Category: Northern California

California’s Inner-City Wildfire Problem

OAKLAND, Calif.—Blackened metal frames of torched cars lie upside down, charred skeletal support beams of burned buildings stand under the overcast sky, and a light haze of soot and dust permeate the air and powder all available surfaces. What sounds like a war zone in a third-world country is instead a stretch of road near…


Radical Climate Group Deflates Bay Area SUV Tires, Tells Drivers to Use Public Transportation

A left-wing group wrote that its members are now deflating the tires of vehicles in the name of combatting “climate change” around the San Francisco Bay Area, according to social media posts. “ATTENTION – Your gas guzzler kills. We have deflated one or more of your tires. You’ll be angry, but don’t take it personally….


DeSantis Hits Back at Newsom After Campaign Ad Attack: ‘People Vote With Their Feet’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has fired back at his California counterpart Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s “terrible governance” was why the Golden State was “​​hemorrhaging population.” “People vote with their feet,” he said at a press briefing at the Cape Coral High School on July 8. “When families are uprooting from the Pacific coast to…


Parole Denied for Manson Follower for Slayings in 1969

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A California panel on Friday denied parole for a follower of cult leader Charles Manson convicted of slayings more than a half-century ago. Bruce Davis was previously recommended for parole seven times, but those findings were rejected by three consecutive governors. Parole commissioners told the 79-year-old Davis to try again in three years. “They…


Gun Rights Groups Challenge California Ban on Marketing Firearms to Children

A coalition of gun rights groups on July 8 sued California over a law that bars stores and others from marketing guns to minors. The law “violates Plaintiffs’ right to engage in free speech” and “their right to equal protection,” the Second Amendment Foundation, Junior Sports Magazines, and other groups said in the lawsuit, which…


Safety Regulator Probing Self-Driving Cruise Car Crash in California

WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle in California that resulted in minor injuries, the agency said on Thursday. The auto safety agency did not identify the specific crash, but a Cruise vehicle operating in driverless autonomous mode was involved in…


California May Ask Social Media to Report How They Monitor Users to Combat ‘Hate Speech,’ ‘Misinformation’

SACRAMENTO—A state bill that would require social media platforms to share how they monitor their users’ activities and contents to combat “hate, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and extreme political polarization” made its way through a senate committee last week. Assembly Bill 587, dubbed the Social Media Transparency and Accountability Act of 2021, would require social media…


Elon Musk Files to Terminate $44 Billion Twitter Deal

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is exiting his multi-billion-dollar deal with Twitter over concerns about its spam bots, a newly revealed SEC filing shows. “While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisers all data and information that Mr. Musk requests ‘for any reasonable business purpose related…


Elon Musk Walks Away from $44-Billion Twitter Deal, Twitter to Sue

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has filed to exit from his multi-billion-dollar deal with Twitter over concerns about its spam bots, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing shows. “While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisers all data and information that Mr. Musk requests ‘for any reasonable…


California Will Develop Its Own Low-Cost Insulin: Newsom

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that the state will develop its own “low-cost” insulin—an essential hormone that many rely on to treat their diabetes—making the state the first in the country to pursue such an effort. In a video shared on Twitter, he said that “people should not go into debt to receive life-saving…