Alex Padilla
California’s secretary of state emerges as front-runner in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s choices to fill the Senate seat of VP-elect Kamala Harris, and wins the endorsement of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
London Breed
San Francisco mayor repeats COVID errors of Gavin Newsom, dining with seven others at exclusive French Laundry in Napa as millions struggle in tough economy and she cracks down on SF restaurants.
California GOP
Republicans win back four of the seven House seats they lost in the 2018 election. But they will still remain in the minority for the next two years, with Democrat Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.