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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, along with several elected officials, meets with the media at Del Mar Fairgrounds on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Del Mar, Calif., where he backed state legislation that would allow for private citizens to enforce the state's ban on assault weapons. A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday, May 11 that California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, File)

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Court: California's under-21 gun sales ban unconstitutional
By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press
Wed,05/11/22-4:10PM , 436 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional.
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President Donald Trump looks at his phone during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, June 18, 2020. A San Francisco judge has rejected Trump's lawsuit challenging his lifetime ban from Twitter. U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a ruling Friday, May 6, 2022, that Trump's failed to show Twitter abridged his First Amendment right to free speech. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Judge rejects Trump lawsuit challenging ban from Twitter
By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press
Sat,05/07/22-4:08PM , 1,027 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A San Francisco judge tossed out former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit challenging his permanent ban from Twitter.
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Charles Johnson, right, is surrounded by his legal team Chris Dolan, left, in blue, Courtney Rowley, center, and Nick Rowley, second from right, during a press conference announcing a lawsuit outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Los Angeles. Johnson's wife Kira died at the hospital in 2016 from complications after giving birth by cesarean section. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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LA hospital sued for racism in death of Black mother
By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press
Wed,05/04/22-7:26PM , 547 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The husband of a Black woman who died hours after childbirth in 2016 sued Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, saying she bled to death because of a culture of racism at the renowned Los Angeles hospital.
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In this Sept. 19, 2019 photo, Ed Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. A wealthy California Democratic donor convicted of injecting two men with lethal doses of drugs faces a sentence of life in prison. Ed Buck will learn his fate Thursday, April 14, 2022, in a Los Angeles courtroom where a jury concluded his fetish turned fatal. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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LA political donor gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths
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Thu,04/14/22-12:03AM , 484 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ed Buck told his neighbors that the steady stream of young Black men leaving his West Hollywood apartment were social work clients. What really happened behind closed doors, which he referred to as the “gates of hell,” was far more sinister.
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