Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass launched a new task force Thursday to fight mass looting and retail theft in the region, and Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would triple the number of California Highway Patrol officers in the city to assist the effort.
A tropical storm named Hilary off the west coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean officially became a Category 2 Hurricane on Thursday morning, and is on a course to skirt Baja California by midday Sunday, continuing north to California and the U.S.
“1. Attack Joe Biden and the media 3-5 times. 2. State GRD’s positive vision 2-3 times. 3. Hammer Vivek Ramaswamy in a response. 4. Defend Donald Trump in absentia in response to a Chris Christie attack.”
A state water agency in Hawaii has been accused of delaying the release of water from a traditional farm that landowners reportedly wanted to use to protect their property as the Maui wildfire spread last week.
Hold a nationwide bidding contest. Pick a winner — preferably in a rural state, and near a transportation hub — and move the agency and the agents out of D.C.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Hawaiian Electric, the biggest power supplier in the state, focused on shifting to renewable energy sources to combat climate change, rather than spending money to address fire risk around its power lines.
John Podesta, the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, took to the White House briefing room podium on Wednesday to blame climate change for the Maui wildfire and to tout the Inflation Reduction Act.
Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin argued this week that former President Donald Trump can pardon himself from state charges if he wins the presidency, under existing Department of Justice policy and the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.
President Donald Trump cannot easily obtain a pardon in Georgia if he is convicted on one or more of the 13 counts unveiled against him in Fulton County on Monday, because the state’s governor does not have the power to grant pardons, as elsewhere.
Activists officially filed a recall against Alameda County, California, District Attorney Pamela Price, who was backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros in a failed 2018 bid, and has allowed crime to soar in Oakland since winning her election in 2022.
The Georgia indictment of President Donald Trump and 18 lawyers, aides, and supporters reflects the unfortunate totalitarian tradition of prosecuting leaders and members of the political opposition in mass trials in which defendants have few rights.
Georgia’s leading elected state officials, who are Republicans, reacted Tuesday to Monday’s late-night indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 other lawyers, aides, and supporters by reiterating that there was no voter fraud in 2020.
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted twice each in state and federal court and faces 717.5 years in prison if given max sentences.
If successful, the Georgia indictment could criminalize Republican efforts to challenge election results and chill free speech and assembly.
Former President Trump could face up to 76.5 years in the Georgia indictment, bringing the total state/federal potential to 717.5 years.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Monday that District Attorney Fani Willis had indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others for a “conspiracy” that was exactly what Democrats did in challenging the 2000 election.
The Georgia indictment includes many statements that fall under the category of political speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump responded after midnight Tuesday morning to the late-night indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, by District Attorney Fani Willis, calling it “as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process.”
Twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate and national Democrat celebrity Stacey Abrams is still free as of Monday, despite having maintained for years that her 2018 race was stolen — a claim for which former President Donald Trump has been indicted.
The 98-page, 41-count indictment handed down by a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury on Monday evening charges former President Donald Trump, his lawyers, and his campaign aides with multiple crimes for a nationwide challenge to the 2020 vote.
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump blasted the apparent release of a draft indictment by the court in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday, saying it was the latest of several “glaring constitutional violations” in the investigation.
The official court website of Fulton County, Georgia, published an indictment against former President Donald Trump on Monday before deleting it, a bizarre, unexplained act that critics say violated Trump’s constitutional rights to due process of law.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at a briefing Monday that there was “zero evidence” that President Joe Biden had “discussed,” or was “involved with,” his son Hunter’s business dealings, now under scrutiny by a special counsel.
While Trump is often accused of telling Raffensperger to “find me the votes,” the transcript of the conversation shows that Trump said something else: “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state.”
The Fitch Ratings agency announced Monday that Israel’s credit rating remains at A+ and the outlook for the country’s economy is “stable,” noting that the country’s judicial reforms are not likely to have a negative impact on skills or investment.
CNN reported Sunday that lawyers for the 2020 presidential campaign of President Donald Trump received a “written invitation” to inspect voting machines and software in Georgia’s Coffee County — though that is not how CNN’s headline portrayed it.
A group of about ten self-driving taxis became stuck in the San Francisco neighborhood of North Beach on Friday evening, causing a traffic jam just one day after regulators voted to allow driverless taxi companies virtual free rein in the city.
A mob of looters ransacked a Nordstrom location in the Westfield Topanga mall in the San Fernando Valley on Saturday afternoon, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to condemn the chaos.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware as Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden contradicts federal regulations requiring that a special counsel be chosen from outside the government.
Democratic presidential challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the wildfires in Maui and elsewhere in Hawaii are a problem that can unite both activists and skeptics of climate change, because the underlying cause is poor environmental management.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he would appoint U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware as Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, a day after Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said he would subpoena members of the Biden family.
Judge Tanya Chutkin ruled Friday in Washington, D.C., that former President Donald Trump will be allowed to comment on his case publicly, but will not be allowed to comment on witnesses or to reveal witness testimony, including videos and transcripts.
The devastating wildfires that have scorched Hawaii and destroyed much of the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui have been fueled by invasive alien grassland species that have grown on abandoned farms that used to cultivate pineapple and other crops.
The collapse of Proterra marks another major “green” failure for Joe Biden, whom the media never hold accountable for past mistakes.
Special Counsel Jack Smith told a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that prosecutors want to start the trial of former President Donald Trump on January 2, 2024, right before the Iowa caucuses launch the Republican presidential primary.
Dr. Kar Hao Teoh, a renowned British orthopedic surgeon, was murdered last week in Cape Town after taking a wrong turn near the airport and driving into a poor neighborhood wracked by violent protests against the local government’s new taxi regulations.
For the media, Gold Star families are only there to be exploited. If they criticize Democrats, they can be written off and ignored.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog confronted a group of protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms on Wednesday and told them to seek dialogue with their opponents — whereupon they refused and told him to stop the reforms.
The January 6 Committee defied a demand last year by incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that it preserve all of its records, evidence, and transcripts, and has destroyed much of what it collected over more than a year of investigation.
The New York Times reported Tuesday on a “secret memo” that proposed way in which the Trump campaign might use “alternate electors” in the event that challenges to the 2020 presidential election results were pending when Congress met on January 6.
