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1 week ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Devin Pavlou |Evan Hummel |Kalé Carey
U.S. Border Patrol agents have shut down a more than half-mile tunnel linking Tijuana to San Diego with the help of U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents and Mexican law enforcement. Authorities have discovered nearly 100 illicit tunnels in the San Diego area since 1993. Federal officials said gangs used the tunnel — 50 feet deep and nearly 3,000 feet long — to smuggle drugs into the United States.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Matt Bishop |Mikael Thalen
The latest product marketed under President Donald Trump’s name is the $499 T1 “Trump phone,” announced Monday, June 16, alongside a cellular service plan called Trump Mobile. But early attempts to pre-order the Chinese-built phone are being met with errors. Those errors, first reported by 404 Media’s Joseph Cox, raise questions over whether customers will begin receiving their phones in August as promised.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Evan Hummel |Jack Henry |Kalé Carey
Israel bombed the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster on Monday, June 16, in a strike that aired on live television. An anchor at Iran’s IRIB network fled a studio as debris fell from the ceiling. The number of casualties from the attack — the latest escalation of air strikes between Israel and Iran over the past four days — was unknown. However, IRIB said “a number” of its staff members were injured.
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2 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Bast Bramhall |Devin Pavlou |Evan Hummel
Authorities arrested a man who allegedly handed out riot gear to people protesting the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Los Angeles. Alejandro Theodoro Orellana was charged with suspicion of conspiracy to commit civil disorders. In a social media post on Thursday, June 12, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayi said law enforcement detained Orellana “for distributing face shields to suspected rioters on Tuesday” near federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
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2 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Cole Lauterbach |Devin Pavlou
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an emotional appeal for resistance at a fraught moment for the country, his state, Los Angeles — and for his own political ambitions. Newsom used a nationally televised speech on Tuesday, June 10, to assert that President Donald Trump’s use of the military to control civil unrest in Los Angeles is a threat to American democracy.
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2 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Cole Lauterbach |Matt Bishop
Heavily armed agents who refuse to identify themselves or even show their faces. Arrests without warrants. American citizens detained without being allowed to prove their citizenship. People disappearing into unmarked vans or buildings, prohibited from any contact with friends, family members or attorneys.
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3 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alex Delia |Alan Judd |Lawrence Banton
The television commercial opens with iconic images from the 1980s: roller skates, cassette players, cell phones “the size of a brick” — and a computer running off a floppy disk. “That was then,” an announcer intones. “But four decades later, floppy disks are still being used to run our air traffic control system.
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3 weeks ago | 
san.com | Ally Heath |Alan Judd |Brent Jabbour |Jack Henry
It’s been more than six months since Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to President Donald Trump. But as Democrats gear up for next year’s mid-term elections, and eventually, the 2028 presidential election, the party is trying to figure out how to win over a key voting block: men. Males ages 18 to 44 favored President Joe Biden by 7 percentage points in the 2020 election. But just four years later, Trump won the group by 8 percentage points.
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3 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Cassandra J. Buchman |Evan Hummel |Emma Stoltzfus
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have banned the Chinese government from owning a stake of 30% or more of any property in the state. Hobbs, a Democrat, disagreed with Republican lawmakers over whether the measure would prevent Chinese espionage. The “legislation is ineffective at counterespionage and does not directly protect our military assets,” Hobbs wrote in a veto message on Monday, June 2.
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3 weeks ago | 
san.com | Alan Judd |Drew Pittock |Kalé Carey
Texas has maintained a firm stance on immigration enforcement, and a bill now on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk reinforces that position. The measure, passed by both chambers of the state Legislature, would require most Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help enforce federal immigration law. Over the weekend, lawmakers said “yes” to SB 8 and its companion, HB 5580.
