
Gavin Newsom just jump-started the 2024 campaign
CNN
With his reelection this fall a near-certainty, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is turning his eye to the future where, he hopes, a presidential bid awaits.
Over the July 4 holiday, Newsom ran an ad in Florida attacking GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and touting his own governance of California.

Vermont is on track to send a woman to Congress for the first time, while the matchup is set in a Wisconsin Senate race that could be one of the most competitive of this year's midterm elections. And in Minnesota, meanwhile, Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive "squad," survived a surprisingly close contest for her Minneapolis-based House seat.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump's residence in Florida on Monday signaled an extraordinary escalation of an investigation into the handling of certain documents from his presidency and raises questions about whether his legal exposure extends beyond whether he improperly took government records when he left the White House.