Democratic California Governor has once again offered an excuse for not contacting the family of a young girl whose life has forever changed after she was victimized by an illegal immigrant truck driver with a commercial driver&#8217;s license from the Golden State.
President Donald Trump brought Dalilah Coleman, 7, and her father, Marcus, as guests to his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Dalilah was severely injured in a multi-car pileup in 2024, allegedly caused by Indian illegal immigrant Partap Singh, who was behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler with a California-issued commercial driver&#8217;s license.
Dalilah suffered a traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and developmental delay. She currently cannot eat orally and has to learn to walk again.
Marcus has repeatedly stated that Newsom has failed to offer his sympathies directly.
Dalilah&#8217;s father, who happens to be a truck driver himself, shared his frustrations with Newsom&#8217;s silence.
&#8220;How do you not see Dalilah? How do you allow politics to blind you from a five-year-old girl at the time whose life is forever changed, and your only answer is it&#8217;s the federal government,&#8221; Marcus told The Daily Wire.
“What happened to Dalilah is heartbreaking, and we commend her family for turning their grief into advocacy,&#8221; Newsom spokesperson Diana Crofts-Pelayo told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;While our Constituent Affairs team has no record of outreach from the Coleman family, we would welcome the opportunity to connect them to available state resources,&#8221; Crofts-Pelayo said.
Newsom&#8217;s office failed to respond to a follow-up question asking if he regrets handing the illegal immigrant trucker a commercial driver&#8217;s license.
Singh has since been taken into federal immigration custody.
Trump recognized Dalilah and her father Tuesday night as he highlighted a surge in illegal immigrant trucking crashes and vowed to address the issue.
&#8220;We will take care of this problem,&#8221; Trump said Tuesday. &#8220;We’re going to take care of this problem. We are not playing games. Dalilah — Dalilah Coleman was only 5 years old in June 2024 when an 18-wheel tractor-trailer plowed into her stopped car, traveling at 60 miles an hour or more. The driver was an illegal alien let in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver’s license by open borders, politicians, and California. Doctors said Dalilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life.&#8221;
&#8220;She wouldn’t even be able to eat again. But against all odds, she is now in the first grade, learning to walk, and she is here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man. Dalilah, please, you are a great inspiration. Please stand up. Thank you, Dalilah,&#8221; Trump said.
The Department of Transportation has threatened to withhold federal funding from Democratic states issuing commercial driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal immigrants. The Trump administration is currently holding up roughly $160 million from Newsom&#8217;s California &#8220;for failing to cancel over 17,000 illegally issued&#8221; commercial driver&#8217;s licenses &#8220;by the agreed-upon deadline of January 5, 2026.&#8221;
Newsom has responded by blaming the federal government for issuing work permits to illegal immigrant truckers.
Trump also vowed to enact legislation dubbed &#8220;The Dalilah Law&#8221; to ban states from &#8220;granting commercial licenses to illegal aliens.&#8221; Republican Indiana Senator Jim Banks will formally introduce the bill Wednesday afternoon.
&#8220;Many, if not most, illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location,&#8221; Trump said.

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An illegal immigrant whom the Biden administration did not deport after he served just three years in prison after killing an 8-year-old boy is now in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, The Daily Wire has learned.
In 2019, Karmjit Singh was driving drunk in his BMW sports car when he hit another vehicle at more than 100 miles per hour, then tried to flee the scene. The crash killed Maverick Martzen, an 8-year-old star baseball player, and severely injured his parents, Scott and Megan.
“I thought it was 25 years to life, easy case. He killed an 8-year-old,” Scott Martzen said. But Singh — an Indian national who had overstayed his visa and already had a separate felony DUI conviction — served just three years in prison.
The term didn’t teach him his lesson: After he was released, he got <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-who-killed-kid-driving-drunk-was-arrested-for-two-additional-duis-in-california">two more DUIs</a>.
In June 2023, he was arrested for driving drunk at 2 a.m. and giving police his brother Parminder’s driver&#8217;s license. Police ascertained his real identity and that his license was suspended for manslaughter, but released him anyway. In November 2023, the same thing happened.
He went back to prison for another short term, and on January 30, he was released by California, Scott Martzen told The Daily Wire.
“Despite an ICE hold, he has once again been released on parole,” he said. Martzen did not receive any notification from authorities, but noticed on the California prison system&#8217;s website that Singh had been released on parole, and believed he was free again.
&#8220;Second chance. Third chance. Fourth chance. Fifth chance. Our son never got one more day,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
ICE did not return a request for comment earlier this month, but a search of ICE&#8217;s detainee database using Singh&#8217;s name and birthday shows that he is now being held at the California City Corrections Center, a former jail that was reopened in 2026 as a massive ICE holding facility, part of the numerous warehouses that the agency is opening across the country.
That center is the largest immigration facility in California and can hold up to 2,500 people.
