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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast launch baffles allies and critics alike as the governor disappears from public events, raising questions about his leadership priorities and political future.

AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination.

The permit lays the groundwork toward a driverless taxi service. Tesla has said it will launch such a service in Austin, Texas in June.

Billed as the world’s premier AI conference, the event’s 900 sessions, hundreds of exhibits and technical workshops has drawn an estimated 25,000 attendees.

California is the only state that doesn’t allow any tax exemptions on military retirement income.

California is spending billions more than planned for Medi-Cal. Some of the cost drivers include higher enrollment among immigrants without legal status as well as pharmacy costs.

The court decision Monday wasn’t the only rejection that hit the transit agency. Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected a request from the VTA to intervene in the labor dispute and asked the two sides to resume negotiations on a three-year contract.

California is spending billions more than expected on Medi-Cal for coverage expansions that benefit immigrant households.

The state says the insurance company must commit to pause canceling and not renewing homeowners' policies through the end of this year.

Last year’s initial budget projection featured an estimated $53 million shortfall. The new budget projection unveiled by Maguire this week showed a projected $46 million shortfall, the equivalent of about 3% of the city’s $1.6 billion spending plan.

Jairon Escobar, owner and operator of Radiator & Body Parts in San Jose, was charged with jacking up an insurance damage estimate on a “newly purchased” bait car with a single dent to include thousands in damages that did not exist. 

San Jose detectives had identified Juan Ramirez as the man who fatally stabbed the woman, who died at a local hospital after the attack in the afternoon of March 22, 2013, in the 900 block of North First Street.

Danhong Chen and her business partner and ex-spouse, Jianyun Ye, were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2019 for committing fraud to obtain immigration benefits for foreign investors. Ye pleaded guilty in 2021 and served a year in prison.

Representatives from both sides met Monday, but neither side budged from bargaining positions for a new three-year contract that remained far apart, with no new conversations scheduled.

Calls to LGBTQ crisis lines spiked after President Donald Trump’s election. His policies target health care for young transgender people, creating uncertainty for a vulnerable community. A spate of recent policy decisions by the Trump administration targeting transgender youth has led to an escalating mental health crisis among an already vulnerable population, experts and advocates say.