Kevin Rector

Several California teenagers have found themselves at the center of an intense national debate around transgender kids participating in school sports. They aren't backing down.

Voter trust in U.S. elections has declined across party lines ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new poll.

A federal judge granted California and other states a temporary restraining order halting the administration's health funding cuts for 14 days while the litigation continues.

California and three other states sued the Trump administration Wednesday over its plans to slash $600 million from programs designed to prevent and track the spread of HIV, including in the LGBTQ+...

Nice weather is on tap for Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, where clouds and fog should clear before kickoff at 3:30 this afternoon.

Local elections administrators across California say they have been preparing for once unthinkable threats to the midterms, from their own federal government.

California officials say they are ready to resist should the federal government attempt to assert control over the state's voting system, as President Trump has suggested it should.

Leading Democrats' remarks that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot be trusted hold stunning implications for American democracy, and followed a week of equally stunning actions by the department.

Democrats seized on a growing sense, shared by some Republicans, that the campaign has gotten so out of hand that the political winds have shifted heavily in their favor.

Police leaders, civil rights advocates and other experts say the actions of immigration officials and agents run counter to law enforcement's best practices.

Critics of California's proposed billionaire tax say similar measures in Europe failed. Backers of the measure say they took lessons from those failures in drafting the California proposal.

In the last year, President Trump has taken unprecedented actions, some in line with his campaign promises and others in direct conflict with them.

The Trump administration in its first year has claimed sweeping executive power and tested U.S. laws. Federal judges warn that American jurisprudence and democracy are under threat.

Experts on the international and U.S. drug trade questioned President Trump's claim that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is responsible for hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths.

Prosecutors say Maduro partnered with 'narco-terrorists' from Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico to enrich himself and his family through 'massive-scale' cocaine trafficking. He pleaded not guilty.

Legal experts and other critics said President Trump's decision to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to face drug charges was a clear violation of both U.S. and international law.

U.S. officials are proposing new restrictions that would effective ban gender-affirming care for minors.

In his first year in the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff challenged President Trump while pressing the issue of affordability. He also tried to pass legislation, without much luck.

Rep. Eric Swalwell sued housing finance agency chief Bill Pulte, accusing him of misusing government databases to baselessly target Trump opponents.