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On Monday, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price disclosed the evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases stretching back to the 1990s. The findings came amid an appeal for Ernest Dykes' death penalty conviction on murder and attempted murder charges nearly three decades ago. No Black or Jewish jurors heard his case. In a press release, Price said one of her deputies found handwritten notes that showed an effort to exclude Jewish and Black female jurors from the jury pool in Dykes' case, on the belief that they were more likely to oppose capital punishment. Dykes is one of 37 convicts currently on death row in the county, and all but two of the cases are being reviewed, which could lead to retrials.

A bill proposed by a California Democrat is taking aim at third-party airport security screeners like Clear, citing the unfair advantage they give wealthy travelers. Clear is a third-party vendor that allows passengers to skip to the head of the airport screening line. For $189 per year, the company verifies passengers' identities and ushers them through security, allowing them to bypass TSA checkpoints. The bill, the first of its kind in the county, was introduced by California State Senator Josh Newman in February. It would require vendors like Clear to hire their own TSA screeners through the federal government. Rather than allow passengers to cut in line, the company would be required to create its own dedicated security lane. Newman has claimed other customers are often 'pushed aside' for Clear subscribers, who get preferential treatment.

Fast food wages are rising across the US - driven up by the $20-an-hour minimum wage in California. But it is having some unintended consqequences. After two years of price rises caused by higher costs for food, restaurant bosses say they cannot raise them again.So they are looking at other ways to cut their overheads - and, with labor the biggest costs, having fewer staff is the easiest way. Fast food chains in California are replacing staff with digital order kiosks - as a way to avoid the $20-an-hour wage.

A town in southwest Oregon made the case Monday, arguing the ordinances merely bar camping on public property by everyone, while challengers contended the laws effectively make it a crime to be homeless. The city of 39,000 known as Grants Pass recently started fining people $295 for sleeping outdoors to combat homeless encampments springing up in the city's public parks, and the rising housing costs that came as a result. The court is expected to decide the case by the end of June. Most appeared inclined to uphold the series of local ordinances. Justice Brett Kavanaugh cited cities' autonomy, while others pointed out how the state has some of the highest rates of homelessness and drug addiction in the US. Some have referenced the state of cities like San Francisco, where no such systems are in place.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a grave warning for President Joe Biden, telling him to take Robert F. Kennedy's presidential bid 'seriously.'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a grave warning for President Joe Biden, telling him to take Robert F. Kennedy's presidential bid 'seriously.' Kennedy just got on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan and is close to qualifying in other swing states. As an independent candidate, Kennedy must meet the requirements of each individual state in order to be listed on its ballot. 'Bobby Kennedy, Jr. - if he gets on more than just that one critical swing state of Michigan and gets on the ballot in some of these others. I think you have to take that very, very seriously,' Newsom told Jen Psaki on MSNBC on Sunday.

Abbott, 66, was dubbed one of the GOP 's 'most persuasive pitchmen,' following a year during which the border-state governor led the party's response to the crisis at the Southern Border. 'During his nine years as the governor of Texas, he has proved adept at simultaneously throwing red meat to his conservative base while tempering pushback from the state's liberal enclaves,' wrote TIME senior correspondent Philip Elliott. 'All the while, he has masterfully needled Washington, through both unending legal challenges and agitating stunts, such as sending buses of migrants to Democratic cities.'

Disney has finally received approval from Anaheim to go ahead with the $1.9billion expansion of the Disneyland park that will bring Zootopia and Toy Story to life. The Walt Disney Company received unanimous approval from Anaheim City Council at a meeting that began on Tuesday evening. Approved on Wednesday, the plan marks a historic moment for the park - and promises to give Disneyland the biggest and most significant makeover since the 1990s, when the California Adventure park was added. The council's decision to approve was 7-0 and involved over 200 attendees at the meeting.

