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can Mafia Across SoCal Patch (07/24, Houck) reported that the FBI announced the arrest of 5 people associated with the Mexican Mafia prison gang in Southern California. The arrests were part of a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI's San Diego Field Office, which also resulted in the seizure of guns, drugs, a

e who attack America's police officers can run, but they can't hide. Additional reporting on the story was provided by New York Past (07/24, Crane), NewsNation (07/24, Delandro), Patch (07/24, Haro), Hoodline (07/24, Kim), Orange County Register (07/24, Staff Writer), and NTD (07/24, Acenas). DOJ Expected

crackdown coincided with similar ICE operations in Boston and Houston and came on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court allowed immigration raids in Southern California without "reasonable suspicion" of legal status. An ICE press release noted that the FBI assisted in the operation. FBI Offers $10K Reward in Unsolv

(09/08, Dunbar, Lowell) (2), The Hill (09/08, Samuels, Beitsch), The Independent (09/08, Baragona) (2), NBC News (09/08, Stewart, Tsirkin, et al.), NewsNation (09/08, Falzone), The New York Times (09/08, Gold) (2), NPR (09/08, Breslow), People (09/08, Kile), Politico (09/08, Fuchs) (2), Reuters (09/08, Oli

dversaries. Continued Reporting: Ex-Engineer Admits Guilt in L.A. Espionage Drama Hoodline (07/22, Martinez) reported that Chenguang Gong, a former Southern California engineer, has pleaded guilty to stealing top-secret missile tracking technology from a Los Angeles-area development company. According to the artic

k Times (07/22, Broadwater), Politico (07/22, Stokols), USA Today (07/22, Crowley), The Guardian (07/22, Tait), Newsweek (07/22, Gooding, Whisnant), NewsNation (07/22, Whiteside), and Washington Examiner (07/22, Datoc). Continued Reporting: DOJ Seeks Meeting With Ghislaine Maxwell Amid Epstein Outrage The

vernment's Benefit KCAL (CBS-2) (07/21, Rodriguez) reported that Chenguang Gong, a former engineer, pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from a Southern California company. According to the article, He admitted to transferring over 3,600 files, including blueprints for missile tracking systems, to his personal

election interference activities." Additional reporting on the story was provided by New York Times (07/21, Bigg), The Daily Beast (07/21, Harvey), NewsNation (07/21, Noury), The Hill (07/21, Waldvogel), Newsweek (07/21, Stanton), Rolling Stone (07/21, Ramirez, Suebsaeng), Time (07/21, Jeyaretnam), and Th

f ICE agents — and are warning neighborhoods about impending raids, federal sources said. As ICE ramps up deportation efforts of illegal migrants in Southern California, flyers with photos of agents' faces have appeared with claims that they "racially terrorize" local communities, agency sources said. The Department

y was provided by Daily Mail (02/25, Ewall-Wice), The Daily Beast (02/25, Akers), Fox News EFTA01655688 (02/25, Stancy), The Hill (02/25, Fields), NewsNation (02/25, Staff Writer), Newsweek (02/25, McFall), and Times Free Press (02/25, Cooper). Continued Reporting: Director Patel to Lead Both FBI and ATF

VF) as promised in an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in February. The article noted that the move comes after a bombing outside a Southern California fertility clinic and amid renewed attention to IVF as a major political talking point during the 2024 U.S. presidential race. CNN (05/20, Wolfe, Gal

rt), BBC (05/20, Ahmadi), CBS News (05/20, Sundby), CNN (05/20, Quednow, Riess, Morris), Fox News (05/20, Casiano) (2) (3), NBC News (05/20, Burke), NewsNation (05/20, Powell, Oler, Hayes), Newsweek (05/20, Gooding, Whisnant), New York Times (05/20, Levenson), NOLA (05/20, Mitchell, Simerman, Bubnash), NPR