Then, in October 2023, an email came from the Pasadena Public Health Department: A person in the city had contracted California’s first-known case of dengue from a local mosquito. “When it happens in ...

A sign outside Google Store Chelsea in New York City on Nov. 17, 2021. Photo by Andrew Kelly, Reuters Between July and October last year, Google spent $120,000 on lobbying California’s government. In ...