Megan Basham

He's accusing city leadership of squandering that tax money through government corruption and incompetence.

So he's really tapping into this larger question of how California is managing its budget.

After an intensive week-long search, military officials confirmed Sunday that the soldier was identified as Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., a 27-year-old first lieutenant from Richmond, Virginia.

Key and another unidentified soldier vanished on May 2nd during a recreational hike near the Camp Draw training area outside Tantan, Morocco.

The two men disappeared just hours after participating in the annual African Lion multinational war games exercise.

Officials said the soldiers were seen near the ocean cliffs before they reportedly plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

The event triggered a massive international rescue operation involving more than 600 personnel from the United States, Morocco, and allied partner nations participating in the exercises.

The operation included helicopters, drones, frigates, maritime vessels, and ground search teams combing more than 12,000 square kilometers of shoreline and ocean over eight days.

The search is ongoing for the second soldier who remains missing.

French prosecutors have charged ex-owner Elon Musk after an investigation into his social media company.

The case has stood out for the division it has represented between the US and Europe's approaches to social media platforms and the bounds of free speech.

Last month, the US Justice Department dismissed the French investigation as politically charged.

The charges facing Musk have also escalated the legal battles between the tech tycoon and the French government, which raided ex-offices in Paris earlier this year.

Musk is facing preliminary charges related to claims of a biased algorithm, violating the secrecy of correspondence, and child pornography shared over his site.

So the long-running narrative in American culture has been that religion, especially among younger people, is in serious decline.

And overall, that trend is still somewhat true.

But this new survey suggests that young men may actually be bucking that trend.

So a new Gallup analysis covering 2024 and 2025 found that 42% of American men ages 18 to 29 now say that religion is very important in their lives.

And that is a sharp upswing from just 28% just two years ago.

And that's significant for several reasons.