Miss California USA and Miss Texas USA, who are both of Mexican descent, are not backing down from participating in the Miss USA competition despite remarks made by 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump about Mexican immigrants.
The Los Angeles Times has hired a reporter to cover what has colloquially become known as “Black Twitter.”
An Iraqi-Norwegian dual citizen, who attempted to orchestrate the most disastrous bombing plot in Jordan in over a decade, was set to be tried behind closed doors in a Jordanian court on Monday.
A Los Angeles-bound Greyhound bus originating from Arizona crashed into a ditch on San Bernardino’s 10 Freeway on Saturday after a passenger grabbed the wheel from the driver and forced it off the road.
Philadelphia no longer holds the Guinness World Record for “Largest Soul Train Line.” The City of Brotherly Love lost that banner to Oakland recently when 337 dancers gathered at DeFremery Park to strut their stuff on the “Oak Train” for three-plus consecutive hours, deeming them the new champions. The previous record had been set at 298 people.
Officials confirmed that a woman killed by measles in Washington State this spring had been vaccinated as a child but a combination of health problems, a depressed immune system and being on medication that interfered with her response to an infection left her unprotected from the deadly disease.
Human remains removed from a hollow wall of an apartment in California on Thursday are believed to belong to a woman who vanished in 2009. An anonymous tip led detectives to the Harbor Hills Housing Project in Lomita where Raven Campbell, 32 at the time, once lived.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Airport reportedly lost their cool when a JetBlue passenger sent his pet cat through the x-ray machine on Wednesday, after stowing his furry feline in his checked bag.
The Iranian regime is no stranger to Holocaust denial. The United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s 2014 report on human rights practices reveals that the Iranian government consistently and continuously blocked a website dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and educating people about the tragic event which cost the lives of 6 million Jews at the hands of Nazis.
The FBI is investigating a string of attacks on Internet cables in the San Francisco Bay Area and causing massive outages, with the most recent act of vandalism taking place on Tuesday.
Residents of Los Angeles County’s affluent Hollywood Hills are furious after witnessing renters of a $40-per-night Airbnb campsite listing, located on an empty dirt lot among million-dollar homes, engage in public displays of sex. Many local families have small children.
Three victims of sexual assault are suing the University of California Berkeley and the University of California Board of Regents for allegedly failing to properly prevent, investigate and handle sexual assaults that reportedly took place while they were taking classes at the school.
Former Democratic State Senator Leland Yee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one federal count of racketeering, and faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced renewed diplomatic ties with the communist regime of Cuba, with the reopening of Cuban embassies in Washington and Havana for the first time in more than 50 years. U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign
Since the advent of the written exam people have found ways to cheat.
England’s Metropolitan Police Service (Scotland Yard) says it can do nothing to stop a group of neo-Nazis from carrying out a planned protest in the heavily-Jewish Golders Green community of London on July 4.
For gay couples with children, the celebratory mood was amplified this past weekend following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling which effectively overturned any bans on gay marriage in America.
Less than one year after launching several successful campaigns in the United States, including their notable #CEPDigitalDisruption via Twitter, the Counter Extremism Project officially launched its European counterpart on Monday (CEP Europe) in Brussels.
LOS ANGELES, California — Hundreds of cyclists took to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles bearing it all on Saturday for the “World Naked Bike Ride.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) weighed in on Thursday’s divisive Supreme Court ruling, which upheld a key element of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by essentially rewriting the text of the legislation in order to save it, dubbing it a “loss for the Constitution.”
WEST HOLLYWOOD, California — The streets remained quiet in Los Angeles’s rainbow colored West Hollywood neighborhood Friday morning following the historic announcement by the Supreme Court of the United States (by a vote of 5-4) that gay marriage would be legally recognized in all 50 United States.
LOS ANGELES, California — It turns out P. Diddy’s son received a false start in his college football career. According to former UCLA Bruins head coach Rick Neuheisel, Justin was not recruited by the UCLA Bruins team based on his talent.
A Pakistani Christian man named Nadeem took secret video footage detailing his life in a refugee camp where he faces harassment and threats on a regular basis. In the video which was posted to YouTube, Nadeem explains that it is Muslims — the majority of which are Syrians that fled their war-torn country — who treat him and his fellow Christians this way.
The largest tech event in Los Angeles kicked off in Marina Del Rey on Wednesday night. Organizers of Silicon Beach Fest are anticipating over 2,000 techies to attend the conference over the course of the next three days.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) has filed a criminal complaint against his former campaign treasurer, Jack Wu, for allegedly embezzling over $170,000 in campaign funds.
