California wants to crack down on airport line-skipping for Clear members

By Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNN New York  — Clear is a service that lets people skip the security line at airports with nothing but a biometric scan and $189. Some California lawmakers want to make changes to it in the state, saying it separates travelers into haves and have-nots. California lawmakers voted 8-4 to move … Read more

‘Devastating’ wait times at Mexico border strain California small businesses

By Wendy Fry | Calmatters Government agencies are spending billions of dollars to improve wait times at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the checkpoints remain severely clogged — and border communities are hurting. In recent months lines at the border often stretched for several hours, frustrating more than 150,000 students, cross-border families, health care workers, small … Read more

Biden signs $95 billion war aid measure with assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed into law on Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and that also has a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in the U.S. The announcement … Read more

Supreme Court will take up the legal fight over ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. The justices by a 5-4 vote had previously intervened to keep the regulation in effect during the legal fight. … Read more

California Forever study outlines Solano County’s economic gap

Solano County has the lowest wages and highest unemployment of any Bay Area county, according to a new study released by California Forever and authored by Michael Genest, former California Director of Finance. The report outlines Solano County’s economic paucity compared to the other eight counties of the Bay Area across multiple metrics, including household … Read more

San Francisco mayor announces the city will receive pandas from China

BEIJING — San Francisco is the latest U.S. city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the panda loan in Beijing on Friday, alongside officials from China Wildlife Conservation Association, or CWCA. It will be San Francisco’s first time … Read more

Only one North American airport makes list of world’s best

By Lilit Marcus | CNN Ali versus Frazier. The Red Sox versus the Yankees. Doha versus Singapore. For the last decade, Singapore’s Changi International Airport and Doha’s Hamad International Airport have been going back and forth, battling over the title of ‘world’s best’. Every year, UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site Skytrax surveys … Read more

Inside the private security forces patrolling California’s homeless

Wendy Powitzky thought she’d finally found a way off the street in Orange County. The former hairdresser had spent years sleeping in her car and parks around Anaheim, near the suburban salons where she used to work. One day a social worker told Powitzky about an old piano shop recently converted into a shelter. She … Read more

Tesla to cut over 10% of workforce in global retrenchment

By Ed Ludlow and Dana Hull | Bloomberg Tesla Inc. is slashing headcount by more than 10%, part of a global retrenchment extending all the way into its executive ranks as the carmaker struggles with slowing demand for electric vehicles. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk revealed the job cuts in an email to staff, citing … Read more

The iPhone suggests a Palestinian flag when some people type ‘Jerusalem.’ Apple is working on a fix

By Samantha Murphy Kelly | CNN Apple is working to a fix a bug in its latest iOS software that suggests the Palestinian flag emoji when some users search for the word “Jerusalem” in the emoji keyboard. The company told CNN it is aware of a bug within predictive emoji in the keyboard and is … Read more