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‘Shrimp Boy’ Accuses S.F. Mayor Ed Lee of Corruption

On Wednesday, San Francicso Mayor Ed Lee characterized the corruption accusations coming from Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow and his attorneys as “orangutans trying to deflect attention.” Chow, indicted on multiple charges in April 2014–including firearms trafficking, money laundering to murder

Mayor Ed Lee (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

Delta Smelt, Farmers’ Nemesis, May Disappear Due to Drought

The delta smelt may disappear from California because of the extreme drought. Farmers in the Central Valley may soon receive the water denied them for years because of environmentalists’ desire to flush fresh water out to sea for the smelts’ sake.

Delta Smelt (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Adrian Beltre Just Third Player Since 1901 to Hit for Cycle Three Times

On Monday, Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers, 38, became the third player in modern baseball history to hit for the cycle three times in his career. Beltre slammed a home run in the fifth inning after tripling in the first, doubling in the second, and singling in the third.

The Associated Press

Facebook to Use Drone to Increase Global Access

On Thursday, Facebook Inc., unsatisfied with its global access, announced it has built a full-scale drone to fly between 60,000 feet above ground at night and 90,000 feet during the day to allow the entire world to use Facebook.

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Ben Carson: ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is PC ‘Going Amok’

On Sunday, presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” doubled down on his comments from a week before when he opined “all lives matter.” Carson stated on Sunday that all the fuss over the “Black Lives Matter” mantra is “political correctness going amok.”

Republican Presidential Hopefuls Attends Sen. Joni Ernst's Inaugural Roast And Ride Event

Eight Tons of Cocaine Found on ‘Narco-Sub’

U.S. Navy and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials found a small “narco-submarine” with eight tons of cocaine and four people aboard off the coast of El Salvador on July 18.

Cocaine Submarine (U.S. CBP)

Mother and Father Shot to Death After Attempt to Help Stranded Motorist

On Wednesday morning, a Montana father and mother were shot and murdered, and their daughter was seriously wounded in Pryor, Montana, when they emulated the Good Samaritan and attempted to help Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 18, whose car was stopped on the side of the road on the Crow Indian Reservation.

Park County, Wyoming, Sheriff’s Office via AP

Jerry Brown Will Not Rescind Parole of School Bus Hijacker

On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown let a deadline pass and refused to rescind a decision by a parole board to release 63-year-old James Schoenfeld, one of the three men convicted of kidnapping 26 children and their school bus driver in 1976 and holding them hostage in a trailer.

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CA Schools 9th Worst in America

The personal finance social network WalletHub ranked public school systems around the nation, and found that California’s ranked as the ninth-worst. Factors measured by WalletHub included: Test results in reading and math Remote-learning opportunities from online public schools Dropout rate

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Netanyahu: Americans Turning Against Iranian Deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has consistently opposed the Iranian nuclear deal that President Barack Obama has championed, told diplomatic correspondents that an American public increasingly aware of the deal’s dangers is growing more hostile to the agreement.

Jim Young Reuters

Manhattan Institute: CA Poor Hit Hardest by ‘Green Energy’

According to a report released by the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment at the Manhattan Institute, the energy policies of the state have imposed a greater burden on poorer customers in the inland and Central Valley regions of the state.

The Associated Press

Despite Science, 2/3 of Californians Believe Drought Caused by Global Warming

According to a poll released this week by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), almost two-thirds of Californians believe, contrary to scientific evidence, that the state’s historic drought has been caused by global warming (not “climate change,” but “global warming”).

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Mia Farrow Tweets Home Address of Dentist Who Killed Cecil the Lion

Mia Farrow, the onetime actress who now functions as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, took a particularly vicious route in joining celebrities venting their fury at Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed Cecil the lion, tweeting Palmer’s home address.

The Associated Press

New ’13 Hours’ Benghazi Film Trailer Is Out 

The trailer for Michael Bay’s new movie, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, based on Mitchell Zuckoff’s nonfiction book 13 Hours, has been released. The book on which the film is based discusses how six members of a security

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Kids Hurt by Falling Tree at Museum

On Tuesday, eight children between the ages of six to eight years old were injured, two of them critically, when a massive pine tree fell during a field trip at a summer day camp in Pasadena.

Kidspace Museum Tree (Walt Mancini / AP)

Linda Tripp Breaks 20-Year Silence, Condemns Hillary Clinton Candidacy

Linda Tripp, the woman who exposed Monica Lewinsky as Bill Clinton’s mistress but has remained silent the last twenty years about what she knew about Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave an exclusive interview to The Daily Mail in which she offered what she knew about Hillary Clinton that makes her unfit for the presidency.

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Hawking & Musk Urge: No War with AI Robots

Elon Musk, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space ExplorationTechnologies, joined roughly 1,000 artificial intelligence (AI) experts, scientists and robotics researchers–including Stephen Hawking–to sign a letter urging the world’s nations to reject using artificial intelligence when waging war.

Hawking and Musk (Breitbart News & Wires)

Shark Bites Kayak, Kayaker Fights Back

Two fisherman on kayaks near San Diego last Thursday morning turned the tables on a mako shark intent who attacked one of the kayaks, reeling the shark in instead.

Mako Kayak (Austin Pob / Facebook)

94-Year-Old Vet Brutally Beaten in Modesto Home Invasion

A 94-year-old World War veteran living in Modesto with his wife was brutally beaten in a home invasion on Friday–and is fighting for his life. Richard Iverson was left in an induced coma at the Memorial Medical Center after a man

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