Philip Teresi

California explores road usage charge to replace gas tax amid rise in electric vehicles    Please Subscribe + Rate & Review Philip Teresi on KMJ wherever you listen!   ---      KMJ’s Philip Teresi is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen.   ---    Philip Teresi, Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific  News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ   DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram   ---    Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

White House Responds To Report Trump Considering Replacing Kristi Noem    Please Subscribe + Rate & Review Philip Teresi on KMJ wherever you listen!   ---      KMJ’s Philip Teresi is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen.   ---    Philip Teresi, Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific  News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ   DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram   ---    Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'I am America First': Marjorie Taylor Greene knocks Trump for not focusing on domestic issues  Newsom team torched for image posted in response to mocking of gov's 'testicle-crushing' sitting pose    Please Subscribe + Rate & Review Philip Teresi on KMJ wherever you listen!   ---      KMJ’s Philip Teresi is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen.   ---    Philip Teresi, Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific  News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ   DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram   ---    Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Supreme Court rejects free speech case over controversial vanity plate  Supreme Court likely to allow Trump FTC firing, expanding presidential power    Please Subscribe + Rate & Review Philip Teresi on KMJ wherever you listen!   ---      KMJ’s Philip Teresi is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen.   ---    Philip Teresi, Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific  News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ   DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram   ---    Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia after a judge’s ruling halting the prosecution of James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director James Comey, on the grounds that the U.S. attorney who presented the cases was illegally appointed. But grand jurors rejected prosecutors’ request to bring charges. Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has filed to run for governor of Minnesota as a Republican. While he has not made an official announcement, candidate filings show he submitted campaign paperwork on Wednesday. Toys For Tots Drive Thru December 12 9 am to 6 pm. Join us!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A nonprofit coffee shop’s hopes to bring the magical world of Harry Potter to its customers have been cut short after a letter arrived at its doorstep — not an acceptance letter to Hogwarts but a warning from Warner Bros. The owner of a now-defunct pet crematorium in San Marcos has been arrested on suspicion of grand theft after customers complained they gave the owner their pets and money but were never provided cremains. Keeping up with this year's news has left many struggling with pronunciations. Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press who is now also editor-in-chief of CBS News, is hosting a “town hall” forum with Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, for the news network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several new bills into law over the past year, many of them addressing issues that continue to impact Californians such as consumer protections, labor and workplace rights, and education. Philip Talks about some of the new laws that will impact your life in the new year and opens the phone lines. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several new bills into law over the past year, many of them addressing issues that continue to impact Californians such as consumer protections, labor and workplace rights, and education. Philip Talks about some of the new laws that will impact your life in the new year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New polling from Emerson College released Thursday shows new frontrunners for both parties in the 2026 California Governor’s race. The polling data, which was commissioned by Nexstar and Inside California Politics, shows Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco  carrying a 1-point lead over former Fox News host Steve Hilton on the Republican side. New laws going into effect at the first of the years in CA. New rights give car buyers a 3-day window to return a used vehicle for a refund and mandate that landlords must equip apartments with stoves and refrigerators starting in the new year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A federal judge on Friday granted the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from a federal investigation in Florida into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department had renewed its request for the material to be made public last month after Congress passed and President Trump signed a law that requires the attorney general to disclose records related to the government's investigation into Epstein. Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations that they said could leave users exposed to scams and manipulation The European Commission said Friday it was fining Elon Musk’s social media app X with the equivalent of $140 million, saying that it had breached the bloc’s digital rulebook — a move that will likely draw the ire of the American government. .After over 30 years, Amazon may be cutting ties with the United States P

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions of the panel, whose current members were all appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As the days in Central California get colder, doctors are seeing more cases of influenza and RSV in children. Doctor Amy Evans with Dizon Pediatrics said this season she's concerned about the newest flu variant - Subclade K. "It started in the UK, it's now in Canada and Japan. And it just got reported in Texas," said Dr. Evans.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro revealed insight into the personal life of the suspect in connection to pipe bombs planted in Washington, D.C., and what the FBI found in his home on "The Ingraham Angle." Federal authorities arrested 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia on Thursday morning after a nearly five-year-long investigation involving "millions of pieces of data."  The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. A Navy admiral commanding the U.S. military strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean told lawmakers Thursday that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but a stark video of the attack left grave questions as Congress scrutinizes the campaign that 

