
Pushing his immigration platform, which includes calls for broader reforms to the legal immigration system and “a merit-based system” that gives people a path to citizenship, Marco Rubio said “my argument is if you’re the best at what you do on this planet, I don’t want you here temporarily. I want you here permanently. I want you to become American.
by Adelle Nazarian7 Oct 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

Toys “R” Us is the latest in a string of U.S. companies that has been caught forcing their American employees to train foreign college-grads to take the Americans’ jobs, via a process known as “knowledge transfer.”
by Adelle Nazarian6 Oct 2015, 3:37 PM PST0

A couple who have been described as “Kardashian wannabes” have gained a great deal of media attention for their lavish, Playboy-like parties at a rented mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
by Adelle Nazarian6 Oct 2015, 1:17 PM PST0

San Francisco’s 911 call center has been burdened with a “painful” problem. A surge in butt dials over the past three years (28% increase between 2011 and 2014) has been cutting into valuable time for operators who are forced to work longer hours as they seek to determine whether each butt, or pocket, dial is a true emergency.
by Adelle Nazarian5 Oct 2015, 6:13 PM PST0

Surveillance video captured a man who allegedly broke into a Boost Mobile cellular store in Pomona, California on Wednesday and whose plan was foiled when he tripped the alarm and became trapped inside the facility’s secured area.
by Adelle Nazarian4 Oct 2015, 3:58 PM PST0

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Thursday that will make California the first state in the nation to require the “yes means yes” for sexual consent in high school.
by Adelle Nazarian3 Oct 2015, 3:00 AM PST0

A California high school student is being told she will be placed into all-day detention if she does not change her blue hair color to a natural color, as is required and listed in the school district’s code of conduct.
by Adelle Nazarian2 Oct 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

A Minnesota stay-at-home mom of two said she was billed $75 for missing a distant relative’s wedding in California after she and her husband failed to show up because they couldn’t find a replacement babysitter in time.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Oct 2015, 1:17 PM PST0

A female mountain lion was captured in a rare photo showing the cougar perched atop a wooden pole in the Lucerne Valley desert on Tuesday.
by Adelle Nazarian1 Oct 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

A second library has closed in Palo Alto following the discovery of bedbugs there. It is the second bedbug-related closure in Palo Alto, and the third in the Bay Area, in the past week.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Sep 2015, 11:15 AM PST0

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy officially announced his campaign to replace John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker on Monday and laid out his foreign policy vision for the United States: a stronger, tougher America.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Sep 2015, 10:45 AM PST0

Mural artist Antonio Ramos was shot to death in broad daylight on Tuesday morning in West Oakland while working on a community art project.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Sep 2015, 10:44 AM PST0

A now-famous handshake between President Barack Obama and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif at the United Nations on Monday was no accident, although their chance meeting was not pre-planned.
by Adelle Nazarian30 Sep 2015, 9:52 AM PST0

A naked-man, covered in blood and in a zombie-like state, terrorized a Victorville neighborhood on Monday when he tried to carjack three vehicles and broke into an apartment before getting arrested and taken to a local hospital.
by Adelle Nazarian29 Sep 2015, 5:26 PM PST0

SAN JOSE — Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on the United Nations to define exactly what terrorism is for once and for all.
by Adelle Nazarian28 Sep 2015, 3:40 PM PST0

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted by well over 20,000 supporters on Sunday for his historic visit, but several hundred opponents — primarily members of a Sikh group — were also present to protest the leader of the Indian diaspora.
by Adelle Nazarian28 Sep 2015, 10:11 AM PST0

Prime Minister Narenda Modi will visit the Bay Area this weekend, becoming the first Indian PM to visit the West Coast in over 30 years.
by Adelle Nazarian26 Sep 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

More than 200 pounds of waste, including hypodermic needles, tampons, and condoms were discovered washed ashore in the sands at several Los Angeles beaches on Wednesday, resulting in closures.
by Adelle Nazarian25 Sep 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

Democratic congressional candidate Ro Khanna received the endorsement of three major Democrats on Friday, dealing a potentially fatal blow to his fellow Democratic opponent, eight-time incumbent Congressman Mike Honda.
by Adelle Nazarian25 Sep 2015, 1:02 PM PST0

The plight of Syria, a country now in midst of a bloody civil war, has given way to a refugee crisis which has resulted in several fortunate Syrian families landing in Oakland, California.
by Adelle Nazarian24 Sep 2015, 3:12 PM PST0

Palo Alto’s new Mitchell Park Library was closed Thursday following the discovery of bed bugs there.
by Adelle Nazarian24 Sep 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

A Mission Viejo middle-school teacher, who who falsely accused of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor male student, had charges dropped against her last week — nearly one year after her case was first made public.
by Adelle Nazarian23 Sep 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

Last weekend, a “Stomp Trump” rally took place in San Francisco’s Mission District where a large group of left-wing and Latino residents encouraged their children to take violent swings at a Donald Trump piñata as the crowd cheered on.
by Adelle Nazarian22 Sep 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

An Emmy-winning Vietnamese-American documentary filmmaker from Fountain Valley, California, recently launched a social-media campaign called #ICareBecause, calling attention to the Syrian migrant crisis and urging support for their absorption into the U.S.
by Adelle Nazarian22 Sep 2015, 5:30 AM PST0

California Governor Jerry Brown has indicated that he will sign a bill to provide female employees with more tools to enforce equal pay in the workplace.
by Adelle Nazarian21 Sep 2015, 1:24 PM PST0