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“Let’s have a good debate,” Harris said. The debate amounted to a missed opportunity for many Trump allies, who hoped that a solid performance would turn the page on Harris' "honeymoon" period. “She failed to meet the moment, with President Trump effectively reflecting the economic anxieties off Americans.”“Kamala’s joy doesn’t pay the grocery bills,” he added. “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition,” Harris wrote. In an early morning call-in to "Fox and Friends," Trump once again defended his debate performance and predicted Swift would regret her endorsement.

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☆ California wildfires: Bridge Fire explodes in size, man arrested in connection with Line Fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The blaze expanded from Los Angeles County into San Bernardino County, and as of Tuesday evening was 0% contained. “Tragically, homes have been lost,” San Bernardino County’s government said on Facebook late Tuesday, as the county proclaimed an emergency due to the blaze. Video by the San Bernardino County Fire Department showed firefighters and deputies performing rescue evacuations in Wrightwood on Tuesday evening as flames consumed brush and trees. Justin Wayne Halstenberg, 34, from Norco, allegedly started the fire in the area of Baseline Road and Alpin Street in the city of Highland on Sept. 5, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said. The Line fire burns through in San Bernardino National Forest, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2024.

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☆ Wildfires ravage California and Nevada amid heatwave, prompt evacuations and power outages
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The blaze, which began Thursday night east of Los Angeles, has thus far forced at least 6,000 people to evacuate. Pyrocumulus clouds have also been seen around two other major Southern California fires: the Airport Fire in Orange County and the Bridge Fire in Angeles National Forest. On Monday, fire officials said the California National Guard will deploy four Blackhawk helicopters and other aircraft to aid with modular airborne fire fighting systems as well as 80 soldiers. Meanwhile, in Nevada, the Davis Fire is burning about 5,000 acres and stands 0% contained, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest officials said Monday evening. Red Flag warnings are in place across southern California, including the I-5 corridor and the Los Angeles Metro area.

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The wife of a California inmate will receive $5.6 million after being sexually violated during a strip search when she tried to visit her husband in prison, her attorneys said Monday. Of the $5.6 million settlement, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will pay $3.6 million and the rest will be paid by the other defendants, which include two correctional officers, a doctor, and the Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hospital. Despite no contraband being found in any of her belongings or her body, Cardenas was denied her visit with her husband. California prisons have faced an ongoing problem of sexual abuse and misconduct, with the the U.S. Justice Department announcing it had opened an investigation into allegations that correctional officers systematically sexually abused incarcerated women at two state-run California prisons. Earlier this year the federal Bureau of Prisons announced it will close a women’s prison in Northern California known as the “rape club” after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers.

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Mandatory evacuations were ordered for communities across San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, as the so-called Line Fire raged through woodland and burned through more than 23,700 acres by Monday night. The fire in the foothills of the San Bernardino National Forest was 5% contained as of around 8 p.m. PT Monday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire. March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, just south of San Bernardino County, reached 105, according to the National Weather Service. “The triple-digit weather down here is nasty.”Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for San Bernardino County Saturday night. State officials said vegetation is critically dry in San Bernardino County and temperatures reached more than 100 degrees on Saturday, with relative humidity ideal for the fire to spread.

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☆ Burned and uninsured: Wildfires are leaving California’s housing market in trouble
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-18 | by ( Shania Baweja | Taylor Galgano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

That’s made home insurance increasingly unaffordable or even inaccessible – and that’s leaving more people in the same position as the Daneaus. California’s largest insurer, State Farm, requested a 30% rate increase for its homeowner’s line last month. Last year, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara reached an agreement with insurers with an aim to cover approximately 85% of properties in high-risk areas. “[My insurance plan] wasn’t canceled but my insurance company increased the rates quite a bit,” she said. But he cautioned there’s no guarantee of that, leaving homeowners like the Daneaus grappling with uncertainty.

