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The absolute worst combination of warm weather, followed by rain and freezing temperatures, threatens a major portion of California’s $6 billion almond crop.

byChriss W. Street23 Feb 2018, 12:55 PM PST0

San Luis Reservoir (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

California Republican state legislators showed up to the California Water Commission (CWC) this week to demand that $2.7 billion of Proposition 1 Water Bonds be spent to build new reservoirs.

byChriss W. Street23 Feb 2018, 12:50 PM PST0

The media is rejoicing at a ruling by the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) which claims that Google was within its rights to fire its former software engineer, James Damore, for questioning company diversity policies. Except there’s one snag: the NLRB “ruling” wasn’t a ruling at all – it’s an internal advice memo with no effect on Damore’s current legal claims.

byAllum Bokhari23 Feb 2018, 12:27 PM PST0

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk offered on Twitter to build the Australian battery farm, and completed it last week to narrowly beat his self-imposed deadline of having it ready in 100 days

A new lawsuit from a former employee claims that Tesla knowingly sold faulty cars that they referred to as “lemons” to the public.

byLucas Nolan23 Feb 2018, 9:46 AM PST0

California Democrats will have a 24-hour “sexual assault and harassment” hotline at this weekend’s party convention in San Diego as some top Democrats in the state have had to resign or come under fire because of allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment.

byTony Lee23 Feb 2018, 12:56 AM PST0

Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives -- shown here in January at an event in Florida -- spoke for more than eight hours on the House floor, the longest in more than a century

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tripled down on calling the GOP’s recently enacted tax cuts “crumbs” after multiple Democrats warned her this week that doing so could make Democrats look like “patricians” to working-class voters and hurt the party’s chances of taking back Congress in the fall.

byTony Lee23 Feb 2018, 12:51 AM PST0

Trump arms folded ICE California (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to pull the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency out of California to punish the state for what he called its efforts to shield criminal gang members in “sanctuary cities.”

byJoel B. Pollak22 Feb 2018, 10:24 AM PST0

Kamala Harris (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown suggested that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) cares more about leading the 2020 resistance movement than so-called Dreamers.

byTony Lee22 Feb 2018, 10:19 AM PST0

Kamala Harris (Jose Luis Magana / Associated Press)

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said on Thursday that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is not going to silence her after NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre name-checked her during his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) address, saying Harris is a member of the “new wave of European-style socialists” that has “infested” the Democrats.

byTony Lee22 Feb 2018, 10:12 AM PST0

Stanford University announced this semester that male students are banned from the university gym twice a week in order to promote “inclusivity.”

byTom Ciccotta22 Feb 2018, 10:01 AM PST0

Darth Vader, is set to make a comeback in the first standalone

A judge has blown up a lawsuit brought by Disney like the Death Star, after the company tried to stop Redbox from selling digital download codes for its movies.

byCharlie Nash22 Feb 2018, 9:28 AM PST0

drug traffickers fired upon military helicopters

A total of 400 elements of the Mexican Army were dispatched to Tijuana to help crack down on the ongoing cartel violence that plagues the once-popular tourist destination.

byRobert Arce22 Feb 2018, 9:08 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 25: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a weekly news briefing May 25, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Pelosi held her weekly briefing to answer questions from members of the media. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Not one of five Democrats running for outgoing Republican congressman Darrell Issa’s seat would commit on Tuesday night to support current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for Speaker of the House should Democrats return to power in 2019.

byMichelle Moons22 Feb 2018, 6:19 AM PST0

Mercedes (Thomas Niedermueller / Getty)

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Mercedes-Benz for equipping its diesel vehicles with emissions testing “defeat” devices similar to those that cost Volkswagen $32 billion.

byChriss W. Street22 Feb 2018, 12:01 AM PST0

Sanctuary Now

“There needs to be some consequence for having a sanctuary policy,” said Jessica Vaughan, advising the federal government to withhold certain funding from “sanctuary jurisdictions” that shield criminal illegal aliens from justice. “Sanctuary policies,” she added, “are killing Americans.”

