A frontrunner to be president-elect Joe Biden's labor secretary oversaw the payment of nearly $1 billion in fraudulent benefits to California prison inmates.
Several California sheriffs are telling Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) that they are planning not to enforce the state's new curfew rules. 
History’s greatest leaders have always been unfairly maligned for having low moral character. Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Henry VIII, Andrew Jackson, Winston Churchill, Augusto Pinochet, John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, and Donald J. Trump. The list goes on and on.
Small business advocacy organizations are suing California to overturn a controversial law that targets the gig economy—a lawsuit that could affect Joe Biden’s economic agenda in the White House.
A California judge ordered San Diego to reopen strip clubs even as local officials crack down on churches. 
Republican challenger Michelle Steel is poised to unseat California Democratic representative Harley Rouda as the GOP looks to expand on its unexpected House gains. 
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) is under attack by members of her own party—not over some policy dispute, but because Feinstein said something nice about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), her colleague on the Senate Judiciary Committee, following the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. 
The San Francisco Unified School District will consider renaming one-third of its public schools, including one elementary school named after California Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein.
A Catholic priest challenging California's lockdown rules says that religious believers deserve to be treated the same as Lakers fans, thousands of whom gathered in Los Angeles following its NBA title clincher. 
A Catholic priest has filed a lawsuit against California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) in an attempt to bring the state’s indefinite coronavirus state of emergency to an end.
