Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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January 14, 2026 — In an unprecedented move in the 25-year history of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA is bringing the four-member Crew-11 team back to Earth approximately one month ahead of schedule following a medical issue affecting one crew member. The affected astronaut is reported to be stable and not in acute distress, according to NASA officials. The agency has emphasized that the situation is precautionary, driven by the limited diagnostic and treatment c...
San Francisco, CA - January 27, 2026 - Authorities are monitoring a rare urban wildlife incident after a young mountain lion was captured on security camera footage prowling streets in the upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood late Sunday night, January 25, 2026. San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC) confirmed the sighting near Lafayette Park, located near Gough and Sacramento streets. The animal, estimated to be about one year old and described as a subadult, appeared...
January 25, 2026 - A massive winter storm unofficially named Winter Storm Fern by The Weather Channel has unleashed heavy snow, freezing rain, ice, and Arctic cold across a vast swath of the United States, impacting more than 230 million people from Texas and the Southwest to the Northeast and parts of Canada. The storm, which originated from an upper-level low developing over the Pacific near Baja California around January 22, has traversed much of the country, prompting...
Santa Monica Observer – January 22, 2026 In an incident widely reported on social media, a homeless woman gave birth directly on a downtown Santa Monica sidewalk late last week, with the aftermath still visible two days later. According to witnesses and local business owners along Main Street, the woman - who appeared to be experiencing significant distress and was reportedly not wearing pants - exited a nearby Starbucks and walked a short distance before collapsing near a t...
New York, January 22, 2026 - Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and a central figure in the dramatic 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been released from federal custody. The 31-year-old completed approximately 440 days - roughly 14 months - of her original two-year prison sentence, walking free on January 21, 2026, according to records from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and multiple reports. Ellison began her sentence in November...
California Governor Gavin Newsom attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026, where he criticized international leaders for what he described as excessive deference to President Donald Trump. During remarks to reporters on the sidelines of the event, Newsom urged global figures to "stand tall and firm" and "have a backbone" rather than engage in what he called "complicity" or "appeasement" toward Trump. He likened the president's approach to...
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia - Towns across Russia's remote Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have been engulfed by historic snowfall, with accumulations exceeding seven feet in many areas and massive drifts reaching several meters high. The extreme weather, described as the heaviest in over 60 years, has buried vehicles, blocked roads and building entrances, and forced authorities to declare a state of emergency. The relentless storms, driven by powerful cyclones from the...
On Monday, January 19, 2026, at 5:56 p.m. PST, a notable earthquake struck Southern California, rattling communities across the Coachella Valley and beyond. The event, centered near Indio Hills in Riverside County, registered as the strongest quake in the state so far this year based on available reports and magnitude readings. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and various news outlets, the mainshock's magnitude ranged from 4.6 to 5.1, with some preliminary...
My brother was discharged from St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica after a week of treatment for a serious liver condition. Just days later, his hemoglobin had plummeted to a dangerously low 6.6 (normal levels are around 13–17 for men). His primary care doctor urgently directed us to the emergency room at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood. What we encountered was shocking - a scene that felt more like a war zone than a state-of-the-art hospital. Beds lined the c...
Big changes in 2026 traffic laws: What drivers should know nationwide Traffic laws in the U.S. are changing in 2026. States are adding new ways to catch people breaking laws, increasing fines, and putting in place rules to make driving safer. While not every new rule directly affects car insurance, certain violations, such as speeding and DUI-related offenses, often contribute to higher premiums. It’s not one big national change. Instead, it’s a trend toward using cameras and...
Why January can feel emotionally heavy It’s early January. Your inbox is crowded with fresh-start messages, your calendar looks untouched, and social media hums with promises of transformation. Everywhere you look, momentum seems to be building. Yet you’re sitting with your coffee, feeling oddly out of sync with all this optimism. The gap between January's promises and its reality feels disorienting. While the world races toward change, you might feel a heaviness in these ear...
Santa Monica Pauses Downtown Parking Rate Changes After Business Backlash City officials have postponed the implementation of new parking rates in eight downtown structures until at least January 27, 2026, following intense opposition from local businesses. The planned changes, originally set to take effect on January 12, would have reduced the free parking period from 90 minutes to 30 minutes in facilities such as Structures 1 through 8 and the Ken Edwards Center. This...
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - Homes are not being rebuilt, by and large. But satellite images released this week reveal a remarkable transformation in Pacific Palisades, where winter rains have restored vibrant green vegetation to hillsides charred by the catastrophic January 2025 Palisades fire. The blaze, which destroyed over 6,800 structures and claimed 12 lives, left vast areas barren, but new growth on surviving trees and the appearance of rebuilt structures on former...