byRobert Kraychik21 Feb 2018, 8:45 PM PST0

Amanda Renteria (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

Amanda Renteria, Hillary Clinton’s national political director in the 2016 presidential race, insists that she is not a tool for fellow Democratic candidate Antonio Villaraigosa.

byAdelle Nazarian21 Feb 2018, 6:53 PM PST0

#TwitterLockOut became the number one trending hashtag on Twitter, Wednesday, after conservatives reported various account sanctions, including the loss of thousands of followers.

byCharlie Nash21 Feb 2018, 9:57 AM PST0

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2016, file photo, state Sen. Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia, listens at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Eyes are on the California Senate's handling of sexual misconduct allegations against one of its members as lawmakers return to Sacramento for the new year. Mendoza is resisting pressure to step aside amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct toward young women who worked for him. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

A Democrat California senator behaved in ways that were “sexually suggestive” toward six of his female colleagues, including four subordinates, an investigation released Tuesday concluded.

byKatherine Rodriguez21 Feb 2018, 9:53 AM PST0

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirms that a security guard at Whittier, California’s El Camino High School thwarted a mass shooting on Friday.

byAWR Hawkins21 Feb 2018, 8:56 AM PST0

hypodermic needles on streets of San Francisco

One of the most expensive U.S. cities to live in is on track to become one of the dirtiest cities in the world, an investigation revealed.

byKatherine Rodriguez20 Feb 2018, 10:21 PM PST0

The Boring Company Flame Throwers

Washington, DC, has issued the Boring Company its first commercial drilling permit for a Hyperloop tunnel that CEO Elon Musk promises will eventually offer a 29-minute service to downtown New York City. The drilling permit follows Musk’s July tweet that he had “verbal government

byChriss W. Street20 Feb 2018, 2:41 PM PST0

Huda Zoghbi, James Earl Jones, Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook co-Founder Chris Hughes said in a recent interview that the modern digital economy is “going to continue to destroy work” in America.

byLucas Nolan20 Feb 2018, 12:56 PM PST0

Jessica Morse (Facebook)

Jessica Morse, a Democratic rival to Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) in the 2018 midterm elections, is being accused of “taking credit for things that she did not do” on her resume and on the campaign trail.

byAdelle Nazarian20 Feb 2018, 12:33 PM PST0

A former Twitter executive claimed to Vanity Fair that the social network is “just an ass-backward tech company.”

byCharlie Nash20 Feb 2018, 9:54 AM PST0

A former Major League Baseball All-Star, 46-year-old Esteban Loaiza who was busted by California authorities for drug smuggling earlier this month, has been linked to the deadly Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).

byRobert Arce20 Feb 2018, 8:31 AM PST0

Emma Gonzalez (Rhona Wise / AFP / Getty)

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) declared Monday that Congress ought to follow the example of Emma Gonzalez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who spoke out for gun control after last Wednesday’s shooting.

byJoel B. Pollak20 Feb 2018, 6:41 AM PST0

San Francisco Skyline Painted Ladies (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

Brookings Institution research confirms that the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest income inequality levels in the United States.

byChriss W. Street20 Feb 2018, 12:01 AM PST0

Woman-Holds-AR-15-Rifle-

the Los Angeles Times claimed that there would be no mass shooters if a “mass-shooting gun” like the AR-15 was banned.

byAWR Hawkins19 Feb 2018, 3:08 PM PST0

Facebook will reportedly begin sending postcards to the addresses of potential political ad buyers to confirm that they reside in the U.S. following the controversy around Russian ad purchases.

byLucas Nolan19 Feb 2018, 12:41 PM PST0

Cristina Garcia (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Democrat #MeToo movement leader Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) reportedly slept with fellow lawmakers in order to get information out of them, allegedly spoke graphically about her encounters, and allegedly urged fellow lawmakers to play “spin the bottle” after a political fundraiser.

