Governor Newsom and LA Mayor Bass are rejecting the feds' plan to send election monitors to California. ExxonMobil is suing California over a law requiring the company to disclose its greenhouse emissions. The country's first all-electric hospital is coming to Irvine. Plus, more from Morning Edition.

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