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Today — 30 May 2026NYT | Top Stories

Steyer Campaigns on Affordability. Does His Own Mansion Portfolio Matter?

Tom Steyer wants to address California’s housing crisis if he becomes governor. He is also a billionaire with extensive personal real estate holdings.

© Rachel Bujalski for The New York Times

Tom Steyer has campaigned as a progressive Democrat who wants to make housing affordable in the state. His own wealth has been a concern for some voters.
Yesterday — 29 May 2026NYT | Top Stories

California House Primary in Sacramento Displays Democrats’ Fierce Generational Battle

29 May 2026 at 17:02
Representative Doris Matsui has been re-elected 10 times with ease. But an upstart Democrat is threatening to end her run in Congress.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Representative Doris Matsui is facing her toughest re-election fight in her more than two decades of representing a safely Democratic district in the Sacramento region.

Late May Storm Brings Rain and Snow to Northern California

By: Amy Graff
29 May 2026 at 06:32
San Francisco received nearly as much rain one morning as it would typically see for the month, and a slope in the Sierra Nevada remained open for skiing.

© Cody Mathison/Mammoth Mountain

Skiers and snowboarders during a recent snowfall on the resort Mammoth Mountain.

These Drivers Found Cheap Gas

28 May 2026 at 17:02
It’s in Valley Center, Calif., on tribal land. Customers relish every penny saved.

© John Francis Peters for The New York Times

David Dickerson was among those who stopped at Horizon Fuel Center recently when its gas was going for $5.39 a gallon, well below the state average.

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up

Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Anthropic’s updated model, Claude Opus 4.8, is particularly adept at vibecoding, or the process of artificial intelligence writing code from prompts in conversational English.
Before yesterdayNYT | Top Stories

Matthew Perry’s Assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison

28 May 2026 at 04:31
Kenneth Iwamasa injected Mr. Perry with the ketamine that killed him. He is the last of five defendants to be sentenced in the case.

© Willy Sanjuan/Invision, via Associated Press

The actor Matthew Perry was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2023. His assistant had injected him with at least three shots of ketamine that day.
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