When the group seeking a referendum on a new data center zone turned in petition signatures to the Frederick County Board of Elections on Thursday afternoon, they had more than 22,000 — about 23% ...

California election officials are investigating whether signature collectors in San Francisco illegally offered to pay people ...

A Finger Lakes attorney has announced a run for Congress in New York’s 24th District. Todd Sloan, 54, said he will run as an independent candidate on the “Upstate” line. Sloan said he filed with the ...

A new poll shows California voters are sharply divided over two brewing ballot measures: a one-time tax on billionaires and ...

Sergey Brin funds a campaign to convince Californians to negate a wealth tax, through a ballot measure that conceals its intended purpose.

Advocacy groups say the OpenAI-backed measure would limit legal accountability and lock in narrow protections for children.

A video appeared to show a group in San Francisco illegally offering strangers $5 in exchange for their signatures on a state ballot initiative.

More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous ...

A majority of California voters fear that the billionaire tax will force businesses to flee the state — as the controversial ...

When detection capabilities lag behind model capabilities, organizations create a structural gap that attackers are ...

Sergey Brin, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is emerging as a major financier in California’s gubernatorial race, throwing his weight behind competing candidates just months after moving his ...