California Today: Driver Crashes Into San Jose Post Office, Igniting Fire

July 21, 2025, 6:31 a.m. Pacific time

Good morning. Here are the top stories from across California.

Today’s Top Story

San Jose Fire Department

Driver Crashes Into San Jose Post Office, Igniting Fire

A man was arrested in connection with the crash on suspicion of arson, officials said. No injuries were reported.

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.

Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

Investigators in L.A. Explosion Examine Condo for Link to Explosives

Officials were looking into whether the explosion, which killed three sheriff’s deputies, was caused by devices seized from a condo in Santa Monica a day before the blast.

The Little Food Lab Fueling the Big Protein Boom

Anthony Flynn and his family ran a small health snack company in California. Then came protein bar mania.

Noah Davis, a Painterly Dynamo Gone Too Soon, Takes a Seat in Posterity

The artist’s first museum tour luxuriates in the spacious and sophisticated folk-modernism he left behind, even as it unevenly canonizes a painter of the millennial era.

Can Indigo De Souza Spin Pop Gold From the Wreckage of Her Past?

The singer and songwriter first emerged as an indie-rock bandleader from Western North Carolina. With a newfound clarity, she is re-emerging as a California pop artist.

$1.7 Million Homes in California

A midcentury modern in Thousand Oaks, a contemporary home in Carmel Valley and a French Normandy Revival in Oakland

From ‘America’s Most Scenic Ballpark’ to the majors, a baseball long shot admires the view

The Phillies' Otto Kemp, a former undrafted walk-on at Division II Point Loma Nazarene, returned to the special place where it all began.

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Today's Recipe

Two servings of Chinese stir-fried eggs with tomatoes are served in speckled ceramic bowls with chopsticks and a small bowl of rice nearby.

Sang An for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.

Chinese Stir-Fried Tomatoes and Eggs

By Francis Lam

2,605

20 minutes

Makes 2 or 3 servings, with rice

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