“Every birthday, every holiday, every baseball season, we live with the reality that Maverick is gone,&#8221; Scott Martzen told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Our younger son is growing up without his big brother because one man chose to drink and drive, and a system keeps giving him chance after chance.&#8221;
The grieving father previously told The Daily Wire that Maverick would &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-killed-a-child-in-2019-the-serial-drunk-driver-was-already-released-from-prison">100%</a>&#8221; be alive today if the government had deported Singh after his first felony conviction in 2016. He said the country is “not at all” better for having Singh here, in contrast to the promise shown by Maverick, a gifted athlete, advanced student, and godly son, he said.
“What does it take” to be deported, he asked in 2024. “He killed a kid, he’s got an expired visa, no drivers license, two DUIs, a third that should have been a DUI but was lowered, and he’s still able to live here … it’s beyond frustrating.”
To honor the gifted athlete, who was the first draft pick for a baseball team of 12-year-olds when he was 8, the family started a nonprofit called M30 to help child athletes. While Major League Baseball played with no fans in the stands during COVID, a cardboard cutout of Maverick occupied a seat at the San Francisco Giants’ stadium.

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President Donald Trump riled up California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday night, suggesting the Democrat decided to take his name out of consideration for the 2028 presidential election.
&#8220;Wow! Gavin Newscum just dropped out of the Presidential Race!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116123225544591694">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
Newsom has not announced a decision on a 2028 presidential bid, but Trump&#8217;s post came as the governor faced criticism for comments he made about his SAT scores and dyslexia to a crowd in Atlanta during his book tour. The president&#8217;s Truth Social post caught Newsom&#8217;s attention, and the governor quickly responded through his personal and official social media accounts.
&#8220;WOW. THE PRESIDENT IS SUNDOWNING HARDER THAN USUAL TONIGHT!!! — GOVERNOR GCN,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/2026129785420742660">wrote</a> on the official account for Newsom&#8217;s press office, which regularly mocks Trump&#8217;s social media activity. &#8220;Sundowning&#8221; refers to symptoms that affect many Alzheimer&#8217;s patients, such as increased confusion and agitation that usually occur later in the day.
Newsom also joked about the president&#8217;s Truth Social post on his personal X account, <a href="https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/2026130066019651698">writing</a>, &#8220;It’s on page 69 of my new book. Buy it here.&#8221;
Newsom was slammed on Monday after a clip of his book tour event in Atlanta went viral, showing the governor discussing his low SAT score with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens in front of a crowd of Democratic supporters.
“I’m like you. I’m not better than you,” Newsom said. “I’m a 960 SAT guy.”
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Conservatives accused Newsom of making the comment in an attempt to pander to black Americans in a city made up of a large black population. In 2024, the average SAT score for black students was 907, while white students scored an average of 1083, according to College Board data.
After making the comment, Newsom added, &#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to offend anyone and act all there if you got 940. But [I&#8217;m] literally a 960 SAT guy.&#8221;
Newsom raged against Fox News host Sean Hannity after Hannity said Newsom &#8220;thinks a 960 SAT score makes him &#8216;like&#8217; black Americans. Let that sink in.&#8221;
&#8220;You didn’t give a sh*t about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations sh*tholes — but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia?&#8221; Newsom shot back. &#8220;Spare me your fake f*cking outrage, Sean.&#8221;
Mayor Dickens defended Newsom after videos of his remark went viral on social media.
&#8220;Take it from someone who was actually in the chair asking the questions: context matters more than a headline,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVHpugCFGFT/?img_index=1">said</a>. &#8220;The conversation around his new book included him speaking about his own academic struggles, including not doing well on the SAT. That wasn’t an attack on anyone. It was a moment of vulnerability about his own journey.&#8221;
Dickens added that people in Atlanta were not offended by the governor&#8217;s comment.
&#8220;Let me be clear though. This is Atlanta. We don’t need anyone to tell us when to be offended. And history has shown&#8230; when we are, you’ll know,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you want the full context, watch the full clip, read the book, and engage the complete conversation.&#8221;
Newsom is among the favorites to win the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. While he has not officially announced a presidential run, the governor appears to be testing the waters. Newsom launched a nationwide book tour last Saturday to discuss his new memoir with Americans, making his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-tennessee-gavin-newsom-sprints-to-the-far-left">first stop in Nashville</a>.
While in Nashville, Newsom echoed some rhetoric from the far-Left wing of the Democratic Party, praising Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and saying that America’s economic system “fundamentally has to be reformed.” He also said the next Democratic president should be more aggressive with executive actions, adding, &#8220;We are capable of doing much more.&#8221;

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing backlash after attempting to “relate” to a black elected official by pointing to his low SAT score — a moment critics say exposes the casual, patronizing racism Democrats routinely accuse others of harboring.
During a Sunday night appearance promoting his forthcoming memoir, &#8220;Young Man in a Hurry,&#8221; Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens that he wasn’t trying to appear superior.
“I’m like you. I’m not better than you,” Newsom said. “I’m a 960 SAT guy.”
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The remark immediately drew scrutiny for what critics described as an implicit assumption: that academic underperformance is a shared point of identity with black Americans. According to 2024 College Board data, the average SAT score for black test takers is 907, compared with 1083 for white students.
