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Metropolitan area in California, United States
Executive summary The reporting package contains three distinct claim clusters: some organizations opposing ICE enforcement receive philanthropic and municipal support, legal defense groups partner wi...
Axios first reported in December 2020 that a Chinese national identified as Fang Fang (also Christine Fang) had cultivated political contacts, including fundraising and placing an intern for then–Dubl...
"Fortunate Son" was written and sung by John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival and released in 1969 as part of Willy and the Poor Boys; Fogerty wrote the song quickly—he has said in interviews i...
Locality pay for 2026 will be shaped by two competing inputs: technical recommendations from the Federal Salary Council/OPM based on BLS compensation surveys and the Pay Agent’s political decision to ...
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 ...
Christine “Fang Fang” Fang is the Chinese national Axios identified in 2020 as an alleged Ministry of State Security (MSS) operative who cultivated political contacts in the Bay Area from about 2011–2...
The largest U.S. Jewish metropolitan community is the New York–Newark–Jersey City area, reported at roughly 2.1–2.18 million Jews, followed by major concentrations in Los Angeles, Miami and other metr...
Coverage of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s contacts with Christine “Fang Fang” Fang shows she is described in multiple reports as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who cultivated relationships with ris...
Reporting and declassified documents show a web of contacts between Contra-linked figures and known drug traffickers in the 1980s, and journalist Gary Webb’s 1996 “Dark Alliance” series argued those l...
Recent statewide polls show a majority of Californians approve of Governor Gavin Newsom’s job performance — PPIC reports 55% of likely voters and 54–55% of adults approve — while other surveys find na...
Eric Swalwell first encountered Christine “Fang Fang” Fang in the early 2010s after she entered U.S. political circles; contemporaneous reporting places their initial contact around , when she was act...
The 2020 census prompted a significant redrawing of California’s congressional map: California lost one House seat, reducing its delegation to , and the independent California Citizens Redistricting C...
California’s most are concentrated along the northern and central coasts, with consistently showing the highest shares of registered Democratic voters in the available registration snapshots. County-l...
ICE arrest rates and the proportion of arrestees without U.S. criminal convictions vary sharply by field office and state: some offices (like Dallas) report a majority of arrestees with no convictions...
California contains the largest absolute number of millionaire households in the U.S.—over 1.1 million—yet its share of households that are millionaires is smaller than several smaller states and the ...
US states show wide in providing financial and social support to undocumented immigrants, ranging from local philanthropic funds and state-level food and education programs to exclusions driven by fed...
Available reporting does not give a single definitive count of Californians who earned $1 million or more in 2024; national IRS-based tallies show a sharp post‑pandemic rise in million‑dollar filers a...
The available analyses do not offer a single, authoritative dataset that directly measures metro‑level increases in Muslim residents from 2010 to 2025; instead they offer that point toward a consisten...
Gavin Newsom’s highest approval comes from , with surveys showing approval in the high 60s to high 70s, while his lowest approval is among , often in the single digits. Polls differ on overall statewi...
California’s by percentage of registered voters are concentrated in the Bay Area and coastal enclaves—San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma appear at the top of statewide lists—while a...