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A transgender California high schooler dominated a major track-and-field meet on Saturday, claiming three first-place medals in girls’ events — including the high jump, in which she beat the runner-up by almost a foot. AB Hernandez, a senior at Jurupa Valley High School and a biological male, competed in the girls’ events at the Roosevelt Invitational over the weekend, despite being at the center of the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to the state. Hernandez swept the competition, securing the gold in the high jump with a clearance of 5′ 8″ (1.72m) — almost a foot higher than...

This year California voters will choose a new governor, fill other statewide offices, elect 100 state legislators and 52 members of Congress and weigh an array of knotty ballot measures. Meanwhile, officials in the state’s largest urban centers, Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, will test voters’ appetite for raising sales tax rates — already among the nation’s highest, — to levels never before seen in California. Los Angeles officials are asking voters in the June primary election to add another half percentage point to rates that already top 10% in most of the county’s cities, raising...

San Francisco police officers arrested a man accused of stabbing a person at an intersection in Chinatown Thursday afternoon, officials said Friday. The attack, which was captured on surveillance footage and was shared widely online, occurred just before 1:13 p.m. at the corner of Stockton and Sacramento streets. Officers who arrived on scene located a victim suffering from an apparent stab wound and paramedics transferred him to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, officials said. The victim remained hospitalized Friday, officials said. In the aftermath, a person matching the suspect’s description was apprehended near the 600 block of Powell Street....

Military action in Iran is starting to impact prices at the pump as Americans have seen gas prices rise since strikes began in the Middle East on Saturday. We're keeping track of gas prices in California. The Get the Facts Data Team put together a map that shows what prices look like in your area using data provided by AAA. The map updates once a day early in the morning. You can view the map below. Crude oil prices in the U.S. have spike since Feb. 26 when it was tracked at about $65 per barrel. Want to see how...

As gas prices continue climbing in California — already the highest in the nation — residents are increasingly venting their frustration at Gov. Gavin Newsom, accusing him and Sacramento of piling on policies and “taxing us to death.” The backlash centers on draft regulations tied to the state’s Cap-and-Invest program, overseen by the California Air Resources Board, which sets a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions and requires major polluters to purchase allowances for each ton of carbon they emit. Critics say tightening those caps — strongly backed by Newsom — could further drive up the cost of gasoline and...

A Democratic assemblyman has been accused of dabbling in drugs, alcohol and having a gaming addiction as his wife’s bombshell divorce documents were made public. Joaquin Arambula, who is running to be a councilmember on Fresno City Council, is in a legal battle with Elizabeth Arambula, who filed for divorce in January and wrote a lengthy appeal for child custody. “For years, I have covered for Respondent’s struggles with alcohol, marijuana, and gaming, concealing them from our children, family, friends, and his professional circle,” Elizabeth Arambula said according to court documents, in which she is seeking spousal support for the...

The Los Angeles Marathon has two finish lines this year — and people aren’t happy about it. With temperatures expected to climb higher than 80 degrees, organizers said runners can finish their race early at the 18th mile and still receive their medal if they are “having a tough day.” “If you’re having a tough day and want to end your race before [mile] 26.2, you can choose to take the turn at Mile 18 and head into the finish line early,” The McCourt Foundation, which is hosting the event, announced on its website Friday. “You do not need to...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said the federal government is requiring approximately 13,000 non-domiciled commercial truck drivers statewide to have their licenses revoked, effective immediately. CBS News Sacramento first reported the news in November of last year, which the state said came following the discovery that the expiration dates on the licenses had passed the immigrant drivers' legally allotted time to stay in the U.S. On Friday, the DMV said those affected by this federal requirement had already received notice from the agency that their licenses were subject to cancellation. Approximately 20,000 drivers were at risk of seeing their...

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced on Friday that he will be retiring at the end of his term, potentially leaving his seat vulnerable to a Democrat in the midterms. Issa issued the announcement to retire soon after the deadline to register as a candidate in a district that became vulnerable to Democrat control after being redrawn last year. “This decision has been on my mind for a while, and I didn’t make it lightly,” Issa said. “First, we built the right campaign infrastructure, support has been overwhelming — including from President Trump — and our polling was unmistakable: We would...

The U.S. Navy is making a renewed emphasis to sailors in the San Diego area to take extra precautions in public in case of personal attacks in light of recent political events and the U.S. involvement in Iran, according to a Navy sailor based in the San Diego area. That sailor, who asked not to be identified, told FOX 5/KUSI that the naval base shared an internal message this week advising them to refrain from wearing clothing or having items on their car that identify them as Navy and could potentially make them a target of attacks.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Friday that the federal government is requiring them to cancel the commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) of thousands of immigrant truck drivers in the state. According to a release from the California DMV, approximately 13,000 non-domiciled CDLs are being revoked. DMV said non-domiciled people are "those who do not have citizenship or lawful permanent resident status, and includes holders of various visas, refugees, and asylees." DMV said the not all non-domiciled CDL drivers will be effected by the government's decision and drivers affected should have already received a cancellation notice. Last year, the DMV...

