Gavin Newsom’s California to share driver’s license data that could expose illegal immigrants

More than 1 million undocumented immigrants in California are facing a high-stakes reckoning. The California Department of Motor Vehicles will soon be sharing driver’s license details and identification data with other states through a national database, exposing those without a Social Security number. The Democratic legislators authorized $55 million in California’s new state budget that the DMV would use to feed the data to the State-to-State Verification Service and a nonprofit-run SPEX database. The system, run by American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), is designed to capture the last five digits of the SSN and those who do not…

Dodgers prioritize bigger picture in ugly loss to Athletics

WEST SACRAMENTO –– Thanks to their MLB-best record and all-but-insurmountable 12 ½ game lead in the National League West, the Dodgers have some luxuries with how they navigate the rest of this regular season. Exhibit A came on Wednesday, when they lined up in punt formation with a pitching plan…

Woke California city goes to war with Home Depot

West Hollywood’s city council voted this week to take Home Depot off its approved list of companies to do business with — driven by anger over the Trump administration’s deportation agenda. The liberal Los Angeles enclave is setting up a potential clash with the popular chain over allegations it has…

Why USMNT can’t appeal Folarin Balogun’s controversial red card

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Folarin Balogun has no option to appeal the red card that left him suspended for the U.S. men’s national team’s Round of 16 match against Belgium, meaning the USMNT needs to plan for life without its star striker. Article 66.4 of FIFA’s regulations states that, “A…

Malik Tillman’s impressive free kick helps propel USMNT to Round of 16

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sometimes the loudest player on the pitch is the quietest player on the team. For 81 minutes, U.S. midfielder Malik Tillman had covered nearly every blade of grass. He did what he has done throughout this World Cup: chase, press, recover possession and stitch together the…

Carson Benge’s homer against lefty shows key development in rookie season

TORONTO — Carson Benge cleared the fence in the eighth inning Wednesday, ensuring the Mets wouldn’t conclude their trip to Canada by getting shut out. It was an offensive highlight for the Mets, but more importantly, it showed continued progress for the rookie Benge, who reached double digits with his…

8-year-old African American boy from Colonial Maryland found buried with white Colonists, and it’s unclear if he was enslaved

A composite image of Anne Wolseley Calvert, whose skeletal remains excavated from a 17th-century cemetery have been superimposed onto an image of what she may have looked like in life.(Image credit: Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution)Two indentured servants and an 8-year-old boy who was possibly enslaved were buried alongside distinguished local families…

Brutal first-punch KO ends boxing match in controversy: ‘Super unfair’

The first and only punch of a boxing match delivered a knockout and plenty of controversy. Viktor Jurk, 26, landed a vicious left-hook knockout of Edwin Castillo, 23, to open their heavyweight fight on the Karen Chukhadzhian-Paddy Donovan undercard in Mannheim, Germany, on Friday night.  “Unbelievable,” DAZN play-by-play man Adam…

Buzz kill! Feds nix VA contract to buy thousands of vibrators for female vets

The Veterans’ Affairs Administration pulled the plug this month on a Biden-era initiative to supply vibrators to female vets. Lawmakers and watchdogs says it’s only the latest out-of-touch proposal from the free-spending agency. The off-the-shelf machines – called “Clitoral Therapy Devices” – were for the “clinical needs of impaired patient…

AI job screeners prefer AI-written resumes over human ones, researchers find

Choose your bot wisely. Job seekers desperate for a new gig now have to contend with a thoroughly modern hurdle: applicant tracking systems that automatically give preference to candidates who used AI to write their resumes. A recent study found AI-powered applicant tracking systems, or ATS, not only prefer AI-written…

Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world’s oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an ‘alien’ crystal

This week’s science news featured some big headlines for health, including the landmark decision to officially rename polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).The name change — the culmination of a 14-year process that took input from over 14,000 patients and health professionals — was made to…

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