Gas prices in California are nearly double the cost of those in neighboring Arizona. “As a lifelong Californian I always thought we were being price gouged by the oil companies. It turns out: We’re being price gouged by the state.” @AustynJeffs reports.

Minneapolis gun owners are divided over Alex Pretti. Support for the Second Amendment used to fall along predictable party lines. Then border patrol agents shot and killed a man carrying a pistol. @Olivia_Reingold and @AustynJeffs report.

Minnesota students ditched high school today to attend an anti-ICE protest. @AustynJeffs reports for The FP.

I spent half of my 20s as a brainwashed climate activist. This is the story of how I changed my mind and became a climate realist.

Amid sub-freezing temperatures, Minneapolis was a “ghost town” on Monday, says @AustynJeffs. Still, smaller protests continued. “If these pigs are going to fucking murder people in the streets, we’re going to take direct action. We passed the point of civility a long time ago,”

The mood in Minneapolis has become “somber” over the last month, says anti-ICE demonstrator Julie Prokes. “People are worn out—they’re just sick of it, and they want it all to stop.” @AustynJeffs reports for The FP.

Imagine your house burned down in a California wildfire. The power company allegedly responsible for starting that fire could possibly make you pay. They’ve done it before. @AustynJeffs reports from Los Angeles.

Meet Iran’s Starlink Smugglers @RafaelaSie and @TanyaLukyanova_ report on the satellite internet terminals helping Iranians evade Tehran’s digital crackdown.

“They let us burn.” One year later, Los Angeles fire victims are fed up. @AustynJeffs reports.

Rain hits LA and LAX turns into a full-blown disaster movie. Karen Bass and Eric Garcetti really left us with this masterpiece of infrastructure 😂

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“America isn’t the plains, and it’s not the buildings, and it’s not the politicians—it’s not even the land. America is you.” @AustynJeffs reports from a naturalization ceremony in Tucson, where new Americans told us what taking the oath feels like.

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Has flying actually been a total nightmare? Yesterday, on the last day of the government shutdown, The FP’s @AustynJeffs flew from LA to Vegas to find out.

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Two weeks after October 7, 2023, the beloved president of Detroit’s last remaining synagogue was found stabbed to death outside her home. At first, it seemed the violence of October 7 had come to American soil. But as investigators dug deeper, the truth behind Samantha Woll’s

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