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Newsom condemns Trump on world stage at Davos
After his first speech was cancelled, allegedly under pressure from the Trump administration, Gov. Gavin Newsom got his chance early Thursday morning to excoriate the president in front of the business and political elite gathered in Davos,...
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Newsom accuses White House of blocking speaking slot
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is accusing the U.S. State Department and White House of denying him a speaking slot that was previously scheduled to come after President Donald Trump on...
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With threats to Greenland, Trump sets US on road to conquest
It seems safe to assume that when Harry Truman forged NATO at the dawn of the Cold War, he never imagined that over the course of nearly eight decades the only country that would wage economic war and threaten actual war against the allies for the...
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Thousands in Sacramento march for Martin Luther King Jr.
Several thousand people marched through the fog Monday in Sacramento to honor Martin Luther King Jr., continuing a decades-long tradition. Sacramento’s 44th annual March for a Dream, held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, started at Sacramento...
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Claw operators battle Sacramento leaf piles, scoop by scoop
In a newspaper clipping more than 50 years old, a photo shows two little girls in Ceres raking a huge pile of mulberry leaves. One of them smiled. The other girl, however, was 7 years old but all business: her back straight, knees slightly bent, with a...
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Trump threatens Insurrection Act to quash Minn. protests
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell efforts to disrupt his immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Tensions have risen in the city since a federal agent killed a woman there last week, with the...
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6 prosecutors quit over DOJ probe into ICE shooting
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to...
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No campaign, no problem: inside political spending
California Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Santa Rosa, is a die-hard San Francisco 49ers fan. During his first speech as Senate President pro Tempore in early 2024, McGuire gave a shout-out to his beloved team, who were days away from facing the Kansas City...
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Gavin Newsom claims California as Trump counterweight
In his final State of the State, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted California’s economic dominance and a modest reduction in the unsheltered homeless population, claiming victory on one of his most potent political liabilities. During his address, which he...
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North state’s conservative voice in Congress dies at 65
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, one of California’s leading conservative voices in Washington — a staunch advocate for gun rights, farmers and the interests of rural Californians far removed from Sacramento — died Tuesday morning during emergency surgery. The...
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LIMÓN TAKES CHARGE
New Senate President pro tem Monique Limón, D-Goleta, speaks at her swearing-in ceremony at the state Capitol on Monday as Gov. Gavin Newsom and others in the chamber applaud. Limón, the first Latina to hold the role, takes over from Mike McGuire,...
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Venezuela projects defiance after US strike
Venezuela’s defense minister on Sunday rejected any notion that the United States would “run” his country, projecting an official line of defiance as the Trump administration said it would seek to exert “leverage” over the country’s leadership. The...
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Zohran Mamdani is sworn in as mayor of New York City
Zohran Mamdani, the leftleaning populist who deployed a mix of charm, social media savvy and an unyielding focus on affordability to catapult him to political stardom, was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early Thursday, just after the New...
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Bondi Beach victims honored at New Year’s celebration in Sydney
who gathered to watch New Year celebrations at Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia held a one-minute vigil Wednesday to honor victims of the attack on a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach weeks earlier that killed 15 people. Thousands of people stood...
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FORE IN THE FOG
Austin Huynh swings his club on the fairway under the cover of fog at William Land Golf Course in Sacramento on Monday. “It’s mysterious, I would say. Starting at Hole 1 you couldn’t see anything," he said. "It’s a very peaceful experience.” The region...
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Trump hails ‘progress’ in talks with Zelenskyy over war
President Donald Trump said he made “a lot of progress” in talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he pushed for a peace deal to end Russia’s invasion. Even as Moscow showed little willingness to compromise, Trump said Sunday from his...
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How capital table tennis expert helped ‘Marty Supreme’ get made
Scott Gordon admitted his feelings evolved on the muchanticipated movie “Marty Supreme.” Gordon, 65, a longtime competitive table tennis player who lives in Carmichael, consulted on the Josh Safdie-directed film that opened Wednesday night and is...
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104-year-old veteran recalls Christmas at Battle of the Bulge
A Sacramento centenarian spent the holiday season more than eight decades ago on the front of one of WWII’s most significant battles. Howard Buford and his fellow soldiers who were fighting at Battle of the Bulge in 1944 received a Christmas Eve...
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Vigil honors nearly 200 who died homeless in Sacramento County
A crowd gathered in Cesar E. Chavez Plaza downtown on the longest night of the year to memorialize nearly 200 people who died while homeless in Sacramento County in 2025. The vigil — hosted by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, the...
