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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Recent, published analyses indicate , with particularly high reported victimization among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) adolescents and consistently elevated lifetime rates for multiraci...
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...
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...
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...
As of the reporting in these sources, U.S. federal regulators have cleared only cell‑cultured chicken products from two companies — Upside Foods and GOOD Meat — for sale, with initial approvals coming...
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 ...
California has the largest absolute number of millionaires in the U.S., with multiple 2024–25 reports saying the state leads in millionaire households and high-net-worth residents (e.g., Empower says ...
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...
The most notable allegations of ICE abuse of power in 2024 center on systemic mistreatment and unlawful detention practices documented in multiple reports and lawsuits, . Independent investigations an...
Gavin Newsom is a fourth‑generation San Franciscan whose family mixes claims of modest upbringing on his mother’s side with long‑standing elite ties through his father, William (Bill) Newsom, a former...
Crowds on Demand is a for‑profit publicity firm that markets itself as a “rent‑a‑crowd” service supplying actors and paid participants for events including rallies and protests; the company says it ha...