Democrats are hopeful again.

California Republicans have filed a lawsuit to block a new U.S. House map that voters just approved.

Most California voters didn’t like redrawing their congressional districts to favor Democrats, according to the AP Voter Poll.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s victory in California’s election fight over U.S. House control will help raise his national profile as a Democrat willing to confront President Donald Trump.

California voters have approved a plan to overhaul the state’s congressional district boundaries, giving Democrats a boost in their bid to win the U.S. House majority next year.

Democrats are dominating the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.

Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.

President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the voting process for Tuesday's elections.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is pushing to build more homes to address the city's housing crisis.

California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot.

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that President Donald Trump attended.

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area.

Federal funds could begin running dry on Saturday that help tens of millions of Americans buy food for their families and send their toddlers to preschool if the government shutdown persists.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is warning that he is about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for California because he says the state is illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leading Democratic critic of President Donald Trump, says he'll consider running for the White House in 2028 after the midterm elections next year.

Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House.

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents.

President Donald Trump says he agreed to halt a planned show of federal force in San Francisco after appeals from tech executives and the mayor.

In a story published Oct. 23, 2025, about state rules regarding driver’s licenses, The Associated Press erroneously reported about state rules for driver’s licenses.

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown.

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, a potentially decisive edge in California's fight over new U.S. House districts has emerged: advertising.

President Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco, calling it crime-ridden and claiming residents want federal help.

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical minerals deal.

California authorities say metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell hit and damaged a state highway patrol vehicle as the Marine Corps fired live rounds over a freeway during exercises observed by Vice President JD Vance.

A plan to fire live artillery shells over a major Southern California highway as part of a military showcase attended by Vice President JD Vance has drawn strong objections from Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Kamala Harris sounds like a party elder and a future candidate at the same time.

Five remaining universities have been weighing an offer from President Donald Trump to sign a “compact” for higher education.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.

Democratic governors from 14 states and Guam have launched a new public health alliance.

Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control.

A new law signed by California's governor attempts to shield the identities of sidewalk vendors from federal immigration enforcement officers.

California is grappling with how to support oil workers who are being displaced from their jobs amid the state's energy transition.

Katie Porter is fighting back.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to prevent the state’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage from running out of money.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law phasing out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at combating antisemitism at schools.

Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states.

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts.

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, including the California National Guard.

President Donald Trump is using the federal shutdown to push deep spending cuts in states that backed Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.

Fire crews have extinguished flames at a Chevron refinery just outside of Los Angeles.

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has hinted that she may not be interested in running for president in 2028.

Political analyst Daniel Cronrath joins me on this week's episode of Politics & Power to analyze former Vice President Kamala Harris' book, "107 Days," and what’s next for Harris.

A wealthy enclave in Southern California that has been threatened for years by worsening landslides faced more land movement this week, but it suffered minimal damage.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law legislation aiming to increase transparency and prevent AI models from being used to cause catastrophic harms.

Bad Bunny has been chosen to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, marking a significant moment for Latin identity on a major stage.

New Mexico lawmakers are convening in a special session this week to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care.

It is now significantly harder for non-U.S. citizens to obtain a commercial driver’s license under new rules the Transportation Department has imposed.

The Transportation Department has tightened requirements for noncitizens to get commercial driver's licenses after fatal crashes that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Trump administration wants to redistribute $2.4 billion it pulled from California’s high-speed rail project to other uses as part of a new $5 billion program to fund rail projects that boost U.S. rail passenger traffic.

California has become the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while conducting official business.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill extending the state's cap-and-trade program through 2045.

From the moment conservative icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans have fought over who’s to blame for his death.

The California Legislature has voted to extend the state's cap-and-trade program.

The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods is still at large more than 24 hours later.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling out President Donald Trump for a “relentless, unhinged California obsession” in his State of the State address.

At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate power.

Former U.S. Congressman John Burton has died at age 92.

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric.

Two years ago Gregory Bovino was relieved of command of the Border Patrol’s El Centro, California, sector and encouraged to retire.

The Border Patrol agent leading immigration enforcement in Los Angeles was removed from his position in 2023 under President Joe Biden.

SiriusXM is giving a national boost to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's podcast, announcing it will begin distributing it and host Beshear for a regular call-in show on the satellite radio network.

A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts.

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

California voters will decide in November whether to OK a new congressional map that would benefit Democrats.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers have struck a deal with rideshare companies Uber and Lyft on a bill that would allow drivers to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits.

California energy regulators are postponing implementation of a penalty on oil companies if their profits climb too high.

President Donald Trump's administration plans to send officers to Chicago for an immigration crackdown.

Missouri’s Republican governor is calling a special legislative session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts.

Voting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.

Public schools have reopened in the nation’s capital with parents on edge over the presence of thousands of National Guard troops, some armed, and federal law enforcement officers.

Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.

Erik and Lyle Menendez have both been denied parole by a California board after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion.

California could become the first U.S. state to require restaurants to disclose common food allergens in each menu item under legislation being considered by state lawmakers.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.

California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is slated to be operating in the Central Valley by 2032, according to a report released Friday by the High Speed Rail Authority.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a news conference Friday in Panama City.

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation's capital, asking people for their immigration status and detaining them.

President Donald Trump is praising his military crackdown on crime and immigration in Washington, D.

California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.

Erik Menendez has been denied parole by a panel of California commissioners.

Lyle and Erik Menendez have both denied parole after serving decades in prison for killing their parents.

Lyle Menendez has been denied parole a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board.

Former President Barack Obama has expressed support for California Governor Gavin Newsom's approach to redistricting.

A dangerous heat wave has descended on much of California and the U.S. Southwest, with triple-digit temperatures expected along with a higher risk of wildfires.