shouted President Joe Biden Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, now a Republican megadonor and surrogate to Trump's campaign, for hypocrisy on immigration on Saturday, saying Musk began his long profession within the U.S. as an “illegal worker” before becoming the richest man on the earth became.

The president made the remarks at a campaign rally in support of Democrats held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

Calling Musk a wealthy recent “ally” of former President Donald Trump, Biden said, “The richest man in the world turned out to be an illegal worker here while he was here,” referring to Musk.

“He was supposed to be in school when he came on a student visa. He wasn't at school. He broke the law. He's talking about all these 'illegals' coming our way,” Biden added.

He then criticized Trump and Republicans for failing to sign laws that may solve “the problem with the border.” He added: “We now have fewer people crossing the border illegally – or crossing the border – than at any time since his third year as President of the United States.”

The Trump campaign didn’t immediately reply to CNBC's request for comment on Biden's comments.

Musk recently accomplished a series of town hall events within the swing state of Pennsylvania wherein he sought to persuade voters to support Trump and his policies. Musk also gained his following there by handing out $1 million in lottery prizes to registered voters in swing states who signed a petition distributed by his pro-Trump group America PAC.

According to at least one Analysis of According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Trump's recent immigration policy proposals include plans for the biggest deportation operation in U.S. history, abolishing primary citizenship, and revoking visas and deporting foreign students who’re pro-Palestinian protesters.

Biden's comments on Musk, his Trump alliance and immigration hypocrisy followed a Washington Post report that quotes correspondence, legal documents and several other individuals who helped Musk get a piece visa in 1996 after he had already worked here and not using a work visa.

Musk got here to the United States within the mid-Nineteen Nineties with the stated intention of attending graduate studies at Stanford. He didn't enroll in this system he said he'd been accepted into and as an alternative began constructing a enterprise capitalist-backed startup called Zip2 along with his brother.

The Washington Post wrote that investors in Musk's first company were apprehensive that their “founder could be deported” and gave him a deadline to use for a piece visa.

Zip2 was sold for approx $300 million in 1999, a windfall that later allowed Elon Musk to change into one among Tesla's first investors and CEO and to found his capital-intensive aerospace company SpaceX, now a serious U.S. defense contractor.

These deals have made Musk, on paper, the richest person on the earth. According to Forbes, the Tesla CEO's net value is around $274 billion Today.

At the top of 2022, Musk used this considerable fortune to amass the social network Twitter in a $44 billion takeover.

Musk has been on the platform because it was renamed

He has also shared the false claim that non-citizens systematically vote in US elections, a Conspiracy theory from conservative groups to offer the legal basis for difficult the election results if the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, wins the presidency.

In the United States, it’s already a federal crime and against the law under the laws of all states for non-citizens to register or vote in federal elections.

According to studies by the Brennan Center for Justice, “extensive research shows that fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is virtually non-existent, and that many cases of suspected fraud are actually errors by voters or administrators. The same applies to Mail-in ballotsthat are safe and essential to conducting a safe election amid the coronavirus pandemic.”

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FREMONT — A one that got out of his automobile early Sunday and started throwing objects at vehicles on State Route 84 was killed when he was struck by a automobile, the California Highway Patrol said.

The deceased man's name was not immediately released pending notification of his family.

The driver of the automobile that hit the person didn't notice the incident until he drove home and checked out footage on his dashboard camera, authorities said. After seeing the footage, the motive force contacted the CHP.

The fatal collision occurred around 5:41 a.m. Sunday on westbound State Route 84, east of Paseo Padre Parkway.

According to the CHP, the person killed had stopped his Tesla within the lane closest to the middle divider and walked to the world of ​​the middle divider before reentering lane number three. According to a passing motorist, he threw objects at vehicles before being struck and killed by a Dodge Challenger, the CHP said.

The Challenger continued driving, but debris from the vehicle was recovered from the scene, CHP Officer Kylie Musselman said. Some of the debris had part numbers and the CHP was in a position to trace it to the owner.

Musselman said CHP officers also viewed video that showed the person on the road holding something in his hand before he was hit.

The CHP remains to be trying to find out why the person who was killed stopped his vehicle and was throwing objects on the roadway.

Anyone with information is asked to call the CHP Hayward office at 510-489-1500.

SAN PABLO – An area resident was arrested and charged with possession of greater than 2,000 files containing child pornography after police learned he had secretly returned to the Bay Area following a 2015 sex abuse conviction, court records show.

Luis Brizuela-Navas, 25, was charged with possession of kid pornography and failure to register as a sex offender, each felonies. When police attempted to arrest him at his San Pablo home on Keller Avenue on Sept. 4, Brizuela-Navas allegedly barricaded the back door and refused to give up. When he finally submitted to arrest, police found him within the strategy of deleting data from his iPhone.

Brizuela-Navas was convicted in juvenile court in 2015 of sexually abusing a member of the family, authorities said in court documents. He was subsequently deported to El Salvador, but prosecutors said he returned to the United States in 2022 and commenced living in San Pablo.