Gov. Gavin Newsom grinned like Cheshire at civil rights icon Jesse Jackson’s public memorial service Friday – treating it as a campaign event as the rumored 2028 presidential hopeful schmoozed with Democratic heavyweights including Presidents Obama and Clinton. The California governor was pictured working the room and snapping selfies with Democratic party elites, as thousands of people gathered at a church on Chicago’s South Side to pay a final public tribute to Jackson. In one telling moment, Obama, who was front row at the event, turned around and pointed directly at Newsom, who’s also been on the publicity trail for...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has been accused of gaslighting residents while “protecting” violent gangbangers — after the feds took down several members of the city’s largest gang in a daring, heavily-armed raid near MacArthur Park on Thursday. The embattled leader previously blasted a federal operation in July, which saw immigration agents descend on the troubled park to root out MS-13 gangbangers and open-air drug markets, calling it “outrageous” and “un-American.” She also insisted at the time that MacArthur Park, which has long been plagued by gang activity, homelessness and drug addicts overdosing on fentanyl, was a beloved children’s sanctuary....

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and President Donald Trump have finally broken their silence. Months after a tense public clash over rebuilding the Pacific Palisades following the devastating 2025 wildfires, the progressive mayor and the Republican president spoke directly by phone, a conversation Bass revealed in an interview Friday with KNX Los Angeles City Hall reporter Craig Fiegener that was obtained by The Post. Bass said she called the White House early in the week and Trump returned her call on Thursday. The call marks the first known conversation between the two since the early days of the wildfire crisis,...

The story you heard first — that President Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem over a $220 million ad campaign — isn't wrong, exactly. But it's incomplete. The ad spending lit the fuse; an eight-word question that Noem refused to answer in plain English plunged the detonator.Here's what really pushed Trump to fire her.It was previously reported that the breaking point for Trump was when Noem testified on Tuesday that he had personally approved $220 million in Homeland Security advertising, including a cinematic spot of her riding a horse in front of Mount Rushmore with a voiceover that said, "From President...

Sacramento DA: ‘Why is California releasing violent sex offenders before they’ve even completed serious treatment for the crimes that put them in prison?’In yet another decision that has ignited widespread fury among victims’ rights advocates and law enforcement, the California Board of Parole Hearings has granted early release to Roberto Detrinidad, a convicted home invasion rapist who described his heinous crime as his “Super Bowl of crime.” Detrinidad, an HIV-positive felon sentenced to life in prison for breaking into a San Francisco woman’s apartment and sodomizing her while she slept, will walk free from San Quentin State Prison by May...

Last night, San Francisco’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, was attacked by two men while being driven through the Tenderloin district. According to a report from an ABC News outlet, the confrontation arose after a group of people blocked the SUV that Lurie was being driven in; at one point Lurie himself exited the vehicle to engage the individuals on the street, but quickly scuttled back behind the safety of his security detail when the confrontation turned physical. Classic.AdvertisementClearly the men were bums, based on the handcuffed man’s appearance:San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie attacked while being driven through the Tenderloin. This post...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- In a letter sent to Governor Gavin Newsom and other California officials this week, energy giant Chevron expressed its concerns over possible changes to state regulations. "They're setting us up to fail and making sure that imported products will be cheaper and more available to California consumers than in-state production," said Chevron spokesperson Ross Allen. Allen says the company is worried about proposed amendments to the state's cap-and-invest regulations, which set a limit on pollution and force companies to invest some revenue into cleaner energy. The regulations are created by the California Air Resources Board. "The...

In 2008, Californians voted on what they were told would be a modern transportation system — a sleek, high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco in under three hours, financed in part by private investment, delivered at a defined cost, and built within a reasonable timeframe. Eighteen years later, all that has been delivered is one of the largest eminent domain land grabs in modern history. No serious person disputes that infrastructure requires land. But the power of eminent domain is not merely an administrative tool. It is among the most formidable powers government possesses: the authority to...

The California governor made the remarks at an event to promote his new memoir, 'Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.'California Governor Gavin Newsom compared Israel to an “apartheid state” and questioned future U.S. military support for the country. Speaking on stage at an event to promote his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, Newsom, who is widely expected to enter the 2028 presidential race, was asked by Pod Save America host Jon Favreau about the U.S.-Israel relationship and whether it should be reconsidered. “It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in...