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Hillary Clinton apologized Friday after gay-rights and AIDS activists assailed her for saying Nancy Reagan helped start a "national conversation" about AIDS in the 1980s, when protesters were struggling to get more federal help in fighting the disease.
Since coming out a year ago, Caitlyn Jenner has not always been a unifying force in the transgender community.
After California lawmakers approved a proposal to raise the state's smoking age from 18 to 21, a new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll find most Californians in support.
Dwindling staff numbers have forced the San Jose Police Department to require overtime for its officers under a shift change starting this Sunday.
The BART Board of Directors expressed concerns Thursday about a proposal to impose fines for people taking up multiple seats on trains, saying they fear the regulations would be too broad and could lead to targeting homeless people and train delays.
Officials say California will have a backlog for the foreseeable future in a unique firearms seizure program even if state lawmakers approve permanent funding.
A federal jury in San Francisco on Thursday exonerated four police officers who fatally shot 28-year-old Alejandro "Alex" Nieto in a city park in 2014.
Terminally ill California residents will be able to legally end their lives with medication prescribed by a doctor in three months.
California lawmakers voted Thursday to make the nation's most populous state the second to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21 as part of a sweeping package of measures they are considering to crack down on tobacco.
The nation's largest public pension system says Moody's has agreed to pay $130 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the investment rating agency negligently gave strong scores to bad investments.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among those named in a $34.5B lawsuit over Israeli West Bank settlements.
The world may have less time than previously believed to address the dangerous rising levels of global warming, according to a new study.
State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make feminine hygiene products tax-free, just like food, medicine and other necessities.
Former Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, as some in the GOP try to thwart frontrunner Donald Trump's bid for the party's nomination.
A plan to export coal through a proposed new shipping terminal in Oakland got a financial boost Tuesday: Lawmakers in Utah are fast tracking a bill that would close a funding gap for the project.