Search engine giant Google has fired nearly 30 of its US employees after they were arrested for staging sits-ins at the company's offices to protest its contract with the Israeli government. The pro-Palestinian employees - who were seen wearing traditional Arab headscarves- were taken in by officials from both the organization's New York City and California offices. Soon after an internal investigation, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow announced the termination of its employees in a companywide memo

Several Google workers were arrested Tuesday after staging sits-ins at the company's offices in New York City and California to protest the tech giant's $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government. A total of nine protestors were arrested across both locations on Tuesday. Staffers on the Sunnyvale campus were livestreaming their protest when officers walked into Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office and took them into custody. In New York, employees displayed a banner reading, 'No tech for genocide.' Workers' concerns stem from a clause in the contract, known as Project Nimbus, that bars Google from denying services to specific parts of the government, sparking fears that the tech could be used by the Israeli Defense Forces to surveil Palestinian civlians.

One might assume that being a member of one of the richest families in the world guarantees you a lavish and carefree life. But in the case of the billionaire Getty family, nothing could be further from the truth. For while money certainly can buy mansions, jewels, and entry into the highest echelons of society, the heirs to the Getty fortune have proven the age old adage that money - no matter how much - cannot buy happiness. That message was made clear yet again this week when heiress Ivy Getty, whose family has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion, announced that she was divorcing her husband Tobias 'Toby' Engel after just four years of marriage, the latest in a line of heartbreaks to befall the wealthy family.

Loyal shoppers are flooding to 99 Cents Only stores as the chain prepares to wind down its operations. The West Coast brand - which has shops in California, Texas , Arizona and Nevada - announced last week that all 371 stores would shutter though it did not give a timeline for the closures. In the meantime, local officials are also rallying attempts to save the hundreds of workers affected by the decision. Shopper Andre Montoya told Fox 5 San Diego: 'It's a great place, so it's kind of upsetting.'

The audit slams the state's homelessness tsars for spending billions across 30 programs from 2018-2023, but gathering no data on why the cash wasn't tackling the crisis. It confirms what's clear to many residents - the homelessness scourge is out of control, and that tent encampments and troublesome vagrancy across major cities is bad and getting worse. For some, it reinforces fears of a 'homeless industrial complex' - a gravy train of funders, officials, shelter owners and charities more keen on swallowing public funds than solving the problem.

A California sheriff blasted Gavin Newsom and accused the democrat of'lying' to promote his reform drive, which has resulted in rampant crime, homelessness, and opioid deaths. Chad Bianco of Riverside County accused the Newsom of allegedly pedaling "false" crime statistics in order to shield Pro Pro 47, a bill passed by California voters in 2014 that reduced penalties for opioid and property crimes. According to Bianco, Newsom has resisted changing the law to save face, although the state continues to deal with the ramifications of lowering penalties against criminals and opioids. They are against it now because, in basic terms, they will have to admit that Prop 47 was a disaster that they have been fighting for years after its passing,' Bianco told Fox News in an interview.

Following the revelation that Kaiser, PG&E, Clorox, and Blue Shield are plowing $10 million in additional security funds for their employees, Steve Heimoff, president of Coalition for a Better Oakland, made the sad prediction. 'It will not surprise me if four of Oakland's top employers-announced their departure, taking their thousands of employees with them and administering the final death blow to our beleaguered city,' Heimoff said.

In California, you will have to pay more for Big Macs, burritto bowls, and lattes. McDonald's, Chipotle, and Starbucks have all agreed that the price of a new $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food employees, which started Monday, would be paid. One McDonald's franchisee has already raised prices at his 18 restuarants in northern California by around 5 to 7 percent.

After a new bill was introduced today that would give more financial stability to a traditionally low-paying occupation, many employees will see a 25 percent pay increase. However, the wage increase hasn't been sufficient in a state still known for its high cost of living, raising the risk of raising prices. Most fast food workers are women, immigrants, and people of color, with some of them living below the poverty line as wages increased in the industry in recent years after being stagnant for decades. National chains such as McDonald's (bottom left), Jack in the Box (top left), Pizza Hut, KFC, Subway, Del Taco (bottom right), In-n-Out (top right) and Starbucks have at least 60 stores around the country and offer limited to no table service, with McDonald's (bottom right) and Starbucks.

