In today's Ad Watch: The Republican National Committee says Obama forgot the recession, while Obama says you guys just don't know how far we've come. Plus, the worst political ad all year.
Today, the American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2012 report, on the quality of the air in the U.S., and as these things tend to go, the good news is always tempered with some bad.
A day after the fourth-ever U.S. case of mad cow disease was confirmed in a California dairy cow, officials are characterizing it as an example of effective inspections, but from other reports it sounds like it was basically a lucky break.
Californians like their death penalty. They tend to vote for it whenever an initiative or supporter hits the ballot. But the latest initiative to end it just might pass not because its proponents argue the death penalty's wrong, but that it's too expensive.
In your potentially troubling environmental news of the day, there are only two states in the U.S. that aren't experiencing "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, meaning that the country is the driest its been since 2007.
Discovered: Unprecedented ocean acidification, weed does and doesn't impair memory, a strike against wine snobs and california isn't that fat anymore.
California Representative and House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier announced that he will not seek reelection on Wednesday, succumbing to the new citizens-drawn California districts that he once tried to overturn.
Today in questions you didn't ask but are damn well getting the answers to, a Public Policy Polling survey ranked the 50 U.S. states by popularity among voters nationwide. And while Hawaii placing No. 1 in this little popularity contest wasn't a shock, that the Golden State ranked last was.
It seemed in the heady aftermath of Tuesday's ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a Supreme Court case on Proposition 8 was inevitable, but a few news reports have since pointed out that the Supreme Court might decline to hear the appeal on California's law banning gay marriage.
Today's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, is unconstitutional "all but ensures" (according to The New York Times) that the case will go the Supreme Court. But it does mean at least one thing: We can finally forgive California.
On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court's ruling on the voter-approved measure that outlawed same-sex marriage.
The state of California's clean air agency adopted the nation's first-ever state-level cap-and-trade program after a tense hearing Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown signs a law banning people under 18 from tanning beds, citing health risks
The feds want fewer marijuana shops and more small-scale growing and selling
Topeka can't to pay to prosecute those crimes; Newark has stopped buying toilet paper
At least 16 medical marijuana shops have received letters from U.S. Attorneys
The California senator sued her former treasurer, and her bank for a lack of oversight
Does the new voter registration campaign send the wrong message?
Plus: Kate Moss's bingo secret
The achievements of LBGT Americans will be mandatory in social studies
Reading the results from last night's primaries and special election
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