Nancy Pelosi
San Francisco Democrat secures enough votes to become the next speaker of the House in January, and makes headlines for telling President Trump in the Oval Office as TV cameras ran that Democrats won’t fund his proposed border wall.
Aaron Persky
Former Santa Clara County superior court judge, recalled by voters in June after giving lenient sentence to convicted sex offender and former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, asks supporters to help him pay his $135,000 in legal bills.
Gavin Newsom
Takes office as governor in three weeks, but his father, retired judge William Newsom, died Wednesday, and a new poll shows more voters want state budget surplus spent on health care and reduced college tuition than his priority, universal pre-school.