High Court Kicks Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up California Off Ballot
Venture capitalist Tim Draper points to a computer screen at his offices in San Mateo, Calif., showing that an initiative to split California into three states qualified for the ballot.Haven Daley/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California voters will no longer have the option to vote on splitting the largest state in…
Putin Just Dismissed the Mueller Probe as “Political Games” in Fox News Interview
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested the Mueller investigation is politically motivated, calling it part of the United States’ “internal political games” in a 30-minute interview with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace that aired Monday night. “It’s quite clear to me that [the Mueller investigation] is…
California’s Most Powerful Latino Politician is Trying to Unseat Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the leadership of California’s Democratic Party endorsed state Sen. Kevin de León in his campaign to oust Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It was an upset—not least because Feinstein has been in office since 1992. She won 44 percent of the vote in California’s primary election…
Teens Aren’t Giving Democrats a Pass on Gun Control Legislation
Student activists meet with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) during their day of lobbying at the Capitol on June 28, 2018./Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fifteen-year-old Eden Hebron had never lobbied Congress before last Thursday—and before February 14, when three of her classmates were murdered…
Trump’s Lawyer Says the President May Be Mulling Pardons in the Russia Investigation
Chris Kleponis/CNP/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says Robert Mueller’s special investigation may be “cleaned up” with presidential pardons, the New York Daily News reported Friday. The remark came just hours after a federal judge ordered Paul Manafort to await trial from jail after Mueller accused Manafort of witness tampering, the latest charge brought…
California’s Fossil Fuel Industry Had It Relatively Easy Under Jerry Brown. That’s Going to Change After November.
Jeff ChiuAP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In California’s primary election Tuesday, voters all but picked statewide politicians and decided who would face off in the races that might flip the House of Representatives. But the…