California voters will weigh in on 14 statewide ballot measures in the Nov. 3 election — covering taxes, housing, healthcare funding, climate policy, election rules and public campaign finance. The proposals include competing tax plans, major borrowing measures for housing and medical research, changes to environmental review timelines, and new rules for voting and campaign financing. Here’s what’s on your November ballot: Billionaire tax What it does: Imposes a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of an estimated 200 California billionaires, collected over five years. Most revenue would go toward healthcare for low-income residents, with remaining funds directed to education…
Darrell Sheets’ son, Brandon Sheets, paid tribute to his father in an emotional celebration of life speech. “He was like a pillar. [He was] stellar, he was strong. He reminds me of his father so much,” Darrell’s Storage Wars costar Laura Dotson exclusively told Us Weekly of Brandon’s presence at…
WASHINGTON — President Trump reported a financial windfall in annual disclosure documents, including more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency income and tens of millions from new foreign real estate deals since re-entering the White House. Trump reaped a staggering $635 million from sales of his free-floating $Trump meme coin —…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The first words out of United States men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s mouth on Tuesday afternoon weren’t about their upcoming opponent Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Round of 32. It wasn’t about tactics or the pressure on the hosts in the knockout rounds. It…
Tori Spelling is reflecting on Shannen Doherty’s death nearly two years after her passing — revealing why it affected her differently than when she grieved the loss of her father, Aaron Spelling. “I had more of an emotional … outward reaction when Shan passed than my own father,” Tori, 53,…
PHOENIX — The circumstances were too overwhelming to lead to any other result. Of course, with Landen Roupp on the mound, against the Diamondbacks, the Giants were going to fall Tuesday night. There have been no other outcomes in games involving either this particular San Francisco starting pitcher or the…
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Insurgent socialist candidate Melat Kiros defeated longtime Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st District House primary, marking the latest blow to the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. Kiros came out on top of the incumbent, 49.3% to 43.5%, by the time the Associated Press called the race…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — There is no crueler way to end a World Cup. A penalty shootout where talent and tactics go out the window in the span of five kicks. Where months of preparation and years of sacrifice can disappear into a goalkeeper’s gloves or sail over a crossbar.…
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice’s daughter, Milania Giudice, was allegedly “throwing things” at her mother’s house before her assault arrest earlier this month, police claim. Milania’s sister Gabriella Giudice called police in Montville Township, New Jersey, on May 14 to report that Milania, 20, was “acting…
California schools will be required to offer students access to at least one all-gender bathroom starting Wednesday under a new statewide mandate — a move that’s stoking anger from conservatives and concerned parents who say Sacramento is putting politics ahead of education. The requirement, which takes effect July 1, stems…
Serena Williams returned to singles competition on Tuesday with her first-round match at Wimbledon, with her family there cheering her on. In the stands supporting her were her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and their two daughters, 8-year-old Olympia and 2-year-old Adira. Williams was pregnant with Olympia when she won…
Brooks Nader’s sizzling hot style isn’t going anywhere — despite her frequent wardrobe malfunctions. Nader, 28, took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, June 30, to show off a risqué look while enjoying a yacht getaway. In the clip, which she filmed inside her bathroom, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model…
The progressive frontrunner to win Nancy Pelosi’s California congressional seat has been accused of adding shocking exceptions for pedophiles to a proposed state law that would prevent sex offenders from seeking political office. Critics grilled state Sen. Scott Wiener at a hearing on Tuesday on the new exemptions added to…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Games like this, Mauricio Pochettino said, are 90 percent emotion. The world saw it Monday with all the Germans who wouldn’t step up and take a penalty, while Moroccan keeper Yassine Bounou stayed in total command in the most stressful of situations. Pochettino would like to…
Taylor Sheridan made shocking revelations about how several ex-convicts had to be taken to the hospital after their time on the set of Mayor of Kingstown. “There is a scene in episode 3 of the first season where a man is arrested for killing a child. It actually is a…
LeBron James is hitting free agency for the first time in eight years and doesn’t appear to be all too worried. Since the news broke that James and his agent, Rich Paul, informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he would not be returning to the team next season, James made…
University of Nebraska running back Mekhi Nelson was arrested on Monday, June 29, after an alleged altercation with his pregnant girlfriend, according to arrest records viewed by Us Weekly. TMZ Sports was first to report the news. Nelson, 20, was booked on a misdemeanor battery charge after police responded to…
Vice President JD Vance argued Tuesday that there is a “big silver lining” in the divided Supreme Court ruling striking down President Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and tourists. “I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, that you’re talking…
Ads on the wildly popular video game platform Roblox enticed kids to try caffeinated potato chips — and they targeted children as young as age 5, a consumer watchdog group says. The controversial online gaming company – which has been probed by half a dozen states over child safety issues…
The Trump administration lifted emergency export controls on Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence models on Tuesday night, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — abruptly ending a bitter standoff that disrupted the global tech sector. “Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to…