As employers reduce costs ahead of a minimum wage increase, fast-food employees in California are losing their jobs. Governor Gavin Newsom's bill, which was enacted last year, would raise minimum wages for fast-food employees to $20 an hour at restaurants with more than 60 locations in the United States. That's up 25 percent more than the California minimum wage of $16 an hour.

The Supreme Court seems to be skeptical of banning access to abortion pills around the country, but the result of banning access to abortion medications is dependent on the state. Some states already have near-total abortion bans, while others have some medication abortion restrictions in place, but states that have expanded abortion coverage may be affected by restricting abortion pills.

At least eight states intending to prohibit the selling of new gas-powered vehicles in the next decade, while others are considering joining them. According to the Advanced Clean Cars II law, only zero-emission vehicles can be sold in participating states starting from the 2035 model year. The statute, which was first introduced in California, means that automakers and dealerships will be forbidden from selling new gas cars in these states from that date forwards. However, Americans will not be compelled to remove their gas-powered cars from the road, and will still be able to buy used and secondhand gas cars.

During a rally in the California city on Saturday afternoon urging Thao to stand down, former Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte slammed the mayor. People who say give her more time,' Harbin-Forte said in a KVTU interview.' More time to do what? 'She has ruined our town.' The beleaguered city is dealing with a slew of criminals, and Thao recently missed a deadline to obtain $15 million in state aid to combat retail crime.

A bill has been introduced in California by state authorities to prohibit even more common food additives from public schools that have been attributed to cancer and behavioral problems. On Tuesday, Democratic Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced a bill calling for banning seven ingredients found in cereals and chips like Lucky Charms, Cap'N Crunch, and Cheetos. Red Dye No. No. No. 4 is on the cutting block, but it is not a chopping block. Yellow Dye No. 40 is a 40-year-old yellow dye. Yellow Dye No. 5, Yellow Dye No. 5. Blue Dye No. 6 is a no. 4000. No. 1, Blue Dye No. 1. No. 2, Green Dye No. No. Titanium dioxide, 3, and 3 others. If passed, the legislation will require foods containing these ingredients to be removed from foods served in California public schools beginning in 2025. Mr Gabriel also wrote the California Food Safety Act, also known as the Skittles ban, which would prohibit the use of potassium bromate, propylparaben, brominated vegetable oil, and red dye No. 2. 3. Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill, which requires all of these ingredients to be withdrawn by 2027. The ingredients of Assembly Bill 2316 have been attributed to behavioral disorders in children as well as ADHD.

Attorney Pamela Price of Alameda County is under pressure because of the rising rate of crime in the dying Bay Area city. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, she claims that the drive against her is funded by billionaires with no involvement in public safety.' Following a panel with other county prosecutors at the University of California, Berkeley, Price said on Friday, 'I want to fight the bigotry and bigotry that they have brought to Alameda County.' In a record-breaking $1.5 million court filing, she claims she was accused of regularly attacking "the media and the Asians" as her adversaries.

Manufacturers usually make the beverage, which is also found in paint strippers, which binds to caffeine in the beans and then pulls it out of them. The overwhelming majority of decaffeinated coffees are made with methylene chloride, which is also found in paint stripper, which is used to remove caffeine from the coffee beans during the manufacturing process. Methylene chloride has been classified as a "probable carcinogen" by the Environmental Protection Agency and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, after studies linked it to cancers in the blood, breasts, and other body organs. However, under recent law enacted by Democratic Assembley member Eloise Reyes, the state would prohibit decaf coffee made with this chemical, requiring manufacturers to change recipes or face a $10,000 fine.