Photo by RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    California GOP tries to encourage turnout even as party leaders claim the state’s recall is rigged

    By Adam Beam, Christina A. Cassidy, and others
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 30: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Registered nurse (RN) Elle Lauron cares for a COVID-19 patient in the improvised COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills neighborhood on July 30, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The COVID-19 unit has been set up again to attend to a rise in COVID patients in a section of the hospital normally used for other purposes. The hospital had just five COVID patients last week but now is treating more than 25 amid a rise in COVID cases and hospitalizations in Southern California as the Delta variant continues to spread. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Health

    California will mandate that its 2.2 million health care workers get vaccinated by the end of September

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Los Angeles, California Oct. 30, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to the media after visiting Dodger Stadium on Oct. 30, 2020.Tech

    California unveils COVID tracing tool co-created by Apple and Google

    By Amy Taxin, Adam Beam, and others
  • Yellow caution tape covers the tables, to prevent their use at the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex in Sacramento, Calif., April 21, 2020.Health

    New coronavirus deaths in California show U.S. had COVID-19 victims weeks earlier than thought

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced April 15, 2020 that he would spend $75 million of taxpayer money to create a Disaster Relief Fund for immigrants living in the country illegally.Politics

    California to give stimulus cash to undocumented immigrants hurt by coronavirus

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press
  • Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Holds Campaign Rally In New York CityPolitics

    A California City Tested Universal Basic Income. Here’s How Recipients Spent the $500 in Free Money

    By Adam Beam and The Associated Press