Gavin Newsom's Proposition 1 leads by 4,218 votes out of 6,324,968 votes counted so far. Impossible to call this one with 1.2 million-plus votes left to count.

Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni gives statement on killing of Reuters video journalist Issam Abdallah

US colleges refashion student essay prompts after ban on affirmative action reuters.com/world/us/us-co… via Sharon Bernstein

Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action reuters.com/legal/reaction…

Key voices in the decades-long debate over affirmative action reuters.com/world/us/key-v…

Our former UC Berkeley School of Ed interim Dean + UC Berkeley Law Prof. Christopher Edley talks with Reuters Sharon Bernstein: 'I don't think the job is done until the picture is bloodless.' reuters.com/world/us/key-v…

How about Arkansas? Or Mississippi?

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How U.C. Berkeley tried to buoy enrollment of Black students without affirmative action reut.rs/462tAeq

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This quake around Plumas National Forest may have been what people were feeling in Sacramento. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban reuters.com/world/us/north…

Women state senators cross party lines to block proposed South Carolina abortion ban reuters.com/world/us/women…

Abortion providers relieved, wary as high court preserves pill access reuters.com/world/us/us-ab…

This has been getting worse and worse for years. kudos to Alexei Koseff and CalMatters calmatters.org/politics/2023/…

A tale of two extremes. Here is how the snowpack modeled by @NWSNWC (NOHRSC) compares from our current WY (2023), and our very dry WY just 8 years ago (2015). Also, here are traces of these two years from CA - DWR. % of avg on April 19 in 2023 is 251% vs 3% in 2015. #CAwx #CAwater

Kentucky police video shows desperate rush to stop mass shooting, save lives reuters.com/world/us/kentu…

Nashville shooting spurs U.S. schools to review security -- again reuters.com/world/us/nashv…