If Brizuela-Navas lived within the United States, he would have needed to register as a sex offender and comply with conditions designed to make sure he wouldn’t reoffend, including wearing a GPS monitoring device and having contact with a probation officer. Neither of those happened, based on prosecutors.

Instead, authorities imagine Brizuela-Navas began sharing child sexual abuse material with “like-minded individuals” through an encrypted messaging service. His alleged crimes were discovered after the social media platform Discord spotted suspicious uploads on Brizuela-Navas' account and notified police, authorities said in court documents.

So far, investigators have found greater than 2,000 videos depicting child pornography and/or sexual abuse on Brizuela-Navas' cellphone. The investigation is ongoing, authorities said.

Brizuela-Navas is being held within the Contra Costa Jail without bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors have asked a judge to maintain him in custody because his alleged disregard for previous court orders suggests he’ll attempt to flee the realm.

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Scorching temperatures in July made it the most popular month in California on record. accordingly national weather dataThe average temperature across the state was 81.7°, nearly two degrees warmer than the previous record set in 2021.

“This is a huge step forward,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. “We not only broke the previous record, we practically surpassed it.”

Heat waves persevered throughout much of the state for many of July, with daytime highs rising above triple digits. And, crucially, temperatures remained warm at night as well, raising the typical temperature for the month.

But “people's experiences varied greatly depending on where they lived in California,” Swain said. Inland cities were most affected by warming.

Sacramento and Fresno recorded their highest July temperatures on record, at 81.1° and 90.0°, respectively. Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties deviated greater than 7 degrees from the historical average, with July average temperatures of 76.7°, 78.3° and 76.5°, respectively.

In coastal cities, the temperature increase was less drastic. In San Francisco, the typical temperature in July was 66.6 degrees, about 3 degrees above the historical average, but still the most popular July on record.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been tracking monthly temperatures for greater than 100 years, and California has broken all previous monthly heat records thrice prior to now decade. In the sweltering July of 2018, the typical temperature in California was 79.6°F, which was surpassed in 2021 at 79.8°F. The previous record of 79.5°F was set in 1931.

The temperature rise in July was “remarkable” but not surprising, Swain said.

“Unfortunately, it is entirely in line with expectations that we will experience increasingly hotter summers,” Swain said.

California, like the remaining of the world, is moving toward a hotter climate “in stages,” Swain said. Some years will likely be relatively warmer or cooler than others, so next summer's heat waves could also be less severe. But if the state's current climate trend toward warmer summers continues, a July as hot as this one will likely be “normal, if not rather cool” within the near future, Swain said.

With the unbearable heat in July, the wildfire season began with the worst burning rate in over a decade. As of July 30, over 629,000 acres, nearly a thousand square miles, had burned within the state.

The summer heat follows a wet winter and spring that caused additional grass and shrub growth. Then the scorching temperatures “oven dried” the dense vegetation, which Swain said had a “double effect” on the wildfires. The lack of cooling from the warmth overnight also increases the danger of wildfires.

Fire season often doesn't peak until fall, Swain said. Wildfire activity “may continue to be higher than normal,” although fire locations may shift, Swain said.

Before Ellen DeGeneres abruptly canceled 4 upcoming dates of her stand-up tour, including one in San Francisco, she told a Santa Rosa audience on July 1, “This is the last time you'll see me.” She said she was “saying goodbye” and retiring after being “kicked out of show business for her mean behavior.”

“After my Netflix special, I'm done,” DeGeneres said during a Q&A portion of the show. SFGate reportedShe was referring to a Netflix presentation of her “Ellen's Last Stand… Up Tour,” which is about to look on the streamer later this yr. However, DeGeneres remains to be scheduled to perform in San Francisco on July 20 and proceed her tour in other cities through August.

Still, DeGeneres' laments about being “kicked out of show business” are a reminder of her stunning fall from grace within the spring and summer of 2020, and the way that resurgence began with a single tweet. That tweet was followed by a scathing investigative report in Buzzfeed News and an internal investigation into her eponymous daytime talk show, all of which undermined her global, multimillion-dollar brand built on her “be nice” persona.

The exposé in Buzzfeed described how DeGeneres' show became a toxic workplace where she played favorites and employees faced “racism, fear and intimidation” and were instructed not to talk to the star in the event that they saw her within the office. DeGeneres apologized over the summer. But the next spring, she announced that she would end her show the next yr, after season 19.

But even before the Buzzfeed report and the interior investigation, DeGeneres' status damage looked as if it would have been set in motion by the tweet: in accordance with Daily Mail. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when everyone was gripped by fear and going into lockdown, comedian and podcaster Kevin T. Porter turned to X (then called Twitter) to ask people to share their “craziest stories they’ve heard about Ellen’s meanness.”

“We all need a little kindness right now,” Porter said on X“You know how Ellen Degeneres always talks about it!”

“She is also notoriously one of the meanest people in the world,” Porter continued. “Respond to this with the craziest stories you've heard about Ellen's meanness and I will match each one with $2 to @LAFoodBank.”

