The Latest News about California

A proposed California curriculum with anti-Israel elements also has anti-police rhetoric. The curriculum aims to teach students about police brutality and includes a poem suggesting cops sometimes “wake up with a bad case of contagious shooting.” The proposal avoids teaching students about anti-Semitism or Jewish Americans and doesn’t include cases of police officers viewed positively by the public. A proposed ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California is demanding an investigation into a proposed California Department of Education curriculum that is “blatantly anti-Semitic” and “anti-Israel.” Several people involved in making the high school curriculum have been anti-Israel, and some are Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists who have tried to start an economic war on Israel, The Washington Free Beacon reported ...

A California school district will not allow parents to opt its children out of classes involving LGBTQ content. A representative of the district said in an email this is because LGBTQ content is “fused throughout the entirety of the curriculum.” Murrieta School District previously came under fire for a video depicting an ACLU staff member instructing teachers how to help ...

A federal judge Monday ruled that a lawsuit against Los Angeles by the National Rifle Association (NRA) over the city’s vendor disclosure law can proceed. The NRA filed the lawsuit in April to challenge the city’s new law that requires contractors to disclose contracts or sponsorship with the gun-rights organization, City News Service reported. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson rejected ...

Three California Highway Patrol officers were shot — one fatally — in Riverside on Monday night in what officers called a “long and horrific gun battle.” CHP Officer Andre Moye Jr., 33, was conducting a traffic stop of a suspect driving a truck, who has since been identified as Aaron Luther, when he decided to impound the suspect’s vehicle, ABC ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested Wednesday and charged with stabbing four people to death during a crime spree outside Los Angeles. According to local news reports, the spree began shortly before 4:30 p.m. with a burglary at an apartment building in Garden Grove, Calif. The suspect was arrested hours later outside of a 7-11, where he had fatally stabbed a ...

President Donald Trump sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California secretary of state Tuesday after the state passed a new law requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns. The Republican National Committee also sued, calling the law a “naked political attack against the sitting president of the United States.” Trump and his campaign filed a second suit challenging the ...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday requiring all presidential candidates to submit fix years of tax returns to qualify for the primary ballot in California, as President Donald Trump fights against releasing this information. The bill, SB-27, has already passed in the California Assembly and Senate. It would require candidates running for U.S. president and California governor ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom called the semi-automatic rifle used by the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter a “goddamn weapon of mass destruction,” in a statement Monday. Newsom’s profanity-laden rant at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center was spurred by the events of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, which left three dead and 11 injured. The weapon the shooter used was allegedly ...

Law enforcement has identified 19-year-old Santino William Legan as the suspected gunman behind the deadly shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in northern California, according to a Monday report from CBS News. Web archive of what appears to be Legan’s now-deleted Instagram account show that he identified as Italian and Iranian. His most recent post was a photo of a ...

At least three people are dead and 15 injured after a suspect opened fire at the final day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, Sunday evening. A suspected gunman was shot and killed. It’s unknown whether the gunman acted alone, although police believe an additional suspect may have been involved, reported NBC News. One of the victims was 6-year-old ...

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom officially made his state the first in the U.S. to offer government health care benefits to adult-aged illegal immigrants. Newsome signed SB-104 into law Tuesday, cementing it into the state’s 2020 budget. The legislation extends taxpayer-funded health care to low-income adults aged 19 to 25, regardless if they are living in the country illegally or ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded an average of one aftershock per minute in Southern California after two powerful earthquakes hit Thursday and Friday. Thursday’s earthquake brought more than 1,400 aftershocks to the southern part of the state, scientists said according to CNN. Officials expected aftershocks reaching a magnitude of 6.0 due to Friday’s quake. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake ...

Another earthquake hit Southern California Friday, only a day after the area was hit by the most powerful earthquake in 20 years. A 7.1 magnitutde earthquake affected persons from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on Friday, according to NBC News, following Thursday’s 6.4 magnitude earth quake. The epicenter of both quakes was a location about ten miles north east of ...

Needles, California, has declared itself a sanctuary city for the Second Amendment and plans to resist some of California’s restrictive gun laws, which they say infringe on their right to keep and bear arms. Needles’ city council voted unanimously to make the declaration, but its reported that this will have “no immediate practical impact on how guns are treated in ...