By Katherine Koretski

(CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new book, “Young Man in a Hurry,” details his political triumphs and downfalls, personal relationships and times of struggle.

Newsom doesn’t say in the book, which comes out Tuesday, whether he’ll run for president – though he’s been open in interviews about his consideration of a 2028 run. Instead, he lays out personal stories and addresses controversies that would likely come up if he were to launch a bid.

Here’s a look at some of the personal moments he addresses:

A sometimes turbulent childhood

Newsom describes his upbringing as sometimes turbulent.

He explains that his parents, who married young, lived mostly apart during his childhood. After multiple failed political runs, his father, William Newsom, moved to Lake Tahoe, California, leaving him and his sister Hilary to be raised mostly by his mother, Tessa Menzies Newsom.

Moving around many times, he says they often lived with strangers as his mother worked multiple jobs. Newsom also explains how he struggled academically during his childhood and was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia.

The governor’s mother died at the age of 55, planning her own assisted suicide after suffering from breast cancer. He describes being at her bedside during her last moments, holding her hand “tighter and tighter and sobbing.”

Relationships, past and present

Newsom is married to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker and actress with whom he shares four children. The two were set up on a blind date by mutual friends. In the book, Newsom reveals that in 2020, at the age of 46, Siebel Newsom experienced a miscarriage with their fifth child and received emergency lifesaving surgery in California.

Newsom also talks about his first marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle, who later dated Donald Trump Jr. and is now serving as US ambassador to Greece. He writes that the two were introduced by friend and business partner, Billy Getty, ahead of a vacation to Hawaii. The pair was married for four years but mostly lived separately as Newsom was mayor of San Francisco and Guilfoyle was pursuing a media career on Court TV.

In the summer of 2004, the couple appeared in Harper’s Bazaar magazine in an article titled, “The New Kennedys,” posing for a picture of the two lying on a carpet.

“The critics mocked it, but none more than me,” Newsom writes.

The two divorced after four years of marriage and parted “as amicably as two people could,” he writes.

Following his divorce from Guilfoyle, Newsom found himself wrapped in a political scandal when he had what he calls a brief affair with a staffer and wife of his deputy chief of staff, Alex Tourk. Ruby Rippey-Tourk revealed during a 12-step program meeting that the two had an affair and Newsom was forced to comment publicly. He spoke on camera about the affair, saying, “Everything you’ve heard and read is true. And I’m deeply sorry about that.”

Newsom reveals in his book that with time and reflection, that what he had done was, “the worst betrayal of my life.”

When he pushed for legalizing same-sex marriage before many other Democrats

In 2004, Newsom was invited to former President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address, in which Bush criticized “activist judges” for redefining marriage. Newsom, who was mayor of San Francisco at the time, wanted to be “bold” regarding the topic when returning to California. Newsom allowed same-sex couples to get married at City Hall for 28 days. Over 4,000 couples were married, including Read more

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN

Washington (CNN) — The House of Representatives is set to consider whether a collision avoidance system that supporters say could have prevented last year’s deadly midair collision near Washington should be required on every plane in the US.

Sixty-seven people were killed on January 29, 2025, when a US Army helicopter on a training flight collided with an American Airlines regional jet, operated by PSA Airlines, as it was landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Most aircraft are already required to automatically send out signals known as ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast), which include their location and other data so they can be tracked. The American regional plane was sending out the signal, but Army helicopters did not transmit the data. Neither pilot was able to receive information from the other because their aircraft were only equipped to transmit, not receive, ADS-B information.

The ROTOR Act, introduced in the Senate last year, would require all aircraft transmitting to also receive ADS-B data, called “ADS-B In,” so pilots could use it to look for other aircraft.

“It is clear from our investigation that had the crew had ADS-B In flight 5342 would have had a 59 second alert versus the 19 seconds they had … which was ineffective in preventing the crash,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told CNN Monday.

The bill would also require military aircraft to use ADS-B to transmit their location in most situations, including during training flights, which the Department of Defense currently opposes.

A House committee is proposing a competing bill, called the ALERT Act, which it says is a wide-ranging measure to address all 50 issues the NTSB brought up in its report.

“The best way to serve and honor the victims and their families is by thoughtfully addressing the broad range of safety issues raised by the now-complete accident investigation, and that’s just what the ALERT Act does,” said House transportation committee chair Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican. “The ROTOR Act touches on only two of the NTSB’s 50 recommendations and provides an overly prescriptive approach to mandating a specific technology, which is still largely under development, in a manner that can prove burdensome to some operators and create barriers to its adoption.”

But the NTSB says many of the measures fall short of addressing their concerns.

“We stand ready to work with the House but saying that they implement our recommendations right now is completely false. It does not implement our recommendations in many, many areas,” Homendy said. “Claiming falsely that they implement our recommendations is not right and that does make me angry.”

