News For Reasonable People

By the time he was a teenager, Antonio Mays Jr. knew all about the struggle for civil rights and Black liberation. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Nat Turner, the Watts riots — Mays’ dad taught him the stories because he wanted his son to know his history, the history of being Black in America. In 2020, 16-year-old Antonio watched the next chapter of that history begin to unfold fr...

Walgreens is set to shutter 500 locations in 2025 as part of a sweeping $1 billion cost-cutting initiative, CEO Tim Wentworth announced last fall. The closures are part of a broader plan to eliminate 1,200 underperforming stores nationwide over the next several years, with locations in 33 states slated for closure. The pharmacy giant, which operates approximately 8,500 stores across the U.S., has...

CVS Pharmacy is expanding its footprint. But a major focus is on smaller store formats exclusively offering pharmacy services. The shift to small-format stores comes as the industry works to rightsize and reduce costs in response to ongoing challenges, including intense competition and shifting consumer preferences.

The founder of Pirate’s Booty Snacks lost his chaotic bid for mayor of a tiny New York community after he claimed he was the village leader and had the authority to replace the entire local government, officials said Thursday. Elena Villafane, the incumbent mayor of Sea Cliff, defeated Pirate’s Booty Snacks founder Robert Ehrlich, 1,064-62, on Tuesday in the village, which is about 26 miles northe...

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and 14 of his top advisors, appointees and lawyers nicknamed themselves "Strike Force" and communicated about the city's migrant crisis through an end-to end encryption app, CBS News Colorado has learned. The app, Signal, proceeded to automatically delete their initial conversations.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey doubled down on his resistance to President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan’s immigration enforcement efforts today, vowing that his city will be a “safe haven” for illegal immigrants. Speaking at a town hall with other Democrat leaders, including “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Frey said: “I want all of you just to know exactly where we are as far as o...

L.A.'s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city's top budget official announcing that next year's shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs "nearly inevitable." City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo advised the City Council to focus on cost-cutting measures, including a potential reduction in the size of the workforce, to...

Vice President JD Vance suggested that the ongoing vandalism of Tesla vehicles may be a coordinated effort, emphasizing that "terrorism is not cheap." Speaking Thursday on The Vince Show, a conservative talk program on Westwood One, Vance argued that attention should be directed toward "the guy at the top writing the checks" rather than the "foot soldiers" carrying out the attacks.

Homeowners across California are reeling amid an ongoing insurance crisis, and on Wednesday, the state's insurance commissioner appeared before a Legislature seeking answers. Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who's facing criticism for skipping out on a hearing last week, appeared at the state Capitol to answer questions about what lawmakers have called "an insurance industry in shambles." Insurance comp...

Martin Selig, the commercial property developer who at one point owned nearly a third of downtown Seattle office space, defaulted on debt backed by three buildings located near the iconic Space Needle. The $135 million debt has been transfered to a special servicer, according to monthly commentary. A spokesperson for the company, called Martin Selig Real Estate, said conversations regarding the de...

The addition of a soon-to-be permanent supportive housing facility for the homeless is causing a Kirkland business to move out of town. INRIX CEO Bryan Mistele made the announcement on X. "This week INRIX signed a lease which will move us out of Kirkland which has been our home for the past 18 years," Mistele wrote. "Why? (The city of Kirkland) made a decision to put a homeless hotel right across...

Plummeting property values in downtown Portland are costing the city millions of dollars in tax revenue that would otherwise go to vital city services, as the city looks at a $92.8-million budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year. The turndown in revenue is putting pressure on city leaders to re-imagine a downtown once filled with workers. Perhaps no one is feeling the pinch like downtown rest...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on Monday a plan he says will transform the way the city approaches the homelessness and behavioral health crisis. His executive directive provides the most comprehensive plan to date about how the mayor's team will use those tools and a timeline for accomplishing specific goals. The executive action, called "Breaking the Cycle," expands on Lurie's fentan...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is asking for another $2.8 billion loan to keep Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid plan, afloat after asking for $3.44 billion last week to cover a program that has expanded to include illegal aliens for free. As Breitbart News reported in 2022: “Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California will become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance —...

California's top insurance regulator on Friday said he would approve an emergency request by State Farm to raise premiums 22% on home insurance for about a million customers if the insurance giant could justify the hike at a public hearing. State Farm, the state's largest insurer with roughly 1 million home insurance policies in California, said the emergency rate would help the company re...

This gender identity left them shell-shocked. A member of a state panel advising the director of Oregon’s Health Authority (OHA) made a wild first impression at a meeting by proclaiming, “I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns.” JD Holt, who also goes by “JD Terrapin” on Facebook, made the declaration with a straight face while introducing themself at a virtual council meeting on Dec. 20. “He...

Former State Farm Vice President Haden Kirkpatrick was fired by the insurance giant this week after he was recorded during a Tinder date in January speaking about the company's premium hikes in response to the California wildfires. He was recorded undercover saying that the California subsidiary's request for a premium rate hike was 'kind of' orchestrated 'but not in the way yo...

On Monday, Portland State University was among 60 universities under investigation for antisemitic discrimination and harassment by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The warning issued by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says schools like PSU could receive potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to p...

These are the worst — and wokest — judges in New York City when it comes to protecting the public from violent suspects. These criminal court jurists set violent offenders loose ahead of trial at an astounding rate — with some springing alleged perps more than 80% of the time, according to a Post analysis of pretrial detention data from the Office of Court Administration. The analysis looked at 96...

Protest have increasingly become a tool not merely for expressing dissent but for exerting coercive pressure upon individuals who diverge from prevailing ideological orthodoxies. Recent organized attacks on Tesla dealerships across the nation provide a troubling illustration of this trend, with explicit efforts aimed at intimidating Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk into abandoning his leadership of the Depar...

The luxury Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon may be in trouble after less than just two years of operation. Ready Capital, the lender to real estate group that owns the hotel announced a bleak future for the Ritz-Carlton in a report detailing the corporation's fourth-quarter earnings. 'The fourth quarter closes out a year of mixed results,' CEO Thomas Capasse wrote in a press release...

By the time California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, he had been warned by many that it would be devastating for the industry, but he did it anyway. Now, 16,000 fast food jobs have been lost and fast food prices are up more than 14.5%. And here is why: the $20 minimum wage harms California’s least skilled and least experienced workers, as they ar...

After 23 years in downtown Seattle, the Cheesecake Factory will close the doors of its busy location. The decision was made after “extensive review and analysis,” according to a spokesperson for the restaurant. The last day the restaurant at 700 Pike St. will be open is May 4. "We have truly enjoyed being a part of the downtown Seattle community over the last 23 years and hope to continue to serve...

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” “Alex Marlow Show” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow talked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) stating that biological men shouldn’t play women’s sports and said that Newsom is just trying to pivot away from his left-wing record in California. Marlow stated that Newsom is “pivoting from the worst moments of his ho...

The California Legislative Analyst’s Office says the state has spent $37 billion on homelessness since 2019 and undercounts the homeless. It also urges delaying one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s key programs until data proves its effectiveness. A 2023 UC San Francisco report found 34% of homeless individuals in California are not from California, meaning state taxpayers may have covered $12.6 billion sin...