SACRAMENTO, California — A new raft of California laws take effect on Thursday, underscoring the blue state’s outsize role as a regulatory engine and testing ground for policies that often ripple ...

A child development center child and youth program assistant gives children toys to play with during playtime, Dec. 14, 2018. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Crystal A. Jenkins) Millions of ...

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Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. But as lesbians, they were excluded from accessing the same fertility ...

It has also become a big driver in the number of older single mothers in the U.S. at a time when the country's overall birth ...

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of ...

California could soon be running short of gasoline, potentially hiking some of the highest gas prices in the country. Refineries in the state have been closing for years with two more set to shutter ...

( NewsNation) — During a New Year’s Eve event, President Donald Trump said fraud in Illinois, California and New York is ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of new laws are taking effect in California in the new year. Here is a partial list. Plastic bags are on the way out in California. The state is expanding its ban on ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For the third consecutive year, California’s population has increased, though the Golden State has still not ...