Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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San Diego, Calif. - A 25-year-old parking lot attendant was stabbed in the head with a broken wooden cane handle Sunday afternoon in downtown San Diego near Petco Park, authorities said.The incident occurred around 3:42 p.m. on April 13, 2026, near K Street and 13th Street, in the area of the Ace/Tailgate Padres parking lot (also known as Tailgate Park lot). The victim, an employee of the lot, was sitting on an electrical box when the suspect allegedly approached and struck...
Washington — Unverified allegations from anonymous women have circulated widely on social media claiming that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) engaged in sexual relationships with congressional interns and staffers, including at least one who was 19 years old at the time, and required some to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to keep the relationships quiet. The claims gained significant traction on April 1, 2026, when the conservative account Right Angle News posted a v...
Santa Monica, CA - Legendary guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham, best known for his work with the iconic rock band Fleetwood Mac, was the victim of an attack on Wednesday morning, March 25, 2026, in Santa Monica. The 76-year-old musician was arriving for an appointment when a woman allegedly doused him with an unknown substance before fleeing the scene. Buckingham was not injured. Santa Monica Police and the Los Angeles Police Department have identified the suspect as...
Washington, D.C. - Two prominent Republican lawmakers have reignited public speculation about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and potential government secrecy surrounding extraterrestrial activity, with one congressman warning that revelations he's seen could "set the Earth on fire" and explicitly stating he is "not suicidal." In a recent interview on Newsmax with host Rob Finnerty, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) responded to claims made by former Rep. Matt Gaetz...
NASA's Artemis II Mission Blasts Off: First Manned Lunar Mission in Over 50 Years is UnderwayCape Canaveral, Fla. - April 1, 2026 - NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 p.m. EDT (22:35 UTC), carrying four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft Integrity on Artemis II - the first crewed mission beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The SLS Block 1 rocket, generating approximately 9 million pounds...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in U.S. history, a sitting president personally attended Supreme Court oral arguments. President Donald J. Trump was present Tuesday as the justices heard Trump v. Barbara, the high-profile challenge to his January 2025 executive order that seeks to limit birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. The executive order directs federal agencies not to recognize U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States after a certain d...
In one of the most complex and daring U.S. special operations missions in recent history, American forces successfully extracted a wounded Air Force colonel—the weapon systems officer (WSO) of a downed F-15E Strike Eagle—from deep inside Iranian territory on April 5, 2026. The colonel had evaded capture for approximately 24–48 hours after his jet was shot down over the rugged Zagros Mountains in southwestern Iran during Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing U.S.-led campaign again...
Santa Monica, CA — April 5, 2026The Santa Monica Pier was briefly evacuated Saturday evening following a reported bomb threat, prompting a swift police response and a search of the popular tourist destination.According to the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), officers received the report of a potential bomb threat directed at the pier at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 4. SMPD personnel arrived on scene immediately and, in coordination with specialized u...
Santa Monica, CA – Reuters has confirmed that U.S. Special Forces have successfully rescued the second crew member of a downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet in southwest Iran. The Pentagon has not yet commented on the reports, which state that approximately a dozen Basiji - Iranian special operators - were killed by U.S. forces during the extraction operation. According to the reports, Basij forces discovered several of their own fighters killed by U.S. A-10 g...
LOS ANGELES - Testing is underway on the long-delayed Automated People Mover (APM) at Los Angeles International Airport, but the project has become a symbol of infrastructure cost overruns in California. The 2.25-mile elevated, driverless train system, designed to shuttle passengers between terminals, parking, the consolidated rental car facility, and the new LAX/Metro Transit Center, was originally slated to open in 2023. As of early April 2026, it remains in testing with no...
Updated Report – April 2, 2026 Massive Explosion in Isfahan, Iran (Night of March 30–31, 2026) A powerful nighttime explosion lit up the skies over Isfahan, a major central Iranian city of roughly 2.3 million people, during the ongoing US-Israeli airstrike campaign against Iran. Video footage that quickly spread on social media (including the widely shared clip from @Osinttechnical) captured a massive fireball followed by multiple secondary blasts. Analysts and witnesses des...
Los Angeles County health officials announced a record 220 cases of flea-borne typhus (also known as murine or endemic typhus) in 2025, the highest number ever documented in the county. The increase appears connected to homeless encampments, which attract rats, mice and illness. This marks a continuation of a multi-year upward trend. In 2024, the county recorded 187 cases-a previous record-with 106 cases reported by late August 2025, already exceeding the same period the prior...
