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City in Alameda County, California, United States
Available reporting is conflicted about whether Walmart permanently closed specific stores in 2025: several outlets and aggregators published lists naming 11 stores across states such as California, G...
Reporting on Walmart store closures for 2025 is inconsistent: multiple outlets published lists saying roughly 10–11 U.S. Walmarts would close in 2025 across about six states (with frequent mentions of...
Walmart says it has “no current plans to close any stores in 2025,” a spokesperson told Fast Company, which directly contradicts multiple media lists that circulated naming as many as 11 Walmart locat...
Tesla’s Fremont factory tours historically were free for owners and ran several times daily; after COVID they were suspended and later returned in limited form tied to the referral program, not open p...
Federal reporting in 2025 shows the biggest federal sign‑on and bonus programs are concentrated at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — chiefly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Cus...
Tesla’s lower‑cost “Model 2” production plans are contested: several reputable outlets and industry analysts expect initial assembly to start at Tesla’s Austin (Giga Texas) plant or at newly‑built lin...
Estimates of how many people work at Tesla’s Fremont factory vary across reports: older pieces cite roughly 6,000–10,000 workers while later summaries put the site at “over 20,000” employees in 2023 ....
Recent reporting indicates ’s latest round of closures disproportionately hits lower-income, low-density (rural) communities—with an especially large share of shuttered locations concentrated in the —...
Tesla builds its volume cars—Model 3 and Model Y—primarily at Gigafactory Shanghai, Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, Gigafactory Texas, and the original Fremont factory, while higher-end Model S and Mo...
The commonly listed street address for Tesla’s Fremont factory and showroom is 45500 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94538 — that address appears on multiple business listings and directories (Yelp, Ma...
’s official testing and consumer confidence reporting show no regulatory violations and contaminant levels generally below federal limits, meaning the city’s tap water is not classified as “polluted” ...
Local reporting and advocacy groups say dozens of U.S. cities have ordinances that either ban or tightly restrict public feeding of people experiencing homelessness — reports cite at least 17 cities r...
’s corporate skyline is dominated by gargantuan technology firms measured by market capitalization — with , and among the very largest — while legacy energy, media and finance names continue to rank h...
Fremont sits in the San Francisco Bay Area’s East Bay; Bakersfield lies roughly southeast in the southern San Joaquin Valley. The most consistent measures in available sources put the driving distance...
Available reporting shows small, scattered Walmart closures in 2025 rather than a concentrated, multi‑state wave; multiple outlets list individual U.S. store shutdowns (not thousands) with California ...