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - A new analysis by Redfin shows that real estate investors purchased about 40% of vacant lots sold in fire-damaged areas of Pacific Palisades during the third quarter of 2025, sparking worries among locals about the community's future character. Following the January 2025 Palisades fire's destruction of thousands of homes, many owners face tough choices between rebuilding or selling, leading to a surge in available lots and cash purchases by outside...
ALTADENA, Calif. - After more than six weeks of an unusual - and increasingly frustrating - cohabitation, a 550-pound male black bear has been successfully removed from beneath an Altadena resident's home, bringing relief to homeowner Ken Johnson and ending a saga that drew national attention. The bear, tagged by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as Yellow 2120, first squeezed into the crawl space under Johnson's kitchen around Thanksgiving 2025. It remained there...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The City of Santa Monica has named Darrick Jacob as its new Chief of Police, a decision announced by City Manager Oliver Chi on December 19, 2025. Jacob, a veteran of the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) since 2004, had been serving as acting chief since August 2025 following the resignation of former Chief Ramon Batista. The appointment, which took effect on December 14, marks the first time in more than 40 years that the department has selected...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - January 15, 2026 - A 24-year-old Santa Monica woman faces murder charges in the death of her young daughter, following an incident that authorities described as involving extreme violence. Carmen Anita Degregg, who was arrested after confessing to harming the child, appeared in court last week where her arraignment was postponed, highlighting the ongoing investigation into the heartbreaking case. The events unfolded on January 6, 2026, around noon, when...
San Francisco, CA - A harm reduction initiative known as the Managed Alcohol Program (MAP), operated in partnership with the nonprofit Community Forward SF and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH), has drawn widespread attention and criticism following viral social media posts highlighting its funding and participant numbers.Launched in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the program provides supervised, nurse-administered doses of alcohol - typically...
Scott Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American cartoonist, author, and commentator best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. Early Life and Career--Born in Windham, New York, Adams began drawing cartoons as a child, inspired by Peanuts. He earned a BA in economics from Hartwick College (1979) and an MBA from UC Berkeley (1986). He worked in corporate roles, including as a teller at Crocker National Bank (where he was held up at gunpoint twice) and l...
Mar Vista, Los Angeles - Homeless addicts targeted streetlight poles in the Mar Vista neighborhood overnight, stripping copper wiring and plunging multiple blocks into darkness, according to local reports and on-scene footage captured early Tuesday, January 13, 2026. The incident affected areas along Purdue Avenue, Stanwood Drive, and Corinth Avenue, where dozens of streetlights were vandalized. Residents reported entire blocks left unlit, raising immediate concerns about...
Sacramento, CA – January 13, 2026 – A proposed 200-megawatt solar farm in eastern Sacramento County, which would require the removal of thousands of mature and old-growth native oak trees, has hit a major roadblock after the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) canceled its power purchase agreement with the developer. The Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch Project, spanning roughly 2,700 acres on the historic Barton Ranch near Scott Road and White Rock Road (southeast of...
January 12, 2026: As of January 12, 2026, Iran is experiencing a major nationwide anti-government uprising that began in late December 2025 (around December 28) and has now entered its third week (approximately Day 15–16). What started as demonstrations against severe economic hardship—including hyperinflation, a collapsing rial currency, soaring food and fuel prices—has rapidly escalated into widespread calls for regime change, the end of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's rule,...
For those of us on the political right, it's hard to understand why protesters in multiple US cities risk arrest or worse to prevent deportations of people who are in the country illegally, and in many cases are criminals. We simply think people like Renee Good are insane to block armed federal officers from doing their job, in freezing weather no less. Leftists are from Venus and conservatives are from Mars. We seemingly don't speak the same language anymore. So we thought...
Minneapolis, Minnesota - January 10, 2026 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Minneapolis and cities across the United States on Saturday, protesting the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a federal immigration enforcement operation earlier this week. The incident, which occurred on January 7 or 8, has sparked over 1,000 planned protests nationwide, with calls for...
Iran experienced a near-total nationwide blackout of internet, mobile networks, landlines, and electricity on Thursday evening, January 8, as anti-government protests entered their 12th day. The shutdown, confirmed by monitoring group NetBlocks as a deliberate act by authorities, coincided with massive demonstrations across the country, including in the capital Tehran, where crowds responded to a call for action from exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. The protests, which began...
