California Governor Gavin Newsom is refusing to acknowledge the extent of antisemitism at UCLA, where Jewish students were harassed and excluded from campus spaces by anti-Israel protesters during 2024’s encampments. His dismissal comes as the Trump administration presses the university to pay a $1 billion fine for civil rights violations and implement reforms to protect Jewish and Israeli students.
Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R) introduced legislation to split the state of California in response to redistricting efforts that would "silence rural voices and rig the political system against them forever."
California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project is again in financial crisis, with officials now asking the state legislature for an additional $1 billion annually to keep it afloat. The request follows President Donald Trump’s 2024 decision to revoke $4 billion in federal funding, citing a federal report declaring “no way forward” for the embattled project.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is using a November special election to push a partisan redistricting plan that would erase Republican representation in the state—while framing the vote as a referendum on President Donald Trump.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed a legislative package called the "Election Rigging Response Act" that allows redistricting efforts across the state.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is facing criticism after wrongly claiming that President Donald Trump allowed into the U.S. a migrant truck driver now charged with vehicular homicide in a Florida crash that killed three Americans.
