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  • Radio host Larry Elder wins fight to enter California recall

    MICHAEL R. BLOOD and KATHLEEN RONAYNE, Associated Press|Updated Jul 26, 2021

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California judge on Wednesday cleared the way for conservative talk radio host Larry Elder to join the field of candidates for an upcoming recall election aimed at removing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. Elder scored a swift court victory in Sacramento, where he challenged a decision by state election officials to block him from the September recall ballot. In a tweet, Elder wrote, "Victory! My next one will be on Sept. 14 at the ballot box."...

  • California recall has enough signatures to make ballot

    KATHLEEN RONAYNE, Associated Press|Updated Apr 26, 2021

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Organizers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. The California secretary of state's office announced Monday that more than 1.6 million signatures had been verified, about 100,000 more than needed to force a vote on the first-term Democrat. An election is likely in the fall where voters would face two questions: Should Newsom be recalled and who should replace him? The...

  • Bill to reveal names of recall signers won't move ahead

    KATHLEEN RONAYNE, Associated Press|Updated Apr 25, 2021

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A proposal to let California politicians targeted by recall efforts see who signed petitions to oust them will not move forward this year. State Sen. Josh Newman, a Democrat, said Tuesday he's pulling the bill due to pressure from supporters of a likely recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat. Newman's bill would not have applied to the anti-Newsom effort, but that movement's supporters vehemently opposed it, saying it would...

  • California lifts virus stay-at-home orders, curfew statewide

    KATHLEEN RONAYNE and JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press|Updated Jan 25, 2021

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced. The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the majority of the state's counties. The change will allow businesses such as restaurants to resume outdoor operations in...

  • California governor in the hot seat over pandemic response

    Kathleen Ronayne, The Associated Press|Updated Aug 20, 2020

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a summer of muddled messaging and bad news in the coronavirus fight, a trend crystallized recently by his delayed response to a data error that caused a backlog of nearly 300,000 virus test results. "The buck stops with me; I'm accountable," he said in a tense news conference, Monday, Aug. 10, his first appearance since state officials revealed the error a week earlier. "No one's trying to hide that. No one's trying to mask that; we're...

  • 8 California counties are latest coronavirus hotspots

    Kathleen Ronayne, The Associated Press|Updated Jul 30, 2020

    As coronavirus cases spike in California’s vast Central Valley, the state will send strike teams and tens of millions of dollars to eight counties to speed up testing, help infected people quarantine and assist overwhelmed health care workers, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday, July 27. The state is aiming for every infected person to transmit the virus to fewer than one other person, but in several Central Valley counties the spread is happening more often, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, head of the California Health and Human Services...

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