If Trump's plans for mass deportations penetrate California's heartland, it almost surely would decimate the workforce farmers rely on to plant and harvest their crops. So, why aren't farmers worried?
They said they believed that Donald J. Trump’s attacks on undocumented immigrants were directed at recent asylum seekers rather than their own community members.
California sought to raise voter turnout by passing vote by mail, which election officials say slows the ballot counting process.
Population growth began to slow in the late 1990s, thanks largely to out-migration of Southern California aerospace workers and their families as defense spending dried up after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
THE BUZZ: AI DIPLOMACY — Global tech leaders who gathered for a historic artificial intelligence safety summit in San Francisco this week are keeping close tabs on California as Washington looks poised to scrap guardrails for the emerging technology under President-elect Donald Trump.
Democrat Derek Tran has taken the lead over GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in California's 45th Congressional District with 6% of the vote still uncounted two weeks after the election.
The closest House race in the nation is in Southern California, where Representative Michelle Steel is trailing her challenger, Derek Tran, by a tiny margin after nearly 310,000 votes have been counted.
San Joaquin Valley Republican Vince Fong was on the ballot this fall for an Assembly race, but he didn’t want to win it.
The latest vote tallies showed Laura Richardson ahead of Michelle Chambers by 2,708 votes (just over 1 percentage point). So far, 241,934 votes have been counted in this race. It is on track to report a lower voter turnout than four years ago when 323,961 people voted in this race, and Bradford was reelected in a landslide victory.
As the tip of the spear for Democrats nationally, California pushes the party to the left. President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election suggests the party — and California leaders — may be too out of touch with the American people.
Complaints and conspiracy theories about California election results are back. A nonpartisan group hopes its vote tracker will help.