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Local attorney, builder launch affordable housing effort
prominent civil rights attorney has joined forces with a builder to launch a more affordable housing effort, one he hopes can show Sacramento a new approach. Mark Merin, who owns this property at 13th and C streets, as well as a Safe Ground sanctioned...
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Sacramento completes new tiny homes for homeless
officials gathered near Del Paso Park on Thursday morning to showcase the completion of a project described as a cost-efficient and leading strategy in the state’s homelessness response. The announcement focused on the completion of 135 new tiny homes...
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Construction on Capitol Annex halfway done, new report says
Four years after lawmakers vacated the old building, the new Capitol Annex is halfway complete. That’s one takeaway from a new report from the California Legislature’s Joint Committee on Rules – the first formal upcompleted date since 2021. “The...
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End of e-bike program brings mixed reactions in Sacramento
California halted a $30 million e-bike voucher program after a troubled rollout, a decision criticized by Sacramento residents who received bikes. The California Legislature initially set aside $10 million for the program in 2021, as StreetsBlog...
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Rob Reiner’s son arrested on suspicion of homicide
Rob Reiner’s son Nick was booked into the Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of murder, records show, hours after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday. Jail records provide few...
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20% of Sacramento shelter guests go on to permanent housing
Sacramento city and county together earmarked $120 million in taxpayer money — from a mix of local, state and federal sources — on building and staffing eight homeless shelters with a total of about 950 beds since January 2020. About one of five of...
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Senate blocks plan to continue Obamacare subsidies
The Senate Thursday rejected plans from Republicans and Democrats to ease soaring health care costs, making it more likely many Californians face health insurance premiums that could double shortly. COVID-era credits for people with Obamacare-inspired...
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Extended takeover of National Guard illegal, judge rules
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled early Wednesday that the Trump administration’s extended takeover of the California National Guard is illegal, temporarily barring the federal government from continuing to deploy the state’s troops. However, the...
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Slain boy’s dad calls for justice, Stockton leaders slam ‘no-snitch’ culture
One week after gunfire tore through a toddler’s birthday party and killed four people, including three children, the father of 14-year-old victim Amari Peterson stood at Stockton City Hall on Tuesday and said he still feels trapped in a nightmare. “I...
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Year into job, Schiff pushes legislation — and Trump’s buttons
Five months after joining the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff delivered a floor speech on what he called “the top 10 deals for Donald Trump and the worst deals for the American people.” Schiff spoke of Trump and his family getting rich off cryptocurrency...
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First-time marathon runner breaks a CIM record in Sacramento
Thousands of runners raced from Folsom to downtown Sacramento on Sunday for the capital region’s biggest race of the year: the California International Marathon. Of those runners, many were running their first marathon — including the winner of the...
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Top military officers show lawmakers video of boat attack
Top military officers showed senior members of Congress a video of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, including a follow-up strike that has been at the center of a growing debate over the Trump administration’s campaign. Gen. Dan...
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Federal immigration operation starts in New Orleans
Federal authorities announced the start of an immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans on Wednesday, the latest front in the Trump administration’s crackdown. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that its targets would...
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A GIVING TUESDAY IN NATOMAS
California Attorney General Rob Bonta helps organize a food pantry on Giving Tuesday, an international day to promote generosity, at Natomas High School in Sacramento with the help of student Amir Carter, center. Carter is a member of Improve Your...
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Mother speaks after shooting at birthday party for her 2-year-old
A cup bearing a “Nalayah’s 2nd Birthday” label rested in the parking lot at 1937 Lucile Ave. in Stockton on Monday morning, frozen in time and filled with half-eaten food. The site had hosted a child’s birthday party that became the scene of a mass...
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Carnage at children’s birthday party in Stockton
Four people were fatally shot, including three children, and 11 more people wounded in a mass shooting at a Stocktonarea child’s birthday party. The shooting occurred just before 6 p.m. on Saturday at a banquet venue in the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue...
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Sacramento’s annual Thanksgiving race rallies thousands
More than 34,000 runners and walkers flocked to East Sacramento to trek the Run to Feed the Hungry footrace Thursday morning. Now marking the 32nd year of the annual turkey trot, registration for the event completely sold out, according to the run’s...
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Sacramento, THE HELPING SEASON is upon us
At South Sacramento Christian Center on Stockton Boulevard the work is ongoing and so is the need. Every Saturday, the ministry’s food distribution program is a vital lifeline for thousands of families and seniors, especially during this year’s...
