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A few cars head south to cross from San Diego into Tijuana, Mexico, through what is normally one of the world's busiest land border crossings, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Judicial Watch sues to stop California’s illegal immigrant stimulus program

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters hold signs during a rally against California's stay-at-home orders that were put in place due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Sunday, May 3, 2020. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP)

California governor says some business may reopen this week

By ADAM BEAM and MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

A bicyclist rides past a road sign that reads &quot;Stay Wicked Fahapart&quot; to advise people to maintain distance on the Ironhorse Trail in Danville, Calif., Friday, May 1, 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP)

Police: California beachgoers mostly keeping social distance

By ROBERT JABLON - Associated Press

A surfer rides a wave as the sun goes down Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Newport Beach, Calif. The beach is one of the beaches kept open during the coronavirus outbreak. While some communities in Orange County have closed beaches, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach refused to limit access. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Protests mark growing unrest with California stay-home order

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

A northbound truck crosses the Modoc County line in Northern California along the high Sierra's eastern front, about 160 miles north of Reno, Nev., Friday, May 1, 2020, near Likely, Calif. For the first time in six weeks, there were diners in California restaurants. It happened in tiny Modoc County, hard against the Oregon border, which defied Gov. Gavin Newsom and reopened its economy, albeit with restrictions. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Rural California county hums back to life, defying order

By SCOTT SONNER and JULIET WILLIAMS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, cots are set up at a possible COVID-19 treatment site in San Mateo, Calif. As tens of thousands of retired healthcare workers and medical and nursing students sign up for the newly established California Health Corps, almost nothing is known about how it will operate, how much it will cost and whether taxpayers will be liable for any malpractice. The volunteers are expected to work at places like the San Mateo County Event Center south of San Francisco, where hundreds of narrow beds have been set up six feet apart, the minimum health officials say is needed to avoid spreading the virus through a sneeze or cough. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, Pool, File)

Most enlistees not eligible to join California Health Corps

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, file photo California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Californians should do a ‘Stormin’ Norman’ over closed beaches

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this April 14, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gestures during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A conservative organization has petitioned the California Supreme Court to block the state's first-in-the-nation plans to give money to immigrants living in the country illegally who are hurt by the coronavirus. The Center for American Liberty argued that the $75 million plan announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week is barred by both state and federal law. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Gavin Newsom to order all California beaches closed, police memo says

By Adam Beam and Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2004, file photo, a pedestrian walks past a large mural of a bull rider in downtown Alturas, Calif., in Modoc County. Rural Modoc County in the far northeastern part of Northern California plans to reopen schools, hair salons, churches, restaurants and the county's only movie theater on Friday, May 1, 2020. It would be the first in California to ease out of stay-home orders mandated by Gov. Gavin Newsom. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Northern California county is 1st to ease stay-home orders

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

In this Saturday, April 25, 2020, file photo, people gather on the beach in Pismo Beach, Calif., on the state's Central Coast. A memo sent to California police chiefs says Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all beaches and state parks closed starting Friday, May 1, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The California Police Chiefs Association sent the bulletin to its members Wednesday evening. Association President Eric Nuñez said it was sent to give chiefs time to plan ahead of Newsom’s expected announcement Thursday. (Laura Dickinson/The Tribune (of San Luis Obispo) via AP, File)

California governor orders Orange County beaches to close

By Amy Taxin and Adam Beam and Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020, file photo, Nightbird Restaurant pastry chef Hope Waggoner prepares dinner boxes that were to be delivered to hospital workers in San Francisco. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday, April 24 that taxpayers will pay restaurants to make meals for millions of California's seniors during the coronavirus pandemic, an initiative that could pump billions of dollars into a devastated industry. Nightbird owner Kim Alter said in an email that the restaurant is &quot;working to be a part of this.&quot; (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California food for seniors plan could run out of money soon

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 26, 2020, file photo, people sit on the beach in Huntington Beach, Calif. A memo sent to California police chiefs says Gov. Gavin Newsom will order all beaches and state parks closed starting Friday, May 1, to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The California Police Chiefs Association sent the bulletin to its members Wednesday evening. Association President Eric Nuñez said it was sent to give chiefs time to plan ahead of Newsom’s expected announcement Thursday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Memo says California governor will order all beaches closed

By ADAM BEAM and STEFANIE DAZIO - Associated Press

A sign thanking essential workers is displayed on a face-mask-wearing figure outside Placer High School in Auburn, Calif., Wednesday, April 29, 2020. This week Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested that California schools could reopen as soon as late July, but many questions have to be answered, and districts are seeking more guidance, resources and investment from the state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Questions surround governor’s proposal to open schools early

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) **FILE**

Gavin Newsom, Calif. gov., floats staggered school start times, shuttered cafeterias

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

First shipment of California governor’s big mask buy arrives

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California reopening will come in phases

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses an outline for what it will take to lift coronavirus restrictions during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. On a near daily basis since outlining his criteria for someday easing stay-at-home orders, Newsom, who recently allowed scheduled surgeries to resume, has warned Californians that, while he understands their desires to get back to work and a sense of normalcy, lifting the orders too soon could be a public health mistake. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool, File)

Face masks in Gavin Newsom’s $1 billion deal with Chinese company BYD start to arrive in California

By Kathleen Ronayne - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday April 14, 2020 file photo,, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif. Three million surgical masks arrived in California last weekend as the first shipment in a major deal cut by Newsom for 200 million masks per month to protect health care and other workers from the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)

Gavin Newsom: California schools may reopen in July

By Kathleen Ronayne and Adam Beam - Associated Press

A drawing of a banana wearing a face mask advises customers they must wear a covering over their mouth and nose before entering a Trader Joe's in Davis, Calif., Monday, April 27, 2020. Yolo County, where Davis is located, now requires people to wear face masks in public. Face coverings are not required at home, alone in a car, outdoors, walking, hiking bicycling or running.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California governor says schools may restart in late July

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press