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After California Mountain Fire, Residents Return to Find Homes Reduced to Rubble

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 9 November, 2024

The Mountain fire has torn through more than 20,000 acres and destroyed more than 130 structures in Ventura County. “It’s just devastating,” one resident said.

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‘Fits a cot perfectly’: tiny space for rent in Silicon Valley exposes dire rental market

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Craigslist ad offers 3ft by 10ft space for just $250 a month – for ‘nerdy gamer’ but nobody with a criminal record

A California “home” for rent is shining a light on the US housing crisis – and evoking Harry Potter’s living situation.

For $250 a month, an online ad is offering the opportunity to reside in a 3ft by 10ft cubby located under the stairs of a one-bedroom apartment in downtown San Jose.

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David DePape sentenced to life in prison for hammer attack on Paul Pelosi

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy Pelosi

The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.

A San Francisco jury in June found David DePape guilty of charges including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder.

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‘They want to slime him’: Hunter Biden lawyer attacks prosecutors in tax case

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 22 August, 2024

Mark Geragos says special counsel guilty of ‘character assassination’ by trying to bring salacious details into trial

An attorney for Hunter Biden has accused prosecutors of wanting to introduce salacious details about partying and spending by Joe Biden’s son to smear his character in front of jurors at his upcoming trial on federal tax charges .

During a lengthy hearing in Los Angeles federal court, Hunter Biden’s lawyer said special counsel David Weiss’s team was intent on “character assassination” by seeking to bring in evidence of spending on things like strippers in the case alleging a scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4m in taxes.

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Elon Musk’s X may succeed in blocking Calif. content moderation law on appeal

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica • 18 July, 2024

Elon Musk’s X may succeed in blocking Calif. content moderation law on appeal

Enlarge (credit: Marc Piasecki / Contributor | Getty Images Entertainment )

Elon Musk's fight defending X's content moderation decisions isn't just with hate speech researchers and advertisers . He has also long been battling regulators, and this week, he seemed positioned to secure a potentially big win in California, where he's hoping to permanently block a law that he claims unconstitutionally forces his platform to justify its judgment calls.

At a hearing Wednesday, three judges in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals seemed inclined to agree with Musk that a California law requiring disclosures from social media companies that clearly explain their content moderation choices likely violates the First Amendment.

Passed in 2022, AB-587 forces platforms like X to submit a "terms of service report" detailing how they moderate several categories of controversial content. Those categories include hate speech or racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation or misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference, which X's lawyer, Joel Kurtzberg, told judges yesterday "are the most controversial categories of so-called awful but lawful speech."

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California: first death of wildfire season as body found in burned-out home

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 12 July, 2024

Coroners in Mendocino county in northern California working to identify remains as state’s wildfires intensify

Officials have found human remains in a burned-out home in Mendocino county, California, marking the first death in the state’s 2024 wildfire season.

The local coroner’s office is working to identify the body, but it may be that of a 66-year-old woman whose family reported her missing. The California department of forestry and fire protection, known as Cal Fire, confirmed the discovery of the remains on Friday.

California wildfires have burned five times the average area this year, officials say

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Remembering Willie Mays as Both Untouchable and Human

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 19 June, 2024

Mays, who died on Tuesday at 93, had been perfect for so long that the shock of seeing baseball get the best of him was the shock of seeing a god become mortal.

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Amazon Is Fined Nearly $6 Million Over Warehouse Work Quotas

news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 19 June, 2024

California officials cited failures to disclose productivity requirements at two locations. The company said it would appeal.

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Police break up pro-Palestinian campus protests in California and Detroit

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 May, 2024

UC Santa Cruz and Wayne State University in Detroit clamped down on protests as graduates staged a walkout at MIT

Police in riot gear surrounded arm-in-arm protesters on Friday at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where pro-Palestinian demonstrations have blocked the main entrance to the campus this week.

Campus, local and state police swarmed the protesters, and video showed officers telling people to leave, then taking away signs and part of a barricade, local news stations reported. There appeared to be some pushing and shoving between police and protesters. Officers carried zip ties and appeared to detain a few people.