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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...
's core response to allegations tied to was to say he severed contact as soon as the warned him in 2015, to insist he was never accused of wrongdoing, and to frame continued attacks as politically mot...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
’s independent or “No Party Preference” (NPP) voters are unusually large in raw numbers and share compared with most states, the group skews ideologically more moderate than California’s partisans, an...
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...
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...
Reporting establishes that the most detailed investigative work about was published in 2020 and documents her activities in the U.S. through about 2015, but there is no authoritative public reporting ...
’s federal statistics collect GDP at the state, county and metropolitan levels, but the reporting provided here does not contain a ready-made ranked list of “cities by ”; instead, the Bureau of Econom...
Mutual‑aid networks and nascent microgrant pools have demonstrable, documented roles in supporting in‑person in recent social movements: volunteers and community groups have provided water, food, medi...
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...