Newsom, seemingly aware of the sensitivity of his comments, added, “I’m not trying to offend anyone,” before continuing to emphasize his academic shortcomings. “You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech,” he said.
The episode has fueled accusations of what Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/tedcruz/status/2025802434036081116">labeled</a> the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” a phrase long used to describe leftist rhetoric that cloaks condescension in empathy. This comes after Cruz and Newsom got into an earlier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historically-illiterate-cruz-scorches-newsom-after-ca-governor-compares-federal-troops-to-nazis">spat</a> over Newsom’s illiteracy.
The irony is difficult to miss. Newsom has built his political brand on elite credentials and progressive moral posturing, yet his own biography is steeped in institutional advantage. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989, having received a letter of recommendation from then-Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to a California appellate judgeship.
Newsom has insisted the recommendation played no role in his admission, telling The New York Times earlier this month that his acceptance came through a partial baseball scholarship. Still, critics argue the governor’s attempt to downplay privilege while leaning on racial signaling only underscores the contradiction.
As recently as a few weeks ago, Newsom framed himself as the moral referee of American discourse, condemning what he called racist imagery allegedly shared by Donald Trump and aimed at Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. 
Newsom insisted the offense should have ended careers, demanded public contrition, and warned that allowing such rhetoric to pass unpunished degraded the country. Now, just weeks later, Newsom himself is actively circulating racially charged tropes, of the President’s video, he said, “It’s disgraceful. It&#8217;s racist. It&#8217;s abhorrent, the President of the United States sending out a racist trope should disgust every human being in this room.”
Public reaction was swift. Rapper Nicki Minaj weighed in, scorching Gavin Newsom in a lengthy post, accusing him of deliberately talking down to a black audience.
“His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is &amp; that he can’t read,” she wrote. “This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things &amp; put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
“Do you wanna know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He’s literally slowing his speech down &amp; talking in a sporadic cadence.
“He’s not just TELLING them that they’re all probably stupid &amp; probably can’t read, he’s LITERALLY SLOW-ING-DOWN-HIS-SPEECH to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth!!!! As if they’re children!!!! That means he REALLY BELIEVES they’re slow. He’s not just saying it—he didn’t misspeak!!!! He BELIEVES it!!!!
“Do ya love it?!?! Do ya just love it, black ppl?!?!?”
Representative Randy Fine (R-FL) wrote on <a href="https://x.com/RepFine/status/2025775394696097928">X</a> that Newsom “just said he is like a black person because he got a bad SAT score and can’t read,” calling the remark “disgusting.” 
Newsom offered a <a href="https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/2025944365114290457?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">tepid response</a> on Monday, attempting to deflect from the seeming racial implications of his statements by bringing up his dyslexia again.
&#8220;You didn’t give a sh*t about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations sh*tholes,&#8221; Newsom wrote in response to Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity, &#8220;but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your fake f*cking outrage, Sean.&#8221;
For a party that relentlessly polices language and lectures Americans about implicit bias, Newsom’s remarks offer a revealing glimpse into how Democratic elites often talk when they think they’re being relatable, reducing minority voters to stereotypes, then congratulating themselves for empathy.

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NASHVILLE — California’s Democrat governor and potential 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom began his nationwide book tour in a red state on Saturday night, but he didn’t use the night to continue his move to the center.
The event was moderated by Justin Kanew of the leftist media outlet the Tennessee Holler, whose disdain for the Trump administration and conservative policies was also made evident multiple times. Throughout the evening, the Newsom weaved back and forth between discussing the book and his life journey and raging against President Donald Trump and Republicans.
Newsom spent much of his time pushing the typical Democratic talking points, such as calling out Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and criticizing Republican-led efforts to pass strict voter ID requirements through the Save America Act. But the governor also echoed some rhetoric from the far-Left wing of the party, saying that America&#8217;s economic system &#8220;fundamentally has to be reformed.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about trillionaires now, not billionaires, so this isn&#8217;t working for enough folks. If you&#8217;re 30 years old, you&#8217;re the first generation in American history that&#8217;s not doing better than their parents,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;So Bernie [Sanders] is right in that respect. Donald Trump was right, but he exploited it, and he has not done a damn thing to solve it and he&#8217;s just making it worse.&#8221;
&#8220;So the system fundamentally has to be reformed,&#8221; he added.
Newsom also agreed with Kanew that the next Democratic president should be more aggressive with executive actions.
&#8220;We are capable of doing much more,&#8221; he said.
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The evening, which focused on Newsom&#8217;s new memoir, &#8220;Young Man in a Hurry,&#8221; drew hundreds of people. It also allowed Newsom an opportunity to inform Democratic voters about his background and personal life. The California governor remains the betting favorite to win the 2028 Democratic nomination.
Newsom touted his own record on the economy as governor and boasted about signing legislation that is set to increase the minimum wage in California to $20 per hour for fast food workers and $25 per hour for many health care workers. He then blasted other states, hinting at Tennessee, for not raising their minimum wages. Newsom did not address <a href="https://epionline.org/release/new-data-staggering-16000-jobs-lost-under-newsoms-20-fast-food-wage-law/">data</a> that shows that numerous restaurants in California cut thousands of jobs and raised prices after the minimum wage hike.
