SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday made his first public appearance since Charlie Kirk's assassination, launching his latest push in California to do more to support the well-being of young men.

Surrounded by boys at Florin High School in Sacramento, the governor announced the California Men's Service Challenge. He called on 10,000 men statewide to volunteer as mentors, tutors and coaches through the state's service corps program. Newsom noted it's meant to provide them with a sense of purpose and community.

"We have a crisis in this country of men and boys " Newsom said at Tuesday's news conference. "For decades we've neglected it because some of us have been scared to enter into the fray, because somehow we thought it was a zero-sum game, that somehow by focusing on the

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