With electricity prices rising and pressure to keep the lights on, California is racing to create an expanded power market with other Western utilities to trade vast amounts of electricity. An expanded market could include climate-aligned states such as Oregon and Washington but potentially also coal-burning ones such as Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. 

(Subscription required) Since December 2023, the Pentagon's new Office of Special Trial Counsel has significantly increased prosecutions of military retirees by independently recalling over 100 former service members to active duty for serious crimes, marking a major shift from traditional commander-led decisions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

(Subscription required) A San Francisco federal judge will hear a landmark trial Monday on whether the Trump administration's use of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines in law enforcement operations violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

An international religious ministry that offered a woman a job as a customer service representative was entitled to withdraw that offer after learning she was married to another woman, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, citing the Supreme Court’s broad “ministerial exception” from civil rights laws.