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Recent storms fill reservoirs, build up Sierra snowpack
A string of early-season storms that drenched Californians last week lifted much of the state out of drought and significantly reduced the risk of wildfires, experts say. While some communities in Southern California have received record rainfall so...
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine at ‘critical moment’ in peace talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine was at a “critical moment” and would soon determine its next steps, after negotiations with American officials over the weekend to revise a U.S.backed proposal aimed at ending the war with...
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Drugs have killed homeless in Sacramento-run shelters
The day after Christmas, Rytina Heyne received a phone call. Staff at a Sacramento County homeless shelter had found her younger sister dead in C11 —one of the 125 sleeping cabins on site. Staff called paramedics, who arrived and performed CPR,...
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Newsom says Democrats need to recast climate change issue
need to recast climate change mitigation as an affordability issue, Gov. Gavin Newsom said during the United Nations climate summit in Brazil on Tuesday. “It’s about economic power. I think we have to reframe it as a cost of living issue,” he said...
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What happens once the federal government shutdown ends
The federal government shutdown, which begins its seventh week Tuesday, appears close to being over. But when will things get back to normal? There’s no easy way to answer the question. The Senate passed a plan Monday to reopen the government and...
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Republicans seek swift approval of deal to reopen government
The end to the longest U.S. government shutdown ever was in sight Monday, the day after eight senators who caucus with Democrats broke ranks and provided the votes to advance a plan to fund most federal agencies through January. Sen. John Thune,...
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Trump admin demands states ‘undo’ work to send full SNAP
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during...
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Pelosi, first woman to be speaker of House, will retire
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress’ first woman leader, known for presiding over the U.S. House with an iron fist and a compassionate heart, said Thursday she won’t seek another term next year. “I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be...
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California voters pass Prop. 50 in favor of redistricting
Californians struck back Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s push to keep the House of Representatives in the hands of Republicans by approving a ballot proposition that would redraw the state’s congressional map. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic...
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Voters decide on Prop. 50, pitting Newsom against Trump
Seventy-five days after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to put a new congressional map before voters, the truncated campaign over redistricting ballot measure Proposition 50 culminated Tuesday with inperson voting on Election Day. The Sacramento...
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Inside the plan to build a $175M soccer arena in Rancho Cordova
It’s an empty lot on a nondescript corner in Rancho Cordova, bordered to the west by office parks and to the east by a shopping center with a Home Depot, an Asian supermarket and a Wendy’s fast food restaurant. In two years’ time, developers say, it...
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Retired Justice Kennedy recalls cases, Sacramento boyhood
The conservative jurist whose powerful belief in individual liberty shaped some of most influential U.S. Supreme Court rulings of the past 40 years has blue eyes that flash and sparkle as he looks at you, and a life story that outlines the history,...
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Judge skeptical over federal decision to suspend food stamps
The Trump administration on Thursday staunchly defended its decision to stop paying food stamps during the government shutdown, telling a federal court that it could not tap a tranche of available funds to provide aid to millions of poor Americans in...
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Some area food banks not ready for withholding of SNAP funds
food banks are coping with an influx of demand after the state issued a warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, known as EBT or CalFresh in California, will likely not reload in November. At the Elk Grove Food Bank, which...
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Collaboration, cuts among top topics at homelessness meeting
Cofer was grateful that Tuesday’s meeting on homelessness, hosted by Sacramento County supervisors and featuring other elected officials from cities within the county, was happening. But there were limits to Cofer’s gratitude, which she admitted in an...
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Capitol ginkgo fenced to protect people from fetid fruit
A ginkgo tree at the California state Capitol was fenced off this month because its putrid fruit was both a slip and a sniff hazard. Incidentally, the berries — technically seeds with a casing — do contain toxins and should be handled only with...
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Sacramento housing complex fix could cost $1 billion
On August 12, Sacramento City Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum attended a comto munity meeting at the region’s two largest housing projects, some 751 units in all. There, local officials said it would cost a staggering $1 billion or more to fix the...
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Trump said he wouldn’t touch East Wing, then tore it down
As roaring machinery tore down one side of the White House, President Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that he was having the entire East Wing demolished to make way for his 90,000square-foot ballroom, a striking expansion of a project that is...
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Card room employees urge Bonta to drop proposed regulations
California card room employees are fighting for their jobs in the latest chapter of a longrunning feud between tribal casinos and their smaller gamCard ing rivals. Around 150 people protested outside Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office on Wednesday,...
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As Washington cuts back, rural hospitals worry about future
Rural hospital officials are in a nervous, uncertain holding pattern as they wait to learn their future following $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. “There are a lot of unknowns right now, so we’re obviously...
