Backpage.com has closed its adult advertising section after two state attorneys general and a U.S. Senate panel has focused a light on its ads. The classified ads website has long been criticized for facilitating the promotion of sex trafficking, sometimes allegedly involving minors. The CEO was arrested in October.
The former California Attorney General often compared to outgoing President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday as California’s newest — as well as first black and first Asian — U.S. Senator, as Democrats grasp for the future of their party.
Seven newly elected Senators were sworn into office Tuesday, the start of the 115th United States Congress. Here are the names and faces of the five Democrats and two Republicans who make up the 2017 freshman senate class.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is retiring after 24 years in the U.S. Senate — and many in California’s Central Valley are glad to see her go. The liberal Democrat had a rocky relationship with the region over water issues, especially in the last few years.
Democrats in the deep blue state of California, the home of liberal Hollywood and left-leaning Silicon Valley, are gearing up to lead the “progressive” movement’s national resistance against President-elect Donald Trump.
Gov. Jerry Brown has nominated Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) to take Kamala Harris’s place as Attorney General of the State of California.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was recently elected to take over outgoing Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer’s seat, said she would resist President-elect Donald Trump’s policies once he is in the White House.
Kamala Harris became the favorite to win early on and received the endorsements of U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, California Gov. Jerry Brown, the California Democratic Party and a host of other elected officials and Democratic organizations in a virtual coronation of Harris.
Governor Jerry Brown has the power to appoint a new California Attorney General if Kamala Harris wins the U.S. Senate race on Tuesday.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) did the “dab” dance move at the end of her closing statement in Wednesday evening’s debate against California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The two are vying for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) squared off Wednesday evening at the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles in their only debate of the U.S. Senate race in California.
Emails obtained by the Washington Times show that California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris’s office collaborated with Planned Parenthood to produce legislation that targets David Daleiden, the lead undercover journalist who exposed the organization’s alleged profiting from the body parts of aborted babies.
Latino voters in California are increasingly deserting Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) in favor of the favorite, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, in the race for U.S. Senate in California in a new September Field poll.
Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is attempting to rally Southern California to her cause by noting that the San Francisco Bay Area “controls everything” in California because of voting propensity.
If the November election were held today, California Attorney General Kamala Harris could run away with a massive win in the Democrat-on-Democrat race to replace longtime, and now retiring, Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to a new poll from California Counts.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) is trying to woo Republicans to vote for her in the race against California Attorney General Kamala Harris for retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)’s seat.
Critics of the bill are concerned it will force First Amendment rights to free speech and a free press to become subservient to Planned Parenthood’s privacy.
A new bill likely to become law in California bans state-funded travel to states that the California Attorney General decides have laws that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexualt, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people.
The California Rifle and Pistol Association and a group of Los Angeles County residents have filed a suit to “block” state prohibitions against openly carrying a gun.
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, spoke in both English and Spanish at the Democratic National Convention on Monday evening, highlighting the successes of her Mexican immigrant family and letting the crowd know that she believes Hillary Clinton is “a badass and ready to lead” America.
On July 20, a three-judge panel of the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard a case aimed at forcing Attorney General Kamala Harris to clarify California’s “assault weapons” ban, thereby limiting arrests resulting from the law’s ambiguities.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday that Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by police in Minnesota last week, would have been alive if he were white.
In the Democrat versus Democrat fallout of California’s top two primary system, U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris leads her only competitor Rep. Loretta Sanchez by 15 percent in a post-Primary Election Field Poll.
Governor Jerry Brown has placed before voters this November a ballot measure deceptively titled the “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016” – when it might be more accurately dubbed the “Let Violent Criminals Out Of Prison Early Act of 2016.”
It’s a knock-down, drag-out, Democrat-on-Democrat battle between Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) and California Attorney General Kamala Harris for Sen. Barbara Boxer’s soon-to-be-vacant seat — and Sanchez is appealing to jilted Republicans with an endorsement from former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.
Whether Americans will continue to have a Second Amendment right to own guns now depends on whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton wins the White House.
The case–PERUTA V. CTY. OF SAN DIEGO–was filed at the 9th Circuit by concealed permit applicants who believe the “good cause” requirement infringed their Second Amendment rights in San Diego and Yolo Counties.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris pulled off a commanding first place finish in the crowded race to replace retiring Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday — a win thanks in large part to the flooded field of Republican and “no party preference” candidates in a “jungle” primary.
An abundance of Republican candidates for U.S. Senate in California is aiding the top two Democrats in the race, as demonstrated in new polls measuring the number of undecided voters.
Planned Parenthood is behind a new proposed California law that would criminalize publishing undercover evidence of its practices, even those that might be considered illegal.
U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris described a lukewarm position on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) at Saturday’s United Farm Workers convention in Bakersfield, saying she was very skeptical of the practice.
California Governor Jerry Brown announced his official endorsement of the state’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris, for U.S. Senate on Monday over U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA).
A Houston-based oil pipeline company and an employee face a multi-count indictment in California. The move by the state follows a spill that was discovered in May 2015. Defendants could face millions of dollars in fines if found guilty.
The First Amendment is alive and well in California — no thanks to California Attorney General and would-be United States Senator Kamala Harris.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a debate Tuesday evening that Americans should “embrace our Muslim brothers and sisters” in response to the controversy over Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez is using an unusual weapon in her campaign to replace outgoing liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): her record in Washington.
Donald Trump’s sweep in Indiana did not, by itself, clinch the Republican nomination. But the race ended when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) quit on Tuesday night. Now the California primary is all about Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
A conservative advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers won a First Amendment victory this week denying California Attorney General Kamala Harris access to the names of conservative nonprofit members and contributors.
Tom Del Beccaro, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, said during a debate Monday evening that state California Attorney General Kamala Harris should relinquish her investigation into David Daleiden, the investigative journalist who produced the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s apparent fetal tissue trafficking scandal.
Democrat Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), one of two frontrunners in the U.S. Senate race in the California primary, doubled down Monday on her claim last December that up to 20% of Muslims worldwide support terror to establish a caliphate.
