Six minutes of news from around the nation.

Newsome says he will commute all death sentences in California, Ohio oil and gas incidents on the rise, new data shows, and the Historic Michigan election finds Jewish-Muslim common ground.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, November 6, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday he intends to commute all California death sentences, declaring that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with the values in America's most populous state.

NBC News notes California has not put a prisoner to death since January 17, 2006, when Clarence Ray Allen was executed via lethal injection.

Newsom said his executive action would impact the 548 people now under death sentences in California, making for the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere.

The move does require the state Supreme Court to approve resentencing of more than 300 inmates.

Meantime, as Ohio residents continue to push for stronger oversight of oil and gas waste facilities.

A new analysis shows more than 2,500 oil and gas blowout explosions, toxic leaks, and other incidents occurred in the state between 2015 and 2025.

The report, released by Frack Tracker Alliance and Buckeye Environmental Network, combed through 10 years of Ohio Department of Natural Resources records.

Gwen Klenke is the Midwest Program coordinator with Frack Tracker Alliance.

She says state regulators have not stayed on top of tracking and following up on incidents.

Inspectors who look at these oil and gas incidents or look at the oil and gas wells are just really overburdened.

It would take them roughly two years to check on every well.

More than 1,200 incidents involve the release of toxic substances, which could pose public health risks, given that oil and gas related fluids, in particular wastewater, may contain toxic PFAS and high levels of radioactivity.

This is Nadia Ramlagan for Ohio News Connection.

Next up, Michigan's historic election of the nation's first Muslim U.S. senator is drawing reaction from the state's Jewish community.

Democrat Abdul El Saeed defeated Republican Mike Rogers following a contentious campaign marked by religious and political tensions.

The election carries particular significance in southeast Michigan, Dearborn is the nation's first Arab-majority city, and sizable Jewish communities are located nearby.

Levi Teitel, communications director for millions of Michiganians, says the outcome impacts him personally.

I'm honestly getting a little bit emotional talking about this, but to have a Jewish senator and a Muslim senator from the state of Michigan now serving at the same time, it's really such an incredible feeling.

Title believes issues such as reproductive freedom, concerns about democracy and the rising cost of living help keep Jewish voters in the Democratic column despite disagreements over Israel.

An analysis by millions of Michiganians found Democratic support remained relatively steady in 72 Michigan precincts.

Crystal Blair reporting.

This is Public News Service.

Grassroots leaders are celebrating historic victories for Native American candidates in Tuesday's election.

They hope that Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan will bring Minnesota and the nation a specific type of leadership allies say is sorely needed.

Flanagan will be the first Native woman to serve in the U.S.

Senate following her run as Minnesota's lieutenant governor.

Elsewhere, former U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico, the first American Indian woman to lead a state government.

Wazipan Garriott of the advocacy group NDN Collector says he thinks these two bring a unique skill set.

Indigenous women have always been protectors, caregivers of not only Native Americans, but of the country.

And it's hard to imagine two people who are more qualified.

Flanagan and fellow Democrats have said they would like to restore funding to federal food assistance and Medicaid that was cut in last year's tax and policy law.

I'm Mike Mowen.

New Mexico Democrats expanded their majority in the legislature Tuesday by electing David Mooney to the House District 38.

He isn't shy about saying why he jumped into the race.

Mooney told a meeting of the Sierra Club Rio Grande chapter he was alarmed at how quickly the massive AI data center known as Project Jupiter was pushed through in southern New Mexico.

Currently under construction, it spans roughly 1,400 acres, larger than New York City's Central Park.

Mooney has publicly criticized a lack of transparency ahead of the project's approval by Doña Ana County commissioners.

It was front of mind for a lot of the constituents that I talked to and my main reason for running.

So environmental issues, the threat of data centers being pushed through out of the view of the public as well.

I'm Roz Brown.

Electricity prices are up 18 percent nationwide since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

And advocates for people behind bars in Connecticut say they want swift changes to the state's prison health care system.

An office of the Correction Ombuds report from earlier this year found nearly 1,600 people in prison awaiting appointments for off-site medical treatment.

And the latest report shows the office received around 2,000 complaints about the Department of Corrections Health Services.

Barbara Fair with the group Stop Solitary CT says this has been a longstanding problem.

People have waited for years to get specialty services.

People reportedly have died waiting for services.

And many have gone home with so many diseases and chronic illnesses as the result of medical neglect.

The state has enacted a new law to improve prison health care.

It takes a multifaceted approach requiring the state to provide medically necessary procedures at on-site or off-site facilities and to keep electronic health records.

I'm Edwin J. Vieira.

This is Mike Clifford from Public News Service.

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