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• CG: AG Rob Bonta Lets Gascon Minion Slide
• AP: California latest to sue drug companies over insulin prices
• FresBee: 2-time candidate charged with elections, voter fraud after running for office in Fresno County
• NR: Robert Hur, Special Counsel in Biden Document Probe, was DOJ Point Person in Russia Investigation
• LAT $: Special counsel to review Biden classified documents
• BreitbartCA: Special Counsel to Investigate Biden Classified Docs…
• The Stunning New Twist in the Biden Documents Saga
• AmerSpec: The Classified Story of the Pot-Kettle-Black President
• NR: The Biden Documents Mess
• Hunter Biden Accessed Dad's Garage With Classified Material
• LAT $: IRS gives drenched Californians an extra month to file tax returns
• CalM: Is California’s drought over? Here’s what you need to know about rain, snow, reservoirs and drought
• AP: Series of drenching California storms put dent in drought
• LAT $: Nearly all of California exits the worst drought categories
• LAT $: New storms set to hit a rain-battered California, with Monterey Peninsula at serious risk
• LADN: Chatsworth sinkhole made national news, wrecked two vehicles, and is growing
• CalCoast: Road closed, hundreds cutoff near Lake Nacimiento
• AP: Missing boy’s mom: ‘I could feel his fingers slipping’ away
• Fight for Feinstein's Senate Seat Is Already Wild
• SacBee: I thought Rep. Katie Porter was different. Her disrespect for California says otherwise
• NR: ‘In It for Herself’: Former Katie Porter Staffer Says California Dem’s Senate Run Motivated by ‘Fame’ and ‘Power’
• CG: Early 2024 Senate, House Candidates, Endorsements Flood California 22 Months Ahead of 2024 Election
• SacBee: Drugs continue to get smuggled into California prisons. Are state employees to blame?
• FresBee: It’s not called Squaw Valley anymore. Here’s the new name of this Fresno County town
• CalM: Will California join TikTok ban?
• LADN: LA Mayor Bass ties fixing homelessness to supporting local businesses
• LAT $: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass: ‘The city is demanding the tents go away’
• CalM: Gimme Shelter: Mayor Karen Bass on homelessness and the California housing crisis
• LADN: Bass to Palmdale: There is no plan to dump LA homeless people in Antelope Valley
• OCReg: Southern California family budgets still smacked by cooling inflation
• SDUT: California looks at ways to curb soaring natural gas bills for SDG&E and other consumers
• More Fallout for Schiff Following Twitter Files Reveal
• Twitter Files 14: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots
• FresBee: Man, 78, robbed in Clovis dies 2 weeks after attack. Suspect may face charges, police say
• LAT $: Long Beach police arrest man who allegedly threatened to shoot co-workers
• SFC: Man arrested after attacking MUNI bus driver with fire extinguisher in S.F.
• SFC: S.F. police arrest two men in a triple shooting in the Mission District
• FoxLA: Lisa Marie Presley dies after suffering apparent cardiac arrest
• CG: The Tangled Government Web Behind the Push to Ban Gas Stoves
• OCReg: Newsom budget plan underscores missed opportunities in the surplus years
• OCReg: An unlikely threat to popular democracy in California
• OCReg: Losing Proposition 22 would hurt workers and the economy, especially as a recession looms
• SFC: UC Davis investigating prominent professor accused of raping high school student
• Veteran Sacramento police officer sues city, alleges ‘anti-Black culture’ in department
• LAT $: Berkeley’s People’s Park is again in a fight for the ages, now over UC student housing
• SFC: Oakland board overturns vote to shutter schools, but decision can be undone
• SJMN: Exclusive: As FBI degree fraud investigation of Pittsburg cops ramped up, officers paid back tens of thousands to city
• SFC: S.F.’s largest landlord defaults on loan. Will it affect local real estate?
• SFC: S.F. reverses course on its rejection of housing on a parking lot in SoMa
• SJMN: Silicon Valley Community Foundation launches Bay Area emergency fund for storm damage
• FresBee: Record-breaking rainfall possible this weekend as Fresno braces for another storm
• Planned state park for Stanislaus County survives major cuts in Newsom’s budget
• CalCoast: Scheme to keep Diablo Canyon open is illegal, groups say
• CalCoast: 300,000 gallons of sewage spill into the Salinas River
• VCStar $: New slide seen at La Conchita from this week's storm
• CG: LA City Council Votes 12-2 To Increase Punishments For Members Who Are Censured
• LAT $: City National Bank agrees to settle U.S. complaint of racial bias in L.A. home loans
• VOC: OC Looks Elsewhere for Green Power After Pulling Out of Controversial Local Agency
• OCReg: Irvine may change how city officials are elected
• VOC: OC Power Authority Rates Fall Below Edison for the First Time
• OCReg: Rep. Young Kim to open a new office in Mission Viejo City Hall
• VOC: Santana: Orange County’s Era of Astroturf Elected Officials is Over
• Ex-school board member with troubled past joins staff of new Riverside County supervisor
• VOSD: San Diegans Are About to Get a New Dumpster.
• SDUT: Gloria says San Diego is rising above challenges, unveils plan to speed home-building
• SDUT: Proposal to allow more high-rise housing in San Diego clears key hurdle
• SDUT: Oceanside denies appeal of transit-oriented development project. ‘We can’t say no’

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