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By Dan Walters, CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media during a press conference with a delegation of Texas Democrats who fled their state over the GOP redistricting plan, at the Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, on Aug. 8, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. …

Facebook Tweet Email Link GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa drew taunts and jeers at two raucous town hall meetings Monday over his support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” LaMalfa, whose district spans much of the state’s northern interior, is the latest Republican to face harsh in-person criticism, as members of the party attempt to sell Trump’s sweeping agenda back …

A man accused of faking his death and fleeing to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges faced an alleged victim in court Monday as a jury trial in Utah began. The man known in the U.S. as Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is accused of sexually assaulting two women in Utah in 2008. He has pleaded …

A Hawaii real estate investor and broker are suing Shohei Ohtani, claiming the Los Angeles Dodgers star and his agent got them fired from a $240 million luxury housing development on the Big Island’s coveted Hapuna Coast that they brought him in to endorse. According to the lawsuit filed in Hawaii Circuit Court on Friday, Ohtani’s agent, Nez Balelo, increasingly …

Photos: Historic flash floods hit Milwaukee as Midwest faces heavy rains threat  Axios See aftermath of severe weather, flooding in Milwaukee, Wisconsin  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Heavy rain floods underground parking, submerging cars, in West Allis  WISN Severe storms knock out power and close roads in Midwest as flooding cancels last day of Wisconsin State Fair  NBC News Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding …

As AI Comes for Consulting, McKinsey Faces an “Existential” Shift  The Wall Street Journal Can we just have one day when no one mentions AI?  Financial Times AI Is Everywhere But the Jobs Data  Bloomberg.com AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun  Hindustan Times AI Is Taking Jobs Away, Shoppers Fret Over Prices, Columbia Hacked, More Investing News  TheStreet Pro Source link

Vice President JD Vance has kicked off his summer vacation at a luxurious $11,000-a-week manor house in the picturesque British countryside, leaving locals none too pleased. Located in a tiny village in the Cotswolds, in the southwest of England, one of the United Kingdom’s four constituent countries, the property sits behind a 15-foot stone wall and boasts gardens of about …

There’s growing concern about the safety of consuming a supplement known as kratom, derived from the leaves of a tree native to Southeast Asia that has exploded in popularity in recent years.  Used in a variety of products — including drinks, pills, powders and brewed tea leaves — kratom is marketed as an energy booster, relaxant and pain reliever.  But it’s increasingly …

The owner of a Donald Trump-themed hamburger restaurant chain in Texas is facing deportation after immigration authorities under the command of the president detained him. Roland Mehrez Beainy, 28, entered the US as “a non-immigrant visitor” from Lebanon in 2019 and was supposed to have left the country by 12 February 2024, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spokesperson told …

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Rashawn Slater’s path to the very top of his position was rooted in and fueled by the work. It never stopped. Not when he was waking up at 6 a.m. on Saturdays as a sophomore in high school to train in the Houston heat. Not when his family went on a cruise after his freshman year …