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ICYMI: California's 'Sanctuary State' Bill Passes State Assembly, Headed To Senate

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- SB 54, California's "sanctuary state" bill, cleared the state Assembly on Friday afternoon and is headed to the state Senate.
- Legendary Cuban bakery chain Porto's will be opening a fifth location in West Covina.
- A look at Tracy K. Smith's first day as the new U.S. Poet Laureate.
- The Columbia Journalism Review talks to the Phoenix New Times about how the alt-weekly's horrifying Motel 6 scoop came together.
- Government plane-loving Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin wants America to know that he didn't take a government plane to Kentucky to see the eclipse, because people from New York didn't have any interest in watching the eclipse.
- California state lawmakers advanced some very important housing legislation late Thursday night.
- This video of Jennifer Garner, unbelievably high after some kind of dental procedure and crying about Hamilton, is unexpectedly GREAT: