The Trump administration is forging ahead with a plan that is sure to fuel alarm across California's immigrant communities: handing over the personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients to federal immigration officials who seek to track down people living in the U.

The raid indicates a new strategy of going deeper into California after focusing on Southern California for several weeks.

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday vowed to fight the "illegal" move by President Donald Trump's administration to cancel more than $4 billion in federal grants for the state's ambitious but much-delayed high-speed rail project.

The study examined the financial consequences of federal immigration enforcement in California, home to over two million undocumented immigrants.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California should redraw its own congressional districts if Texas tries to gerrymander its lines. His idea faces long odds.

A semi-retired grandpa in Southern California vanished in early May and has not been seen since. Family members now believe Naiping Hou, 74, was kidnapped after his house was found empty and cryptic text messages were sent from his phone.

Mr Alanis's death, and the violent clashes that ensued at those cannabis farms, are the latest examples of the kind of chaos that has swept across Southern California since the beginning of June, when immigration raids began to intensify in the region.

The investigation brought authorities from high end cosmetic stores in the suburbs to dusty flea markets in the valley, to an Oakland lot where suspected shoplifters would pull up in daytime with