One of the victims of the San Bernardino massacre was an Iranian Roman Catholic who had fled Iran in 1987 to “escape Islamic extremism and the persecution of Christians that followed the Iranian Revolution,” according to a statement released by her family.
Super Bowl 50 will feature the British rock band Coldplay as its halftime act on February 7.
One of the 14 victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, wrote in a Facebook post the day before the attack that he had received threats for days, including one that stated, “You will die and never see Israel.”
The entire small police force of North, South Carolina, including police chief Mark Fallaw, has resigned, prompted by the city’s new mayor issuing a gag order for the department.
On Tuesday night, the Anderson City Council voted unanimously to hang a sign reading “In God We Trust” in the city council chambers. The council stated that the display will be prominently featured and will remain permanent, according to Action News Now.
On Wednesday, three years early, the California Nurses Association announced that it was endorsing Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2018 gubernatorial bid.
On Thursday, a report from a bipartisan investigation of the Secret Service will be released. The report accuses the agency of laxity and incompetence in recent years, ascribing the problem to mismanagement and low morale.
Although the NFL has scheduled a special meeting on the Los Angeles relocation situation for January, Rams owner Stan Kroenke charges ahead, offering a deal to the San Diego Chargers or Oakland Raiders to share a new $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood, California.
On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan announced that in honor of their daughter’s birth, they would donate 99 percent of their shares in Facebook, valued at $45 billion, to various causes.
On Tuesday, Christopher Kohrs, 38, a.k.a. the “Hot Cop of the Castro,” was charged with two felony counts of hit-and-run stemming from a North Beach hit-and-run crash early Sunday morning.
According to a new Fusion 2016 Issues Poll, the percentage of young white people age 18-35 who believe the American Dream is dead has almost tripled since 1986.
On Tuesday, Tiger Woods finally spoke out about his future at a news conference from the Bahamas. It sounds as dark and depressing as a nine-iron through the back window of your car after your wife catches you cheating with a series of porn stars.
UnitedHealth Group chief executive Stephen Hemsley told investors on Tuesday that he rushed the huge insurance company into the Obamacare government-run exchanges too soon, costing the company at least $425 million.
On Monday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that the House investigation of Planned Parenthood for allegedly selling fetal tissue to researchers for profit will continue.
Eight Democrat state legislators are joining California Gov. Jerry Brown at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this week. Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) are leading the delegation.
In a story reminiscent of the Three Little Pigs, a man attempting to burglarize a home in Huron, California on Saturday by climbing down the chimney died when he became stuck and the homeowner returned and started a fire.
Officer Christopher Kohrs, 38, feted by the gay community of San Francisco as the “Hot Cop of Castro,” was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run after allegedly ramming two men in his 2009 Dodge Charger in North Beach at roughly 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
On Monday in Britain, after his shocking victory over Wladimir Klitschko in Duesseldorf on Saturday, Tyson Fury accused the Ukranian’s camp of cheating, adding that he didn’t even drink the water after their bout because he feared it might be drugged.
The Hollywood Christmas Parade has selected two famous atheists to be its grand marshals. Magicians Penn and Teller, both avowed atheists, will host the event, according to ABC 7.
International outrage erupted after a woman in South Daytona, Florida posted a picture on Facebook Friday morning of her dog with its muzzle taped shut with duct tape to keep it from barking.
On Friday afternoon, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies found a newborn baby girl buried alive beside a bike path in Compton.
Congress plans to hold hearings on California’s controversial Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project, as estimates from the project’s lead contractor predicted significant cost overruns that the rail authority is attempting to deny.
A homeless man living in an encampment in Los Angeles was found armed with two machine guns, four handguns, two makeshift silencers and ammunition. He was arrested by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
Europe will return tens of thousands of illegal Pakistani migrants, according to Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for Migration, Home affairs and Citizenship, who made the announcement in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
After a landslide profoundly buckled a 150-foot section of Vasquez Canyon Road between Lost Canyon Road and Vasquez Way in Santa Clarita, skateboarders eager for a severe test descended on the area , according to ABC 7.
On November 5, a man registered as a sex offender was caught after he passed through a TSA checkpoint using a woman’s boarding pass that she misplaced.
A progressive catfight has erupted between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as they argue over who is more sympathetic to the homeless.
For the first time, the Washington Redskins will play a regular season game in London in 2016, and a possibility exists that they may play two games consecutively there, making them the first NFL team to do so.
Thanks in part to California Republican political consultant Rob Stutzman, Louisiana has elected a Democratic governor instead of a Republican one.
Latino workers at a fashion headwear business in Carson have noticed that they are making more money, and they owe it all to one man: Donald Trump.
According to Forbes, the New York Rangers have leapfrogged over the Toronto Maple Leafs to head the list as the most valuable franchise in the NHL.
On Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, sucker-punching the largely GOP state one last time before he leaves office, issued an executive order granting the right to vote to roughly 140,000 nonviolent felons whose sentences have been completed.
On Monday’s Hannity on the Fox News Channel, Carly Fiorina stated it would be fair for a GOP candidate to use Hillary Clinton’s contention that sexual assault victims must be believed and ask her if she believed the numerous women that have alleged Bill Clinton has assaulted them.
On Tuesday, Western Washington University (WWU) called off its classes on its main campus in Bellingham, WA, due to media posts that President Bruce Shepard called “hate speech targeted at Western students of color.”
On Monday, a judge freed a legal immigrant who had served 16 years in prison after being falsely accused of rape.
Consumers preparing for Black Friday are arriving at stores far earlier this year than ever before; some customers have been camped out since last week.
The American Highway Users Alliance has released a study arguing that the worst bottleneck in the nation exists in Chicago, but L.A. traffic can boast the second-through-seventh worst.
A national survey by Pew Research Center reveals how distrustful the American public feels about the media; 65 percent say the national news media impacts the country negatively.
The Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority has approved XpressWest, which wants to build a 185-mile high-speed rail line between Victorville and Las Vegas, as a franchisee.
Dave Roberts, the fleet outfielder who executed arguably the most famous stolen base in baseball history, raced past other candidates to grab the job as the Los Angeles Dodgers’ new manager.
