On Thursday, FBI Director James Comey spoke at Georgetown University and told students that police should avoid “lazy mental short-cuts” that could induce them to think differently of minorities.
Some critics of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie accuse him of stalling a plan to bring one of the world’s largest online gambling companies to Atlantic City because Christie does not want to alienate Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which operates physical casinos.
The story of professional golfer Robert Allenby’s mugging, which hooked badly when homeless people claimed that he fabricated it, has sliced back in the fairway after Honolulu police acknowledged a suspect in the robbery is in custody.
It is commonly assumed that many people working in Silicon Valley possess higher intelligence, as the area is replete with scientists, technologists, and engineers. However, according to the California Department of Public Health (DPH), many of those same people are too smart–or not intelligent enough–to vaccinate their children.
In an ironic twist of fate, a Lake Forest, California councilman who changed the city’s sign code so harsher penalties would apply to anyone tampering with or removing campaign signs without permission was found guilty of committing the very same crime.
Fifty Shades of Grey, the film showing more sex than the 100 most sex-filled films of 2014, has been given a rating by France’s film board that will allow children as young as 12 to see it.
Much of the Congressional Black Caucus has decided to ignore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress about the impending Iranian nuclear threat, insisting that their insult is justified by what they call Netanyahu’s ”disrespect” of Barack Obama.
The Board of Education for the Los Angeles Unifies School District (LAUSD) has a new plan to help illegal alien students facing removal from the country: have the district’s lawyers volunteer time to help the students fight deportation. Although the ostensible
On Wednesday, the Jackie Robinson West Little League team from Chicago, the first all-black team to win the U.S. Championship, was stripped of its title after Little League Baseball determined that the team had used players from outside its geographic area.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, ignoring prospective critics arguing for the LGBT movement, rescinded an executive order issued in 2007 by former Governor Kathleen Sebelius that expanded laws specifically protecting LGBT state workers.
On Tuesday, an NYPD cop was indicted on manslaughter charges for shooting to death an unarmed Brooklyn man on November 20.
On January 6, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission employee Martin Sanchez, who makes $111,000 a year, decided he didn’t want to take the time to look for a bathroom, so instead he decided to urinate in the closest place available: the Priest Reservoir.
Boston Dynamics, owned by Google since 2013, has released a video of its new robot dog, Spot, in which workers try to kick it over, first gently and then more violently.
Until recently, Apple, like the queen in Snow White, may have been the fairest visionary company of all, but there’s a Snow White company challenging Apple as the cutting edge of business: Tesla.
Michael Jordan, who once called Barack Obama a “hack” golfer, turns out to be a hack speller—or maybe just guy with an interesting sense of humor.
The sinister world of George Orwell’s 1984, which was based on the Russian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, is fast becoming a living reality, as electronic devices on the market glean personal information from unsuspecting users. In particular, voice-activated services such as “smart TVs” permit the electronic devices with embedded ears to hear everything said by the user.
According to a new study released by the California Journal of Politics & Policy, Proposition 14, which was intended to entice voters toward more moderate positions by allowing the top two vote-getting candidates in the open primary to advance to a November run-off, has failed.
Workhorse right-hander James Shields of the Kansas City Royals, 33, agreed to sign with the San Diego Padres late Sunday night, accepting a four-year deal worth $75 million.
RadioShack, which owns roughly 4,000 stores in the United States and filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, started a final sale at 1,700 of its stores over the weekend to aid its restructuring. The sale was prompted by Friday’s ruling from Judge Brendan Shannon, who permitted it.
A smartphone app that permits users to post messages anonymously is causing some colleges to ban it from their schools’ wireless networks because some racist comments have been posted.
The battle to prevent police searches of smartphones, computers or tablets without a warrant has finally gained a key supporter: the tech industry.
The Orange County Register floated the possibility of a Jerry Brown 2016 run, noting that Brown has $24 million in his gubernatorial campaign coffers.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 72, told a standing-room-only crowd at the Aspen Institute that Colorado’s legalization of marijuana was stupid.
A new app, High There, allows people looking for smokers, whether cigarettes or marijuana, to find like-minded people to date.
It is looking more and more as if the race to succeed Barbara Boxer in the United States Senate will feature California Attorney General Kamala Harris against former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