A new survey that says over two-thirds of U.S. teenagers don’t drink, smoke or use marijuana.    A vomiting disorder linked to frequent marijuana use is on the rise, prompting global health officials to allow researchers to track the condition and study it. Dubbed on social media as “scromiting,” short for screaming and vomiting. The internet had a ball Thursday mocking California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s weirdly tense “testicle-crushing” style of cross-legged sitting at a speaking engagement. The 58-year-old pol was discussing National Guard policies at the New York Times Dealbook Summit when he struck a pose that made him the butt of a joke on social media.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

'Tis the season for wrap-ups, as Google just announced its Year in Search 2025 to show us what the world's been searching for, alongside listening to on Spotify or watching on YouTube. You can see a small selection of highlights in the accompanying The Keyword blog post, but the dedicated site is well worth playing around with, so you can learn what's happening on a global or regional basis in detail. But let's take a quick look at the overall results to take the pulse of the world's Googlers through the past year. Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel takes a look at the apparent resurgence of cigarettes in Hollywood and among celebrities and why teens are turning back to cigarette smoking.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s August, and a show of hands in an auditorium filled with 300 students at All Saints Anglican School in Australia shows that few of the Grade 9 and 10 students sitting in plush red seats had heard of the country’s impending ban on social media, much less how to prepare for it. Rosemont police said they found no video evidence that actress Tara Reid's drink was tampered with at a hotel bar in the alleged drugging investigation. Reid filed a police report last month after talking to detectives. The actress said she was drugged at a hotel bar in Rosemont. Police are looking into the matter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released more than 150 still images and over a dozen short videos of the Virgin Islands estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on the same day that attorneys for Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell argued against the release of grand jury materials in her criminal case. One of downtown Fresno’s largest listed commercial spaces has sat empty for nearly five years, with no takers on the nearly 26,000 square feet of potential retail and office space a short walk from government buildings, hotels and downtown entertainment centers. Passersby might see the building, with its distinctive green and gold Club One Casino sign, and think it’s still an active gaming house. But listing photos show there isn’t much more than old carpeting left inside. Located at the intersection of Van Ness Avenue and Tulare Street, the building closed in 2020, when casino operations ceased because of COVID pandemic restrictions.See omnystudio.com/li

A comedian says he is not guilty of allegedly making death threats against Stanislaus County Supervisor Channce Condit last month.  Comedian Anthony Krayenhagen pleaded not guilty last Friday to charges of making threats against an elected official, making a threat not related to someone being a public official and harassment via electronic devices.  A Bay Area animal rights activist in a high-profile trial involving the theft of chickens will have to serve time in jail. A judge has sentenced a 23-year-old Zoe Rosenberg to a hybrid sentence of 90 days in jail. She will serve 30 days in jail and become eligible for jail alternatives for the final 60 days. Rosenberg made national headlines for taking four chickens from Perdue Farm's Slaughterhouse in Petaluma in 2023. Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that adds as many as five Republican-friendly seats, the supreme court has ruled, giving Donald Trump and the GOP a major win in their push to add Republican congressional seats ah

Candidates for California governor said on Tuesday they were horrified when they learned about the mass shooting at a child's birthday party in Stockton that took the lives of four people and injured 13 others. A handful of candidates were in Sacramento for the California School Board Association's annual meeting. CSBA held a forum with the candidates, including Republican Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco and Democrats State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former State Assemblyman Ian Calderon, and former State Controller Betty Yee. As California students continue to lag behind pre-pandemic achievement levels, candidates vying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom say that state bureaucracy is to blame for a lackluster education system in one of the most powerful economies in the world. Teachers and elected officials agree: Education is being underfunded. As the lone Republican on stage, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco stood out as the only voca

The latest on the FBI's arrest of the Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect. Gavin Newsome at NY Times Deal Book Summit and his posture has the internet talking & Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, arguing that he overlooks women and shouldn’t “be our next president.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation a psychologist who has spent the past decade studying how we think about our own behavior in relation to others. Perhaps the choice to not return a shopping cart seems trivial, but what we do with our cart says a lot about how we think about others and what we believe we owe one another (or don’t). – The Shopping Cart Theory | Know Your Meme The Shopping Cart Theory refers to a social theory that states whether a person returns a shopping cart or not after using it serves as an ultimate indicator of whether they are a "good" or "bad" member of society. Coined by an anonymous 4chan user in May 2020, the theory has been referenced in memes and viral debates online. A masked burglar broke into a closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceil