“He had to wait for his [baby] son for so long, and someone just took him away,” Maria del Carmen Venegas says of her husband, Joel Arrona-Lara, who remains in custody. She had to drive herself to give birth.
The benefits go to the corporate executives and major investors, while the costs and risks land on the rest of us.
The Republican congressman let his intentions slip behind closed doors at a Republican fundraiser.
Some of the largest fires have ignited within the past few weeks as the state has seen record-setting temperatures—and the historically worst months of wildfire season are still to come.
As many as 443 square miles have been destroyed. That's roughly the size of Los Angeles.
About half of the entire private-sector workforce has no employer-sponsored retirement plan. Several states are trying to address this, but the investment industry is aggressively seeking to block them.
Gov. Jerry Brown tours neighborhoods wiped out by wildfire near Redding in Northern California and says the "president has been pretty good on helping us in disasters so I'm hopeful."
Their failure to connect the dots between extreme heat and global warming is a fatal mistake, and we’re all paying the price.
Many flee their homes after wildfires surge near a small lake town in Northern California, and the state's largest blaze slows slightly after days of explosive growth.
The California Democratic Party hands its official endorsement and a badly needed boost to state Sen. Kevin de Leon, Sen. Dianne Feinstein's longshot Democratic challenger.
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