California’s Electric Truck Fleet Mandate Also Applies to Out-of-State Companies, Prompting Lawsuit

Heavy equipment businesses have filed a suit against California over the state’s rule that truck and van fleets must electrify their vehicles—a mandate that will likely apply to almost as many out-of-state companies as in-state companies—alleging that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s protections for interstate commerce and other federal laws. “The rule is extraterritorial, burdensome,

UCLA Med School Requires Students To Attend Lecture Where Speaker Demands Prayer for ‘Mama Earth,’ Leads Chants of ‘Free Palestine.’

In a mandatory course on “structural racism” for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of “Free, Free Palestine” and demanded that they bow down to “mama earth,” according to students in the class and audio