
Airbnb scored a major victory on Wednesday by beating Proposition F, which sought to limit short-term rentals in San Francisco. But the $25.5 billion lodging startup acknowledges that the political battle is nowhere near over.
by Adelle Nazarian6 Nov 2015, 1:29 PM PST0

Close to 2,000 Berkeley High School students, encouraged by their principal, staged a walkout during school hours on Thursday and descended upon UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to protest a racist message that was left on a computer screen at the school’s
by Adelle Nazarian5 Nov 2015, 2:39 PM PST0

Iran has accused its Russian ally of being divergent on its goals of keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power.
by Adelle Nazarian5 Nov 2015, 2:11 PM PST0

Hollywood has rolled out the red carpet for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton once again as she makes her fifth fundraising stint to the Golden State since officially declaring her candidacy this past spring.
by Adelle Nazarian5 Nov 2015, 10:44 AM PST0

Twenty California lawmakers will be attending an annual conference at a resort in Maui that is paid for by representatives of special interest groups that lobby the state legislature.
by Adelle Nazarian5 Nov 2015, 5:22 AM PST0

On November 4, 1979, Muslim student revolutionaries in the Islamic Republic of Iran took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and with it claimed 52 American citizens as hostages in what became a 444-day ordeal that would go on to grip America and the world.
by Adelle Nazarian4 Nov 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

The family of a man who died in a crash that ejected his body onto a Los Angeles freeway sign last week performed a lamb sacrifice (known as matagh in Armenian) to protect him from harm just days before.
by Adelle Nazarian4 Nov 2015, 3:28 PM PST0

A Sacramento State student is lucky to be alive today thanks to doctors who discovered and removed a tapeworm in his brain that was likely caused by eating pork.
by Adelle Nazarian4 Nov 2015, 1:52 PM PST0

Airbnb saw a major victory on Tuesday night when 55% of voters in San Francisco voted against Proposition F, a measure that sought to regulate short-term rentals in the bustling city.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 10:52 PM PST0

Iran has taken another American citizen captive. On Tuesday, Iran’s state-owned IRIB news network announced that the regime had arrested Nizar Ahmad Zakka, a Lebanese-American from Riverside, California with alleged “deep ties” to the U.S. military and intelligence services on suspicion of espionage.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 5:48 PM PST0

Protestors stormed the headquarters of multibillion dollar lodging startup Airbnb on Monday in San Francisco, one day before Bay Area residents cast their votes either in favor of or against Proposition F–the “Airbnb initiative,” a measure that seeks to regulate short-terms rentals in the city.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 5:03 PM PST0

On Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded the House of Representatives for passing a bipartisan resolution condemning the Palestinian Authority (PA) for incitement.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

A newly-introduced ballot initiative seeks to eliminate sanctuary cities in California by implementing federal law at the state level.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 5:23 AM PST0

A 25-year-old mother who was once crowned Mrs. Orange County pleaded not guilty Friday to making child pornography using a 4-year-old family member.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Nov 2015, 12:00 AM PST0

A report released this month on “The Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” reveals that Iranians are worse off under “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani than his more conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and that, based on their current trajectory, they are expected to exceed well over 1,000 executions by year’s end.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Nov 2015, 5:05 PM PST0

The H-1B program is a “tremendous threat” to American professionals, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon Monday on the Breitbart News Daily radio show, on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Nov 2015, 3:04 PM PST0

A Roseville man who has been a vocally staunch opponent of California’s mandatory vaccination law has been charged with willful cruelty to a child after a feud over a handicapped parking spot at his son’s school led to his arrest.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Nov 2015, 12:54 PM PST0

Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA) faces new accusations after a report by the House Ethics Committee this week revealed that he was among a group of lawmakers who accepted trips to Turkey that were secretly funded by a Turkish Islamic movement connected to the exiled Fethullah Gülen.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Nov 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

Hillary Clinton is singlehandedly responsible for sweeping up over 60 percent of the $9.63 million that donors in the Bay Area contributed to presidential candidates across the political spectrum through September 30.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Nov 2015, 3:00 AM PST0

Halloween turned into a night of real-life horrors in Berkeley’s Southside neighborhood on Saturday when close to 1,000 rioters took to the streets, smashing cars.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Nov 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

The Santa Clara Health Department has narrowed down the search for the source of a shigella (shigellosis) outbreak that sickened nearly 200 people who dined at a San Jose Mexican seafood restaurant between October 16 and 17. “It’s quite likely
by Adelle Nazarian30 Oct 2015, 3:53 PM PST0

When a 65-year-old black church in Oakland received letters from the city threatening to fine them for musical noise complaints, they decided to raise their voices in protest.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Oct 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

BEVERLY HILLS — On Thursday night, former U.S. Ambassador John Bolton and Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Israel Shafir spoke at Beth Jacob synagogue about Israel’s future and security in a region that is growing ever more hostile towards the only Jewish State in the world.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Oct 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

A 12-year-old California honor student was forced to turn a patriotic American flag T-shirt he wore to school inside out after administrators said the shirt could be interpreted as being “gang related.”
by Adelle Nazarian30 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt was once rejected from NBC before going on to become the face of the network. Now, he has donated that letter to the California Museum in Sacramento.
by Adelle Nazarian29 Oct 2015, 11:55 AM PST0