On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he intends to commute the death sentences of all 548 prisoners on California's death row to life imprisonment without parole.
A federal judge said Saturday she intends to appoint an ex-top federal prosecutor in the nation's capital during President Donald Trump's first term to investigate whether she was purposefully misled by lawyers and administration officials in a lawsuit challenging one of his prized Washington construction projects, the renovation of a historic public golf course along the Potomac River.