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Record-shattering summer heat has turned California’s dense shrubbery and grass into fuel that is feeding wildfires across that are burning across the state.

State Farm requested massive increases to its California residential insurance rates, which calls its financial stability into doubt amid an ongoing crisis in the state’s insurance market.

In October of last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law expanding access to young patients covered by Medicaid, which is called Medi-Cal in California. Teenagers with commercial insurance have had this privilege in the state for more than a decade.

Los Angeles Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff will face Republican Steve Garvey, a former L.A. Dodgers standout, in a general election runoff to decide who will represent California in the U.S. Senate.

Two of the nation's most high profile governors will debate Thursday night in Georgia, even though only one of them is actually running for president in 2024.

More than a decade after the trial to overturn Prop. 8 ended, trial videotapes remained sealed, until NPR member station KQED won a long legal battle that got the U.S. Supreme Court to unseal them.

Over the last year, major social media platforms have gutted their content moderation teams. Now many say that's playing a significant role in the proliferation of photos and videos of this war that turn out to be recycled from other conflicts — or are sometimes even clipped from video games.

Inside today's funeral of the trailblazing California politician who died last week at the age of 90.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's appointment of Laphonza Butler to fill Dianne Feinstein's U.S. Senate seat drew praise from progressives and speculation over whether Butler will run for a full term next year.

Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

Lee joins fellow Congress members Katie Porter of Orange County and Adam Schiff of Burbank in the race.

A California Newsroom investigation finds that the department's missteps potentially leave the state at greater risk of catastrophic fires.