You are slowly dying in so many subtle, little ways that you might not even notice. That is, until you enter a biohacking expo, where thousands interested in “hacking” their biology in the name of longevity congregate to see the latest in time-defying technology. A man behind one booth will…
Imagine how upset Kirk Herbstreit would be if he were a Mets fan? The ESPN college football analyst went off on his beloved Reds and the state of Major League Baseball in posts on X after Cincinnati blew a 3-0 lead to the Brewers on Monday night and eventually lost…
Cincinatti Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has some unique hobbies when he isn’t spending time with his rumored girlfriend, supermodel Olivia Ponton, this offseason. Burrow, who hit the town with Ponton after he attended Monday’s Met Gala solo, pulled back the curtain on his off-field life in an interview with Vanity…
Noah Beck returned to Instagram after both his mother and sister made headlines for separate public scandals. “Quarter of a century🤍#25,” Back wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, May 6, while celebrating his 25th birthday. His post included a mirror selfie, a photo from the beach, a sign that read “gentle…
Spencer Pratt’s sharp debate performance this week was so effective in cutting through the noise and bluntly laying out Los Angeles’ many crises that even some Democratic strategists are saying the former reality TV star may have a real chance to win the mayor’s race. “Spencer Pratt made me laugh,…
A ring of elite corporate lawyers were accused of illegally trading on inside info about blockbuster deals over a decade, using a bizarre code that referred to one merger as a “rabbi” as they raked in tens of millions of dollars in ill-gotten profits, according to federal prosecutors. Nicolo Nourafchan,…
Silicon Valley’s AI boom may be heading out to sea. Tech investors are pouring more than $200 million into a futuristic plan to build floating AI data centers powered by ocean waves — a wild new approach aimed at dodging the growing headaches of building massive server farms on land, according…
Nearly 180 years after they died of cold and starvation in the Canadian Arctic, four crewmembers who perished in the Franklin expedition have been identified thanks to genetic analyses that matched their DNA with that of living descendants.Three of the victims were from HMS Erebus, one of the expedition’s two…
The deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has put citizens and health authorities on high alert. Experts believe a few passengers were infected with the Andes strain of hantavirus, which has a mortality rate of up to 40% because it affects the lungs and kidneys, which are critical…
Carlos Rodón is raring to go. The lefty pitcher, who underwent offseason elbow surgery in October, will make his season debut on Sunday when the Yankees face the Brewers. And while he joked he doesn’t have the same “virgin” arm as earlier in his career, he’s nonetheless looking forward to…
May we all be lucky enough to have a partner who hypes us up like Jason Ritter does for Melanie Lynskey. “Melanie is just so fun to work with,” Ritter, 46 — who’s shared the screen with Lynskey, 48, on multiple occasions — revealed exclusively in the latest issue of…
A Colorado school district is being sued for suspending an Asian student who recorded her peers drunkenly using racial slurs in a disturbing video that went viral — but didn’t punish the black students who blasted it on social media because their actions should be viewed through a “culturally responsive…
Ted Turner made sure CNN would never go quietly. The late media mogul — who died Wednesday at 87 — secretly commissioned a chilling “doomsday video” decades ago that was meant to air only when the world came to an end, according to resurfaced footage and archived reports. The eerie…
The scientists operating NASA’s Curiosity rover are breathing a sigh of relief after successfully removing a troublesome rock that got stuck on the end of the Mars rover’s robotic arm for nearly a week. Video footage shows the robot “struggling” to shake off its pesky passenger by tilting, rotating and…
Grab your sneakers and tighten those laces — the Presidential Fitness Test is back. President Donald Trump revived the decades-old exam for public schoolchildren this week, calling it “an important step in our mission to make America healthy again.” “My administration is working very hard to defend America’s cherished athletic…
In an extraordinary scene, several Yankees — Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Cody Bellinger, Trent Grisham and Amed Rosario — grouped together on the warning track in left field, nearby manager Aaron Boone and several trainers. Both dugouts were filled with players and coaches on the top step peering over.…
Granger Smith and his wife, Amber Smith, made a vow to stay together after the tragic death of their 3-year-old son. “I think we recognized early that most couples don’t make it,” Granger, 46, said on the Wednesday, May 6, episode of the “Jinger and Jeremy” podcast. “I don’t know…
FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly gives out self-branded bottles of bourbon, including some with facsimiles of his signature, at public events — even as he battles The Atlantic magazine over its reporting on his drinking habits. The bottles bear the bureau’s official shield along with the words, “Kash Patel FBI…
Federal investigators are probing at least four suspiciously timed oil trades worth more than $2.6 billion that were placed just minutes before major announcements about the Iran war sent crude prices tumbling, according to a report. The Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating whether traders…
A man went out on a morning walk in southwest Norway and stumbled upon a surprise: an elite warrior’s sword scabbard that was purposefully buried 1,500 years ago. The rare gold object, which was richly decorated with serpentine animals, was probably an offering to the gods at a time of…
Incredible, edible, scientifically credible? A humble food, once thought to be bad for the heart, has now been linked to a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease. For decades, eggs have been divisive, with protein proponents praising ova and cholesterol-conscious maligning them. Now, new research in The Journal of Nutrition suggests that…
Real Madrid are in the midst of a civil war with fans demanding star player Kylian Mbappe is sold. A petition calling on the club to get rid of the striker has reached four million signatures in a matter of hours. And it is not just the fans who are…
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