Washington, the White House, Congress and the courts.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced he will commute all 548 California death sentences to life without parole. Marc Klaas, father of Polly Klaas, called the decision "absolutely heartbreaking."
President Trump says he thinks he will meet Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at next week's APEC summit in Shenzhen. Moscow says work is underway, but nothing is confirmed and Beijing's position is unclear.
The Supreme Court has stayed a lower-court injunction that halted border barrier and road construction in Texas's Big Bend Sector. The stay does not settle whether the project is lawful, and the legal fight continues.
A day after publicly offering UFC chief Dana White the press secretary job, President Trump posted an animated video of White's fighters pinning reporters in the briefing room. White said he would meet Trump Monday, and whether he wants the job is unsettled.
President Trump told 60 Minutes his deportation policy was "too tough," three days after Republican midterm losses. CBS reports it is unclear whether the administration will change how it enforces immigration law.
Headlines describe a Washington Post report that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is preparing a 2028 presidential bid, but they disagree on how he responded. What he actually said has not been confirmed.
After Democrats won control of Congress, prediction-market traders moved sharply toward Ron DeSantis as a 2028 Republican nominee while JD Vance slipped. The figures differ by market and by report.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court hears a New Jersey family farm's challenge to the Labor Department's use of its own in-house proceedings to decide money penalties. The question before the justices is whether Article III of the Constitution allows that.
Georgia's Democratic governor-elect named Tyler Perry a co-chair of her transition team while he faces two sexual assault lawsuits. One outlet reports he denies the allegations, and no court has made any finding against him.
New York's attorney general told a poolside crowd in Puerto Rico that anyone in Hakeem Jeffries's district thinking of running against him would have to get past her. She named no one, and no source reviewed confirms a challenger.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will move all 548 of California's death sentences to life without parole. Phyllis Loya, whose son Officer Larry Lasater was shot and killed in 2005, told the New York Post, as cited by The Gateway Pundit, that Newsom "wants to be president."
President Trump has endorsed Joe Gruters to continue as Republican National Committee chairman, according to Just the News, as post-election leadership questions swirl around the party.