The ALERT Act, would not require ADS-B on every aircraft, specifically having a rulemaking committee look at “collision mitigation” technology and would exempt many aircraft, like those commonly flown by private pilots.

The act also requires some aircraft be equipped with technology “capable” of receiving ADS-B transmissions, but does not require they actually to use it.

Military aircraft under the ALERT Act would also be allowed to fly without broadcasting their location. The House committee proposing the ALERT Act, says it is a wide-ranging bill that addresses all 50 of ssuesissues the NTSB brought up in its report.

Homendy said she hopes the committee will work with the NTSB to make the changes needed to improve the ALERT Act, but it does not work in its current form.

“Congress can pass ROTOR, and then we can take up jointly all the other recommendations for the House to address,” she said.

A group of families of passengers killed in the collision said they could no

Por Danya Gainor, CNN

El noreste se está recuperando de las nevadas extremas y los fuertes vientos que azotaron la región durante la noche del domingo y durante todo el día del lunes, provocando condiciones de ventisca mientras más de 0,6 metros de nieve cubrían varios estados.

La tormenta alcanzó la categoría de bomba ciclónica en la madrugada del lunes, al fortalecerse con extrema rapidez, intensificando los vientos hasta convertirse en ráfagas huracanadas e intensificando las bandas de nieve. Las autoridades locales se hicieron eco de las declaraciones de estado de emergencia y emitieron prohibiciones de viaje, mientras que las decenas de millones de personas bajo alerta de ventisca se refugiaron.

La histórica tormenta produjo una gran cantidad de impactos: las escuelas de toda la región cerraron, tanto la Cámara de Representantes como el Senado de Estados Unidos pospusieron la primera serie de votaciones de esta semana, se ajustaron las principales rutas de trenes , se suspendió el transporte público e incluso el popular servicio de entrega de alimentos DoorDash suspendió sus operaciones en la ciudad más grande del país.

La tormenta se atenuó al anochecer, dejando tras de sí un amplio camino cubierto de nieve, pero se prevén más tormentas. Esto es lo que necesitas saber:

• Impresionantes nevadas: desde el Atlántico Medio hasta Nueva Inglaterra, entre 30 y 90 centímetros de nieve sepultaron comunidades durante la histórica tormenta de nieve. Hasta las 19:00 h (hora del este) del lunes, Providence, Rhode Island, registró la mayor cantidad de nieve, con 95,5 centímetros. Otros estados con nevadas más altas incluyen Whitman, Massachusetts, con 85,5 centímetros; Central Islip, Nueva York, con 78,7 centímetros; North Stonington, Connecticut, con 79,5 centímetros; y Lyndhurst, Nueva Jersey, con 79,5 centímetros.
• Récords en toda la región: la bomba ciclónica causó impactos históricos en ciudades del noreste, convirtiéndose en la mayor tormenta de nieve registrada en Providence, Rhode Island . Con poco más de 68 cm de nieve en Newark, Nueva Jersey, alrededor de la 1 p. m., la tormenta se clasificó oficialmente como la segunda más intensa de la ciudad , según registros que datan de 1931. La tormenta también marcó el invierno más nevado de la Gran Manzana desde la temporada 2020-2021. En Read more

Por Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

Para Ucrania, la guerra ha sido una maldición: una maldición para sobrevivir y adaptarse el tiempo suficiente para salvar las fronteras de Europa de las fuerzas rusas y absolver a sus aliados de entrar en acción.

Kyiv está pagando el precio de la convulsión con constantes cambios y pérdidas implacables, me dijeron los ucranianos. “Algunos seguimos siendo positivos, pero solo porque no hay otra opción”, escribió un oficial de inteligencia militar.

Son los ucranianos quienes desean con mayor urgencia que la guerra termine realmente mañana.

Es una cruel paradoja: muchos en Occidente también desean que la guerra se detenga, debido al coste que supone para sus presupuestos de defensa y sus facturas de calefacción. Sin embargo, es la falta de gasto de Occidente —de apoyo material a Kyiv— lo que ha condenado a Ucrania a seguir luchando.

La economía europea es falsa: gasta menos ahora pero corre el riesgo de gastar mucho más si el conflicto se extiende en el futuro.

Si las líneas del frente de Ucrania colapsaran y Kyiv cayera, Moscú, según la mayoría de las estimaciones occidentales, pronto avanzaría hacia las fronteras de la OTAN. Sin embargo, esa amenaza no lleva a Europa a una acción generalizada.

Los primeros tres años de apoyo estadounidense a gran escala solo llegaron hasta cierto punto y ahora han terminado. Pero la guerra no, y probablemente se acercan más aniversarios.

