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Students at Occidental College who have occupied an administration building this week have demanded that campus safety officers stop wearing bulletproof vests.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that Air France flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) was diverted to Salt Lake City Tuesday evening after a bomb threat was received, KABC reports.

There are several reasons the Jewish and Syrian crises have little in common, and why opposition is different in the two cases

Farid Esack, a former professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, blamed the West for the Paris attacks in a post on his Facebook page, calling them “your chickens come home to roost.”

President Barack Obama announced 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Monday. The list includes several prominent Hollywood leftists–including Steven Spielberg, who gave Obama an award last year.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal faced a storm of criticism earlier this year for describing “no-go” zones in Europe–areas dominated by Muslim immigrants where police had limited control, and which were hotbeds for terrorism and radicalism as a result.

Obama’s statement in October 2008 that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” is well-known. Less well-known is the fact that he said it at Mizzou.

One of the terrorists involved in the horrific attacks in Paris on Friday evening was reportedly rescued by Greek authorities from a refugee boat that sank off the coast of Greece last month.

California governor Jerry Brown ordered the state Capitol to fly its flags at half-staff in honor of the victims of the Paris terror attacks, including the first identified American casualty, California State University Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, 23.

The moderators at the second Democratic debate at Drake University in Iowa on Saturday, led by John Dickerson of CBS News, did a slightly better job than moderators had done at most past debates–but only slightly.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the dominant presence onstage at Drake University in Iowa for the Democratic debate. But Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was the winner.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley at Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa: “With all due respect, I think it’s safe to say Baltimore is not now one of the safest cities in America.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Democratic Party presidential debate on Saturday evening in Iowa that she would not use the phrase “radical Islam” to describe the enemy responsible for attacking the United States and the west in general. Her opponents agreed.

A California-based rock band, Eagles of Death Metal, was performing at the theater in Paris, France that was attacked by gunmen Friday night, and where 100 hostages are reportedly being held.

“If anybody puts their hands on you, send them to the cemetery!” So said the leader of the Afrikan Black Coalition, addressing 1,000 students, union members, and local activists at the University of California Berkeley

BERKELEY — Roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of Sproul Hall at the University of California Berkeley to protest for free tuition and demonstrate solidarity with students at the University of Missouri. The Berkeley demonstration was one of more than

The student demonstrations that have thrown the University of Missouri and other campuses around the nation into chaos will sweep across California on Thursday as part of a national effort called the “Million Student March.”

The clear winner of Tuesday night’s GOP debate was the Fox Business Network, which conducted two lively sessions that were freewheeling, substantive–and, for the most part, fair. The entire GOP field benefited from the chance to showcase their policies. But

Tuesday evening’s GOP debate was billed as a discussion of the economy. And in the first hour, the Fox Business Network moderators kept the focus on wages, jobs, and taxes. But the most fascinating exchange came in the second hour, when questions about foreign policy produced freewheeling exchanges on foreign policy that covered nearly every perspective in the GOP, and which the moderators–to their credit–allowed to unfold relatively freely.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did something at the GOP debate on Tuesday night that no other candidate had done before: he targeted Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in nearly every single answer.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charmed the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) in an unusual talk on Tuesday that some on the left had protested vehemently.

On Tuesday evening, Fox Business will host the third GOP debate. Here is what each of the GOP candidates must do.

A whistleblower has emerged in the controversy of Governor Jerry Brown’s use of state oil experts to study his own family’s private land.

In 1967, University of California president Clark Kerr was fired by the Board of Regents for being too lenient in dealing with student protests. On Monday, Tim Wolfe of the University of Missouri resigned because he had not been lenient enough.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama today, their relationship is as frosty as ever. But both men can say they achieved their primary goals in the U.S.-Israel alliance.

As much criticism as there is of the Kardashian clan these days, Kim Kardashian has done something immensely positive for society by flaunting her pregnancy, most recently in a form-fitting lace Givenchy bodysuit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Helicopters and fire crews on the ground combined to beat a brush fire overnight and into early Sunday morning in the wealthy coastal community of Pacific Palisades.

Kyle D. Cheney, the Politico reporter who wrote last Friday’s discredited hit piece on Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson, has a flair for hyperbole, writing about a 2004 arrest: “I was in Guantánamo for 12 Hours.”

The U.S. Navy fired a test missile over Southern California on Saturday night, startling millions of residents for hundreds of miles, as a military exercise also diverted the path of flights to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

Politico’s Carson story meets the Dan Rather standard of “fake but accurate”–that is, a lie validated by a left-wing “larger truth.” This is not the first time we conservatives have fallen for it, but it should be the last.

Luke Montgomery, the director behind an anti-Donald Trump video featuring Latino children yelling obscenities, is defending his film and lashing out against Breitbart News.

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s explanations about why state experts were sent to survey his family’s private land for oil and gas face increasing skepticism.

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s office responded Thursday to allegations by the Associated Press that he had used state experts to explore the oil potential of his family’s private land by insisting he had done nothing illegal.

California Gov. Jerry Brown appears to have committed an impeachable offense in using state experts to study the potential for oil development on his private property, as uncovered by the Associated Press on Thursday.

Patricia Oliver, the attorney who uncovered Jerry Brown’s use of state oil and gas experts to search for oil on his family’s private property, told Breitbart News on Thursday that the California governor should “just confess.”

Harvard Law School professor Larry Lessig told Breitbart News Daily on Thursday morning that Democrats had excluded him from the presidential race to protect the “coronation” of Hillary Clinton.