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  • FILE – Members of Coalition for a Just and Equitable California protest and demand lawmakers to take up a vote on two reparations bill in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year, Aug. 31, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Tran Nguyen, File)Politics

    Gov. Newsom kills bill to help return land to Black families

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Student Keiran George uses her cellphone as she steps outside the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)Politics

    California Gov. Newsom signs law requiring schools districts to limit or ban students from using smartphones on campus

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • Gavin Newsom speaks

    California cracks down on social media platforms sending addictive feeds to kids

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • Gavin NewsomPolitics

    Newsom pushes for school phone ban as social media concerns surge

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • California governor Gavin Newsom looking sharpLeadership

    Gavin Newsom says California schools need to ‘act now’ in banning phone use in the classroom

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Chevrolet Volt hybrid car is seen charging at a ChargePoint charging station at a parking garage in Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2018. California can continue to set its own nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, a federal court ruled Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)Environment

    California can keep setting vehicle emission rules that are stricter than the federal government’s, court rules, blocking Republican states’ push

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of StellantisEnvironment

    Chrysler-maker Stellantis will comply with tough new California emissions standards that the CEO calls ‘a win-win solution’

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • Anthony Rendon, James GallagherSuccess

    America’s first-ever project to study happiness and the meaning of life is happening in California

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 18: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks onstage during the Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 18, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)Environment

    Gavin Newsom signs California law—backed by Apple—requiring big businesses to disclose their indirect emissions. Many say they don’t know how

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reportersPolitics

    California workers will get 5 sick days a year instead of 3 after Gov. Newsom signs new law

    By Sophie Austin, Trân Nguyễn, and others
  • FILE – A man pushes a stroller near the AES power plant in Redondo Beach, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2022. California lawmakers approved legislation Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, requiring major companies to disclose a sweeping range of greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)Environment

    California legislators approve America’s most expansive greenhouse gas emissions disclosure rules for big business

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • A woman walks past a working oil pumpjack in front of million dollar homes in Signal Hill, Los Angeles County, California, on February 17, 2022, where gas prices have hit an all-time high. – Oil was first discovered in Signal Hill in 1921 and California was once the source of one-quarter of the world’s entire oil output but Los Angeles last month voted to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out old ones over five years. While Hollywood, palm trees and sunny skies may be the popular image of the second biggest city in the United States, the metropolis is also the largest urban oil field in the country. Thousands of active wells sit in densely populated and mostly low-income neighborhoods, abutting schools, homes, parks, shopping malls or cemeteries. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    California legislators, with no explanation, block a bill that would have let people sue oil companies if they got sick from a nearby oil well

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Task Force members Steven Bradford, right, speaks next to Reginald Jones-Sawyer during a meeting by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in Oakland, Calif. As California lawmakers hail the work of a historic panel that has for nearly two years delved into reparations proposals for African Americans, a state senator on the task force signaled large payments could face a tough road ahead in the Legislature. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Finance

    California lawmaker warns Black residents not to expect ‘seven-figure checks’ after reparations panel recommends cash payments

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • California reparations task forcePolitics

    A California task force wants to apologize to Black residents for generations of harm and pay them reparations

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press
  • A half-mile of semi trucks line up at a US Border Patrol inspection station off the highway outside Laredo, Texas, on February 22, 2017.<br /> Attention Editor: this image is part of an ongoing AFP photo project documenting the life on the two sides of the US/Mexico border simultaneously by two photographers traveling for ten days from California to Texas on the US side and from Baja California to Tamaulipas on the Mexican side between February 13 and 22, 2017. You can find all the images with the keyword : BORDERPROJECT2017 on our wire and on www.afpforum.com / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    California wants to ban sales of big diesel trucks by 2036 in move aimed at showing ‘the world what real climate action looks like’

    By Sophie Austin and The Associated Press