Police are meant to serve and protect the public, not wage war against them,” the ACLU said in a statement critical of the veto.

Along with shooting down a measure prohibiting weaponizing drones and robots, California Gov. Gavin Newsom also signed into law a quartet of bills that creates harsher

"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores,

California school districts will be required to limit or prohibit the use of smartphones in public schools following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature of a new bill into law Monday. AB 3216, authored by Republican Assemblymember Josh Hoover of Folsom,