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Vice President Kamala Harris, right, swears in Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., left, to the Senate to succeed the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein during a re-enactment of the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Butler's wife, Neneki Lee, center, holds the Bible. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

News Analysis: California knows earthquakes. This week, a temblor reshaped the state’s politics

For years, the top level of California politics seemed frozen, with entrenched leaders in both parties. In one week, the last vestiges of that order are upended.

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Electric cars, climate credit schemes, diverse boardrooms and legal weed: How California exports its ideas and policies across the U.S.
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Writers on strike march with signs on the picket line on day four of the strike by the Writers Guild of America in front of Netflix in Hollywood, California on May 5, 2023. - More than 11,000 Hollywood television and movie writers are on their first strike since 2007 after talks with studios and streamers over pay and working conditions failed to clinch a deal. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom vetoes bill to give striking workers unemployment benefits

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Saturday that would allow workers on strike to collect unemployment benefits after being on the picket line for two weeks.

Sept. 30, 2023

Anaheim, Ca September 29, 2023 - Supporters of former President Donald Trump gathered outside the site for the California Republican Convention in Anaheim on Friday, Sept. 30, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

In California, Republicans are divided over McCarthy’s deal to avoid government shutdown

Sept. 30, 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters just after voting to advance appropriations bills on the House floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday night, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

News Analysis: Kevin McCarthy avoided a government shutdown. But the fiasco shows he’s weaker than ever

Sept. 30, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) departs the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Sen. Feinstein’s decline and death renew discussion about term limits

Sept. 29, 2023

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is welcomed back to the Senate Judiciary Committee with applause from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., right, following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dianne Feinstein’s final day in the Senate

Sept. 29, 2023

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