Newsom expressed concern that Trump is attempting to hijack the 2026 midterm elections through his push for redistricting, ICE operations, and the Save America Act, but he remained optimistic that Democrats would take control of the House after the midterms.
&#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency de facto ends as we know it in November of this year when Speaker [Hakeem] Jeffries gets the gavel. It does. That&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; he said.
The moderator then asked Newsom, &#8220;Are the elections going to matter? Is [Trump] going to steal the election? He&#8217;s going after the Georgia ballots, he&#8217;s already planning to surround the polls with ICE, so obviously voter suppression is on his mind because he knows he can&#8217;t necessarily win.&#8221;
Newsom agreed with the concerns brought up by Kanew and mentioned how former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has called for ICE agents to surround polling places in November. Bannon, who is now a podcast host, has not advised Trump since 2017. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgE7QZnfBLQ">told</a> Congress earlier this month that &#8220;there&#8217;s no reason to use ICE officers&#8221; in that situation.
The governor&#8217;s criticism of ICE again on Saturday night comes a month after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/months-after-violent-riots-newsom-claims-that-california-cooperates-with-ice">admitted</a> to Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro that it was &#8220;fair&#8221; to criticize his office for calling ICE agents terrorists.
Newsom’s admission came after Shapiro told the governor that accusing ICE of terrorism “makes our politics worse” and “our ICE officers are obviously not terrorists.”
Newsom stated bluntly on Saturday that he opposes the Republicans&#8217; Save America Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The governor suggested the Save America Act would prevent Americans from voting because many people don&#8217;t have a passport or their birth certificate.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not about voter ID, the Save Act is not about that. It&#8217;s about registration. It&#8217;s about proving your citizenship with a passport. Not everyone has a passport,&#8221; Newsom said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know where &#8230; do you know where your birth certificate is? I lost that at seven. I don&#8217;t even know where to begin to get it back.&#8221;<iframe style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/NuWCjZUU5HcPe7Ha2Xx6n8QNPAYHCWXY?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=6df59e3f-eeca-485c-a714-f8fb159d69dd&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=26-02-21%3A%20Newsom%20On%20Voter%20ID&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F18fd6908-01d7-4810-a482-ceb5ab3abdf7.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
The crowd, which gathered at an event space in west Nashville, consisted mostly of middle-aged and elderly people.

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California Republican gubernatorial candidate and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has said he supports creating a &#8220;path to citizenship&#8221; for illegal immigrants living currently in the United States, a stance that has drawn scrutiny from conservative voters in a crowded GOP primary.
During a November interview with Pastura California that recently resurfaced, Bianco laid out his plan for allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country.
&#8220;My family immigrated here from Italy and they came here for jobs, that&#8217;s what things were here for. You came here [for] a job, you said that America is the greatest country in the world and I wanna be an American and you bust your behind to make sure that you provide for your family. That&#8217;s what it was then,&#8221; Bianco <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/19/republican-chad-bianco-vows-support-path-citizenship-illegal-aliens-california-governor/">said</a> during the interview.
&#8220;The people that are coming here now, especially illegally, are coming here for free stuff, and then we are the ones that are paying for that. So the immigration system has to be fixed. We have to have a secure border.&#8221;
Bianco also said he believes the border &#8220;is secure right now,&#8221; though he argued the country faces a major problem with visa overstays and illegal immigrants already in the United States.
&#8220;But we have to address it, we have to make it right, whether they came across illegally into the country, legally or not, is irrelevant because we allowed it to happen. So now we just have to fix it. Secure our borders, don&#8217;t let that happen again, and now we have to give a path to citizenship to the ones that are here. We have to create a way for them to become U.S. citizens and &#8230; make their families great. If they truly did come here to make their lives and their families&#8217; lives better, we have to get to a position where we allow that to happen.&#8221;
Bianco added that if illegal immigrants are caught breaking laws &#8220;and committing crimes, they gotta go back.&#8221;
&#8220;As the governor of California, we will fight for a path to citizenship,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;We have to start working for the people that are here trying to make California great and we have to make their lives easier.&#8221;
When asked about his resurfaced remarks, Bianco told Breitbart on Thursday that he&#8217;s “been very clear” on immigration and that “both sides of the political aisle” have used his comments “to benefit them.”
“Immigration is being made into a political tool, and California residents are the pawns,” Bianco said.
But it&#8217;s not the first time Bianco has appeared to favor illegal immigrants.
Last April, Bianco told podcast host Britt Mayer that he did not want his deputies cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arguing that doing so could deter illegal immigrant crime victims from reporting offenses.
“I don’t want my line deputies, my patrol deputies, absolutely cannot be cooperating with the federal government in immigration reform because the people that we go to help are calling for our help,” Bianco said. “They are being victimized. And if they are afraid to report crime because they’re afraid to be deported themselves for being a victim.”
“If a woman is raped and she will not report that to law enforcement because she believes she is going to be deported, then we are failing as an absolute country because we should be only caring about who victimized that poor girl or woman or man, and how can we make sure we get that criminal off the streets and behind bars, and if they’re illegal, they need to be deported immediately,” Bianco said.
