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Coinbase is a U.S.-based publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange.

Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase strikes a $100 million deal with New York regulators

A review found that the exchange's compliance program violated state laws, making it "vulnerable to serious criminal conduct." It will pay a $50 million fine and spend the rest beefing up oversight.

An Israeli far-right leader's Al-Aqsa visit sparks outrage and calls for U.N. meeting

Israel is lobbying against calls for an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council, following Tuesday's visit by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to a sensitive holy site.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is surrounded by reporters as he walks to the House floor from the Speakers Office, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

McCarthy failing anew in bid for speaker, GOP in disarray

Republican detractors nominated Rep. Byron Donalds, a Black American, as an alternative to McCarthy for speaker.

A Tesla with four people inside crashed on the rocks over the cliffside off California's Highway 1 south of San Francisco on Monday. The driver has been arrested with intentionally driving the car off the cliff in an attempt to kill his family.

Tesla driver is charged with intentionally plunging his family off a California cliff

Two adults and two children inside the vehicle survived the fall of 250-300 feet and the driver was arrested on charges of attempted murder and child abuse, the California Highway Patrol said.

This Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, video image courtesy Capt. Dave's Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari shows a gray whale calf being born in front of an amazed crowd off Dana Point, Calif.

Gray whale calf born in front of amazed crowd off SoCal coast

The birth and the first moments of the calf’s life were recorded on video Monday off Dana Point.

File photo of a California Highway Patrol officer stopping a motorist who was suspected of speeding along Interstate 5 freeway on April 23, 2020, in Anaheim, Calif.

California police more likely to stop, search Black teens

The data includes what officers perceived to be the race, ethnicity, gender and disability status of people they stop so that the state can better identify and analyze bias in policing.

Two couples stand on a walkway at the Bruce's Beach resort in Manhattan Beach, Calif., circa 1920. A few years later, the city condemned the property and seized it from its Black owners.

The Black family who won the return of Bruce's Beach will sell it back to LA County

The return of the property was hailed as a step toward righting the wrongs inflicted by systemic racism. Now, the parties say, the $20 million sale will help restore some of the wealth stripped away.

Moonlight Pulido poses for a portrait Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, in Los Angeles. California is paying reparations to victims, mostly women, who were either forcibly or coercively sterilized by the government. Pulido was sterilized while incarcerated in 2005.

California seeks sterilization victims to pay reparations

The state has $4.5 million in reparations to divide up among victims.

Rain on the windshield of a car stuck in freeway traffic in Spring Valley, Jan 19., 2017.

More rain expected across region as new storm arrives

Strong winds are expected to accompany the rain, with a wind advisory in effect from 8 p.m. Wednesday through 4 p.m.

Author Maia Kobabe wrote <em>Gender Queer,</em> which is on the American Library Association's lists of most banned books.

Author Maia Kobabe: Struggling kids told me my book helped them talk to parents

In 2020, Gender Queer was given a Stonewall Honor and an Alex Award and was headed for a fourth printing. By spring of 2022 it topped the ALA's list of most challenged books.

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