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• Newsom’s Dilemma: Unemployment Spikes In California as Presidential Ambitions Soar
• CG: Jennifer Newsom’s ‘Gender Justice’ Nonprofit Job Post Included Questions Illegal to Ask in California
• Gov. Newsom to release report on what his administration did right and wrong during COVID-19
• SFC: If San Francisco’s drag laureate can’t make a drag club work in the city, who can?
• SFC: Video shows S.F. man chasing raccoon with blowtorch
• VOC: Is OC’s District Attorney Leaning on His Campaign Donors to Pay a Court Fine?
• CG: U.S. and California Gasoline Prices…Why the Recent Decline?
• LAT $: L.A. Times owner intends to take newspaper public in coming year
• SJMN: Husband-and-wife legal duo that took on ‘David and Goliath’ sinkhole case against HOA awarded $6M in fees
• CalM: Teacher enters crowded race to topple Rep. Ken Calvert, with Barbara Boxer’s blessing
• SacBee: Do California’s sanctuary laws protect immigrants in the second Trump era?
• OCReg: ICE raids are hurting critical economic sectors, North Orange County officials gather to say
• ACLU, advocacy groups denounce Modesto’s mask rule after arrests at ICE protests
• OCReg: In-N-Out Burger’s owner talks about moving to Tennessee in a podcast
• LAT $: Thieves ransack an AutoZone during possible street takeover in South L.A.
• CalM: Trump administration releases after school grant money — with a catch
• 78-year-old defies the odds, becomes oldest police rookie in California history
• Former Cal OES deputy director testifies in civil suit accusing him of retaliation
• CG: The Big, Beautiful Bill and The Democrats’ Big Mistake
• CG: Greenberg: The Anti-Car Crusade Hurts Seniors, the Disabled, and Families
• SacBee: Sacramento County regulations would change massage parlor manager requirements
• SJMN: Cupertino quarry owner to begin multimillion-dollar cleanup of mining waste in creek
• FresBee: Fresno Chaffee Zoo rendering shows takeover of neighbor Playland. Is it happening?
• CalCoast: Former SLO County restaurateur accused of exploiting immigrants
• East Ventura development goes back to drawing board without car wash
• LAT $: LAPD undergoes first major leadership shake-up with McDonnell as chief
• LAT $: New network of air pollution monitors launches near Palisades fire
• VOC: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Flagship Mental Health Court Is Failing in Orange County
• OCReg: Prosecutors want former OC Supervisor to pay $878,000 in restitution, far below what county is seeking
• Is the Inland Empire becoming more Republican? Here’s what the numbers say
• SDUT: For months, Amazon overcharged residents of one San Diego neighborhood
• SDUT: Early estimates puts damage to USS Midway Museum at $100K after boat strikes hull