In a lecture on “The Paris Massacres and the Freedom of Speech,” British journalist Melanie Phillips singled out Islam as being the root cause of the violent extremism in the Paris and Copenhagen attacks ,and warned that radical ideologies stemming from the interpretation of the religion’s teachings are a direct threat to western values and the civilization as a whole.
The Los Angeles Times published an editorial on Tuesday defending President Barack Obama’s policy of confronting ISIS (Islamic State) through “strategic patience” and rallied behind his long-held opposition to sending U.S. troops to the Middle East. However, most of America doesn’t agree.
Motorists driving through Sacramento this past Presidents Day holiday weekend got an eyeful as they drove down U.S. Route 50. The R-rated, box office smashing film “50 Shades of Grey” could be seen in plain sight from a projection screen at a nearby drive-in movie theatre.
Following months of violent protests and occupation, Oakland is finally making a comeback.
In a September 2014 interview with Charlie Rose, Apple CEO Tim Cook said “There are products that we’re working on that no one knows about. That haven’t been rumored about yet.” That same month, Apple hired the president and chief executive of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America, Johann Jungwirth. Let the rumors begin.
Former Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner’s decision to transition from a man into a woman has been met with mixed reactions from the media and population at large. The pending change has also caused local and national transgender groups to call for people to be more sensitive towards Jenner’s perceived choice, and to denounce those who are turning what is largely viewed as Jenner’s journey into a punchline.
As uncertainty continues to plague the Middle East, Marines in Barstow, California have begun undergoing training to prepare for a a second round of deployments this spring into the war-ravaged region. In light of the recent closure of several U.S. embassies in countries such as Yemen, these “crisis-response capability” troops could be ordered to assist with evacuating embassies that have come under siege in the same way.
LOS ANGELES, California — On Friday night, a group of USC students stood outside of L.A. Live’s Regal Theatre wearing “Blue About Grey” T-shirts in hopes of providing a different perspective about the film that spectators, like much of America, were eagerly waiting to see.
Chaos and uncertainty continue to mire Yemen with the fall of the nation’s capital to Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The bomb squad, hazmat, police, and firefighters flooded an upscale Novato neighborhood Friday morning after discovering explosives in a Marin County woman’s car. A further investigation of the home she lived in with her little girl, which ultimately led to her arrest, revealed she owned 87 explosives and had ingredients to make a bomb.
California Assemblywoman and United States Navy Veteran Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) faced a backlash this week over a tweet reacting to the death of Kayla Mueller by Islamic State (ISIS) militants.
Notorious German-born “gangster rapper” Denis Cuspert, 39, went from a tumultuous youth to converting to Islam and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) this past spring, before being placed on America’s global terrorism watch list. He was published in the U.S. government’s Federal Register on January 27.
Comedienne, radical, and staunch Israel and democracy supporter Roseanne Barr took to Twitter this week in response to a vote by UC Davis to divest from a slew of American companies doing business in Israel.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told the U.S. House Committee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on Tuesday that the U.S. needed a more aggressive course of action against the Iranian regime.
On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council approved a moratorium that will temporarily prohibit the Berkeley Police Department from using tear gas, rubber bullets and over-the-shoulder baton strikes when responding to non-violent protests.
A Sacramento woman who discovered her veteran father was not provided with a proper burial is suing the county. The county admitted to making the mistake in 2013 and reportedly agreed to move his remains to the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, where his remains should have gone in the first place.
California Governor Jerry Brown is one of the individuals Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin believes has a serious shot at cinching the Democratic nomination for president in 2016–should Hillary Clinton not run as expected.
A multi-denominational school in Limerick, Ireland groveled for “subjecting” a Muslim pupil to a copy of the recent Charlie Hebdo magazine cover depicting an image of Muhammad apologizing on it.
A prime suspect, who was arrested and later released in connection with the gruesome discovery of a suitcase filled with human body parts in San Francisco, died on Sunday. Mark Jeffrey Andrus, 54, died at a city hospital after after going into
On his weekly Friday night panel discussion during his show Real Time, Bill Maher wasted no time jumping into the vaccination debate. Maher suggested that vaccines are preventable if people would simply eat better, attacked genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and defended climate change to make his own argument that inconsistencies within the medical profession are all the more reason not to trust vaccines.
LOS ANGELES, California — An emotionally-charged and highly divisive vote took place at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Sunday as pro-Israel students attempted to thwart two different divestment resolutions at the UC Student Association (USCA). Both divestment resolutions subsequently passed, including one which called for divestment from most of the world, including the United States.
The Berkeley City Council will meet on Tuesday to address several police response-related issues pertaining to vandalism and other incidents because of protests over the deaths of two black men in Missouri and New York.
A former Iraqi politician and current civil rights campaigner has put the rope used in the 2006 execution of former dictator Saddam Hussein up for sale. The bid reportedly stands at $7 million, but Mowaffak al-Rubaie is asking for more.
A second incidence of anti-Jewish vandalism has surfaced at UC Davis. A newly released report indicates that between January 22 and 23, someone wrote “grout out the Jews” on the tile grout in a stall in the men’s bathroom at the school’s Hillel House.
Berkeley #BlackLivesMatter protesters who occupied downtown Berkeley last month reportedly caused a 30-minute delay in the time it took for paramedics to reach a collapsed 62-year-old man who was having trouble breathing. Henry Alvin Jones later died.
