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Drought Critics: Obama’s California Golf Game Out of Bounds

Global warming activists and environmentalists continue to complain about President Barack Obama’ Father’s Day weekend stint in the drought-stricken state of California, during which he touted his commitment to combat climate change and then jetted off to Palm Springs to hit some balls on the manicured greens of the elite Annenberg Estate Sunnylands.

More Obama golf (Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty)

San Diego TB Rate Is Twice the National Average

San Diego cases of tuberculosis are double the national average health officials say, raising again the question of the role of illegal immigration in the spread of very serious like tuberculosis (TB) in the United States.

‘Silent Disco’ Hits San Francisco

Scores of celebratory San Franciscans dancing to synced headphone tunes joined Thursday in a trendy silent disco for the re-opening of San Francisco’s $20.5 million remodeled Dolores Park.

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San Diegans Celebrate Shower-Free #DroughtDay

SAN DIEGO — Some San Diego residents did their part to raise awareness of water compensation by avoiding showers on June 17 in celebration of “Drought Day.”

San Diego Beach Shower (Herb Neufeld / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

Environmental Regulations May Spur Chargers’ Move to L.A.

Stadium negotiations between the Chargers organization and City of San Diego officials hit a rough patch again Tuesday when Chargers’ special counsel Mark Fabiani announced that a ballot measure to streamline burdensome California environmental regulations could not make an end-of-year deadline. After

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Rep. Sanchez to Seek Democrat Leadership Post

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) is jumping into what is shaping into a very competitive race between Congressional Democrats for the coveted position of Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus in the next Congress.

Linda Sanchez (Associated Press)

Arrested at the Border: 3 Swimmers, 2 in a Trunk, 1 Smuggler

In two separate incidents Sunday night and Monday morning, five Mexican nationals crossed illegally into the United States over the southern border with Mexico–with two smuggled in the trunk of a U.S. citizen woman. In the early hours of Monday morning, San

Mexico border sea beach (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty)

Woman in Labor Gets Flat Tire on I-5

A flat tire stalled a woman in labor en route to the hospital early Monday morning. The woman chose to wait with her family on the side of the I-5 freeway in San Diego while the tire was changed.

Flat tire (Marufish / Flickr / CC)

Shannon Grove: I Never Blamed Abortion for the Drought

California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) is firing back against attacks suggesting she told a pro-life group that California’s drought is the result of abortion, a claim she says she never made. Grove spoke at the June 1 California ProLife Council

Shannon Grove (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Del Beccaro: Senate Race ‘Historic Moment’ for CA Republicans

This is an “incredibly historic moment for all of us. Next year, after 20 years of our agony, Barbara Boxer is going to retire,” U.S. Senate candidate Tom Del Beccaro told the San Diego County Republican Party June meeting last week.

Tom Del Beccaro (Facebook)

DeMaio, Peters Clash as Allegations Against DeMaio Fall Apart

A flurry of accusations continues to engulf what was one of the most dramatic national races of 2014–namely, Carl DeMaio versus Scott Peters in the battle over San Diego’s 52nd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Schwarzenegger Launches ‘Terminator Genisys’ at Camp Pendleton

Action star turned California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is “back” as the famed Terminator ,and Sunday brought hundreds of Camp Pendleton Marines and their families the first U.S. screening of his new potential blockbuster, Terminator Genisys.     The “Governator” got

Schwarzenegger (Kevin WInter / Getty)

CA Assemblywoman Under Fire for Linking Drought with Abortion

California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) is facing a piranha-like feeding frenzy of criticism over comments she made at a pro-life banquet relating to drought and abortion policy, which were picked up by pro-abortion website RH Reality Check.

Baby Rain (Todd Lappin / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

Rand Paul Lights the Torch for San Diego Republicans

2016 Presidential hopeful Senator Rand Paul condemned Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her role in the Benghazi scandal in an address to over 800 San Diego Republicans Saturday night. Paul, the featured guest for the San Diego County Republican

Rand Paul in San Diego (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

U.S. Med Students in Cuba Bring Centralized Medicine Push Home

American Lillian Burnett of Oakland, California is four years into a medical school in the communist country of Cuba, where she says she has been taught that physicians have a role in gun violence and police brutality issues.

Javier Galeano/AP

California Pushes Plans for Voting by Mail

California election officials Wednesday released plans for new legislation with the stated aim of “provid[ing] greater flexibility and convenience” for voters, including voting by mail, in the hope that the changes will boost voter turnout.

