GOP voter support for Ted Cruz has surged in California over the past three months and the Texas Senator has now moved into a statistical tie with businessman Donald Trump for the lead in this state's Republican presidential primary Cruz is the first choice of 25% of likely GOP voters in the latest statewide while Trump is backed by 23%. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is now inthird at 13%, while support for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has fallen to 9%. Each of the otherRepublicans vying for their party's presidential nomination poll in single digits.Republican presidential The Field Poll

Donald Trump, increasingly facing pressure from GOP rival Ted Cruz, raised questions Tuesday about the Texas senator’s Canadian birth and whether it would hurt the party’s chances if he were its nominee.“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’ That’d be a big problem,”LATimes

the state of many of Los Angeles County's 44,000 homeless people Tuesday: The streets were a miserable place to be as El Niño storms made their ferocious debut.People clung to steep embankments and under narrow overhangs, or zipped themselves into tents on soupy pavement. Officials were concerned that roughly 600 to 700 homeless people were still camped out Monday in dangerous areas on the Los Angeles River.

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