Overnight, California's governor signed into law *** plan for voters to decide whether to approve *** redrawn congressional map. It would give Democrats 5 more winnable seats in the US House next year.

The vote clears the way for Gov. Greg Abbott to sign the map into law and sets up a path for Republicans to gain up to 5 additional seats in the House.

The vote marked a return volley by Democrats in a national redistricting war the day after Texas approved its new map.

The California legislature approved on Thursday a redistricting plan aimed at giving Democrats five more seats in the U.S. Congress, countering a partisan advantage President Donald Trump sought from a Republican move to redraw political maps in Texas.

Democrats and party activists see Newsom's scrappy, Trump-mocking, profanity-tinged speeches and snarky social media posts as signs of new life in a party left dispirited and rudderless.

The national tit-for-tat redistricting battle entered its next phase Thursday as California Democrats launched their final legislative push to redraw their congressional map to add up to five winnable seats for their party,

Golden State conservatives are as comfortable with Big Tech regulating AI as the federal government taking the reins, an exclusive poll shows.