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No — McDonald’s is not leaving California; corporate spokespeople have explicitly said the company has “no plans to close our restaurants in California,” and multiple fact‑checks and regional outlets ...
Multiple reputable outlets and the Interior Department confirm that the Department of the Interior unveiled new 2026 America the Beautiful annual-pass artwork that includes a design pairing a portrait...
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...
The 2026 “America the Beautiful” national parks annual pass will, according to the Department of the Interior’s announcement and multiple news reports, include at least one resident-focused design tha...
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...
Putting a sitting president’s portrait on the 2026 America the Beautiful national parks pass has sparked a federal lawsuit and widespread coverage; the Center for Biological Diversity says federal law...
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...
Executive Summary Gavin Newsom’s family connections to established California power networks — notably the Gettys and Pelosies — and his father’s role as an attorney and judge provided that materially...
When Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963, officials had already been moving inmates off the island over several months; contemporary reporting says about 250 inmates were being transported beginning the...
An examination of the reporting provided finds no direct, sourced evidence that made large, disclosed donations to or Trump‑aligned super PACs in the 2021–2024 window; the large, public inflows to Tru...
Yes — the Department of the Interior rolled out new 2026 “America the Beautiful” annual pass designs that include portraits of President Donald Trump (and George Washington), and conservation groups h...
Multiple media reports and biographies document longstanding, personal and financial ties between Governor Gavin Newsom (and his family) and the Getty oil dynasty: Newsom’s grandfather and father were...
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...
The National Park Service’s 2026 fee-free calendar removes Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of days when entrance fees are waived at many fee-charging parks and adds President D...
Reporting shows Rep. Eric Swalwell was named in a 2020 Axios investigation linking a woman known as Christine “Fang Fang” to Chinese intelligence activity; he received a defensive FBI briefing in 2015...
A video recorded in January 2016 showing a captured by a local business owner and reported widely at the time; multiple contemporaneous news outlets and federal agencies described the event and warned...