Mail US Postal (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

San Diego Police Take Apart LEGO Theft Ring

Surveillance video caught burglars pilfering valuable LEGOs and Disney’s “Frozen” toys from all five Toys “R” Us stores around San Diego County.

LEGO face (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty)

Vaccine Bill Passes Assembly Committee Despite Red Sea of Opposition

SACRAMENTO — As a sea of red-clad protestors looked on, California’s fiercely debated vaccine mandate bill, SB 277, passed through the State Assembly Committee on Health on an essentially party-line vote of 12-6 on Tuesday, with one Democrat abstaining.

SB 277 committee (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

Nation of Islam Joins Anti-Vaccine Bill Protest in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO — A sea of red flowed over the steps of California’s State Capitol on Tuesday as opponents of the new vaccine bill, SB 277, rallied against its passage. Hundreds gathered to hear legislators and a diverse variety of Californians from across the state denounce the bill ahead of a public hearing in the State Assembly’s Committee on Health.

Islam SB277 (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

Chargers Stadium Battle Gets Political on Social Media

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Chargers organization is calling foul against a San Diego-based business association that has publicly questioned the integrity and intentions of the team in negotiations to build a new stadium in the city.

Chargers Stadium (Sandy Huffaker / Getty)

Kimberly Guilfoyle : ‘Don’t Ever Be Afraid of the No’

Fiercely successful, Kimberly Guilfoyle has taken an inspiring path on her way to becoming the woman she is today, finding out at the age of nine that her mother was dying of leukemia and losing her at 11-years-old.

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Donnelly Joins Bus Brigade Against Vaccine Mandate Bill

Californians against school vaccine bill SB 277, led by former State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, are heading from southern California up to Sacramento in a brigade of buses to take a stand against the pending legislation.

Tim Donnelly (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

SeaWorld Shows Signs of Recovery from Blackfish Wounds

SAN DIEGO — New metrics indicate that SeaWorld may be turning the corner on the way back to recovery. The organization had faced massive criticism, and serious public and financial backlash, over accusations in the 2013 movie Blackfish and charges from animal activist groupPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) relating to the well-being of orcas (killer whales) in captivity at SeaWorld parks.

Sea World (AP)

California’s Sinkage Headed for Record Summer

Epic levels of sinking lands across California could hit new 50-year lows come summer without any concrete plans to stem the tide brought on by record drought and government regulatory strangleholds preventing free flow of above ground options.

Rich Pedroncelli/AP

New Tsunami Warning Resurrects Old California Fears

Californians have been warned for decades that “the big one” could shove the coveted coastline into the sea in the wake of a massive earthquake like the one featured in Vin Diesel’s new disaster flick San Andreas. Now, a new study is pumping statistics into old fears that the threat could come to life.

Tsunami Drill (Michelle Moons / Breitbart News)

Bipartisan Coalition Unveils 2016 Pension Reform Referendum

A bipartisan coalition of former and current elected officials, together with fiscal accountability groups, revealed much-anticipated plans Thursday for the newest installment in statewide ballot initiative efforts to combat the crushing burden of public employee pensions in California. The measure is slated to face California voters in November 2016.

CalPERS (Reuters / Max Whittaker)

California Senate Fight over Jerry Brown’s Climate Change Agenda

Amplifying AB 32, the Schwarzenegger-era cap-and-trade law, Democrat legislators in California are set to impose even more aggressive greenhouse gas reductions that would lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to 80% below 1990 levels by the year 2050.

Jerry Brown-Schwarzenegger (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

KFC Sues Chinese Companies for Saying Its Chickens Have 8 Legs

Kentucky Fried Chicken’s China division is striking back against rumors that it has genetically modified chickens to grow six wings and eight legs, filling a defamation suit against three Chinese companies as the Chinese government launches a campaign a to cleanse online “rumors, negativity and unruliness.”

KFC China (AFP / Getty)

Senate Conservatives Fund: ‘John McCain Is in Real Trouble’

McCain’s campaign team was recently called out on Twitter by the American Conservative Union (ACU) for selectively promoting his ratings with the influential group. A review of ACU ratings for the long time Senator’s voting record shows a trend toward more conservative voting going into tough election years. McCain’s Team posted his 2014 rating of 91 percent, ignoring the 53 percent from the prior year.

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Boston Terror: Oakland Imam Claims Cops Shot Brother in Back

Oakland Imam Ibrahim Rahim is clashing with law enforcement over the details of the death of his younger brother, Usaama Rahim, saying his brother was shot in the back and not lunging at officers in Boston with a large, military-style knife.

Ibrahim Rahim (Facebook)