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Newsom is commuting the sentences of all the state's death row inmates

California has historically had the largest population of death row inmates. Governor Newsom had previously ordered a halt to the death penalty in the state in 2019. "We can now let these offenders die in obscurity while we forever remember and honour the victims," he said in a letter. Paraguay's president attempts to resign as a banking crisis rocks the South American country - we'll get the view of a Paraguayan Senator who is attending the impeachment proceedings against the embattled President. And after Kimi Antonelli made Formula One history, becoming the sport’s youngest ever world champion at the age of just 20 - we'll speak to one fo his first coaches. (Photo: California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a media preview day at the California Science Center for its new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in Los Angeles, California, US, October 28, 2026; Credit: Daniel Cole/Reuters)