California Democrats rejected a Republican-backed effort Thursday to advance a policy to increase penalties for soliciting and buying sex from 16- and 17-year-olds.

Before the pandemic, some feared Detroit was running out of office space. Today the talk is about canceling office projects and demoing buildings.

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