Bianco also reiterated that the United States &#8220;absolutely must have a path to citizenship for people that are here.&#8221;
In a statement to Breitbart, Bianco said he believes “every person who is in jail for victimizing Californians should be deported” and that &#8220;sheriffs operating jails should be cooperating with the federal government.”
“The sanctuary policies prevent that from happening and force the release of criminals back into our neighborhoods,” Bianco said. “Sanctuary policies place sheriffs at risk of criminal prosecution and removal from office because of ridiculous sanctuary state laws. The vast majority of residents, including immigrants, want that to end.”
The gubernatorial hopeful also said that “the threat of deportation cannot be used by criminals to prevent the reporting of crime.”
“A child being molested under threat of deportation should not be afraid of turning toward a deputy for protection,” Bianco said. “With all that said, sanctuary state policies need to be repealed. They harm our communities. As California governor, I will gladly work with other governors to pressure Congress to fix a broken immigration system.&#8221;

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Mayor Eileen Wang of Arcadia, California, declined to comment on her former fiancé’s conviction at the first City Council meeting since his sentencing, despite previously acknowledging their relationship.
Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-election-interference-california-yaoning-mike-sun-d514395039bea63a8c7b8814d29d1aaa">sentenced</a> on February 10 to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in October 2025 to acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China without notifying the U.S. attorney general, as required by law. His guilty plea was entered and sentence imposed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Prosecutors <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/political-operative-sentenced-48-months-federal-prison-acting-covert-agent-peoples-republic">alleged</a> that from at least 2022, when Wang said she became a Democrat, to January 2024, Sun “knowingly acted within the United States as an agent of the PRC and officials of its government — without notifying the Attorney General,” a violation of federal law designed to expose foreign influence operations. 
Sun <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/chino-hills-covert-agent-china-political-advisor-yaoning-sun-john-chen/">worked</a> as the campaign advisor to a candidate identified in court filings as “Individual 1,” who was elected to a Southern California city council seat in November 2022. While the individual was not named in court papers, Sun was listed as a campaign treasurer for Wang, then an Arcadia City Council candidate, on a 2022 campaign statement filing.
During a December 2022 Arcadia City Council meeting, Wang publicly praised Sun while referring to him as her fiancé. “To my fiancé, Mike Sun, who walked streets with me every single day, who is a real leader of me,” she said at the time. 
After Sun was indicted and charged, Wang sought to distance herself from that earlier characterization. In September 2025, she said, “No. 1, he’s not my fiancé. Whoever wants to say he’s my former fiancé, please prove it.” 
Sun’s conviction stems from what prosecutors describe as extensive covert activity on behalf of the Chinese government, including the dissemination of pro-Beijing propaganda and surveillance of individuals and groups that China viewed as adversarial. According to federal prosecutors, his duties included efforts to counter pro-Taiwan independence advocacy and influence public opinion through a purported local news site. 
According to the Department of Justice, Sun &#8220;closely surveilled the then-President of Taiwan during her April 2023 visit to Southern California, reporting directly to PRC officials on her movements.&#8221; 
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg condemned Sun’s activities, saying he “received and executed taskings from Chinese government officials, distorted our public discourse by disseminating Chinese propaganda, and surveilled groups in the United States that China viewed as threatening its interests as part of a campaign of intimidation.” 
Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division also released a statement at the time of sentencing: “When Americans vote for elected officials, they expect them to represent the interests of their constituents — not those of a foreign adversary like the Chinese government,” he said. “By exploiting his position as a campaign advisor, Yaoning Sun attempted to undermine our political processes and democratic institutions for the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.” 
At the council meeting following Sun’s sentencing, Wang declined to address questions about his conviction or their prior relationship. Wang has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the case, and prosecutors have not charged her with any offense. However, her prior public references to Sun — and subsequent denials of that relationship — have drawn scrutiny in local and national media coverage. 
Federal prosecutions of unregistered foreign agents are part of broader U.S. counterintelligence efforts to stem covert influence operations on domestic political processes. Criminal filings in this case made clear that individuals acting at the direction of foreign governments are required by law to register with the U.S. Attorney General, a requirement Sun failed to meet. 
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Eight skiers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ten-skiers-missing-after-avalanche-6-others-stranded-awaiting-rescue">caught in an avalanche</a> near Lake Tahoe in California were confirmed dead and a ninth skier is presumed dead after a rescue team braved harsh conditions to search the area for any survivors, Nevada County, California, Sheriff Shannan Moon said on Wednesday.
The tragic update comes after rescuers found six survivors near Truckee, California, and brought them to safety following one of the deadliest avalanches in U.S. history. Fifteen, including four guides and 11 clients, were on their way back from a three-day backcountry excursion to Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada mountains when they were caught in an avalanche the size of a football field on Tuesday, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/nine-skiers-still-missing-six-rescued-after-california-avalanche-2026-02-18/">reported</a>. Authorities initially said there were 16 total skiers, but they later said that one person who was planning on going on the trip backed out at the last minute.
