Newsom mocked for memoir’s poor childhood sob story despite Getty family connections

It’s a story as slick as the gov’s hairdo. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been spinning sob stories about growing up penniless during ...

Gavin Newsom Is Setting His Own Rules

Then there’s the stuff Newsom has been doing. Forcing the president to backtrack on deploying the National Guard to Los ...

Newsom leads resistance to RFK Jr.’s public health upheaval

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is making California the frontline in the resistance to the Trump administration’s revamped ...

They want to succeed Newsom as governor. What these California Democrats would do differently

Gavin Newsom has mostly been popular during his two terms as California governor. A field of Democrats vying to replace him ...

Is the Personal Political? Five Takeaways From Gavin Newsom’s New Book

His introspective memoir tries to challenge the conventional wisdom about his upbringing, explores his marriages and airs a little dirty laundry — but says relatively little about politics.

Real, fake or overblown? Sorting fact from fiction in fraud allegations surrounding Newsom, California

The year opened with President Trump declaring that "the fraud investigation of California has begun," a move that quickly ...

Bizarre origins of Gavin Newom’s ‘look’: Governor had high school makeover after after being bullied as ‘Newscum,’ wore suit to school

In his memoir “Young Man in a Hurry,” Gavin Newsom recalls high school bullies calling him “Newscum,” prompting a makeover long before he became California’s governor.

Gavin Newsom paints his childhood as difficult in memoir despite family's millionaire connections

Instead of politics, the California Governor's 2026 book focuses on the struggles of his parents' divorce, growing up with dyslexia, and working as a paper boy.