Joel B. Pollak

Israel slammed the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) after it produced a report claiming, falsely, that Israel tried to harm Palestinian fertility during the recent war in Gaza, and used sexual violence against Palestinians.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner posted a moving video on Tuesday about his visit last week to the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, two communities that were devastated by the recent L.A. fires.

Israel and Lebanon are holding the first direct talks that could lead to normalization and peace between the two nations, following Israel’s victory over Hezbollah in the recent war and Lebanon’s election of a new president.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) secretly paid for his own monument inside San Francisco’s City Hall, according to a book released Tuesday.

California Republicans announced Tuesday that they are launching an effort to put a referendum on the 2026 ballot that would require voter ID in elections.

The repeal of Measure ULA is an urgent necessity — before it is too late to rebuild what was lost.

Malibu, California, which was burned by the Franklin Fire in December and the Palisades Fire in January, suffered a 4.1-magnitude earthquake on Sunday — and is apparently facing a series of similar small earthquakes in the future.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who graduated from Columbia University and led radical protests there, on Saturday, a sign of a Trump administration crackdown.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is deleting her text messages, thus defeating efforts by media organizations to obtain them as government communications subject to public records requests, according to the Los Angeles Times.

President Donald Trump and entrepreneur Elon Musk both responded to South Africa’s latest diplomatic provocations on Friday, with both slamming the country’s racially discriminatory laws and practices.

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, blasted California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for abandoning transgender athletes earlier this week in an interview with conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Billions of dollars spent on services for homeless people in Los Angeles are unaccounted for, after a court-ordered audit conducted by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA).

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has released the list of insurance companies that have agreed to give fire victims over 75% of coverage without making “the list” of their belongings. State Farm is not one of them.

When he arrived, HUD Secretary Scott Turner said: “I’m here, and I’m willing and able to help and to serve.” He meant it. So… was Reagan wrong?

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner announced Thursday that the Trump administration is extending a foreclosure moratorium for an additional 90 days to victims of the Los Angeles fires.

Los Angeles County officially sued utility company Southern California Edison on Wednesday, claiming that its power lines caused the spark that ignited the Eaton Fire in high winds on January 7.

President Donald Trump met with eight freed Israeli and American-Israeli hostages in the Oval Office on Wednesday, saying he was deeply moved by the experience and vowing to punish Hamas and Gaza generally if all are not released.

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner traveled to the Pacific Palisades on Wednesday evening to meet local residents and hear from them firsthand about their needs.

State Farm has chosen to ignore California State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s recommendation that all insurance companies pay 100% of personal property coverage rather than asking fire victims to itemize all contents.

A State Farm executive appeared in a video released Wednesday to say that homes should never have been built in the Pacific Palisades at all, blaming the victims of the recent Los Angeles wildfires, including State Farm’s own customers.

President Donald Trump has decided to bypass Egypt and Qatar as middlemen, and negotiate directly with Hamas for the release of the remaining hostages, breaking a taboo against negotiating with terrorists in order to achieve a result.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who infamously tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in 2020, had to watch in frustrated silence from the House benches as he addressed Congress on Tuesday.

Billionaire Nicole Shanahan, who ran as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election, will pour millions of dollars into an effort to recall Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over her mishandling of the wildfires.

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik has written an article celebrating the South Carolina wildfires because he believes they mean California, no longer uniquely exposed to such fires, will not face conditions on federal funds.

President Donald Trump mentioned the hostages in Gaza, however briefly, in his address to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

President Donald Trump had a special message for the people of Greenland in his address to Congress on Tuesday: one way or the other, you will be Americans. Trump began politely, telling Greenlanders that he respected their right to choose

The Los Angeles City Council backed Mayor Karen Bass’s decision to fire L.A. Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, voting 13-2 to affirm the firing. Crowley would have needed ten votes to be reinstated.

Egypt has proposed its alternative to President Donald Trump’s idea of annexing Gaza and moving its inhabitants: spend $53 billion to remove the rubble and rebuild Gaza, in the same place, with the same people, next to Israel.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) ordered state employees to return to the office for at least four days a week on Monday, copying a policy that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used at the federal level.

California Democrat State Assemblyman Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) is rushing to amend a proposed bill that would have made it unlawful for a homeowner to exercise self-defense against a burglar in many circumstances.

The New York Times reported Monday on how the local baseball little league in Pacific Palisades is helping the community stay together in the wake of the Palisades Fire, and helping children recover from the trauma of the blaze.

California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) purged five Republicans and one moderate Democrat from legislative committees late Friday, apparently in retaliation for their efforts at oversight and bipartisanship.

South African police confirmed Monday that they have opened a “treason” investigation into four individuals who are believed to be associated with Afriforum, a group that advocates for the rights and interests of Afrikaner farmers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Sunday thanking President Donald Trump profusely for his help in what seemed a pointed and deliberate contrast to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior.