Federal wildlife authorities are investigating after a video appeared to show a person kicking a protected sea lion at a beach in California.

A sprawling legislative package aimed at lowering the cost of housing and spurring more home construction won broad bipartisan approval from Congress this week, but it’s hit a major roadblock in becoming law.

A San Diego police officer killed when a fleeing vehicle crashed into his patrol car had been with the department since 2019.

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Los Angeles County surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus Wednesday as California also hit a record high number of fatalities. The governor also announced the first detected case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in a San Diego man. LA County Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer called the 10,056 deaths there a “terrible milestone." San Diego County officials said the infected man is a 30-year-old with no history of travel. Hours after the new variant was detected, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria signed an executive order directing stricter enforcement of state and local public health rules.