KDOW-AM (Palo Alto, CA)

(The Center Square) – Although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently scaled back over half of its new detention expansion initiatives, it has already spent at least $20 million taxpayer dollars that it can’t recoup, a new report shows. As part of the second Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, ICE spent $1.07 billion between January and April 2026 to purchase 11 warehouses nationwide, planning to convert the buildings into detention centers.

(The Center Square) – Prisha Mosley, in pursuit of medical malpractice against a plastic surgeon, two licensed counselors and a physician among eight defendants, is optimistic for Tuesday’s oral arguments at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. At age 17, her healthcare known colloquially and politically as “gender-affirming” included testosterone injections and a double mastectomy.

(The Center Square) – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has filed hundreds of state-mandated “transparency” reports intended to disclose millions of dollars donated to third parties at her behest, but at least 23 filings reviewed by The Center Square show her requesting money from "Anonymous." Anonymous donations are legal in some circumstances, but they defeat the purpose of a California transparency system intended to let the public know who elected officials are soliciting for money and what...

(The Center Square) – As electricity demand surges amid the expansion of data centers and advanced manufacturing, a free-market think tank convened energy experts Wednesday to debate whether traditional utilities, competitive electricity markets or some combination of the two offer the best path toward delivering reliable, affordable power to Americans.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, stating that it violated Title VI by discriminating in its admissions process. The DOJ alleges the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars discrimination based on race. The DOJ said UCSF’s medical school “illegally discriminated based on race in its medical school admissions processes,” according to a letter sent to UCSF.

(The Center Square) – Chinese President Xi Jinping, met by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, arrived at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, kicking off an historic visit. In a rare move, Trump greeted Xi and his wife as they touched down in the U.S. ahead of a state visit that is set to kick off Thursday morning with a jam-packed schedule of events, and is due to wrap up in Washington on Friday.

(The Center Square) – In the last weeks of the 2026 legislative session, California’s lawmakers quietly decided against reappointing two members of the beleaguered Board of Parole Hearings. The inaction on keeping Patricia Cassady and Teal Kozel in their posts follows a contentious year in which both members, along with the 19 other commissioners, approved the release of two convicted child sexual offenders, Gregory Vogelsang and David Allen Funston.

(The Center Square) – After a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Austin on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing back against claims made about the incident. Venezuelan national Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot and injured by an ICE officer during a targeted enforcement action after Perez attempted to flee in his vehicle. Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI are investigating the shooting.

(The Center Square) – Arguing that the U.S. is “underinvesting in discovery,” U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., is calling for changes to the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, which include increased investments from the federal government. “Rather than cut NIH by nearly 40 percent, as the Office of Management and Budget proposed last year, we should double its $48 billion budget within five years,” McCormick wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published on Wednesday.

(The Center Square) – China remains behind on its May pledge to buy U.S. farm goods as President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping, with a trade truce set to expire Nov. 10. The talks could decide whether suspended higher tariffs on some Chinese imports take effect, whether U.S. farmers see the sales Beijing promised and whether the two countries extend the one-year truce they reached last fall.