Facing an historic budget crisis, campus violence, and new charges of billions lost through homelessness and unemployment fraud, Gavin Newsom leaves the country for a performance at the Vatican. Music by Metalachi.

Attorney General Rob Bonta turns himself into a cinematic hero of indigenous people in the case of a 2020 deadly domestic dispute. Violence at UCLA was almost a certainty when state officials appeased anti-Israel protests, but the Los Angeles Times knows who’s really at fault: conservatives....