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SAN FRANCISCO >> Less than a week after Democrats ended their day-long sit-in protest on the House floor over gun control laws, government officials once again rallied together Wednesday to protest Republican inaction.

Arnulfo Solorio believes that learning English helped advance his farmworker career, and his dream of seeing fellow farmworkers achieve the same is being realized through the Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation, which held its first farmworker recognition and donor appreciation luncheon Tuesday.

A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in on the House floor, they're taking their message to the people and holding dozens of events Wednesday throughout the country as part of a national day of action against gun violence.

House Democrats are coalescing around a recess strategy to keep pressure on Republicans to hold a gun control vote when they return, as lawmakers head back to their districts for the July Fourth break.

Three House Republicans and one Democrat announced Friday the introduction of legislation to prevent individuals on certain terrorist watch lists from purchasing a gun but with an appeals process for denials.

WASHINGTON - California winemakers have now enlisted lawmakers and federal regulators in their latest effort to stop the dilution of some vintage names.

Washington, D.C. >> In an historic 26-hour sit-in on the House floor that ended Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, joined House Democrats in protesting the refusal of Republican leadership to allow a vote on bipartisan legislation to address gun violence.

WASHINGTON >> Exhausted but exuberant, House Democrats vowed to fight on for gun control Thursday as they ended their high-drama House floor sit-in with songs, prayers and defiant predictions of success.