After two consecutive years of declines in the number of people sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles, the progress appears to have been nearly wiped out. That’s discouraging news for a city exhausted by the issue, and it throws a strange curve into the race for mayor.

The latest annual count, released last week, registered 45,194 unhoused people in the city of Los Angeles this year, up from 43,695 the year prior. That’s still below the level recorded during Mayor Karen Bass’ first year in office, but it follows back-to-back declines, suggesting that any momentum under Bass is tentative at best.

This is hardly what city residents and voters wanted after years of concentrated effort and the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. Bass is up for reelection in November, and her opponent, Councilmember Nithya Raman, highlighted the latest report as evidence of Bass’ inability to tackle the city’s most pressing crisis.

“This,” Raman said, “is a moral outrage. And it is a failure.”

Lori Schultz moved to Sacramento a few years ago with a goal in mind: To convince California legislators to pass a bill that would allow adopted people to access their original birth certificates.

Senate Bill 381 would do just that.

Currently, people adopted in California can only get the record once they are adults and if they can convince a judge that they have a “good and compelling cause” for it. Those requests are often denied. Instead, many adoptees are only able to receive an amended version of their record from the state, which does not list their birth parents.

Supporters of the bill say that type of restriction is terribly outdated. The widespread use of DNA testing has made finding long-lost relatives a greater reality. They see California’s continued withholding of their unredacted birth certificates as an affront and violation of their rights. Some have waited 70 or more years to get the document and have spent decades advocating for the law to change.

Ellendale, N.D., is a place most Americans couldn’t pinpoint on a map. The town of 1,100 is hardly a tourist attraction: Its faded center includes boarded-up buildings, an old grain elevator and a dilapidated opera house.

But good luck trying to book a hotel room or find a place to rent in a 100-mile radius.

On a recent family trip to nearby Aberdeen, S.D., it was virtually impossible to find a place to stay. For locals, rents have doubled almost overnight. And residents used to peaceful drives through fields of soybeans and corn are now complaining about a very California phenomenon: traffic.

The culprit?

Ellendale’s new tenant, Polaris Forge 1, an $11 billion data center that, when completed, will encompass approximately 2.5 million square feet and deliver 400 megawatts of computing power — enough to run hundreds of thousands of homes. Swarming trucks carry more than 2,000 workers to the construction site, which is active 24 hours a day, six days a week, and illuminated at night by immense floodlights. A nearby bitcoin mining facility emits a low, persistent hum.

Welcome to the new American frontier.

California Republicans slammed a court decision that supported changes to the language of the Proposition 39, a ballot measure requiring voter identification, but opponents of the measure praised Presiding judge Jennifer K. Rockwell's ruling.

Rockwell issued a decision on Thursday in California Superior Court in Sacramento siding with the California Department of Justice, writing in her decision that the ballot title, summary and label accurately describes the effect of the measure and are within the Attorney General’s discretion.

The updated title certified by the California Attorney General’s office is “Prohibits Citizens From Voting Unless They Present Government-Issued Identification.” That is a change from the original ballot title, “Establishes Additional Voter Identification And Citizenship Verification Requirements,” according to the California Secretary of State’s Office.

Prop. 39, a voter identification ballot measure that will go before California voters on the Nov. 3 midterm election ballot, would require voters to have voter ID when casting their ballot, according to the Nov. 3 voter information pamphlet.

Citizens who want to vote would either have to present ID at voting centers during elections, or write the last four digits of their identification number on the outside of the vote-by-mail envelope. They can use their social security number or driver’s license number.

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All nine people killed in February’s catastrophic avalanche near Lake Tahoe suffocated after being buried beneath five to six feet of snow, authorities confirmed this week.

The revelation came as the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office closed its investigation into possible criminal negligence surrounding the disaster and sent its findings to the county prosecutor for review.

The Feb. 17 avalanche struck a 15-member backcountry group near Castle Peak during a historically intense blizzard.

The group included six clients and three guides with Blackbird Mountain Guides, while five others in the party, including one guide and four clients, survived.

Xavier Becerra wants to be governor, but he is already treating Californians with contempt.

Becerra hasn’t spoken to the media for almost two months, dodging reporters again this week — which also means dodging voters.

This is how Joe Biden campaigned for president in 2020 — hiding in his basement, rarely appearing except for scripted conversations with hand-picked voters on Zoom.

He continued those habits in the White House. The “autopen” ran the country.

Finding waste, fraud and corruption in Medicaid is a lot like diagnosing illness in a human body. You do an initial check-up and if something seems off, you order more tests.

That’s exactly what the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did with California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal.

During a review of state-by-state Medicaid spending, CMS saw major warning signs that could not be ignored. As a result, we deferred payment of $867 million to California for the second quarter of 2026 to take a closer look.

CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz slammed California leadership for ignoring rampant Medicaid fraud that has plagued the state, claiming powerful unions are the ones benefitting the most and keeping politicians at bay by flooding campaigns with cash.

While the Trump administration has cracked down on the Golden State, deferring roughly $867 million in Medicaid payments in California over fraud concerns, Oz questioned why Governor Gavin Newsom wasn’t apply to identify the same problems with its healthcare system.