The Democrats said restricting Department of Homeland Security spending was essential to securing their votes, after their visit to the ICE facility.

The bill would create a first-in-the-nation legal pathway for residents to seek financial damages in state court.

California senators voted against a deal reached Sunday to reopen the federal government, the first procedural step to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. A group of moderate Democrats agreed to ...

"It's simply an irresponsible position to be putting ourselves in," one senator said of potential future deficits.

Tom Homan, acting director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, spells out then-President Donald Trump's immigration policy in 2018. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Dieog) Attorney General ...

The longest-ever government shutdown could be coming to an end soon, a welcome relief for the federal workers who’ve gone without pay to the Californians who’ve faced delays in key food benefits. In a ...

After an hours-long tour of the California City Detention Facility — the state's newest and largest — U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla ...

A proposed bill in the California Senate aims to provide consistent regulation for California’s scrap metal recycling facilities, including Oakland’s Radius Recycling, whose West Oakland plant caught ...

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Amid well-publicized struggles over staffing and budget cuts at the National Park Service, two U.S. senators have a somewhat counterintuitive proposal: They want to make a couple of Southern ...

A top federal election official who falsely claimed Democrats need “illegal citizens” to vote to win elections and publicly mused about committing voter fraud herself must rescind those statements or ...

Today, the new Senate president pro tem — Democrat Monique Limón of Goleta in Santa Barbara County — is the upper house’s ...