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Organizers of the campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom have cleared the threshold of the number of valid signatures needed to trigger a vote later this year, but it is not yet official. Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office said on Monday that “the requisite number of valid signatures has been…

UPDATED with latest: San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced charges on Monday against a man accused of murdering a child in his care. The case gained national attention over the weekend when the San Francisco Chronicle posted a story on the case and California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner…

Julie Townsend is departing ABC News after seven years leading their communications team. Townsend will take a job outside the media business, but the position has not yet been disclosed. She will be with the network until May 14. “Julie has been a steadfast and passionate champion of ABC News throughout her time…

UPDATE, 1:03 PM PT: Rick Santorum has responded to the pushback he’s received over comments he made about Native American culture. In a statement, he said, "I had no intention of minimizing or in any way devaluing Native American culture." Speaking about the origins of the United States to a conference of the Young…

Tom Llamas has been named senior national correspondent for NBC News and will anchor a primetime newscast for NBC News Now, the network’s streaming service. Llamas’ move to NBC News from ABC News had been expected. He signed off as the weekend anchor of ABC News’s World News Tonight in January, amid reports that he…

At the outset of this year’s very unusual Oscarcast, Regina King noted the Derek Chauvin verdict this past week, telling viewers, “If things had gone differently this week in Minneapolis, I may have had to trade in my heels for marching boots.” Then, she added, "I know that a lot of you at home want to reach for your…

Start booking your flight. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said today that American tourists who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed into its member countries this summer. Speaking to the New York Times Sunday, she promised lifting the travel ban will happen soon. "The…

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday that President Joe Biden has got to “stop criticizing America for historic wrongs.” Speaking to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Graham insisted that systemic racisim “doesn’t exist” in the US. He cited the elections of former President Barack Obama and current VP Kamala…

Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, the former chief of the Orlando, Florida Police Department, said Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Ohio officer who fatally shot Mi’Khia Bryant acted as "he was trained to do." However, Demings later supported the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which has a clause…

If Caitlyn Jenner follows through with her plan to run for California governor, a report suggests her Kardashian alliance won’t be highly visible on the campaign trail. TMZ reports that Caitlyn, 71, told the family about her plans before publicly announcing them. Citing sources, TMZ said there are no expectations on…

President Joe Biden on Saturday realized a long-sought goal of Armenian Americans, declaring the mass killing of Armenians early in the 20th century by Turkey as a “genocide.” "Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing…

UPDATE: Caitlyn Jenner has responded to The View host Joy Behar’s apology for misgendering her on Friday’s show. "Don't sweat it, @JoyVBehar," Jenner tweeted on Saturday morning. "I'm not about cancel culture. I know where your heart is. California has bigger issues than pronouns." EARLIER: Joy Behar, age 78, blamed…