President Barack Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 TV network in an interview that aired Thursday that Netanyahu’s statements on Palestinian statehood indicate Israel has no commitment to a two-state solution, according to The Hill.
One of the most famous transgender individuals in America Laverne Cox released a statement on Tumblr in which she agreed with Breitbart Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro. Shapiro said in a column for Breitbart on Tuesday that it is ridiculous to portray Bruce Jenner as a womanly woman on the cover of Vanity Fair in order to make it more credible that Jenner is a woman. There are many transgenders who look nothing like women.
In another telling hint that universities are discriminating against Asian-Americans, Michael Wang, who notched a perfect ACT score, a 2230 SAT, a 4.67 weighted grade point average and 13 Advanced Placement courses on his resume, was rejected by seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013. The only Ivy League school to accept him was the University of Pennsylvania.
Prices for homes in the Bay Area have increased to the point where hi-tech workers are fleeing to the Pacific Northwest to find affordable housing, according to the real estate site Redfin. The median home price in the Bay Area has surpassed $1 million, and Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman told the San Francisco Chronicle that one-quarter of Bay Area searchers are checking areas elsewhere–a steep hike from the one-seventh of searchers looking elsewhere in 2011.
The billionaire owner of the In-N-Out burger chain, Lynsi Snyder, 33, is a Bible-believing woman with a tumultuous past who remains reclusive but also committed to her Christian beliefs.
The Columbia Journalism Review, catalyzed into action by an April investigation by the Daily Signal into Covered California, has started asking questions of its own about the largest Obamacare state exchange.
On Monday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) announced it would reverse an earlier decision and reinstate the college’s football, bowling, and rifle programs, according to ESPN.
Barry Navidi—who produced the Al Pacino vehicles, “The Merchant of Venice,” “Salome,” and “Wild Salome,” and is touring with Pacino’s current one-man show—spoke with Variety in Tehran during the International Urban Cities Film Festival. He asserted his excitement about the rapprochement between the Obama administration and Iran because it will encourage fimmaking in Iran.
Renee Jackson, 25, has been charged with murder of a after she allegedly hit a motorcyclist U.S. Navy sailor with her car late Thursday afternoon as a result of a road rage incident.
Now that the California Assembly has approved AB 641, which would enable home-based childcare providers to unionize, a joint budget-writing committee will consider it, according to the Sacramento Bee. If approved, the resultant collective bargaining expansion would add thousands of child-care slots and trigger a rise in reimbursement rates.
If a woman who dropped off boxes of electronics at a South Bay recycling firm returns to the store, she will collect a $100,000 check. In early April, the unknown woman, who said her husband had just died, deposited a number of boxes at Clean Bay Area. One box contained a vintage Apple I, which Clean Bay Area found two weeks later and sold for $200,000 to a private collection. The woman did not obtain a receipt or tell the store her name.
Former FIFA VP Jack Warner, indicted along with eight other FIFA officials and five corporate executives for racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering, unwittingly used a satiric quote from The Onion as serious fodder to attack the United States, whose attorney general had filed the corruption charges.
Last Thursday, opponents of the anti-Israel BDS movement won a huge victory when the Washington State Supreme Court unanimously voted 9-0 to allow a lawsuit to proceed from five members of the Olympia Food Co-op against board members for their 2011 decision to boycott Israeli products.
On Friday, a Massachusetts judge denied a request from a non-profit group—which had been holding a continuous 24/7 vigil for almost 11 years at a church south of Boston—to suspend his order that they leave the property.
On Friday night, an altercation that broke out in Oklahoma when two highway patrol troopers attempted to help two men whose truck had stalled in rising floodwaters ended with one of the men being fatally shot.
Thanks to their granddaughter, Belinda Bannister, Richard and Mary Arambula’s 70th wedding anniversary in Bakersfield was celebrated by roughly 150 celebrities, presidents and even the Pope. Bannister, who lives in Germany, decided to contact the star-studded group after her grandmother
In San Fernando, seventy people led by city officials entered an open house meeting led by train officials, erecting their own public address system to voice their anger over the train invading their community. The city officials wanted answers from state officials about the train’s effect on their community.
The Atlanta Falcons released linebacker Prince Shembo on Friday after police charged him earlier in the day with felony aggravated cruelty to an animal for allegedly killing his former girlfriend’s dog, according to ESPN.
Marilyn Mosby, 35, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney who has filed charges against six policemen in the death of Freddie Gray, won her first case when she appeared on the show “Judge Judy” in 2000.
Democrats in the California State Assembly passed a bill this week that would increase the filing fees for ballot initiatives (or referenda) from $200 to $8,000, thus excluding most ordinary citizens from filing a petition and leaving the field open for unions and corporations, according to Capital Public Radio.
Iran, apparently blissfully unaware that members of the media and the Obama Administration have been bedfellows for years, cited Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian’s online job application for a position in the Obama administration in 2008 as evidence that he is guilty of espionage.
On Monday evening, Austin Harr, 21, of Gridley, CA, drowned on his birthday when attempting to carry a 10-pound rock while swimming across the Gridley Plunge, a pond in the Oroville Wildlife Area, according to the Los Angeles Times.
For the second time in three days, former San Francisco Giants defensive end Ray McDonald, 30, was arrested.
On Tuesday night, the City Council of Davis unanimously passed an ordinance requiring every “restaurant that sells a children’s meal that includes a beverage” to offer milk or water to children as their first choice in children’s meals, according to Bay Area public radio station KQED.
Unlike the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles championed by California Governor Jerry Brown, a proposed bullet train from Southern California to Las Vegas approved by the Nevada legislature last week would not rely on state funds. According to
