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California state Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine), who is running for Congress next year in a competitive Orange County district, was released from Sacramento County jail Wednesday, according to Sacramento Sheriff's Department records.Min said in a social media post that he was cited with drunk driving.

In late 2020, we woke to find the sky a horrifying orange color, an image of dystopian hellscape from a sci-fi movie.As homes, livelihoods and ecosystems went up in flames, powerful gusts swirled smoky remains throughout the Bay Area.Two years after witnessing record-breaking wildfires ravage our home state, we have just watched officials scramble to protect us from record-breaking storms that flooded the Bay Area.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not address the absence of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein during his weekly press conference on Tuesday, but typed up notes show the Democratic leader had prepared an answer should a question about Feinstein come up.I spoke with Sen. Feinstein yesterday.We are both hopeful she can return next week, the notes, which were captured in a photo, read.

Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin announced Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024, likely setting up a competitive primary in the Democratic stronghold state.It is time and when this term ends it will be my last years as an elected official, I will not seek reelection, Cardin said in a video.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Cardin in a statement and expressed confidence that Democrats will hold onto the Senate seat.

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) announced Sunday that he will co-chair Rep. Barbara Lee's campaign for U.S. Senate.Khanna, who has been urged by allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to consider a run at the presidency, had spent months considering a potential bid to succeed retiring California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, signaling shortly after Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) launched her campaign in January that he would make a decision over the next few months.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most accomplished senator, became an anachronism.She practiced civility and compromised with the other side.That's how the state's first female senator has gotten so many important things done in an increasingly antagonistic political world.It's the way major legislation used to be passed before social media and cable "news" provided wide-ranging platforms for demagogues and nurtured the ideological extremes on both sides.

(CNN)As the Colorado River sinks further into crisis and tensions rise between Western states over how to divvy up painful water cuts, a bipartisan group of senators are formalizing a new caucus to examine how Washington could help.What began as an informal group convened by Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado has grown to a council of senators that represent seven Colorado River basin states -- Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada, according to Hickenlooper's office.

A little over a week after entering California's U.S. Senate race, Rep. Barbara Lee on Wednesday picked up the support of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, one of the state's most prominent and influential politicians.Bass, a fellow Democrat who served in Congress with Lee for over a decade, endorsed her former colleague and friend in the contest to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, also a Democrat, who announced in February that she would retire when her current term ends in January 2025.

By launching her bid for U.S. Senate - open, upfront, for all the world to plainly see - Rep. Katie Porter has placed the contest where it belongs: squarely before the voters of California.Like vultures circling, would-be successors to Sen. Dianne Feinstein have spent years eyeing her seat, convinced she will bow to time and good sense and opt against seeking a sixth full term in November 2024.

Mayor-elect Karen Bass announced one of the central roles in her administration Tuesday, naming LA28 senior vice president Christopher Thompson as her chief of staff.Thompson, who will also guide Bass' transition, will start Monday.He is the first major hire announced by the new administration."My number one priority is assembling a team that will be ready on day one to move our city forward," Bass said in a press release that touted Thompson's public and private sector experience.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that he has been released from an inpatient physical therapy facility after he fell earlier this month and was treated for a concussion and rib fracture.I want to sincerely thank everyone for all the kind wishes.I'm happy to say I finished inpatient physical therapy earlier today and I'm glad to be home, McConnell said in a statement.

Three closely watched ailing senators remain away from the Capitol this week and it's not clear when they will return.One of them, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has spoken directly with some members of his leadership team and conveyed to them he is doing well and anxious to get back to work.

California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced this week she will not run for reelection next year, ending a legendary career that saw her go from San Francisco City Hall to Capitol Hill.With her upcoming retirement, there's much speculation as to who will replace her.Today, we look back at the career of the storied politician and look ahead as to who'll be running for Feinstein's seat.

Hello and welcome to our selection of this week's top stories - in pictures.Here's what you may have missed.Above, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's longest-serving senator, makes it official: She will retire at the end of her current term.Peruse our full coverage of her storied political career....
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WASHINGTON Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader who suffered a concussion in a serious fall last week, was released from the hospital on Monday and will move to a physical rehabilitation center before returning to the Senate, according to his office.A spokesman, David Popp, said that the lawmaker's concussion recovery is proceeding well and that Mr. McConnell, 81, had been discharged from George Washington University Hospital, where he was taken after the accident at the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been discharged from the hospital after being treated for a concussion and a rib fracture, his office announced Monday.The Kentucky Republican tripped at a dinner event on Wednesday evening, his communications director said last week.McConnell had been admitted to a hospital and was being treated for a concussion, according to the statement at the time.

Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian announced Saturday that he will stay out of the hotly competitive race to replace U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), focusing instead on homelessness and reforms at City Hall.Krekorian, who is Armenian American, said in a statement that Schiff's district - which stretches from the Angeles National Forest south to Echo Park and west to West Hollywood - is "the most important congressional district in the country to the Armenian American community."

Ronen and the majority of her fellow supervisors, along with Mayor London Breed and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have called on Becerra, California's former attorney general, to refrain from requiring the hospital to remove patients while it works toward recertification.The majority of residents at Laguna Honda, one of the largest skilled nursing facilities in the country, are older and require specialized care for conditions including dementia, physical and post-stroke rehabilitation, HIV and mental illness.

He visited the facility to observe some of the areas and processes that Laguna Honda must bring up to code in order to get recertified, such as medicine storage and cleaning, and to see how patients with mental illness and substance use disorder are cared for at the facility.Reporters were not allowed on the tour, but Becerra said he spoke to nurses and patients who told him they hope he will protect Laguna Honda.