Border Disruption: Mexican truck drivers staged a strike at Calexico East and San Luis Rio Colorado ports after U.S. revoked many B-1 visas tied to alleged transport violations, leaving freight backed up for days and trapping drivers on both sides. Public Safety: A 50-year-old inmate, Daniel Patrick Murphy, died after being found unresponsive in a San Diego Central Jail cell; homicide investigators are handling the in-custody death and an autopsy will determine cause and manner. Wildfire Cost Fight: Tehama County supervisors object to proposed state wildfire reforms that would shift more financial responsibility from utilities like PG&E to local taxpayers, warning it could delay repairs and strain rural mutual-aid systems. Energy Reliability: CPUC explains how it measures electric reliability—focused on how often customers lose power and for how long—using industry outage metrics. Heat & Power Demand: A short, sharp warm-up is expected to push electricity demand higher across California, with triple-digit heat in parts of the north and extreme heat warnings in the south. Healthcare Fraud Crackdown: LA County remains central to federal and state actions against fake hospice firms accused of draining Medicare and Medi-Cal of hundreds of millions. Tech & Industry: Ensurge Micropower is relocating its San Jose operations to a new battery-focused facility to speed solid-state microbattery pilot production and commercialization.