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As incendiary claims ricocheted across group chats and were amplified online, a crowd converged on UCLA and violence ignited when police left the scene.
A collective research effort has cropped up to name and shame the pro-Israel demonstrators who carried out violence at UCLA. Distrusting police to deliver justice, people are taking it upon themselves.
Cal Poly Humboldt’s students have engaged in more vigorous disruption, occupying an academic and administrative building, painting buildings with graffiti and twice forcing police to retreat.
Pro-Palestinian encampments have sprung up on the campuses of UC Irvine, UC Riverside, Occidental College, Sacramento State and San Francisco State, among others.
Police arrested more than two dozen protesters at Cal Poly Humboldt, where Gaza war demonstrators had occupied buildings for a week and forced the campus to close.
Stolen water is an indelible part of California lore. But the federal case against Dennis Falaschi, longtime head of the Panoche Water District, alleges one of the most audacious water grabs in modern history.
California’s water board has for the first time put a farming region on probation for failing to adopt measures to curb excessive pumping of groundwater.
Riddhi Patel, 28, who grew up in Bakersfield and works at a local nonprofit, was arrested after public statements she made on the topic of a Gaza cease-fire and on metal detectors at City Hall.
Federal authorities say they have broken a long-running California fraud ring that used sophisticated software to cheat on automobile smog tests.
Many in Shasta County had framed the election as a referendum on the board’s hard-right turn in the last few years.
