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A wildfire blazing so quickly that firefighters couldn’t hope to stop it quadrupled in size Friday after destroying several thousand buildings and leveling much of a Northern California town of nearly 30,000 people, according to state authorities. A wind-driven wildfire is also raging through Southern California communities on Friday, relentlessly pushing toward tony Malibu.

Wednesday night’s mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, CA, included episodes of Americans risking their safety to assist and protect others.

A new report claims that Tesla staff are prohibited from calling 911 if a worker is injured on the factory floor unless given express permission by the company. Other allegations involve injuried workers — including one with a severed finger — allegedly sent to the hospital via ridesharing service Lyft.

In April of this year a mental health crisis team chose not to involuntarily commit Thousand Oaks gunman Ian David Long for mental health treatment/evaluation.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff celebrated the victory of the controversial “Proposition C” homelessness tax in San Francisco, which tore Silicon Valley leaders apart leading up to election day.

Democrat Josh Harder held a final campaign event on Monday featuring Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom — but it was held behind closed doors in his campaign office, rather than in a public venue.

Law enforcement officers in Texas placed more than 270,000 criminal aliens in local jails since June 1, 2011, according to state data. The mostly illegal aliens allegedly committed more than 284,000 criminal offenses including homicides, assaults, burglary, drug offenses, theft, robbery, sexual assault, and other sexual offenses.

Professor Samuel Abrams received intimidating messages and was accused by his college president of “attacking” members of the community after he denounced the ideological homogeneity of his campus administration in an op-ed for the New York Times last month.

“I did vote for a bill that has some funding in it for Planned Parenthood,” Hyde-Smith is heard responding to a question in a video released Friday by the Friends of Chris McDaniel.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed delivered a surprising veto on Friday against the Board of Supervisors’ unanimous vote on Tuesday for a resolution supporting the state’s controversial new Bay-Delta plan.

“Because Connecticut doesn’t have enough money to pay its bills, it has a $69.8 billion financial hole,” says Truth in Accounting. “To fill it, each Connecticut taxpayer would have to send $53,400 to the state.”

Tennessee voters were outraged when they discovered a dummy wearing a GOP shirt, a dunce cap and a sign with U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) name crossed out hanging from a tree.

Although there are still no suspects in the early Wednesday morning defacing of a synagogue with antisemitic graffiti, the City of Irvine proclaimed solidarity against intolerance.

The latest Sacred Heart University/Hearst Connecticut Media Group poll finds Stefanowski with a 2.4 percentage point lead over Lamont – still within the margin of error.

Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin would not give a clear answer on his position on abortion during a debate in West Virginia Thursday night against GOP challenger and state attorney general Patrick Morrisey.

“The state of California is using first-grade history textbooks to indoctrinate children to support current California state politicians,” Fitzgerald says in the video.

Today, thousands of Google employees staged a company walkout to protest Google executives’ alleged protection of sexual harassers at the company. The walkout at the Company’s HQ in Mountain View, California, is reportedly the largest worldwide.

A “sex robot brothel” is raising funds to open in California next year, where men will reportedly be able to pay $10,000 to take a sex robot’s “virginity.”

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) is accusing Democrat challenger Josh Harder of inflating his resume as a college “professor” when his teaching experience at a local community college is actually very thin.

A Georgia county sheriff is taking the extra step to make Haloween safer this year by placing “No Trick-or-Treat” signs in the front yards of registered sex offenders.

Connecticut Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski are in a gubernatorial race that is now “too close to call,” says a Quinnipiac University poll.

Democrats Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that they will tour Southern California to campaign for Democrats in four “toss-up” U.S. House seats.

Police in Texas arrested a school bus driver after he drove into a flooded road with a student on board. A video camera showed the bus as it was swept away by a raging current.

Free speech social media platform Gab has issued a statement about the account believed to belong to the man behind the shooting today at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

A Texas Christian University (TCU) student who had been accused of hazing apparently committed suicide by jumping to his death.

Proposition 10 (rent control expansion) is supported by 25 percent of voters, versus opposed by 60 percent of likely voters.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) criticized Big Tech companies for not being “very civically involved” in San Francisco this week.

The smallest house in San Francisco currently on the market is priced at $650,000 for a “shabby” 480 square feet shanty.

“As we have said from the beginning, this race will continue to move in Stefanowski’s direction as voters realize that Ned’s Lamont’s policies are the same ones that put our state in its current position,” Stefanowski campaign spokesman Kendall Marr said, according to CT Mirror. “When it comes to Ned, Oz, and [Gov.] Dan Malloy, they are three peas in a pod.”

Two brothers in Michigan are facing a $450,000 fine for cutting down more than 1,400 trees on their property without getting permission from their township.

The city council in Palo Alto, California, is honoring Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were in high school, for testifying against the recently-confirmed Supreme Court justice.

“This course will look at how the Bible can be read productively through queer theory,” the course description states in the catalogue.

A Texas mom chased down her 14-year-old son after he absconded with her brand-new BMW. When she caught up with the boy, she pulled him over and proceeded to spank him with a belt.

Kansas Secretary of State and GOP nominee for governor Kris Kobach’s populist welfare reform initiative includes mandatory drug testing for food stamp recipients and a work requirement for Medicaid beneficiaries. 

Republican incumbent Rep. Jeff Denham’s campaign slammed his Democratic challenger in California’s 10th congressional district, Josh Harder, on Tuesday for drawing only 1% of his contributions from within the district.

A recent article published by the New Yorker asks the question many have asked about Silicon Valley’s race to develop self-driving cars: “Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?”