Perhaps because people didn't have much else to do, Porter's post was inundated with greater than 2,000 replies from people, lots of whom claimed to have had unpleasant encounters with DeGeneres or who had heard plausible-sounding secondhand accounts of others being treated dismissively or worse.

“When I worked for her, I was told not to look her in the eye and never to say hello to her first,” One person tweeted: She said she was also told that the star “definitely won't say hi to her first.”

“I can't vouch for anything being 'real' if it didn't happen to me, but that's as close as I get,” one other person wrote. “My friend who works at Real Food Daily says Ellen came to dinner and when she saw her waitress had a broken fingernail, she called management and tried to get her fired.” Others said they knew of fans who had unpleasant experiences within the audience of the show or whose creations were featured on the show without being credited.

Within two days of posting his tweet, Porter expressed surprise in any respect the responses and acknowledged that it was hard to inform whether some stories were “true or not.” But he said he had collected about 300 plausible-sounding stories about DeGeneres' nastiness and donated $600 to the Los Angeles Food Bank.

Porter's tweet looked as if it would encourage people to level much more criticism at DeGeneres, especially after she filmed her show on April 6, 2020, from her home where she was in quarantine, the Daily Mail reported. DeGeneres spoke to the camera from her multimillion-dollar mansion and jokingly compared her situation to that of inmates in prison. On social media, people accused her of being insensitive and out of touch with reality, stating that many Americans are dying and most of the people watching her show are doing so in much smaller and fewer luxurious spaces.

As the backlash against DeGeneres grew on social media, people shared clips of segments of her show that, in hindsight, suggested problematic behavior, the Daily Mail reported. Most notable was DeGeneres' embarrassing interview with actor Dakota Johnson in 2019. When DeGeneres insisted to Johnson that she had not been invited to her recent celebration, Johnson demurred, saying, “Actually, that's not true, Ellen. You were invited.”

Johnson told DeGeneres she made sure to ask her since the talk show host had complained that she hadn't been invited to her celebration during her last appearance on her show. “I didn't even know you liked me,” Johnson said, “but I invited you and you didn't come.” When DeGeneres objected, Johnson told her, “Ask everybody. Ask Jonathan, your producer.”

Five years later, as DeGeneres says she's quitting her profession, she used her time onstage on the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa to deal with the 2020 reports and draw some dark humor from her experience together with her own version of cancel culture. She said she's been fired from show business once before – in 1998, when her sitcom “Ellen” was canceled after she got here out as a lesbian.

“Next time I'm going to get kicked out because I'm old. Old, gay and mean, the triple crown,” DeGeneres joked, in accordance with SFGate. She acknowledged that she may be “demanding and impatient and tough” and “a strong woman.”

But DeGeneres ultimately refuted the allegations that ruined her profession. She told the gang, “I'm a lot of things, but I'm not mean.”

OAKLAND — Days before the sell-out Opening game at home As co-owner of Oakland's latest skilled minor baseball team, the Ballers, he tried to juggle a “million tasks.”

“We’re putting the finishing touches on it,” Paul Freedman said in a telephone interview Thursday as he watched staff erect a big display board over Raimondi Park, the West Oakland Home of the young franchise“They are also installing the last part of the home players’ bench.”

The Ballers – nicknamed the “B's” in reference to the soon-to-depart A's – were marketed as a positive boost to a city that had otherwise seen the departure of its most vital skilled teams.

Freedman and co-owner Bryan Carmel have launched into an extended journey over the past few months to rework a neglected neighborhood park with few seats and out-of-service public restrooms right into a 4,000-seat baseball stadium.

A $1.6 million investment – raised by friends and acquaintances of the owners – was needed to renovate existing facilities, renovate the playing field and add accommodations for fans, resembling shuttles to take them to and from the West Oakland BART station.

The Ballers encourage fans to attend the sport by bus, train or on foot. They also offer 1,000 parking spaces in three secure parking lots, two of that are covered. Parking spaces could be booked online before games.

One of the Wood Street lots was once home to Northern California's largest homeless encampment. The B's are paying to scrub up contaminated soil that was dumped on the property. The long-term plan is to show the property into reasonably priced housing, city documents show.

In some ways, Tuesday's home game will probably be a test of how well Raimondi can function as a sports venue long-term. With a full house expected, Freedman said he’ll concentrate to areas that need improvement, resembling lines which might be too long or sound that is simply too weak. He may even attempt to have a good time, he said.

“When 'Let's go Oakland' is sung for the first time, I don't know if I can pull myself together.”

To keep the variety of teams within the independent Pioneer League – which operates outside of Major League Baseball's minor league farm system – constant, the co-owners founded the Yolo High Wheelers within the greater Sacramento area earlier this yr.

This team's start was much quieter. In Oakland, the Ballers' arrival is awaited with great excitement.

“It's going to be a lot of fun,” team manager Micah Franklin told this news agency earlier this month. “Our main goal is to put on a show and win. I'm sure the fans are going to really, really enjoy watching us.”