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To a certain cadre of loyal MSNBC viewers, Adam Schiff is the platonic ideal of a Democrat. The California congressman supports universal health care. He eschews corporate PAC money (these days, at least). He’s an understated former prosecutor who takes his job seriously even as Washington often descends into fundamental …

The nearly 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein hasn’t said whether she’ll seek reelection to the U.S. Senate. The next generation isn’t waiting to find out: Rep. Katie Porter has announced her bid for Feinstein’s seat. And she certainly won’t be alone in doing so as other high-profile California Democrats, like Rep. …

The Stockton Police Department arrested a suspect in connection with a recent string of killings in the area. Stockton, CA resident Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested on Saturday, as The New York Times reports. Brownlee was apprehended while he was allegedly “out hunting” for another victim, the chief of Stockton …

Sherri Papini, the California woman whose three-week disappearance became national news and sparked a major search effort before she reappeared on Thanksgiving Day in 2016, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own abduction. Papini’s priosn time will be followed by 36 months supervised release, and …

A man wanted for questioning by the FBI in the disappearance of his girlfriend has a chilling criminal history of stolen identities, disguises, and aliases, according to news reports and court documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The San Diego FBI released a statement last Friday asking for the public’s help …

A recently unsealed FBI search warrant reveals more about the final days and hours before Santa Barbara surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman allegedly murdered his two young children. Last September, a federal grand jury in San Diego indicted Coleman, 40, on two counts of murder, for the death his two-year-old …

Peter Nicks’s Homeroom, which is now streaming on Hulu, is the third entry in the director’s “Oakland Trilogy,” which began in 2012 with the healthcare-centered The Waiting Room and reached its midpoint with 2017’s The Force, a close-up view of the Oakland police. Homeroom’s focus is on Oakland High School’s …

Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that California could fully reopen on June 15th, a move that might allow for the state’s concert venues to resume business if certain conditions are met. With nearly a quarter of California’s adults fully vaccinated and the coronavirus infection rate dropping, Newsom said that — …

There are certain things that are so inane that to even mention them does them too much of a service, including (but not limited to) racists, hot dog-flavored potato chips, and TikTok dances as performed by rich white children. Among these things are gender reveal parties, or couples’ misapprehension that …