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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, the darling of tech community, has been critical of Gov. Gavin Newsom, but that was before ...

A mandatory 20-year sentence for repeat offenders is the central proposal in Iowa House Republicans' "tough on crime" legislative package.

The law was never intended to serve as a tool for purging classroom content or turning individual professors into pariahs.