The California Supreme Court threw a giant obstacle on the California bullet train’s track toward fruition this week, ruling that the state agencies cannot escape the state’s environmental laws by claiming federal laws supersede them.
Sarah Palin offered a scathing response on Facebook to a new Senate report revealing that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit, targeted Palin’s daughter Bristol.
Governor Jerry Brown’s policies reducing the number of inmates in the state have not affected the number of firefighters fighting fires.
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
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has not spoken publicly of any gut feeling regarding his rivalry with Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. But one of Brady’s private emails speaks volumes about Brady’s desire to be regarded as the better quarterback.
Michael Phelps, stopped for drunk driving last fall, told the Associated Press that he has not tasted alcohol since his arrest, and may give it up forever.
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.
On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus sent members to Silicon Valley to bully high-tech companies into hiring more blacks as part of their Tech 2020 Initiative.
A proposal from two GOP members of the Ohio House of Representatives would require welfare applicants to be screened and tested for drugs.
Open Primaries, a national political reform organization, released a paper championing California’s “jungle” or “top-two” nonpartisan primary system, which was implemented in 2012.
On Monday night in Lincoln County, North Carolina, Lincoln County Commission Chairman Carrol Mitchem walked out of the commission’s meeting when the invocation started with a Muslim prayer.
For the second time in a month, a Confederate monument in Charlotte, N. C. has been vandalized, this time with spray paint.
Santa Cruz police are searching for a man who allegedly photographed a naked 7-year-old girl in a public shower on July 13.
Two illegal aliens were appointed to city commissions in Huntington Park on Monday.
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.
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.
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.”
Amnesty advocates are complaining about the use of GPS ankle monitors on illegal aliens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the border.
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.
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.
Early Thursday morning, 124 headstones at a historic Jewish cemetery in Philadephia were found knocked over.
On Friday, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who falsely reported that 11 of the 12 footballs used by the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game measured two pounds under league standards, evaded an appearance on WEEI’s “Dennis & Callahan” show to discuss his mistake.
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.
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
On Thursday, Santa Cruz prosecutors announced that the arraignment for Adrian Gonzalez, 15, who is accused of the sexual assault and murder of Maddy Middleton, 8, will be delayed until September 21st.