byAdelle Nazarian19 Feb 2018, 11:59 AM PST0

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, a Clarksville schools faculty member, wearing a protective mask, rear center, carries a practice handgun toward a classroom in the city's high school in Clarksville, Ark., as students portray victims in a mock school shooting scenario. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

There is one gun law that might prevent mass shootings, but the left will not allow us to try it: namely, allowing teachers to carry guns.

byJoel B. Pollak19 Feb 2018, 10:13 AM PST0

Peter Thiel (Steve Jennings / Getty)

Like Peter Thiel, who recently moved from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles after facing repeated attacks from far-left activists, many tech workers are starting to “feel alienated” by Silicon Valley’s left-wing echo chamber according to the Wall Street Journal.

byCharlie Nash19 Feb 2018, 9:59 AM PST0

Free speech platform Quillette recently published an opinion piece titled “Thinking Critically About Social Justice” which discussed the recent decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the case of former Google engineer James Damore.

byLucas Nolan19 Feb 2018, 9:35 AM PST0

AP Photo

Apple’s recent update for the iPhone removed Easter Sunday from some users’ calendars, prompting consumer complaints.

byCharlie Nash19 Feb 2018, 9:30 AM PST0

Steve Poizner (Reed Saxon / Associated Press)

The California Republican Party’s decline continues, as former GOP Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is dropping the party affiliation to run again as an independent.

byChriss W. Street19 Feb 2018, 12:01 AM PST0

Trump Chicken (Mandel Ngam / AFP / Getty)

Anti-Trump protesters in San Francisco launched a giant rubber inflatable chicken with hair resembling that of President Donald Trump and wearing a mock prison uniform near Alcatraz Island on Saturday afternoon.

byJoel B. Pollak18 Feb 2018, 12:07 PM PST0

Payday Loans (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty)

California Democrats have filed a bill that would cap annual interest rates at 19 percent and wipe out about $2.7 billion in loans to California residents.

byChriss W. Street18 Feb 2018, 6:11 AM PST0

Amanda Renteria (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

One of California gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa’s top political consultants suggested that Hillary Clinton’s former political director, Amanda Renteria, entered the California gubernatorial contest this week to “divide and suppress” the Latino vote for Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who currently has a slim lead over Villaraigosa in the polls.

byTony Lee18 Feb 2018, 1:03 AM PST0

Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press)

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced Friday that she would endorse Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom for governor.

byAdelle Nazarian17 Feb 2018, 10:25 AM PST0

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Eighty-eight percent of the 212 individuals arrested in the Los Angeles area this week for immigration law violations were previously convicted criminals.

byMichelle Moons17 Feb 2018, 5:00 AM PST0

Amanda Renteria (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

Amanda Renteria, Hillary Clinton’s national political director for her 2016 presidential campaign, entered the Democrat-heavy gubernatorial race in California on Wednesday.

byAdelle Nazarian17 Feb 2018, 12:01 AM PST0

The National Labor Relations Board has concluded that tech giant Google did not violate any labor laws by firing James Damore.

byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 3:26 PM PST0

Australian regulators are to look at the impact of digital platforms like Google and Facebook on competition in media and advertising markets

A new proposal calling for greater transparency surrounding the sponsors of online politicals advertisements will be considered by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) next month.

byCharlie Nash16 Feb 2018, 2:59 PM PST0

YouTube star sky williams

Popular black YouTube star Sky Williams pointed out the hypocrisy of YouTube after the company encouraged people to “subscribe to black creators,” during Black History Month.

byCharlie Nash16 Feb 2018, 2:47 PM PST0

Facebook has come under fire for their two-factor authentication process which sends users notifications via text message and posts replies on their Facebook wall, instead of merely acting as a layer of security.

byLucas Nolan16 Feb 2018, 2:15 PM PST0

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