According to The Hill, gay Republican candidate Carl DeMaio is getting big-time support from Speaker John Boehner. Despite opposition from some conservative groups, Boehener is visiting California this week to raise cash for DeMaio, who joins Massachusetts’s Richard Tisei as
A couple who just got engaged aboard a hot-air balloon near Cardiff-by-the-Sea on Sunday had to be rescued by surfers when the balloon started drifting out to sea, according to FOX5 San Diego. The balloon was gliding over homes near the
Google is being threatened with a $100 million lawsuit from an attorney representing celebrities whose private photos were published on Google, according to USA TODAY. Attorney Martin Singer wrote, “Google is making millions and profiting from the victimization of women.
Curtis Dvorak, who has been costumed for the last 18 seasons as Jaxson De Ville, the mascot for the Jacksonville Jaguars, is in big trouble for making an Ebola joke during Sunday’s game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mocking the Steelers
The first baby born after its mother had a womb transplant was delivered in September in Sweden. The mid-30s mother delivered a healthy baby boy by caesarean section, roughly two years after she had a uterus implanted that had been
Editor’s note: This story appeared in today’s edition of The Daily Mail. Standing in the arrivals lounge of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport this is the moment Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan unwittingly brought the deadly virus to the USA. Pictured
When the protean Johannes Brahms wrote his German Requiem, it is likely he never envisaged a group of demonstrators in St. Louis, Missouri interrupting a performance of his masterwork with a protest against the police, and even more likely that
The differences and similarities between CA Governor Jerry Brown and his GOP opponent, former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Neel Kashkari, can be summarized in this brief run-down of their public policy stances, as elucidated by the Orange County Register: Where they agree: Both
Local school districts around the country are going to take a huge financial hit in fiscal year 2015 because the cost of the school lunches they offer is expected to triple. The combination of escalating costs because of harsher restrictions
The judge in the Aaron Hernandez murder case threw out bullets found in his apartment that the prosecution submitted as evidence. Judge E. Susan Garsh said that the state police who found the bullets didn’t demonstrate probable cause for the
Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy acknowledged that the owners in the league have held discussions regarding the Washington Redskins nickname, according to Sports Illustrated. Murphy was formerly the athletic director at Colgate University when the school’s nickname
A fascinating moment occurred on Tuesday night, when TBS analyst Pedro Martinez blasted Royals manager Ned Yost after the game for bringing in rookie reliever Yordano Ventura in the sixth inning of the 12-inning, 9-8 Royals victory over the Oakland
CBS Los Angeles reports that in Covina, California, an argument between two men at a Home Depot on Monday escalated to the point where one man discharged pepper spray, affecting 12 people, four of whom were treated at a hospital.
California has no money left in its firefighting budget just three months after the beginning of the 2014-2015 fiscal year, in the midst of a crippling drought and widespread fires. As a result, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration will have to
College-age illegal immigrants in California now have access to a form of finance that used to be reserved for U.S. citizens: student loans, according to the Sacramento Bee. On Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1210, by State Sen.
In areas where marijuana is legal, governments are seizing opportunities to rake in loads of cash. In San Jose, where huge budget shortfalls and problems with pension reform have led to major financial losses and a loss of 20% of
Wendi Ward, the aunt of Kevin Ward Jr., the driver killed by Tony Stewart’s car at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park on August 9, issued an open letter that questions the relevance of the marijuana posthumously found in her nephew’s system
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown decided that he won’t let California impose stricter rules than the federal government for drone use by law enforcement, according to the Los Angeles Times. Brown vetoed AB 1327, a bill which would have forced law
For the second time in just weeks, hundreds of anti-Israel activists attempted to stop the Port of Oakland from unloading a duly-contracted and docked Israeli ship on Saturday. The ship, the Zim Shanghai, is 32 percent owned by Israeli shareholders. Conceding
California’s latest candidates for parents of the year have now emerged: Marco and Sandy Cuevas, who were arrested on Thursday in Moorpark after cops found a half-pound of cocaine in the back seat of the car. Next to their five-year-old
On Saturday, according to Los Angeles-area CBS News affiliate KCAL-9, an Encino deer hopped a 7-foot fence around a homeowner’s property and proceeded to land right in the swimming pool. And that’s where the buck stopped. Trapped in the pool
The bloodlust of climate change supporters was satiated a bit more on Tuesday as it looked likely that Facebook will end its relationship with the American Legislative Council (ALEC). The termination of the relationship is ostensibly because of ALEC’s fight
After Omar Jose Gonzales, 42, was arrested last Friday for jumping the White House fence and running inside, the Washington Post was informed of a classified mock attack on the White House security zone in the early 1990’s that showed the
Democratic Congressman Ami Bera, who is Indian, is losing support for his 2014 reelection because many Sikhs are angry at his refusal to acknowledge the Indian government’s culpability in the massacre of 3,000 Sikhs in India in 1984, according to
A report from PJ Media beautifully illustrates how the climate-change contingent is aligned with Communists who hope to change the American system. At a “People’s Climate Rally” in Oakland on September 21, the mask came off, and the underlying desire
