With an ensemble that includes Hiam Abbas, Jeremy Irons, Saleh Bakri and Liam Cunningham, Annemarie Jacir’s fourth feature is set during the Arab revolt against British colonial rule. By Sheri Linden ...

Annemarie Jacir’s emotionally stirring drama follows a year of brutal conflict in the Middle East with a huge cast of characters caught up in the turmoil Annemarie Jacir’s film about the Arab ...

As the war in Europe raged, American war planners recognized that if Britain fell to the Nazis, then the U.S. would lose their launching pad into Europe—and thus their ability to conduct strategic ...

Proposition 36, which increases punishments for some retail theft and drug possession offenses, went into effect Wednesday morning in California. Voters overwhelmingly passed the prop back in November ...

The measure makes shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increases penalties for some drug charges, including those involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It also would give judges the ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 on Tuesday. The law will reclassify some misdemeanor theft and drug crimes as felonies, creating a new category ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Prop 36 was perhaps the most high-profile measure on the California ballot, calling for harsher penalties for theft and drug crimes. The measure passed overwhelmingly, with more ...

California voters approved by a massive margin a ballot measure to more harshly punish certain crimes — with the initiative garnering a whopping 70.6% support with nearly 7.6 million ballots counted.

Alec Regimbal is a politics reporter at SFGATE. He graduated from Western Washington University with a bachelor's degree in journalism. A Washington State native, Alec previously wrote for the Yakima ...

California voters have passed Proposition 36, the Associated Press projects, approving changes that will roll back criminal justice reforms from a contentious 2014 ballot measure that lessened the ...

California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 to increase punishments for some theft and drug possession offenses. With more than half of the ballots as of Wednesday morning, over 6.3 million ...