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This bond measure would authorize the state to borrow $10 billion to modernize K-12 schools and community colleges.

This bond measure would authorize the state to borrow $10 billion to help fund the response to climate-related disasters such as drought, flooding and extreme heat.

The first place in California to authorize youth suffrage was Berkeley, where in 2016 more than 70% of voters approved a measure allowing students to have a voice in school board races.

“What I do is authorize my military,” Trump said as a way of explanation, meaning: He got the lawyers out of the way and told the armed forces to do as they please, at whatever cost to foreign life.

But he also noted that the law prohibited it and “only a court of law can authorize such a change.”