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Latest Climate Report Warns of Major Upheaval to California Way of Life

The dire projections come from the state’s Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nation’s most-populous state.

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The report finds that without major intervention, as much as three-quarters of California’s beaches could disappear — either seasonally or permanently — by 2100 because of coastal erosion.
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Corruption Trial Begins for Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and City Contractors

In opening arguments, prosecutors said that Sheng Thao “put her power up for sale.” One lawyer for the defendants called the bribery scheme “pure fiction.”

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Sheng Thao, the former mayor of Oakland, Calif., center, is on trial this week with three others on corruption charges.
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Couple Charged With Conspiring to Abuse Numerous Surrogate Children

A Southern California couple were arrested and charged with conspiring to abuse 15 children, nearly all of whom were born to surrogate mothers, prosecutors said.

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Nathan Hochman, the Los Angeles County district attorney, accused a Southern California couple of abusing multiple surrogate-born children.
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