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The sanctuary movement in the United States traces back to the 1980s when faith communities and a small set of municipalities began shielding Central American refugees and asserting city-level limits ...
Brave Software is a privately held company co‑founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich and Brian Bondy; Brendan Eich serves as Brave’s CEO and is the most publicly visible owner/founder (company materials and ...
Sanctuary policies are local or state limits on cooperating with federal immigration enforcement; advocates say they protect immigrant communities, improve public safety and local economies, while cri...
State-by-state ICE arrest rates in 2025 varied sharply: Texas emerges as the epicenter with the highest per‑capita arrest rates in multiple analyses, while some West Coast areas—most notably Northern ...
, , , and are repeatedly cited as among the U.S. cities with the strongest sanctuary policies, each backed by formal ordinances or longstanding municipal rules that limit local cooperation with . Fede...
Undocumented immigrants are not being given a blanket right to vote in U.S. federal or state elections: federal law prohibits noncitizen voting and criminalizes registration and voting by aliens , and...
Gavin Newsom publicly admitted in 2007 that he had an extramarital affair with the wife of his campaign manager while he was mayor of San Francisco; that admission and contemporary reporting formed th...
Gavin Newsom’s family connection to the Gettys is longstanding and personal: his father, William “Bill” Newsom III, was a close friend, legal adviser and trustee for the Getty family and even delivere...
Two U.S. startups — Upside Foods and Good Meat — received federal clearances in 2023 to sell cell‑cultured chicken to restaurants, and their products briefly appeared on the menus of two high‑end U.S....
Sanctuary jurisdictions reacted to the Obama-era Secure Communities program by refusing to cooperate with ICE detainer requests, passing local and state limits on cooperation, pursuing legal and polit...
Official California voter-registration rules require U.S. citizenship for statewide and federal elections, and California’s public records and advocacy groups report non‑citizens on the statewide vote...
The official 2025 General Schedule (GS) base pay table — the nationwide, non-locality annual rates by grade (GS‑1 to GS‑15) and step (1–10) — was published by the Office of Personnel Management and in...
Christine “Fang Fang” Fang is a Chinese national whom U.S. counterintelligence officials and investigative reporting say targeted up‑and‑coming U.S. politicians—mostly in California—between roughly 20...
Recent, published analyses indicate , with particularly high reported victimization among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) adolescents and consistently elevated lifetime rates for multiraci...
Crowds on Demand is the best-documented commercial operator that organizes paid protesters and related theatrical crowds for clients across U.S. cities, a practice reported in multiple outlets and tie...
Jake Lang’s public record of speeches, social-media postings and organized rallies contains repeated anti-Muslim, racist and white-nationalist rhetoric that multiple outlets describe as white supremac...
As of the most-reported rollout, no major U.S. fast-food chains sell lab-grown (cultivated/cell-cultured) meat on their regular menus; federal approvals have allowed two companies — GOOD Meat (Eat Jus...
Two U.S. restaurants experimentally served after regulators cleared and : ’s in carried Upside’s product and ’s in , carried GOOD Meat’s product . Both rollouts were limited, high‑end tastings that ha...
No — as a corporate chain has not “left” ; the company and multiple fact-checking outlets say there are no plans to exit the state, even as isolated franchise closures and viral misinformation have fu...
Major media reporting documents a widely reported 2007 affair by then–San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom with a staffer, Ruby Rippey (later Gibney), who was married to a close aide; Newsom publicly ackn...