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The judge in the case of two women suing Disney over its scrapped plan to move staffers 2,500 miles across the country has stepped down because her daughter works for Burbank-based conglomerate. Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl stepped aside last week, and a new jurist — Judge Lawrence P. Riff — was assigned…

Boosters of California’s film and TV tax credit say that the program would be at risk if a proposed initiative makes it to the ballot and passes in November — albeit that prospect is being challenged by the measure’s backers. The initiative, the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act…

On Friday, Google began removing California news websites from some people’s search results. The move comes as a test of what would happen should the state Legislature pass a new law requiring the search engine to pay media companies for linking to their content. Google said in a blog post that it is…

Governor Gavin Newsom and politicians in Sacramento may still have a long way to go to conquering California’s budget deficit, but they now finally have the go-ahead from voters to get $6.4 billion to revamp the state’s busted mental health system and combat homelessness. Almost two weeks after Golde…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) are making their final TV ads buys before Tuesday’s Senate primary, but one candidate has shot to the top of the polls without spending a dime on such spots. In fact, according to one poll released today, former Dodgers star and Republican Steve…

The four leading candidates for California’s open U.S. Senate seat met again this evening, this time in a one-hour San Francisco debate that produced fewer clashes than their first gathering in January. Still, with less than a month before the state’s open primary, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) focused a…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Steve Garvey will face off again for another U.S. Senate debate on Feb. 20 at Universal Studios Hollywood. NBC4/KNBC and Telemundo 52/KVEA are hosting the one-hour debate, which will start at 6 p.m. PT. The debate will be…

The three Democrats running for California’s open Senate seat sought to define their differences at their first debate tonight, but the the real flashpoint was with the sole Republican on the stage, Steve Garvey, and where he stood on Donald Trump. After he said that he would support the former…

Hollywood Democrats again might be facing conflicting loyalties and affinities, this time the race to fill the seat occupied for more than 30 years by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein. With the March 5 open primary just weeks away, for many Hollywood politicos, the race is just starting to become a big…

USC Dornsife, Fox 11 Los Angeles and Politico are co-hosting the first debate of California’s candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat. Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Republican Steve Garvey have been invited to participate in the Jan. 22 event. It will…

Elon Musk’s X on Thursday has lost its bid to change a California law on content moderation disclosure by social media companies. X sued California in September to undo the state’s content moderation law, saying it violated free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment and…

Video game company Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay nearly $55 million to settle a 2021 complaint by the California Civil Rights Department. The majority of the monetary settlement is accounted for by the establishment of a roughly $47 million fund for the treatment of pay disparity and…