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Joining the trend seen in a handful of other states, California Democrats are making ready to outlaw tackle football for kids under 14.

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s $17.1 billion Delta tunnels project has been cut in half, after a study found the projected cost of project water deliveries by the project had tripled.

The replacement last month of interim San Francisco Mayor London Breed, an African-American woman, with Supervisor Mike Farrell, a white male venture capitalist, has raised questions about whether the Bay Area has a problem supporting black candidates.

The lawsuit between Waymo and Uber has been dismissed as the tech companies reached a surprise settlement.

The UK Guardian wondered this week if the “New California” movement is the Golden State’s equivalent of the next Brexit.

Democrat California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), the woman who has led the #MeToo charge against sexual harassment in the Golden State, is herself the subject of an investigation into her alleged sexual harassment and groping of a former male legislative aide.

A California family is suing the coffee retailer Starbucks after a two-year-old girl allegedly drank a beverage containing a barista’s blood, the family’s attorneys announced Wednesday.

Even when disconnected or in airplane mode, phones powered by Google’s Android operating system still track your every move.

A recent episode of the Freakonomics podcast explained and debunked the gender pay gap between male and female Uber drivers.

As the world marvels at Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX publicity stunt, Tesla’s Model 3 has been delayed — again.

A Yale-published study claiming to mirror Facebook’s new methodology for sorting “broadly trusted” news sources from partisan news inadvertently undermines its author’s own advocacy of the methodology by listing far-left sites Salon.com and HuffingtonPost as “mainstream” while packing its “hyper-partisan” category with right-of-center news sources.

Three sex crimes cases against disgraced independent film producer Harvey Weinstein have been submitted to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spent so much time talking about protecting Dreamers during her eight-hour “filibuster” that she turned a Democratic Congresswoman into a dreamer herself. Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) was caught dozing off multiple times Wednesday during Pelosi’s record-breaking marathon

“The problem is we’ve got too many people running the state of California that have never worked in the private sector,” said Kimberlin Brown Pelzer during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Facebook’s A.I. research team (FAIR) has revealed their AI neural network, which can map skins onto people in videos during real-time.

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has caught up to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom in the race for California governor, after trailing since the start of the race.

Two writers have discovered a likely source of inspiration for eleven Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth, by using anti-plagiarism software.

A California court has ruled that a Christian baker cannot be forced to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple because it would violate her First Amendment rights — a decision that runs against a national trend of cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that male executives who follow the “Pence rule,” and refuse to dine alone with female colleagues, should avoid eating with male colleagues as well.

Some Democrats are irritated by Nancy Pelosi’s speech, which nothing for illegal aliens while handing Republicans an election issue.

During her “filibuster,” Nancy Pelosi thanked the parents of the “Dreamers” — i.e. those who deliberately broke the law.

Facebook “has completely destroyed independent digital comedy,” according to Funny or Die’s Matt Klinman, who was recently interviewed following mass layoffs at the company.

A new California “split-roll” ballot initiative cranking up to qualify for the November 2018 elections would end Proposition 13 protection for commercial property owners as a first step to attacking all property taxpayer protections.

SpaceX’s mammoth 27-engine Falcon Heavy rocket flawlessly lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday and launched a small craft to Mars as a symbolic effort at interplanetary travel.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg claimed the #MeToo movement hasn’t gone far enough, despite also noting that an overwhelming amount of men are now afraid of mentoring women.

A funeral home in Texas is being sued by parents who say the business lost their 25-year-old daughter’s body. Lawyers questioned business owners about a subcontractor whose Facebook “profile picture shows two men singing, with a cover photo of a dark figure eating a severed limb, surrounded by headstones with the names of bandmates above the words ‘homicidal necrophile’.”

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) is reportedly considering leaving the Democratic caucus if his party’s leaders cave again and agree on a government-funding deal that does not include protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

California’s flu pandemic has killed 127 humans already this winter, and it is now rapidly spreading to dogs.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) will headline a rally for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients in San Diego on Friday.

The Democratic frontrunner for governor of California, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, recently opened up about an affair he had a decade ago while mayor of San Francisco, saying he “learned an enormous amount” from the shameful experience.

An armed resident caught two suspects allegedly burglarizing his neighbor’s home, shot out their tires and held them at gunpoint for police.

After years of financial losses, and months of unionization drama, Chicago-based Tronc is reported to be negotiating to sell the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she is ready for pushback from Breitbart News while she ramps up her efforts to impeach President Donald Trump.

California Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom reportedly claimed that he has no idea what a “Davos Democrat” is even though former Los Angeles Mayor and challenger Antonio Villaraigosa has been slamming Newsom with the elitist label.

A network of “well-to-do” and “economically and educationally advantaged” Californians are joining rapid response networks to protect illegal immigrants from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), “leveraging” their “white privilege” for social justice.

Twitter’s Director of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality has left the company after just eighteen months.