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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

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Families hike in the mountains near Riverside, Calif. (Hispanic Access Foundation)
For Hispanic Heritage Month, People Reconnect with Public Lands

Hispanic Heritage Month begins this week and runs through mid-October, and conservation groups are encouraging people to celebrate by getting the …

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California has set a goal to make the state's electricity system carbon-free by 2045. (ULP/Adobestock)
CA Gets a “D” on the 2022 Environmental Scorecard

California only got a "D" grade on this year's Environmental Scorecard, a report card put out each year since 1973 by the nonprofit California …

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Las primarias de California están programadas para el 3 de marzo. Ya comenzó el voto por correo. (Roibu/iStockphoto)
El Secretario de Estado de CA celebra Tele-Audiencia sobre cambios en la votación y los censos

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Este jueves cualquier persona puede hablar con Alex Padilla, Secretario de Estado de California, llamando a una sesión …

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Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up in the past decade to try and overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. (Royalty Free Images)
Supreme Court's Citizens United Decision Turns Ten

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Corporations and trade associations have poured almost a billion dollars, by some estimates, into American elections since the U.…

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Backers of the grassroots movement to overturn the Citizens United decision say their efforts gain momentum every year, but need more congressional support. (Royalty Free Images/Twenty20)
Critics Speak Out on 9-Year Anniversary of Citizen’s United Decision

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Good-government groups are speaking out on this ninth anniversary of the Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme …

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Los líderes sindicales se confiesan pesimistas acerca de la resolución de la corte alta en el caso Janus versus AFSCME. (Kconnors/Morguefile)
Sindicato de Maestros de California se alista para golpe de la Suprema Corte

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - La directiva de la Federación de Maestros de California (California Federation of Teachers) dice no sentirse optimista …

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Californians Join Tax-Day Marches, Demand Release of Trump's Returns

LOS ANGELES – Big crowds of protesters are expected to take to the streets in a dozen California cities tomorrow, and in hundreds of sister …

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Protesters prepare for the March For Our Lives happening today in Philadelphia. (March4ourlives2016.org)
Marchers Protest Rich-Poor Disparity at DNC

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's 546 delegates in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention could be met by hundreds of anti-poverty …

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On National Voter Registration Day, Californians await the fate of a bill that would allow them to register to vote when they apply for or renew a driver's license. Credit: Alex Roibu/iStockphoto.
California's "Motor Voter Act" Idles on Governor's Desk

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today marks National Voter Registration Day, and a major change to the way California registers its voters sits on the …

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PHOTO: California's independent redistricting commission, created just four years ago as part of a sweeping initiative package, will remain in place following a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a similar redistricting system in Arizona. Photo credit: Kathleen Connally/Morguefile.
Supreme Court OKs Independent Redistricting Commissions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Election reforms that introduced an independent redistricting commission in California will remain in place, following a U.…

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PHOTO: Activists are protesting the private prison industry in California. Photo credit: morguefile/arnoshwithal
Activists Protest Private Prisons

LOS ANGELES – Activists are protesting tax breaks for the $3 billion private prison industry - which runs 16 facilities in California. They …

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PHOTO: People and organizations around the nation held events Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling that increased some political campaign donation limits. Photo courtesy of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern.
Citizens United Anniversary Prompts Events Around Nation

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Members of the group 99Rise Sacramento marched near the state Capitol on Wednesday to try to get big money out of politics…

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