California election officials are spending $16 million in a four-week ad blitz to educate people about voting in the recall that could remove Gov. Gavin Newsom, a campaign that's officially nonpartisan but could benefit the first-term Democrat as he pushes for high turnout. Through billboards, radio and digital ads, television...
80% of Eligible Californians at Least Partially Vaccinated
More than 80% of the people eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine in California have received at least one dose, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday, a pandemic milestone for the nation's most populous state amid signs a recent surge in new cases is abating. Newsom said the news puts California among...
Heading to Oregon, Bulldogs Fans? You’ll Need a Mask at Game
EUGENE, Ore. — Fans in Eugene for No. 11 Oregon’s home opener against Fresno State on Saturday will need to wear masks — regardless of vaccination status — as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide. But at Utah, state regulations ban mask requirements, so the Utes can only offer suggestions. As the...
San Luis Obispo County Jail Violates Inmates’ Rights, Feds Say
SAN LUIS OBISPO — San Luis Obispo County Jail violated the constitutional rights of inmates by failing to provide adequate medical and mental health care and subjecting some prisoners to excessive uses of force, according to a federal investigation. A report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice concluded...
Victorious Taliban Focus on Governing After US Withdrawal
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban reveled in their victory after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, reiterating their pledge Tuesday to bring peace and security to the country after decades of war. Their anxious citizens, meanwhile, are waiting to see what the new order looks like. Having humbled the world’s most...
California Moves Slowly on Water Projects Amid Drought
SITES — In 2014, in the middle of a severe drought that would test California's complex water storage system like never before, voters told the state to borrow $7.5 billion and use part of it to build projects to stockpile more water. Seven years later, that drought has come and...
USPS Has Shorted Some Workers’ Pay for Years, CPI Finds
Nancy Campos’ back ached as she loaded more than 100 Amazon packages onto her truck. The 59-year-old grandmother, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, had worked 13 days in a row without a lunch break, and now she was delivering on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to...
Man Gets Life Sentence in 2018 Killing of Mollie Tibbetts
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while out for an evening run. Judge Joel Yates' sentence for Cristhian Bahena Rivera was mandatory for a...
California Fire Approaches Lake Tahoe After Mass Evacuation
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — A huge firefighting force gathered Tuesday to defend Lake Tahoe from a raging wildfire that forced the evacuation of California communities on the south end of the alpine resort and put others across the state line in Nevada on notice to be ready to flee. The...
Last Troops Exit Afghanistan, Ending America’s Longest War
WASHINGTON — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service...