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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday October 12 allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children’s caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism. Assembly Bill 495 will also bar daycare providers from collecting...

When Kansas forcibly rejected an amendment this past August that would have removed the right to abortion from the state’s constitution, the country was stunned—and abortion-rights advocates were ecstatic, seeing in this victory a way forward to secure new and greater protections for abortion access and bodily autonomy by enshrining the...