Authorities will attempt to recover the bodies of the deceased skiers when the weather calms down and allows for safer travel.
&#8220;Due to the ongoing challenges of the weather, the avalanche conditions, the effort remains ongoing, as well as our search for the remaining skier,&#8221; Moon said.
Boreal Mountain Ski Resort said that roughly 30 inches of snow came down in the area within 24 hours between Monday and Tuesday. Search teams made up of around 50 people braved a blinding snow storm during their rescue operation and were forced to ditch their snow cat vehicles for skis when they got within two miles of the avalanche site to avoid causing another avalanche. Up to 18 inches of snow is expected for the area on Thursday and Friday, which could push the authorities&#8217; timeline for recovering the bodies back even further. One of the deceased skiers was the spouse of a person on the rescue team, authorities said.
The group of skiers were part of a guided tour that included nine women and six men. Five of the survivors were clients of the guide company, Blackbird Mountain Guides, and one survivor was a guide. Blackbird Mountain Guides has faced scrutiny over its decision to move ahead with the backcountry ski trip despite the forecast for harsh weather and the avalanche risk. Sheriff Moon said during a press conference on Wednesday that she talked to the guide company about its decision.
The area near Truckee is one of the most popular destinations for skiers and is known for its beautiful scenery and heavy snowfall.
&#8220;The backcountry, it’s beautiful. There’s not a lot of people out there, and that’s where a lot of people like to recreate,” Sheriff Moon <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/18/us/lake-tahoe-avalanche-missing-skiers/c8047596-8e19-5498-862f-9672114112a2?smid=url-share">said</a>. “I myself like to recreate in that area, but Mother Nature, it doesn’t seem to matter, no matter how prepared you are, no matter how experienced you are.&#8221;

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A man who injured a Customs and Border Protection officer by hurling rocks through a car window during last summer&#8217;s violent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles County pleaded guilty on Tuesday to assaulting a federal officer. 
Elpidio Reyna, 41, admitted to one count of assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury. He was one of the dozens arrested after riots erupted after Immigration and Customs Enforcement began enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area. 
“This defendant could have easily killed a federal officer or innocent bystander,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/compton-man-pleads-guilty-assaulting-and-injuring-federal-officer-during-anti">said</a> First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. “As he found out the hard way, violence against law enforcement is not constitutionally protected and will be met with swift justice. Those who engage in similar violence will be arrested, charged, and eventually convicted in a court of law.”
On June 7, 2025, Reyna joined a crowd throwing rocks and improvised explosives at federal officers operating near a Home Depot in Paramount, located about 11 miles north of Long Beach. 
“Protestors, including the defendant, began to throw rocks at the officers’ official vehicles, lit objects on fire, and impeded law enforcement activity. During this, defendant knowingly and intentionally lit objects on fire in the middle of the street and threw rocks at a convoy of law enforcement vehicles occupied by Customs and Border Protection Officers,” according to the plea agreement. 
One of the projectiles shattered a car window, cutting a Customs and Border Protection officer on the forehead. In <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1932267820798353760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1932267820798353760%7Ctwgr%5E2a2f0cba6174f5a73c77e8c8924987e0ce6ce20b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ffbi-identifies-man-caught-on-camera-hurling-rocks-at-feds-during-anti-ice-riot">video</a> released by the Justice Department, Reyna can be seen pelting law enforcement vehicles with rocks and chunks of concrete while wearing a motorcycle helmet. 
The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for Reyna after a special agent identified him through a review of TikTok videos. He was on the FBI&#8217;s most wanted list before <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1948056678504767913">surrendering</a> at the U.S.-Mexico border on July 23. 
Reyna faces up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on August 7 by U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha. He has remained in federal custody since July 2025. 
Dozens of arrests were made during the protests in June and July across the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas over federal immigration operations. The unrest prompted President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to protect federal personnel and property, setting off a prolonged legal battle with California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom over the troop deployment.

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At least ten backcountry skiers were missing late Tuesday after an avalanche swept through northern California near the town of Truckee at Castle Peak, as powerful winter storms slammed the Sierra Nevada and created what officials described as extremely dangerous conditions for search and rescue crews.
The <a href="https://www.sierrasun.com/news/avalanche-reported-near-castle-peak-skiers-missing/">avalanche</a> was reported at approximately 11:30 a.m. local time and affected a group of 16 people, four mountain guides and 12 clients, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nevadacountysheriffsoffice/posts/pfbid0gMfVyuYhLJYjtZWfeNSAJS4ovvJ8YUzjhRZ1ApfYdnM8UDvAmULLrX3FhosrF9WWl">according</a> to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said at least six skiers survived the slide and were still at the site as of late Tuesday afternoon, awaiting rescue because weather conditions made immediate evacuation unsafe.
Search and rescue ski teams from Boreal Mountain Ski Resort and Alder Creek Adventure Center were deployed to assist, the sheriff’s office said. Authorities emphasized that rescue efforts were being carried out cautiously due to ongoing avalanche danger, heavy snowfall, and near-zero visibility.