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McCarty proposes ballot measure to fund housing initiatives
Mayor Kevin McCarty will be asking Sacramento voters in the coming year to assist first-time homebuyers, renters on the verge of homelessness and fund his tiny home initiative. McCarty announced his intention for a citywide measure on the November...
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Dixon High football honors JV player who died by suicide
The two football coaches met an hour before kickoff in Solano County to share their grief. They embraced again after a game that was originally scheduled for Friday night, canceled midweek, and then rescheduled for Saturday afternoon — capping a week...
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Valley farmers fear for lifeline program if federal funds end
When 70-year-old Steven Dambeck’s van pulled up beside the small farm in Marysville, Nalee Siong straightened from a row of boxes she had been sorting through and greeted him with a smile. The boxes at her feet were filled with fresh cucumbers,...
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Undocumented woman sues ICE contractor for sexual harassment
An undocumented woman from Mexico, who has lived north of Sacramento for decades, is suing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor, alleging one of its workers repeatedly sexually harassed her for over a year and a half, including texting...
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Sacramento-area Kaiser workers strike over wages, workload
Anesthetists, midwives and other health care workers picketed outside Kaiser Permanente’s hospital in Roseville, Tuesday morning, joining a smattering of union chapters in California, Oregon and Hawaii in a five-day strike. Kaiser workers organized...
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Trump hails ‘historic dawn’ under Gaza ceasefire deal
The hostages in the Gaza Strip were returned to Israel on Monday and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire that President Donald Trump hailed as “the end of the war” in an address to cheering members of...
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Israelis and Palestinians await hostage-prisoner swap
Israelis and Palestinians prepared Sunday for an exchange of all of the living hostages who remain in the Gaza Strip for about 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, the cornerstone of a new ceasefire agreement. The Israeli government said the...
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Israel-Hamas deal paves way for Gaza ceasefire
Israel and Hamas on Thursday edged closer to ending their devastating two-year war, agreeing on the initial terms of a deal that could pave the way to an imminent ceasefire and bringing relief to the families of Israeli hostages and to 2 million...
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Flora takes leadership role; actions raise questions
Heath Flora likes to get along and have a good time. In his nine years in the California state Assembly, the Republican lawmaker has gained a reputation for being easy to work with, reasonable and down to earth. He has Central Valley bona fides — the...
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3 critically injured in helicopter crash on Hwy. 50
Three people were critically injured Monday evening after a medevac helicopter crashed onto freeway lanes of Highway 50 in East Sacramento moments after taking off from UC Davis Medical Center, hurtling wreckage onto the lanes of one of the city’s...
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Trump aimed shutdown cuts at Dems; GOP districts hit, too
When Russell Vought, the White House budget director, announced last week that he was canceling $8 billion in federal funding for energy projects, it was clear that his directive was aimed at hurting Democrats in states they lead. It was part of the...
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Trump defies court order, sends troops to Oregon
President Donald Trump sent 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon on Sunday, defying a court order blocking him from deploying Oregon’s own National Guard to patrol Portland in an ongoing White House campaign targeting Democratic cities. On...
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UK synagogue attack kills 2, fueling fears of antisemitism
least two people were killed in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, raising concerns about antisemitism and wider community tensions in the U.K. Following the knife and vehitional cle attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish...
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Congress remains deadlocked as shutdown enters first day
Congressional leaders were no closer Wednesday afternoon to breaking the spending deadlock that has plunged the government into a shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats demanding that the other side relent. Hours after each party blocked the...
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Sacramento viewers protest after Kimmel show pulled by ABC
Sara Nichols, a Southside Park resident, had planned to spend Thursday working on a book she’s writing. Then at 8 a.m., Nichols learned of a protest an hour later outside ABC10’s studio. The protest came after “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was taken off-air,...
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Sacramento to start charging fees at homeless shelters
Sacramento will start charging monthly fees at some of its homeless shelters, a move that remains uncommon nationwide and marks the city’s latest strategy to address its homeless crisis. In a 7-2 vote on Tuesday night, the City Council approved...
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Mexican Independence Day crowd smaller this year
Though smaller in size, Sacramento’s decadeslong El Grito celebration at the state Capitol carried added significance for the region’s Mexican community as the federal administration continues its immigration crackdown. The celebration on Monday night...
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FBI head says note, DNA link suspect to Kirk killing
man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk wrote a note before the shooting that said he had an opportunity to take out. Kirk and was going to make use of it, the director of the FBI said Monday. The director, Kash Patel, said DNA matching that of...
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