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• California gas taxes are going up again. Here’s how much you’ll have to pay
• FoxLA: Amtrak train derailment: Crews work to clear tracks in Moorpark
• LAT $: 16 hurt as Amtrak train rams truck in Moorpark, derails; truck driver critically injured
• SFC: Violent robberies in San Francisco’s Noe Valley appear to target women with smartphones
• SFC: Exclusive: Gavin Newsom doubles state police in San Francisco fentanyl crackdown
• AP: California Black reparations task force concludes historic 2-year work
• LAT $: Smith: The craziest reparations idea you won’t find in the California task force’s report
• AP: Former Google executive enters 2024 US Senate race to succeed California’s Feinstein
• AP: California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is stepping down. He’s not happy about how it happened
• Anthony Rendon discusses what’s next for his life, career
• FoxLA: Suspects follow group into Irvine Spectrum Center bathroom, rob victims at gunpoint
• Possible explosives found in home of Richmond man killed by police
• SFC: Sonoma County murderer set to be released on parole over D.A.’s objections
• SDUT: Downtown San Diego businesses want $2.5 million from the city because of homeless problems
• CalM: A Texas city shelters nearly all homeless residents in one place. It’s turning heads in California
• VOC: Newport Beach Becomes Latest Orange County City to Limit Homeless Camps
• CG: AG Bonta Announces ‘Surge in Reported Hate Crimes’ 8 Weeks After Creation of ‘CA vs Hate’ Hotline
• CG: Psychedelic Drug Decriminalization Passes Assembly Public Safety Committee
• CalM: Will California’s largest pensions, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuels?
• CalM: Building California: How will the infrastructure deal affect development, wildlife?
• CG: Joshua Trees Receive Massive Protections Under Passage Of Budget Trailer Bill
• These new California laws go into effect July 1. Here’s what you need to know
• LAT $: Dianne Feinstein, still recovering, is skipping a California visit during Senate break
• WhatsApp Messages Make Bidens GOATs of Corruption
• LAT $: As a hotel workers’ strike looms, Anime Expo attendees sound off
• Reason: Trucking Company, Careening Toward Bankruptcy, Could Default on $700 Million Federal Bailout Loan
• LAT $: The pope’s ‘favorite nun’ defends migrants. So why did she agree Texas could bus them to L.A.?
• NR: Gen Z Is the ‘Surveillance Generation’
• OCReg: Julie Su nomination for U.S. Labor Secretary should be pulled
• CG: And They Wonder Why… Media Run Cover for Political Allies
• OCReg: California shouldn’t get in the way of self-driving trucks. Reject Assembly Bill 316.
• OCReg: Gavin Newsom’s 28th Amendment stunt is dead on arrival
• LAT $: Column: Southpaw Newsom is shelled by lawmakers on plans for a delta tunnel
• Sacramento County reaches settlement over placing foster youth in unlicensed facilities
• Mayoral candidate now running for state Assembly seat
• Sac City Unified superintendent to step down
• CG: One Year Out Of San Francisco: How Leaving Has Affected Former Residents
• SJMN: Bay Area travelers will join 5 million Californians on the move for July 4
• SFC: S.F. D.A. declines to file murder charge in shooting near BART station
• SFC: Yosemite finalizes controversial rules for climbing El Capitan, Half Dome
• Feds award $20 million to restore old Fresno train depot. How it ties in with high-speed rail
• LAT $: Tulare Lake floodwaters now receding, Newsom’s office says. ‘We’ve turned a corner.’
• CalCoast: Did Pismo Beach wait too long to close the slide?
• FoxLA: 0% of Los Angeles homes cheaper to buy than rent: study
• OCReg: Buena Park OKs new housing development near Downtown Mall
• LAT $: Amid crumbling cliffs, Orange County considers moving its famously scenic rail line inland
• OCReg: Long Beach man accused of killing ex-girlfriend in Aliso Viejo spa bombing once again on trial
• VOC: M4 Carbines, Armored Vehicles: A Look at OC Sheriff’s $4 Million Military Arsenal
• VOC: Old Sears Building At Buena Park Mall to be Turned Into 1,300 Housing Units
• Temecula school board hires firm for $50,000 to find new superintendent
• SJMN: ‘This needs to get out of our library’: New policy on explicit books, materials proposed in Temecula schools
• SBSun: Complaint alleges Rialto councilmember violated California conflict-of-interest laws
• SDUT: Protesters ruin Rancho Peñasquitos library’s Pride exhibit by checking out nearly all the books
• SDUT: Encinitas declares local emergency on bike, e-bike safety after 15-year-old’s death
• VOSD: North County Report: Encinitas Pulls the Plug on Building Electrification

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