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Her death will force Gov. Gavin Newsom into a crucial decision he said he hoped he wouldn't have to make.

Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA's torture of foreign terrorism suspects, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday. Feinstein's...

Dianne Feinstein, the grande dame of California Democrats who became the mayor of San Francisco after a horrific double assassination at City Hall in 1978 and then gained national stature as an influential voice in the US Senate for more than 30 years, died Thursday night at her home in Washington. She was 90 and the Senate’s oldest member.

Her death will force Gov. Gavin Newsom into a crucial decision he said he hoped he wouldn't have to make.

The death of Dianne Feinstein has given rise to numerous memories and tributes to California’s longest-serving U.S. senator – including expressions of gratitude from state and local leaders in the Napa Valley.

Dianne Feinstein, who surmounted an abusive childhood and early political failures to become the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a central figure in the rise of

US News: Dianne Feinstein, the grande dame of California Democrats who became the mayor of San Francisco after a horrific double assassination at City Hall in .

The Democrats fragile majority in the U.S. Senate puts extra pressure on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to quickly pick a replacement for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a tough decision for a two-term governor with national ambitions of his own.

The Senate's longest-serving woman broke gender barriers, but her age was an issue late in her career.

Drew Angerer/GettyThe media crowned her Di-Fi, shorthand that captured the striking presence and confident leadership that Dianne Feinstein projected as an early pioneer of women winning elective office. She was the first woman to lead the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors in the ’70s, and while the significance of that office doesn’t resonate today like it did then, it foreshadowed a groundbreaking career for Feinstein, who at 5-foot-10 could easily command a room and hold...