The rubble that defined the Los Angeles landscape in the wake of historic wildfires has been hauled away, leaving behind acre after acre of empty dirt lots where homes once were and will be again. The all-consuming question: When?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom promoted his more than 2,000-mile jaunt from California to South Carolina as a bid to help the party win back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, but most people there saw it as a precursor to a 2028 presidential run.

Gavin Newsom played coy about his 2028 White House ambitions as he traveled to churches, community centers and coffee shops in eight of South Carolina’s rural counties this week — insisting he was here to energize red-state Democrats and pressure the Trump administration for federal disaster relief.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom plunges deeper into a power struggle with President Donald Trump, his social media interactions with the White House have gone from measured to routinely, well, trolling.

The governor launched a two-day tour of South Carolina, calling on voters across rural areas to exercise their “moral authority” in standing up to President Donald Trump.

But a legal challenge set for arguments in court on Thursday addresses the core of the raids themselves and could deal a significant policy blow to the Trump administration.