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Prop. 5 seeks to eliminate the second question voters are asked when they vote in a recall: Who should fill the vacancy. Instead, the seat would remain vacant and be filled either by a governor appointment or during a later special election.
Health officials in California are alerting consumers of a voluntary recall of a batch of cream top, whole milk that was produced by Raw Farms, LLC, in Fresno County after bird flu was detected in a sample.
Fed-up communities dealing with violent crime across the state are pointing the finger at progressive district attorneys. There's been a movement across California to try to unseat reform-minded district attorneys for their so-called soft-on-crime approach.
A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Thursday postponed argument on the legitimacy of thousands of Bay Area lawsuits brought in federal court under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom fended off an attempt to remove him from office in a recall election, his fellow Democrats on Thursday began eyeing ways to make future challenges more difficult while Republicans sought to keep the status quo.
Democrats crushed Republicans in Tuesday's California recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, helped by the solid, statewide approval of Pres. Biden and his policies. That is not the case in battleground states where Democratic candidates face steep competition.
San Rafael police were asking members of the public to help identify a man accused of assaulting another man over a disagreement about this week's recall election.
Few Democrats were surprised to see Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom swat down a Republican-driven recall campaign in bright-blue California. But they were pleased with how he did it.
Following his landslide win in the recall election, Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off his post-recall activities Wednesday by highlighting the state's progress in combating COVID and getting children back in school during a visit to Oakland.
A day after California voters resoundingly rejected the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, two lawmakers are pushing to fix what they call a broken recall system.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday called the results of California's recall vote "a resounding win" for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's approach to the Covid-19 pandemic.
CBS News on Tuesday night projected that the "no" vote will win the recall election, meaning Governor Gavin Newsom will remain in office.
A defiant Larry Elder conceded his fight to become California's next governor but indicated his first campaign might not be his last. "Stay tuned," the Republican talk radio host told supporters.
Last minute voters waited in long lines in San Jose Tuesday to drop-in their ballots instead of mailing them for the state's historic recall election.
Election Day in California now signals the end of "election month." The evolving election process has changed the way some people vote, and it will certainly change the way results unfold Tuesday night.
A CBS News exit poll taken Tuesday revealed that the coronavirus pandemic and the state's economy were the issues that loomed largest for voters in the recall election.
Whether the post-pandemic new normal will include Gov. Gavin Newsom will be decided Tuesday as millions of Californians cast votes in a recall election over his policies and leadership.
On the eve of Election Day, many voters have already mailed in their ballots. While a few polls give Governor Newsom a double-digit lead, some are hoping Tuesday brings a change they feel the state needs.
Even though Democrats outnumber Republicans in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom supporters were taking no chances on the eve of the recall election.
He wants Californians to view leading Republican challenger Larry Elder as a 'Donald Trump clone.'
California Republicans were trying to contain a fire of their own making a day before voting ends in the recall election against Gov. Newsom, persuading their voters to turn out Tuesday even as party leaders promoted unsubstantiated claims that the race was rigged.
On Tuesday, Californians will decide whether Governor Gavin Newsom should stay in office, or go. The governor is painting the recall election as an opportunity to reject a Republican takeover of the nation's biggest Democratic stronghold.
A man was being sought after witnesses said he punched and kicked another man during a political rally on a freeway overcrossing in San Rafael on Sunday.
The sunny, late-summer weekend was a swirl of political activity, as candidates held rallies, continued bus tours and cluttered the TV airwaves with advertising offering their closing arguments in advance of the election that concludes Tuesday.
For the first time since his election, President Joe Biden boarded Air Force One Monday to head to California for a tour of the devastation left in the wake of the Caldor Fire and give support to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces a recall election on Tuesday.
