This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 1947, decades before the federal Clean Air Act, California's leaders began regulating the causes of harmful air pollution. It was also our state that, in 2006 under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed arguably the most aggressive greenhouse gas...
Sinner Bids for His First French Open Title Against Defending Champion Alcaraz
PARIS — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner has not yet dropped a set in his bid to win the French Open for the first time. Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, his opponent in Sunday's final, has dropped four sets along the way. Sinner has only been pushed to one tiebreaker — in Friday's...
Coco Gauff Defeats Top-Ranked Aryna Sabalenka in 3 Sets to Win Her First French Open Title
PARIS — Coco Gauff has won the French Open for the first time by defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 in Saturday's final. The second-ranked Gauff came out on top of a contest that was full of tension and momentum swings to claim her second major trophy after...
Texas Beats Texas Tech in 3rd Game of WCWS to Win Its 1st National Championship
OKLAHOMA CITY — Finally, Texas has broken through. Mia Scott hit a grand slam, Teagan Kavan won again and Texas defeated Texas Tech 10-4 in Game 3 of the Women's College World Series championship series on Friday night to claim its first national title. Texas had lost to Oklahoma in...
Conforto Comes Through, Dodgers Rally in 8th for Victory Abetted by Mets Mishap
LOS ANGELES — Michael Conforto drove in the tiebreaking run in the Dodgers' three-run eighth inning, and Los Angeles rallied for a 6-5 victory over the New York Mets on Thursday to split the NL powers' four-game series. Conforto has struggled mightily in his first season with the Dodgers, but...
Giants Beat the Slumping Braves in 10 Innings on a Wild Pitch
SAN FRANCISCO — Tyler Fitzgerald scored on a wild pitch by Pierce Johnson with two outs in the 10th inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 5-4 on Friday night for their third straight win. After getting picked off first to end the ninth, Fitzgerald began the...
Trans Troops, Facing a Deadline, Opt to Stay and Fight the Ban
The Trump administration gave transgender troops an ultimatum this spring when it announced that it wanted them all out of the military. Leave voluntarily and get an honorable discharge and extra separation pay, or wait to be forced out and potentially face negative repercussions. Now, the deadline for making that...
Can This 14-Year-Old Football Star Become a High School Millionaire?
Brittany Coleman's son Kaden had just turned 10 when youth football coaches started pressing envelopes with thousands of dollars into her hand. They wanted Kaden to play for their club teams in Maryland, in New Jersey and across the mid-Atlantic. Coleman always refused. Payments for top players, an open secret...
Trump EPA Moves to Roll Back Rules Projected to Save Billions of Dollars and Thousands of Lives
WASHINGTON When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a "dagger through the heart of climate-change religion" and introduce a "Golden Age" for the American economy. What Lee Zeldin didn't mention: how ending the rules could have devastating...
Valley Foster Care Agencies Are Facing an Insurance Crisis and Possible Closure
The nonprofit agencies that serve some of the Central Valley's most vulnerable youth have found themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and the hardest of decisions. After the largest insurer of nonprofit foster care agencies across California announced it was pulling out of the market and would not renew policies...