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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing Monday afternoon at which the federal government asked the court to overturn a temporary …

Gifford Fire: More Than 23,000 Acres Burn at Los Padres Forest in California  The New York Times Watch: California’s Gifford Fire races up hillside toward camera as blaze explodes in size  FOX Weather UPDATE: New evacuation orders issued for residents near Gifford Fire  KSBY News Gifford Fire East of Santa Maria Explodes Overnight, Doubling in Size  Noozhawk California Fire Map: Track updates on fires …

For months, candidates in the race to become California’s next governor had waited for a pivotal question to be settled: Will former Vice President Kamala Harris run or not? With Harris’ announcement this week that she’s out, a new question arose: Who’s the front-runner now? Because of Harris’ star power, the answer is far from simple. For months, other candidates …

Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California. Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online.  “This is not a fluke,” said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, …

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a stinging blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation project Friday night in a fiery opinion upholding a lower court’s block on “roving patrols” across much of Southern California. “If, as Defendants suggest, they are not conducting stops that lack reasonable suspicion, they can hardly claim to be irreparably harmed by an …

California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, healthcare providers and states’ rights. The lawsuit was brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and officials from 15 other states and …

Newsom Wants to Gerrymander California. Schwarzenegger May Disagree.  The New York Times Gavin Newsom may call special election to redraw California congressional maps  The Guardian Newsom will move to redraw California map if Texas redistricts, teeing up national fight  The Texas Tribune Newsom has a plan to give Democrats a leg up for the midterms  CalMatters Gavin Newsom floats November special election for his …

Discussion This report describes the public health response to two cases of B. procyonis eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in unrelated pediatric patients reported during a short period (September 2024) in Los Angeles County, California. Few cases of B. procyonis eosinophilic meningoencephalitis have been documented in the United States (5,9), and most of these patients have been young, male children with developmental disabilities, …

Kamala Harris leaves an opening for a California climate champion  Politico The California Governor’s Race Was in Limbo. Now It’s Wide Open.  The New York Times With Kamala Harris out, the governor’s race is wide open. ‘Welcome to the thunderdome’  Los Angeles Times Kamala Harris reveals whether she will run for California governor  Fox News Kamala Harris declines California run – could she try …

SpaceX just sent another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites into the final frontier. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 19 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base today (July 31) at 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT; 11:35 a.m. local California time). The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching …