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The 20-year-old murderer who opened fire at Umpqua Community College on Thursday had lived in Southern California previously, according to news reports.

Tom Del Beccaro, former chair of the California Republican Party and a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2016, proposed a flat tax on Tuesday.

Barack Obama’s Iran deal looks worse with each passing day, as America’s enemies grow stronger and the U.S. becomes weaker.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has pledged a strong military and foreign policy–yet his policy on Russia is virtually indistinguishable from Barack Obama’s failing policy.

A new poll suggests that Californians are likely to favor pension reforms that will likely be heading to the ballot in November 2016.

An Indian tribe in California supports a local school’s use of the “Redskins” mascot that California legislators want to ban.

Two 22-year-old males have been charged with murder in the death last week of a 21-year-old female UCLA student. Prosecutors said the motive for the UCLA murder was robbery.

California may soon boast another Speaker of the House, as Republican Kevin McCarthy aims to take up the gavel given up less than five years ago by Democrat Nancy Pelosi. But the two U.S. Representatives from the Golden State are barely on speaking terms.

Liberal California geographer Joel Kotkin warns that growing antisemitism at University of California campuses is part of a disturbing global trend towards increasing bigotry from the political left.

A California-based non-profit, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), is being credited for busting Volkswagen for installing special software on vehicles to cheat diesel emissions tests.

An organization called Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives is proposing to build tiny houses for homeless people in the Northern California town of Eureka.

Bed bugs have infested another Bay Area public library–this time, the North Branch Berkeley Public Library.

Following the stunning news that Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) will resign after October, Democrats will feign empathy and argue that he was a victim of extremist Tea Party conservatives in the Republican caucus. In reality, Boehner is a victim of President Barack Obama’s aggressive brand of politics, for which he had no response.

California’s own Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who replaced Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader, could take over as Speaker of the House following John Boehner’s surprise resignation, announced on Friday.

Bill Clinton angles for his return, counting on nostalgia for a better past–one he has done more than anyone else to undermine.

Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post has awarded Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson for a statement justifying his skepticism of a hypothetical Muslim president: “Taqiyya is a component of Shia that allows, and even encourages you to lie to achieve your goals.”

On Monday, the Obama White House praised Iran for cooperating with international inspectors–as Iran inspected its own military facility for evidence of nuclear activity.

Donald Trump won a key legal battle last week when a federal district court in California partially decertified a class action lawsuit against Trump and the now-defunct Trump University, which once offered real estate classes.

Pharrell Williams will be greeted by 40,000 anti-Israel extremists protesting his performance Monday night in Cape Town.

As the effects of Net Neutrality have begun to appear in the tech industry, California’s Employment Development Department reports that the government created more jobs than the private sector did in the Bay Area in August.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is riding high after her sterling performance in last Wednesday’s GOP debate. Here are three next steps to take.

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza published a column on Friday arguing that California Gov. Jerry Brown should run for president.

The media are outraged that Donald Trump did not smack down a question from a member of the public who evidently believes President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Curiously, they continue to avoid talk of the church in which he embraced Christianity.

It was a chastened Donald Trump that met CNN’s Chris Cuomo on the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after Wednesday’s night’s marathon GOP debate.

Constitution Day 2015 arrives as the defiance of President Barack Obama has reached new lows. America needs eleven new informal political principles to restore the mores necessary for constitutional democracy to thrive

SIMI VALLEY — Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to take a position Wednesday night on whether the Senate should vote on the Iran deal.

Conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter ignited a social media firestorm Wednesday evening when she tweeted about “f—ing Jews” during the GOP debate, mocking the candidates’ focus on Israel.

A large magnitude 8.3 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Chile triggered tsunami alerts around the Pacific rim–including in California, where a small tsunami wave hit the coast early Thursday.

With the phrase, “I’ll jump in at the appropriate time,” California Gov. Jerry Brown dropped a hint Wednesday that he might, after all, enter the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2016.

Hundreds of journalists covered the GOP debate from the media filing center at the Reagan Presidential Library–and it seemed they could not get enough of frontrunner Donald J. Trump’s onstage performance.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cracked a joke about California’s drought at the start of the GOP debate on Wednesday evening.

In the second-tier GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday evening, moderator Jake Tapper asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) whether he would authorize a military strike against Iran (he initially said “nuclear strike,” then caught himself).

Vice President Joe Biden attacked Republicans as xenophobic for opposing illegal immigration on Tuesday, likening them to the “Know-Nothing party back at the end of the nineteenth century.” However, the Know-Nothings were done by 1860.

Senate Majority Leader appears to be taking last-ditch steps to stop the Iran deal, including an amendment that would prohibit President Barack Obama from lifting any sanctions until Ian lets four American captives go, and recognizes the State of Israel. However, McConnell’s ploy is just “kabuki” theater that will punish Democrats for supporting the Iran deal without stopping the deal itself.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has a greeting for the GOP Debate on Wednesday: Welcome, “Merchants of Destruction.” Brown deployed his characteristically acid rhetoric in an interview with Bloomberg, in which he flogged his climate change hobbyhorse and attacked the Republican field for neglecting, or denying the issue.

The second GOP debate of the 2016 presidential election takes place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley Wednesday evening–and, like past debates, California will share a spot onstage with the contenders.