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BY OLIVER HAUG | As California voters head to the polls Tuesday to determine whether Governor Gavin Newsom will keep his seat—and who will replace him, if he is voted out—a new poll indicates that Newsom maintains strong support among women voters in the state. 

According to the Public Policy Institute of California, a full two-thirds of women voters (66 percent) are against the recall—a wide margin, compared to just 48 percent of men who are against it—in a significant, and potentially decisive 18 point gender gap. A 50 percent + 1 “NO” vote is required to defeat the recall.

BY COLLEEN MOORE | The Biden administration renewed a Trump-era ban on Americans traveling to North Korea, preventing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations.

The ban freezes the work many are doing to improve the situation on the ground in North Korea, and, like abstinence-only sexual education, ignores real solutions that have been proven to work.