On Wednesday, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) would be receiving a fine of $1.5 million, amidst previous ongoing battles, over their rejection of proposed instructional material mentioning the slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

A primarily liberal college town in Idaho has agreed to pay $300,000 to three Christian churchgoers who sued the city after being imprisoned for failing to wear face masks or maintain social distance measures at an outdoor service during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak.