Bob Egelko

Ultra-processed foods are addictive products that are harming Americans’ health and shortening their lives, the city of San Francisco charged in a lawsuit against major food and drink companies.

The case could wind up in the Supreme Court if the appeals court upholds the law, which also requires ammunition sales to be conducted in person.

Under what has become known as the “Purcell principle,” courts must refrain from judging or overturning a state’s voting rules shortly before an election.

Justice Department officials said it was the first federal prosecution against leaders of one of the digital health companies that prospered after the government eased telehealth restrictions.

Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff has been charged with stealing $225,000 from a campaign account held by Xavier Becerra, who was secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joe...

Nursing home employees who deliberately refer to transgender patients with a name or pronoun different from the one they prefer can be charged with a crime, the California Supreme Court has ruled.

“This is the latest example of the Trump administration’s weaponization of the federal government to go after people it does not agree with,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday.

Ninth Circuit allows Trump to send troops to Portland

Gov. Gavin Newsom once sent the California National Guard to the city. But any attempt by the president to dispatch troops for law enforcement purposes would collide with a 147-year-old federal law.

Southern California school district won’t be allowed to begin meetings with a prayer, a federal judge rules, even with Supreme Court ruling allowing post-game football prayer.