Castle Peak, a popular backcountry skiing destination along Interstate 80 near Lake Tahoe, received intense snowfall as a conveyor belt of winter storms moved through northern California. Boreal Mountain Ski Resort reported roughly 30 inches of snow in the previous 24 hours, while <a href="https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.30139096195015&amp;lon=-120.76822798818726">forecasts say</a> additional heavy snowfall is expected through Thursday.
Avalanche danger across the region was rated high on Tuesday. In a bulletin <a href="https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/forecasts/avalanche/central-sierra-nevada#/central-sierra-nevada/">issued</a> before the reported avalanche, the Sierra Avalanche Center warned against travel in or near avalanche terrain, citing the likelihood of a widespread natural avalanche cycle.
“Large avalanches may run through treed areas,” the center said, urging anyone attempting travel in non-avalanche terrain to ensure no steep slopes were connected above or adjacent to their route.
The avalanche occurred as the Sierra Nevada experienced what scientists described as some of the worst winter conditions in years. <a href="https://cssl.berkeley.edu/">According</a> to researchers at the Central Sierra Snow Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, snowfall totals had already exceeded 28 inches in parts of the central Sierra by Tuesday morning, with another two to three feet expected by Wednesday night.
High winds compounded the danger, with gusts exceeding 100 miles per hour along ridge tops and up to 45 miles per hour in mountain valleys, forecasters said. Combined with heavy snowfall, the conditions created near-whiteout conditions across much of the region.
Transportation was also heavily impacted. Portions of major highways were closed, and ski resorts across the Sierra shuttered operations, citing unsafe travel conditions. The California Highway Patrol warned motorists that visibility along mountain roads had dropped to near zero in some areas. “This isn’t inconvenient weather. This is unsafe travel,” they <a href="https://x.com/CHP_Truckee/status/2023851554894430386">said</a> in a statement on X, warning that large avalanches were expected across backcountry terrain into at least Wednesday morning.
Winter storm warnings remained in effect from southwest Oregon through much of Northern and Central California, with forecasters cautioning that travel could be dangerous to near impossible through late Thursday.
Officials said search operations would continue as conditions allow and urged the public to avoid backcountry travel until the storm system passes and avalanche risk subsides.

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For years, women and girls in California who wanted to work out or relax at the spa have been forced to confront male genitalia. One lawmaker wants to change that.
Assemblywoman Leticia Castillo on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require facilities, including gyms and spas, to provide &#8220;sex-separated&#8221; bathrooms and locker rooms for men and women. Castillo says the bill is a common-sense measure that protects California women — and helps combat the state&#8217;s embrace of radical transgender ideology.
&#8220;Parents across California are asking for clarity and commonsense protections in intimate spaces where females deserve privacy and safety,” Castillo told The Daily Wire. “This measure simply requires that bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas in businesses be separated by sex, while still allowing single-occupancy gender-neutral options. Protecting civil rights and protecting females are not mutually exclusive, and this bill makes sure we do both.” 
The legislation would require “sex-separated intimate spaces, except where a gender neutral facility is a single occupancy.” These intimate spaces include bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and “any other area in which an individual would have a reasonable expectation of privacy from the opposite sex.”
The proposal is backed by Erin Friday, the president of Our Duty USA, an advocacy organization dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of transgender ideology.
&#8220;We need California to return to reality. It really shouldn&#8217;t be that hard to return to sex-based intimate spaces, because it was a foolish and dangerous idea to permit males to believe their way into the female category,&#8221; Friday told The Daily Wire. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to be a genius to figure out the predictable outcome will be demented males terrorizing females. 
The legislation cites reports of incidents that have rocked California gyms and private spaces. One incident took place in July 2021 at WiSpa in Los Angeles, where a registered sex offender named Darren Merager was <a href="https://lamag.com/news/wispa-suspect-not-guilty-on-all-nine-counts-of-indecent-exposure/">accused</a> of exposing his penis while on the woman’s side of the spa. He was later found not guilty of indecent exposure. 
Using female pronouns, the lawyer who represented Merager told The Daily Wire that California law allowed people to use facilities in line with how they identified. 
&#8220;Ms. Merager was put through a years-long process. Multiple felony criminal charges were lodged against her. Ultimately, she was prosecuted for doing what California law expressly allowed her to do: use facilities consistent with her gender identity. The jury soundly rejected this prosecution and found her not guilty on all counts,&#8221; lawyer Elliott Tiomkin told The Daily Wire. 
Another incident involved a woman named Gracie Hutson, who <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-news/trans-gymgoer-caught-masturbating-in-womens-bathroom-at-california-planet-fitness/">said</a> she witnessed a male masturbating inside the locker room of a San Francisco Planet Fitness. She shared a video on TikTok from inside the location showing the shadows of a person inside a stall appearing to engage in the act. That person was banned from Planet Fitness and had his membership canceled, according to an email viewed by The Daily Wire.
Hutson told The Daily Wire she was in &#8220;shock&#8221; when she noticed what was happening in the locker room. She said the man claimed to be transgender and wasn&#8217;t even &#8220;trying to play the part&#8221; of a woman.
