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Here are a few Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend.Demonstrators briefly block traffic to demand transit funding Transit activists blocked traffic as part of a demonstration Thursday to demand state funding for BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other agencies people depend on to get around.

(Jose Luis Villegas / For The Times)

They saw themselves in the video that Florida officials offered up as proof of their consent to travel to California, but they said it's not what it seemed.They were happy, yes.That part was true.They had finally made it to America after traveling thousands of miles over the span of three months from their home in Venezuela.

(Noah Berger / Associated Press)

A 71-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of arson for igniting the massive Oak fire in Mariposa County last year that destroyed 127 residences and dozens of outbuildings, prosecutors and investigators announced.Arson investigators took Edward Frederick Wackerman, a longtime Mariposa resident, into custody without incident after a nearly yearlong extensive probe into the blaze that also consumed 19,244 acres of vegetation, officials said.

(Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)

Gov. Gavin Newsom has a good target, but the aim is off in his effort to amend the U.S. Constitution with a gun-control mandate.California's liberal governor has absolutely no chance of getting a gun control amendment adopted.It's beyond the realm of political possibility - at least for the foreseeable future.

For the third time in less than two weeks, a group of Latin American asylum seekers on Wednesday was sent abruptly to California, the latest episode in a monthslong political protest by the Republican governors of Florida and Texas against Democratic immigration policies.Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said in a statement that his administration had orchestrated the relocation, in which at least 42 migrants, including children and toddlers, were bused from Texas to Los Angeles.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

California's second-largest reservoir is now completely full after a historic rainy season recharged reservoirs across the state following years of drought.Lake Oroville, fed by the Feather River about 80 miles north of Sacramento, is at 100% of its capacity, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' crass stunt of flying desperate immigrants to California and dumping them on the doorstep of a Catholic Diocese headquarters showed us one thing: He's not fit to be America's president.It's not because of his sensible view that we must gain more control of our southern border.

Written on a dry-erase board in Jennifer Siebel Newsom's office overlooking the dome of the California Capitol are two phrases: "gender equity" and "support for survivors."As a feminist and documentary filmmaker, Siebel Newsom has been on a mission to tell women's stories and upend the gender imbalance that permeates life in America.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday on social media that migrants had been transported from Texas to Los Angeles."The first bus of migrants from Texas has arrived in Los Angeles," the Republican governor posted on Twitter."Texas' small border towns remain overwhelmed and overrun by the thousands of people illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico because of President Biden's refusal to secure the border," Abbott said in an accompanying news release.

Image Credit...The New York Times We've all been annoyed by the stomping of our upstairs neighbors, a blaring ambulance that rouses us from sleep, a dog barking while we're on a Zoom call.But could these quotidian sounds ever cross over from merely irritating to actually dangerous?My colleagues have just published a fascinating project exploring how unpleasant noise can take years off your life, a largely unrecognized health threat that's increasing the risk of hypertension, stroke and heart attacks for Americans.

(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

Behind the white iron gate of her Boyle Heights home, Adriana Lorenzo's concrete courtyard is filled with half a dozen tricycles, a basketball hoop and the melodic cadences of classical music that resonate through the play area."It keeps the kids happy and calm," she says.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for a U.S. constitutional amendment on gun control that would ban assault weapons and mandate background checks and waiting periods for purchasing firearms, a longshot proposal with little chance of passing in a nation deeply divided on the issue.

First, the Temecula Valley Unified School District board president called Harvey Milk a "pedophile" while attempting to ban from the district's curriculum a book that mentioned the gay activist and onetime San Francisco supervisor.Joseph Komrosky's efforts were successful, and the material was removed from the district's social studies curriculum last month.