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☆ 14 people got Valley fever after a California music festival, highlighting the fungus' growing threat
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Aria-Bendix-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Aria Bendix | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The Summary Cases of Valley fever, a fungal infection, have been climbing in California in recent years. An outbreak of Valley fever among attendees and workers at an outdoor music festival in California’s Central Valley highlights the fungal infection’s mounting threat. As climate change creates more opportunities for it to proliferate, Valley fever cases have been climbing in California. He said he suspected Valley fever, since he had heard reports that some festivalgoers had gotten infected in past years, but he was initially diagnosed with pneumonia. “We live in a high endemic area for Valley fever, so anybody who’s visiting, who lives in these areas, is at risk,” she said.

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☆ Lithium Battery Fire Traps Drivers in Sweltering Heat on California Highway
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Hank Sanders | More About Hank Sanders | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Drivers were stuck in traffic in 109-degree heat on a California highway on Saturday for hours as the authorities struggled to extinguish a fire involving a truck carrying lithium ion batteries that had overturned on Friday. Emergency services received calls around 6:30 a.m. local time about a truck that had crashed near Baker, Calif., in the northbound lanes of I-15, a major highway that leads travelers to Las Vegas. The northbound lanes were closed beginning at 8:30 a.m., and the southbound lanes at 9 a.m. The southbound lanes reopened shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Friday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The northbound lanes remained closed as of 5 p.m. on Saturday, according to the California Department of Transportation.

Organizations: California, Patrol, California Department of Transportation Locations: California, Baker, Calif, Las Vegas

☆ CFPB cracks down on popular paycheck advance programs. Here's what that means for workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is cracking down on so-called paycheck advance programs, which have grown popular with workers in recent years. Such programs, also known as earned wage access, allow workers to tap their paychecks before payday, often for a fee, according to the CFPB. More than 7 million workers accessed about $22 billion in wages before payday in 2022, according to a CFPB analysis of employer-sponsored programs also published Thursday. Consumers may encounter earned wage access under various names, like daily pay, instant pay, accrued wage access, same-day pay and on-demand pay. However, most users do pay fees, CFPB found in its analysis of employer-sponsored programs.

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☆ Fires in Southern California Burn 20,000 Acres and Force Evacuations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Yan Zhuang | More About Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned a combined 20,000 acres, forced more than 1,000 evacuations over the weekend and, according to the California Highway Patrol, briefly shut down Interstate 5 on Sunday night. The Lost Hills fire, in Kern County, had burned about 500 acres by Sunday night and was zero percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Several fires that broke out in Kern and San Luis Obispo counties on Saturday were blamed on critical weather conditions and dry lightning over the weekend, Kern County officials said in a statement. The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles bureau said on Saturday that the heat wave scorching the Western United States would increase the risk of fire, and that “any new fire will grow very quickly.”One fire started on Saturday in Tejon Ranch, a well-known, 270,000-acre private property in Kern County, and by Sunday night had burned about 9,950 acres and was 40 percent contained, officials said. The blaze, known as the Rancho fire, has forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 people from the nearby Stallion Springs and Bear Valley Springs communities, the Kern County Fire Department said.

Organizations: California, Patrol, California Department of Forestry, Stallion, Kern County Fire Department Locations: Southern California, Kern County, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, United States, Tejon, Bear Valley Springs

☆ Tesla prioritizes Musk's and other 'VIP' drivers' data to train self-driving software
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Business Insider has learned that those annotators focus their efforts on two high-profile categories of drivers: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a select set of "VIP" drivers. These drivers are internally referred to as "VIP" users and their data is at times put in VIP queues, according to the workers. Related storiesData collected from VIP users, including high-profile Tesla drivers who post on YouTube, is scrutinized more heavily and more likely to be labeled, three current and former workers said. They said they'd been specifically told by leads on their teams that they were working on "VIP data" and had received overtime pay to work on the data ahead of FSD updates. Tesla's self-driving in the regulatory spotlightTesla has come under increasing scrutiny from regulators over the self-driving software and the company's marketing of the service.

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☆ ‘Lake Fire’ in California Prompts Evacuations and Threatens Neverland Ranch
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Alexandra E. Petri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A wildfire that erupted in the mountains of Santa Barbara County in Southern California has burned more than 16,000 acres, prompting an evacuation order and threatening ranches, including Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch, the authorities said. The fire, called the Lake Fire, broke out shortly before 4 p.m. on Friday near Zaca Lake, just northeast of Los Olivos, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The cause of the fire, which was zero percent contained as of Sunday, remained under investigation. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office issued an evacuation order for an area near the Los Padres National Forest that includes the property once known as Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, a 2,700-acre property in Los Olivos, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles. About 100 residents were affected by the evacuation order, said Kenichi Haskett, a public information officer for Cal Fire.