Tras cuatro años completos, la exhibición de crueldad y determinación del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, parece haber dejado a Europa más convencida de que algún día podría intentar ocupar más tierras extranjeras, en lugar de menos.

Curiosamente, el agotamiento —tanto de los presupuestos rusos como su mano de obra— es tanto lo que Occidente espera que ponga fin a la guerra como la emoción a través de la cual a menudo la percibe.

Sin embargo, con el paso de cada año, la guerra ha provocado cambios radicales a nivel mundial.

Esta disrupción es implacable y puede ser difícil de catalogar, pero comencemos con la diplomacia.

El rechazo por parte del presidente Donald Trump a décadas de normas de negociación —los formatos sobrecargados de líneas rojas y agendas, que durante décadas han sido los mecanismos para el inicio de la paz— marcó un enfoque nuevo y disruptivo.

Debe juzgarse no por cuánto destruyó el orden establecido, sino únicamente por sus resultados.

Y por el momento, esos resultados son escasos. Una alfombra roja para Putin, quien enfrenta una acusación por crímenes de guerra en Alaska. Sanciones severas al petróleo ruso. Dos ceses del fuego breves e irregulares, limitados a la infraestructura energética. Montañas rusas emocionales para los desconcertados aliados europeos. Y el constante redoble de amenazas contra Kyiv si no cede.

Pero no habrá paz en 24 horas, como Trump presumió una vez, ni en 100 días, ni siquiera en un año.

El secretario de Estado de Trump, Marco Rubio, incluso admitió en la Conferencia de Seguridad de Munich de este mes que Estados Unidos no sabe si Rusia realmente quiere la paz.

Pero no parece inminente ninguna nueva repercusión para Moscú, aun cuando las últimas conversaciones trilaterales en Ginebra concluyeron tras dos horas sin avances públicos. El ciclo de nuevas sedes, formatos, agendas y personajes para las conversaciones de paz parece infinito.

La automatización de la guerra en Ucrania es la evolución que puede perdurar más tiempo.

A finales de 2023, los drones de ataque llenaron las urgentes lagunas en las defensas de infantería y las r

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

(CNN) — Abigail Spanberger is less known for her oratory than for drilling down into the work of government and bucking her party leadership.

On Tuesday night, she has one of the riskier speeches in politics to figure her way through.

The 46-year-old Virginia governor, the first female chief executive of her state, was House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ pick to rebut a State of the Union address Tuesday that President Donald Trump warned would likely again be very long.

The onetime CIA officer doesn’t talk in slogans or catchy promises, once instead describing herself to CNN in an interview as “an optimistic, starry-eyed pragmatist.” She refused to support Nancy Pelosi for speaker and once pushed back on former President Joe Biden’s overarching economic push by saying no one had elected him to try to be a new Franklin Roosevelt.

Spanberger will deliver the speech live from Colonial Williamsburg, with an aide saying that she picked the spot – now a favorite for school groups to enjoy live re-enactments of colonial times – because it was from there in 1776 that Virginia sent its delegation to the Continental Congress to propose independence, and less than a month later, adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

The aide added that Spanberger’s address will hit on themes of affordability, the “chaos” caused by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress not standing up more to the president. She’ll also talk about how some citizens are pushing back, and, calling on her experience in the CIA, argue the administration is causing dangerous uncertainty around the world.

Between directing the response to yet another big storm and fielding calls and texts of congratulations and advice, Spanberger and top aides have been writing and rehearsing what they know will be a tricky task.

Not only will she have to immediately rebut a president who often goes off script, but she’ll be doing it as the kickoff to her party’s midterm campaign, trying to be the unified voice of a party that remains very much divided over what it stands for and what it wants to be.

In announcing her selection, Jeffries called Spanberger a “stark contrast to Donald Trump.”

Spanberger tends to talk in terms of how people in her state, which voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 but by a much slimmer margin than expected, are processing Trump’s second term.

“I have no positive feelings about him as a human, but it’s the choices he’s making. And those are choices that he’s helped along with by others who are supporting him or who aren’t standing up to him, whether they’re here in Virginia or they’re senators and Congress people from other states,” she told CNN in an interview last year on her campaign bus just before election day, where she went on to score an over 15-point win.

Democrats’ answer, she said then, shouldn’t be about continuing to ask in bewilderment how people could vote for Trump, but citing specifics of what his agenda has actually meant.

“The answer is: He lied to them. He lied to Virginia farmers. Virginia farmers are struggling and they’re watching him bail out Argentina?” she said, speaking shortly after the Trump administration offered a $20 billion lifeline to the Argentine economy. “We have small, by a lot of state standards, family cattle farms. What they need is localized processing. They need to not have more of a monopolistic meatpacking industry and they need markets for what they’re producing. And he’s going to flood the US market with Argentinian beef? It’s a slap in the face. And this is after our