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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: a rescue flare lit California's largest active wildfire and the smoke is now drifting across the Southland; a Florida jury-duty scam took $40,000 in a single weekend; a…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: a distress flare on Santa Rosa Island turns into California's biggest 2026 wildfire, the Supreme Court closes the door on Big Pharma's challenge to Medicare price negot…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: a $751K 401(k) drained by a single phone call using the same playbook as the multi-state government-impersonation wave, a second ctDNA-guided bladder cancer approval in…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: the Senate parliamentarian knocks a billion-dollar ballroom security line out of reconciliation, Medicare Part B quietly eats a third of the 2026 COLA, and the Coast Gu…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: enforcement with a price tag — and several of those price tags just got stamped. Huntington Beach's housing fight produced its first real penalty ruling right on the pr…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: federal anti-fraud sweeps land a billion-dollar Medicare conviction the same week a senior-fraud day reveals $7.7B in 2025 losses, a gale warning shuts down the SoCal c…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: the Coast Guard signs its biggest shipbuilding deal in a generation, Huntington Beach convenes the state on e-bike carnage, and a bipartisan Senate bill quietly propose…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: the Supreme Court greenlights Alabama's congressional map and Southern states race to redraw lines before November; the Coast Guard bans kratom and rolls out a digital-…
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: a Carpinteria oil platform catches fire mid-decommissioning and the Coast Guard pulls 26 workers off safely, NOAA puts the odds of a Super El Niño winter at 61% on the …
Today on The Salt Air Dispatch: the fraud economy keeps scaling up — sham hospices, fake IRS refund letters, a Chinese ringleader sentenced for a $27M elder-targeting operation — while quieter stories…