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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The World’s Ugliest Dog Contest is held at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2025. — This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Truffles, a 6-year-old micro bully, prepares to compete in in the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif., …

Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. 9, 2025, to update the International Space Station docking port for the Crew-10 mission. The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program completed the agency’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Saturday. NASA astronauts Anne …

Pasadena, California — School librarian Sharon Nicholls and her neighbors have made their local Home Depot in Pasadena, California, a top priority. “I’m not an activist,” Nicholls told CBS News. “We’re all just regular people.” Nicholls and her neighbors are part of a campaign called Adopt a Corner which comes to the Home Depot every morning to provide day laborers …

By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson addresses the media during a press conference with a delegation of Texas Democrats who fled their state over the GOP redistricting plan, at the Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, on Aug. 8, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for …

A school board meeting in Redlands, California, devolved into name-calling and Nazi comparisons this week amid a heated argument over a board member’s social media activity. Candy Olson — part of the board’s conservative-voting majority — has hit “like” on Instagram carousels of images that include racist and antisemitic memes, according to screenshots collected by a group of parents. More …

California governor threatens “trigger” redistricting plan based on what Texas GOP decides  Axios California Democrats Back Newsom Plan to Redraw Congressional Maps for 2026  KQED California backs absent Texas Democrats as redistricting fight escalates  The Guardian Why Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley wants to stop the national fight over redistricting  WBUR Blue-state Republicans sound alarm on redistricting tit-for-tat  The Hill Source link

Some Democrats in California initially were skeptical of scrapping the district lines drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission. Voters approved a ballot measure in 2008 creating the commission to draw state legislative district lines, and expanded its power to congressional maps with a separate measure in 2010. Others worried about the tight timeline to place a measure before voters …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans on Friday warned they would escalate efforts to end a nearly weeklong holdout by Democrats if they don’t return to vote on new congressional voting maps sought by President Donald Trump in a widening battle over redistricting across the U.S. The dozens of Texas House Democrats who left the state on Aug. 3 have …

Contagious tuberculosis case prompts notice at Northern California casino  Sacramento Bee Tuberculosis exposure prompts health alert at Northern California casino  San Francisco Chronicle Popular Northern California casino said tuberculosis exposure happened on property  The Mercury News Case of contagious tuberculosis confirmed at Cache Creek Casino Resort  KCRA Cache Creek Casino and Resort alerts of contagious tuberculosis  KTVU Source link

A brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly on Thursday, forcing thousands of evacuations. The Canyon fire ignited around 1.30pm, growing to over 2.3 sq miles (6 sq km) in five hours, according to Ventura county emergency response. It remained 0% contained late on Thursday afternoon and was spreading east, the county said. …