April 1, 2026--SANTA MONICA - In a move that stunned developers and housing advocates alike, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously late Tuesday night to abandon plans for a proposed 14-story mixed-use building at the corner of Euclid and Wilshire that would have replaced the beloved pet store Unleashed with 120 market-rate apartments and 40 units of supportive housing for the mentally ill. The project, which had been fast-tracked as part of the city's push to...
Los Angeles, CA - Copper wire theft continues to surge across Los Angeles, leaving entire blocks without streetlights, internet service, or landlines while costing the city and utilities millions in repairs.In a recent incident captured on resident video in Van Nuys around 3 a.m., two suspects were seen pulling long sections of underground communications cable from the street. One man, shirtless and wearing a medical mask, worked to extract the wiring while the other waited...
San Francisco, CA - Sheryl Davis, the former executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC), was arrested and charged Monday with 17 felonies and two misdemeanors related to alleged financial conflicts of interest and misappropriation of public funds. Davis, 57, and James Spingola (also spelled Spignola in some reports), 65, the former executive director of the nonprofit Collective Impact, were booked into county jail around 10 a.m. on March 30, 2026....
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — A 46-year-old woman from Moorpark died five days after being bitten by a rattlesnake while hiking at Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, authorities said. Gabriela Bautista was hiking on a trail at the popular park around 11:40 a.m. on March 14, 2026, when she was bitten, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. Paramedics provided lifesaving measures at the scene and airlifted her via helicopter to Los Robles Regional Medical Center for t...
Santa Monica, CA - The fatal shooting of a man near the intersection of 4th Street and Olympic Boulevard on Saturday night, March 28, 2026, marks the third homicide in Santa Monica so far this year, according to local observers and a review of reported incidents. The latest incident occurred around 11:15 p.m. when officers responded to reports of a shooting that may have stemmed from a road rage confrontation involving two vehicles. One man was pronounced dead at the scene....
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. - Riverside County firefighters and a sheriff's deputy went above and beyond during an apartment fire on March 16, 2026, resuscitating four cats overcome by smoke inhalation using pet-sized oxygen masks and rescue breathing. The incident, known as the "Emma Incident," occurred in a senior living complex in Jurupa Valley. While all human residents escaped safely, crews conducting a search of the fire-damaged apartment discovered the four felines inside - t...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Steve Hilton, a leading Republican candidate in the 2026 California gubernatorial race and former Fox News host, has made lowering gasoline prices to $3 per gallon his first major campaign promise if elected governor. In a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 27, 2026, Hilton stated: "My first promise as Governor of California: $3 gas. We have the reserves. We have the resources. What we haven't had is a leader willing to use them." He argued that...
Update: The California High-Speed Rail Authority disputes the veracity of the headline to this article. E-mail from their spokesman is included below, at bottom of the page. Washington, D.C. - NASA announced an ambitious plan Tuesday to construct a permanent moonbase near the lunar south pole for approximately $20 billion over the next seven years, a figure that highlights stark contrasts in public-sector project efficiency when compared to longstanding infrastructure challeng...
More than a year after the devastating January 2025 Palisades Fire destroyed thousands of homes in Pacific Palisades, rebuilding remains painfully slow. While city and county officials have issued thousands of permits across the fire zone — with over 3,000 residential permits approved between the Palisades and nearby areas — actual construction has lagged far behind. Only a small fraction of destroyed homes have been completed, and recent surveys show that just 13% of aff...
New York, NY - A devastating accident at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has left multiple people dead and others critically injured after a JetBlue Airways passenger jet collided with a ground vehicle on Runway 4 during landing. The incident occurred amid foggy nighttime conditions that severely reduced visibility, contributing to the runway incursion. Air traffic control audio captured urgent commands from controllers ordering the vehicle to stop immediately, but the collision could...
An 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University Chicago was fatally shot early Thursday morning while walking with friends near the university's Lake Shore Campus in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Sheridan Gorman, 18, from Yorktown, New York, was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck in the head during the incident, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. on March 19, 2026, on the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach (near the 1000 block of West Pratt Boulevard). Police reports indicate a...
One man is pushing liberal San Francisco to rename Cesar Chavez Street to Chuck Norris Boulevard, sparked by explosive revelations rocking the legacy of the late farmworker icon. Three women who say they were raped by Chavez, were silent for decades, but came forward with the allegations this month. Two are in their 60's and one is now 96. Chavez has been dead since 1993. Just days after action hero and conservative favorite Chuck Norris passed away on March 19, 2026, a...
Drone footage of a massive but incomplete wildlife bridge spanning the 101 Freeway has gone viral on X, reigniting debate over a high-profile California infrastructure project that has now consumed $114 million with no end in sight for connecting the structure to land on either side. @vskymedia on Youtube highlights the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - a project launched in 2022 to create a safe overpass for animals including mountain lions and butterflies - as a glaring...
