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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, March 28, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Few states have thumbed a collective nose at President Trump more than California. But when it comes to the self-styled “resistance" of new federal policies, not everyone is on board.

Southern California’s biggest water agency is considering picking up most of the bill for overhauling the state’s waterworks without any guarantee that it will eventually recoup its additional, multibillion-dollar investment.

Orange County voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but its reputation as a bastion of conservatism hasn’t entirely disappeared.

You can hardly hurl a vape pen these days without hitting a marijuana-focused magazine, but what about one that’s created by and for 25- to 40-year-old female cannabis enthusiasts — and has the look and feel of a high-end shelter magazine?

Anaheim removed bus benches near Disneyland in response to complaints about homeless people sleeping on them and loitering nearby.

Billed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope will now launch at least a year later than expected, and the program could be at risk of breaching an $8-billion development cost cap mandated by Congress, NASA officials said Tuesday.

“Pacific Rim Uprising” from Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures earned $65 million in China over the weekend, generating nearly half of the country's total box office receipts last week and dominating other releases.

Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" may give a boost to the nascent virtual reality headset industry, but can it conquer the box office?

The Trump administration has announced that it will expel 60 Russian diplomats — who the administration says are really intelligence operatives — and shut down one of Russia’s four remaining consulates in the United States. This is not exactly a declaration of war, but it is an appropriately muscular...

Fifty years ago this month, a 29-year-old former army paratrooper flew back to his home in California from his father’s funeral in Illinois. As the nation’s heartland scrolled beneath his plane’s window, he jotted down ideas for a new business that would encompass a mail-order catalog and a delivery...

Baseball has become countercultural in America. Its pacing defies our Twitter-addled era. The game denies instant gratification. Thousands of measurable events and matchups provide inarguable facts. The sport demands respect for history and context. Given the current political climate, the republic...

Many people might be flattered to be portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones in a TV miniseries. Oscar-winning actress Olivia de Havilland, however, was not.

To the editor: As the San Francisco Public Defender and the state’s only elected public defender, I take issue with your recent editorial (“Why L.A. doesn’t need an elected public defender,” March 19). The benefits of having an elected public defender have nothing to do with our city being liberal....

To the editor: After devoting a front page story to the long struggle of Saudi women to win the basic right to drive a car (“Saudi Arabia’s ride-app revolution,” March 27), in fairness, you should now do a front page story on the devastation wrought by the Saudis and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman...

To the editor: Adding the citizenship question to census 2020 does two things for the Republican Party. First, it discourages undocumented people from being counted at all, which could lead to California losing one or two seats in the House of Representatives. Second, it further encourages skewed...

To the editor: Really?! Articles about the “Stormy Daniels” interview in every section of the paper (except Sports). With all that’s going on in the world, I cannot understand why this woman and her sleazy story are worthy of so much ink. We all knew (those who voted for him and those who didn’t)...

To the editor: Guns are no different than drugs, alcohol, prostitution or abortion. When you have a product or service for which there is an insatiable demand, supply will follow. Outlaw them, as we did during Prohibition with alcohol, and you learn the futility of such remedies. (“March for Our...

The final game of the Freeway Series ended in bizarre, malodorous fashion Tuesday as a pipe burst in 57-year-old Dodger Stadium and flooded the area near the Dodgers dugout. Unable to stop the liquid from pouring onto the field, stadium officials called off the game after a 32-minute delay in the...

For years, Democrats have dreamed of turning Orange County, the birthplace of Richard Nixon, blue. Or at least some shade of purple.

You’ll find Easter one floor up from the fidget spinners, around the corner from the sax-playing Santas, past the “I love Croatia” shot glasses and iPhone-shaped ashtrays, and across from the statuettes of Jamaican men smoking marijuana.

Pulled by four children, all chanting “Save Toys R Us,” Isaac Larian sat inside a red-and-yellow plastic toy car on Tuesday, holding two tots in his lap, as he maneuvered his way through the chain’s store in Woodland Hills.