&#8220;There&#8217;s way too much leeway for predators to go into these environments and do things like masturbate in the bathroom,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I felt my space was violated, and I know many other women feel that the locker rooms and restrooms, places that are supposed to be safe, places for women, are no longer safe.&#8221;
In another case, a woman named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-tish-hyman-the-california-lesbian-fighting-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-locker-rooms">Tish Hyman</a> said she lost her membership at Gold’s Gym after saying that she was harassed by a transgender-identifying male in the locker room. 
“In recent years, male individuals who have adopted nonbinary or transgender identities have been in women’s intimate spaces where female individuals of all ages are in various states of undress,” a copy of Castillo’s legislation shared with The Daily Wire says. “Some male individuals have also been naked with their male genitals exposed.”
Other patrons of San Francisco-area YMCA locations also told The Daily Wire that men have invaded their locker rooms. 
“I felt violated. Nobody cared. I have never been in a domestic violence situation, but at that moment I felt the pain a woman must feel when violated — tears, shaking, loud, in disbelief, begging to be heard,” said Presidio YMCA member Nuchine Nobari. “I could tell from the ‘surprise’ look on the front desk staff member that he, too, was shocked.” 
Susan Pete, a member of the Stonestown YMCA, said that a Muslim mother and daughter quit the gym after being exposed to a naked man in the shower. 
“A Muslim mother was in the shower with her autistic daughter when the man appeared completely naked right outside the showers,” she told The Daily Wire. “The daughter became extremely distressed and was wailing, really screaming, loudly in the shower. The grandmother needed to bring clothes so they could dress in the shower, but she was terrified of walking past the naked guy because of her religious beliefs.”
Leftist groups in California, like the ACLU, <a href="https://www.aclusocal.org/know-your-rights/rights-transgender-and-nonbinary-people-gyms-and-spas-0/">argue</a> that businesses like gyms and spas are not legally allowed to keep men out of women&#8217;s spaces if they identify as female under the state&#8217;s civil rights laws. Guidance from Democrat attorney general Rob Bonta <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/lgbtq/rights">says</a> that entities cannot deny access to bathrooms based on so-called gender identity.
California Democrats have resisted even the most moderate restrictions of transgender ideology. Last year, lawmakers on the California Senate Public Safety Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-dems-vote-to-keep-male-sex-offenders-in-female-prisons">shot down</a> a bill that would have kept male sex criminals out of female prisons.

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz dismantled California’s leftist Governor Gavin Newsom in a blistering history lesson after Newsom attempted to frame the presence of federalized National Guard troops in his state as some unprecedented act of tyranny.
Newsom — apparently recalling President Trump invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in June 2025 to federalize approximately 4,000 members of the California National Guard over  Newsom&#8217;s explicit objections — desperately attempted to stir up a narrative of &#8220;secret police&#8221; and &#8220;masked men,&#8221; comparing the federal response to Nazi Germany. “I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany,” Newsom bloviated.
“Those first images came out of my state. The second-largest city in the United States of America. We saw 4,000 National Guard federalized. First time. We&#8217;ve never seen anything like this. And 700 active duty Marines sent — not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America. Militarizing the streets of my city.  Masked men. Masked men showing up. Unaccountable.”
The problem for Newsom? History actually happened.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmhKfG5jBnA">Responding</a> on his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast, Senator Ted Cruz scorched Newsom’s grasp of the American timeline. “Just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate,” Cruz stated. “He said we’ve never seen National Guards federalized in the states. I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement; he’s never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower; he’s never heard of sending the National Guard into Southern states. When Democrats, who refused to desegregate schools, resisted, Eisenhower sent the National Guard in. The pattern is the same; in this instance, you have Democrats who are saying, ‘We refuse to comply with federal immigration law.’ Then you had, in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying, ‘We refuse to comply with civil rights law.’ In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement. Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.”
When Cruz took to X to reiterate that Newsom is “historically illiterate,” the California Governor — rather than defending his grasp of history — opted for the politics of grievance. Newsom, who has been open about his lifelong struggle with dyslexia, attempted to cast Cruz’s critique as a personal attack on his learning disability. “Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him,” Newsom whimpered.
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Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him. <a href="https://t.co/XC75ybiGKd">https://t.co/XC75ybiGKd</a>
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Cruz was having none of it. Firing back on X, the Texas Senator clarified for the Governor that &#8220;historically illiterate&#8221; refers to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of phonics. “I didn’t say you couldn’t read, you 🤡,” Cruz retorted.
He then dropped the hammer with specific receipts: Executive Order 10730. Cruz detailed how Eisenhower used the 101st Airborne Division to break the blockade imposed by Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, allowing the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School.
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I didn’t say you couldn’t read, you 🤡
I said you were “historically illiterate”…
….because you apparently have no idea that Eisenhower federalized the national guard to stop Dem governors from defying federal law.
Specifically, on September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower… <a href="https://t.co/63z3botBKs">https://t.co/63z3botBKs</a>
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Newsom’s schooling appears to have elided the chapters on how his own party has spent decades standing on the wrong side of federal law and basic historical fact.

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