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☆ State Farm again is seeking huge increases in home insurance rates in California
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —State Farm is seeking increases of as much as 52% for some of its residential insurance rates in California, which could ramp up the financial burden for many homeowners and renters in the state’s troubled insurance market. It’s the third major change for State Farm in California within the last year. “State Farm General’s latest rate filings raise serious questions about its financial condition,” California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement. A few months following State Farm’s decision to stop offering new home insurance, Farmers Insurance also started limiting new homeowners insurance policies in California, citing high costs and wildfire risks. Farmers is the second-largest provider of homeowners insurance in the state, after State Farm.

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☆ Composting could be set for U.S. boom, and it needs one, decades behind recycling
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Some states, municipalities and private-sector companies are pushing to make composting as commonplace as recycling. Yet data from the Environmental Protection Agency shows little residential food waste is composted in the U.S. — 3.7% as of an April 2023 report. These include at-home options, curbside bins, drop-off locations and private valet services that pick up food waste from multi-family homes. Thousands of composting facilities neededFranciosi said his organization has been fielding more calls from municipalities that are interested in composting, but funding challenges remain. Another challenge is the dearth of composting facilities.

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☆ A 4-year-old boy was rescued after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in California woods
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A 4-year-old boy who went missing at a lake in Fresno County, California, on Thursday has been found safe after surviving nearly 24 hours alone in the woods, the sheriff’s office said. “We’re fortunate this morning that as these searchers were calling out for the boy, he called back,” Fresno County Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Pursell told KFSN. The boy is very, very fortunate to be with his family,” Pursell told CNN affiliate KABC. Fresno County Sheriff’s OfficeThe family reported their son was missing from their campsite at the Rancheria Campground in Huntington Lake around 11 a.m. Thursday. There were more than 50 deputies and volunteers who combined to participate in this search,” the sheriff’s office said.

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☆ A heat wave is bringing searing temperatures to New York and the I-95 corridor – and Washington DC could hit 100 degrees
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Dalia Faheid | Samantha Beech | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Here’s the latest:• Millions of Americans under heat alerts: More than 100 million Americans, including those in the highly populated I-95 corridor, are under heat alerts through the weekend. A heat emergency is in effect for Washington, DC, where upper 90s and even triple-digit temperatures for the first time since 2016 will be possible. Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser said an extended heat emergency will remain activated throughout the weekend and into next week. Philadelphia has heat alerts in place through the weekend, with temperatures expected to feel close to 99 degrees. New Jersey’s heat alerts are in effect until 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

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☆ Post Fire: Los Angeles County blaze has consumed nearly 15,000 acres
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A fire in Los Angeles County that forced the evacuations of hundreds of people from a state park has burned nearly 15,000 acres, authorities said Sunday, just one day after it started. A red flag warning was issued for the I-5 corridor in Los Angeles County and the Ventura County mountains until 5:00 p.m. Monday afternoon. The wildfire began Saturday afternoon in Gorman, an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County. California State Park Services evacuated 1,200 people from Hungry Valley Park, Cal Fire said. The fire had damaged two commercial properties by Saturday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

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☆ A kite surfer stranded on a remote California beach was rescued after he used rocks to spell 'HELP' on the sand
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A kite surfer stranded on a remote beach in California found a novel way to call for aid. The man used rocks to spell out the word "HELP" on the sand. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA kite surfer stranded on a narrow beach in California found a novel way to call for aid.

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☆ Triple-digit temperatures to hit parts of California and Arizona in early-season heat wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Evan Bush | Dana Griffin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A view of transmission towers in flames as Corral Fire continue in San Joaquin County, California, United States on June 2, 2024. "It's coming early," said Eric Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento, California. The forecast suggests temperatures may climb to 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix and could reach 108 in California's Central Valley. The National Weather Service is forecasting a heat wave throughout much of the Southwest and parts of California from Tuesday through Thursday as a ridge of high pressure centers over the region. Following a bout of extreme pre-summer heat in Texas and Florida , California and Arizona are next in line for temperature spikes.

