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From Southern California to the State Capitol, this week hundreds gathered across California to protest Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay at home order and demand the state economy reopen – but for many families who’ve lost loved ones to coronavirus, the protests are a slap in the face.

Go ahead and add this to your list of favorite animal videos. An apparently playful coyote and their supposed badger buddy were captured on camera traveling together under a highway in the Bay Area. The adorable video made its way to Twitter Monday evening, quickly garnering hundreds of thousands of likes as well as prompting the creation of hashtags such…

It’s been six months since a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival claimed three lives and left a dozen people wounded, and the anniversary will be marked Tuesday with the opening of a new center devoted to helping survivors.

Three people were killed, including a 6-year-old boy, and 12 others were wounded Sunday after a gunman cut through a fence to avoid security and opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. A suspect was shot and killed by police.

Following the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival and a double homicide in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County is fighting back by trying to get guns off the streets.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s recent vow to take away people’s AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States? The number of AR-15 and AK-47s in the U.S. is estimated at a staggering 16 million, creating logistical challenges to take them out...

The National Rifle Association has sued San Francisco where city officials recently declared the gun-rights lobby a terrorist organization. The NRA says in its lawsuit that the city is infringing on its free speech rights and is seeking to blacklist anyone associated with it.

Bob Mokos is a passionate gun owner who on the surface would seem like a card-carrying National Rifle Association member. The retired airline pilot has been shooting guns since he was a child. The Vietnam veteran got more serious about firearms as a civilian after one of his sisters was fatally shot during a mugging in Chicago. After the 9/11...

Actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria are leading a group of more than 150 writers, artists and leaders who have written a public “letter of solidarity” to U.S. Latinos after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and an immigration raid in Mississippi. The letter, published Friday in The New York Times and in a handful of Spanish-language newspapers, says...

Amid renewed calls for urgent action on gun control, members of Congress are weighing potentially bipartisan ideas to curb gun violence after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California, over the last two weeks have left nearly three dozen people dead. The legislative proposals under consideration include stronger background checks, “red flag” laws that prevent those...

The gunman in the deadly California food festival shooting had a passport, clown mask, wilderness survival guide and bottle rockets in his car at the time of the attack, court documents released Thursday show.

The gunman arrested in the El Paso shooting that left 22 people dead was charged with capital murder on Sunday, and authorities are treating the attack as a domestic terrorism case. El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza told reporters that the state of Texas also plans to seek the death penalty, adding, “We will hold him accountable.” “We have...

El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza discusses his plans to charge the suspected El Paso Walmart shooter with capital murder. If convicted, the suspect would face the death penalty.

The gunman in the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting has been identified as Santino William Legan, a federal law enforcement official confirmed to NBC News. Legan had posted online about an 1890 racist manifesto, “Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest.”

A shooting at an annual garlic festival in Gilroy, California has sparked reactions from President Donald Trump, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other politicians. “Law Enforcement is at the scene of the shootings in Gilroy, California,” Trump tweeted late Sunday. “Reports that shooter has not yet been apprehended. Be careful and safe!” As of Sunday night, three people were dead,...

The MS-13 gang made Jose Osmin Aparicio’s life so miserable in his native El Salvador that he had no choice but to flee in the dead of night with his wife and four children, leaving behind all their belongings and paying a smuggler $8,000. Aparicio is undeterred by a new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions declaring that gang and...

The costs are up, the timeline is longer and major unanswered questions remain in the latest business plan for California’s proposed bullet train. Here’s a look at what’s changed since the last time the California High Speed Rail Authority updated its business plan in 2016.

A fugitive wanted for trafficking cocaine through the Otay Mesa port of entry was arrested Monday in his hometown of Gilroy, Calif.