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September 29, 2022, Los Angeles, CA - Amazon's quest to sell all things to all people has a catastrophic carryover -- over 75 dead and scores injured by unsafe trucking contractors. Truckers moving...

A suspect was arrested this week in connection with a series of sexual assaults targeting female Santa Monica College students, school authorities announced. In a statement Monday afternoon, Santa...

September 30, 2022 - Multiple student groups at UC Berkeley's School of Law began the school year by adopting a bylaw written by the Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) agreeing to boycott...

Authors note: These are my notes from a phone conversation with Albin Gielicz, candidate for Santa Monica City Council The political climate for the last few years has not been fully functional,...

A homeless man has been arrested for setting no less than 7 dumpster fires in five days in Santa Monica. He is now in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail after being charged with seven separate...

The death toll in Saturday's soccer riot in East Java has been revised down to 125, Indonesian police said. About 300 are still in area hospitals with injuries, authorities said. These are confirmed...

Last week the Ukraine Army pushed the invading Russians out of Kharkhiv province. Today, we are hearing of Ukraine military successes in the South. "Reportedly, Ukrainian defenders broek through the...

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be loathed on Twitter. Elon Musk posted a peace plan on Twitter, and boy do people hate him for it. The 4 point peace plan invites people to vote yes or...

9.29.22: US VP Kamala Harris today visited the Demilitarized Zone between the North and South Korea. Harris committed a major gaffe even for the Biden administration, delivering a speech in which she...

In salacious video posted to a Telegram channel called "Cargo 200", pigs in Ukraine consume the corpse of a Russian army officer. The deceased man is identified as a Captain in the 14 second...

9.29.22: "A Russian collapse in the Lyman-Yampil sector is almost imminent now," tweeted Illia Ponomarenko. "The pocket is about to be closed off if this is not the case yet. Russians need to leave...

A Ft. Myers Florida resident filmed a shark swimming in storm surge on his front lawn on Wednesday, September 28. This after Hurricane Ian came ashore on the West Coast of Florida, with storm surges...

In exciting video released to Social Media, Ukrainian National Guard troops taking Russian soldiers as prisoners of war. The scene unfolds in a forest, somewhere in the Donbas from the look of the...

Now that the Nordstream2 pipeline brining natural gas to Germany has been disabled. Gas is leaking into the Baltic Sea, near the terminus in Russia's St. Petersburg region. Some think the US caused...

Mayor Sue Himmelrich, with the assistance of new City Attorney Doug Sloan, refused to allow a vote on a motion by Councilmember Oscar de la Torre at last night's City Council meeting. The kicker? De...

9/26: Video of a Russian man opening fire and killing the military commandant in a draft centre in the city of Úst-Ilimsk in the Irkutsk region of Siberia. The military commandant was the head of...

9.22.22: Have you wondered what the trucks are about in Palisades Park? The long ones with the hoses that go into a storm drain and down. 90 feet to the base of the world famous cliffs. Those...

Protestors in Iran appear to have taken control of the streets of Teheran, and also of other major cities. In Mashhad, the birthplace of Supreme. Leader Khameni, street protestors have burned...

Americans residing in Beijing report that the situation there is normal. There is no sign of a coup or of unusual military movements. "This is Xinhua Gate, the main entrance to the Zhongnanhai compoun...

1 pm EST: The National Hurricane Center said that the eyewall of Hurricane Ian was moving onshore at Sanibel and Captiva Islands. In an update, Acting NHC Director Jamie Rhome said that extreme wind...

Authorities responded to a person threatening to jump off a bridge in Santa Monica Tuesday, causing a traffic tie up as first responders rallied, the SMPD said in a press release. Video of the...

Update 9.26.22: Gordon Chang is an American China expert critical of the CCP. He tweeted: "A theory I just heard: #XiJinping forced the grounding of planes and the cancellation of rail and bus...

Candidates for mayor of the nation's second largest city faced off for the first time at the Skirball Center Wednesday night. In a move right from the LA Times Playbook, the reporter for the Times rem...

Several reports on Telegram, Twitter and other social media say that arrested Russian protestors are being arrested by police, then directly drafted into the Russian armed forces to go and fight in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday morning Moscow time, that he will call up the reserves for a partial mobilization. This will allow the Russian Armed Forces to recall to...