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☆ A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Jillian Sykes | Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A growing grass fire that began Saturday afternoon in San Joaquin County, California, has consumed 14,000 acres, forcing residents in its path to evacuate the area, officials say. The Corral Fire began in the City of Tracy around 2:30 p.m., according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Areas west of the California Aqueduct, South of Corral Hollow Creek, West to Alameda County and South to Stanislaus County should leave now,” the county said Saturday. A resident evacuates his horse as the Corral Fire bears down on ranches west of Tracy, California, on June 1, 2024. A section of I-580 is closed in both directions due to the “major grass fire, smoke, and zero visibility,” according to the California Department of Transportation.

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☆ The Very Slow Restart of G.M.’s Cruise Driverless Car Business
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Yiwen Lu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At a sprawling complex in Warren, Mich., General Motors’ hopes for its driverless car future play out in a virtual reality headset offered to visitors. Wirelessly connected to traffic lights and the surrounding streets, the car avoids collisions and reduces congestion, part of what G.M. calls its “0-0-0” vision — “zero crashes, zero emission, zero congestion.”At least, that’s the plan. G.M.’s driverless future looks a lot further away today than it did a year ago, when Cruise, G.M.’s driverless car subsidiary, was deep into an aggressive expansion of its robot taxi services, testing in 15 cities across 10 states. On Oct. 2, a Cruise driverless car hit and dragged a pedestrian for 20 feet on a San Francisco street, causing severe injuries.

Persons: General Motors ’, Cruise, Weeks Organizations: General, California Department of Motor Vehicles Locations: Warren, Mich, San Francisco

☆ GM’s self-driving car unit restarts testing on public roads
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous driving technology subsidiary, will start taking its self-driving vehicles out on public roads again this week. The company had stopped testing last October following an incident in San Francisco in which a pedestrian was badly injured. Last October, a Cruise self-driving car, with no one inside, hit a pedestrian after the person had first been struck by another vehicle. After striking the pedestrian, the Cruise vehicle attempted to pull off to the side of the road to avoid causing an obstruction. About two days later, Cruise announced it was halting all operations nationwide while it investigated the incident and the company’s response to it.

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☆ These are the kinds of San Francisco roads Tesla's FSD had a hard time dealing with, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's unclear if other aspects of Sunset's grid trip up Tesla's FSD more than other San Francisco neighborhoods. A Tesla makes an unprotected left turn on Lincoln Way, a major road in San Francisco's Sunset District. Another street that was once notoriously difficult for Tesla's FSD to work in was Lombard Street, a steep and windy road northwest of San Francisco. When asked about using the FSD feature in the Sunset, she told BI that she had "no problems" with it. AdvertisementA Tesla parked in San Francisco's Sunset District, where company employees rigorously tested the car's Full Self-Driving technology, according to a report.

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☆ Elon Musk is keeping investors' dreams of a Tesla robotaxi alive
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

This is the Tesla Musk is selling to Wall Street, and he's telling anyone with doubts to stay away. "If somebody doesn't believe Tesla's going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company," Musk said on the earnings call. In a shareholder deck that Tesla published before the call, the company featured a "preview of ride-hailing in the Tesla app." At an AI Day in August 2021, Musk said Tesla would build a humanoid robot, now known as Optimus. "No matter what, even if I got kidnapped by aliens tomorrow, Tesla will solve autonomy, maybe a little slower but it would solve autonomy for vehicles at least," Musk said.

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☆ Tesla slashes price of its premium driver assistance option by half in U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla said on Friday that it's cutting the subscription price of its premium driver assistance system for customers in the U.S. Marketed as its Full Self-Driving, or FSD, package, Tesla customers will now pay $99 per month, down from $199 previously. "The FSD price will continue to rise as the software gets closer to full self-driving capability with regulatory approval," Musk wrote on Twitter, now known as X, on May 18, 2020. Despite its brand name, the company's FSD option today doesn't make Tesla vehicles autonomous or functional as robotaxis. Tesla didn't respond to a request for more information, including whether the price cut announced Friday is permanent or temporary.

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