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A California college president is vowing to get tough with anti-Israel student protesters terrorizing her campus. Roughly 150 students at Pomona College in Claremont demonstrated at an administrative building on campus housing school president Gabrielle Starr’s office Friday, then stormed the building and refused to leave, according to the San Bernardino Sun. Video circulating on X showed students calling on the school to “stop funding genocide” and berating police officers as “KKK.” They briefly occupied Starr’s office, according to eyewitness accounts. At least 18 students were reportedly arrested. Several of the students used “a sickening, anti-black racial slur in addressing...

Left to right, NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, G. Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor J. Glover Jr., and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will be taking part in the Artemis II mission. Photo courtesy of NASA April 3 (UPI) -- NASA officials Monday revealed the four names that will make up a team astronauts from the United States and Canada that will journey around the moon next year as part of the first crewed flight of the Artemis mission. The four include a woman and a person of color, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency confirmed during the joint...

Witches have had a long and elaborate history, even back to ancient Greece. Thanks to Homer and his epic adventure tale the Odyssey, we met Circe, who has often been identified as the first witch in Greek mythology. Circe was one of the most dangerous women a man could come across. She was known for seducing men, luring them to her island, and never letting them go. When men, driven mad by their desire to touch her, visited the island, she caught them off guard and used a spell to transform them into pigs, trapping them forever in their ignominious...

It’s been said many times — “Safety first.” And at Pomona College, they’re dedicated to the directive. Apropos of asylum, the elite private Southern California school boasts an association welcoming almost all races: the Students of Color Alliance (SOCA). And the group happens to have a lounge. To access the lounge, an electronic ID is required. In order to attain one, each student must complete a form which requests his or her identity group. The security system was approved by the administration last month; ClaremontSOCA announced as much on Instagram: Previously, there was no standardized process for granting swipe access...

With Los Angeles County’s new COVID-19 vaccine proof requirements now in effect for bars and other venues, bartenders are faced with turning away paying customers and worrying about having to deal with unruly patrons. The venues will have to make sure that customers aged 12 and older have taken two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson at least 14 days before trying to enter the venue. But critics have voiced concern over the differing rules in the city and county sowing confusion for businesses and customers, and putting those in L.A. at...

Will the fake news media ignore this too? Joe Biden is sending unaccompanied migrant children from Central America to a former Japanese Internment Camp. This is the third camp for unaccompanied children in the state of California so far this year! Press California reported: The Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II, will serve as an emergency shelter for unaccompanied children who have crossed the border into the United States, L.A. County has announced. Hilda Solis, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said the decision was made after...

The woman inside the truck of a fleeing murder suspect shared new details on an hours-long pursuit through four counties that began in Murrieta and came to a crashing end in Pomona. POMONA, Calif. (KABC) -- The woman inside the truck of a fleeing murder suspect shared new details on an hours-long pursuit through four counties that began in Murrieta and came to a crashing end in Pomona. Several law enforcement vehicles were at the scene the moment the murder suspect crashed a pickup truck and surrendered near the intersection of Holt and San Antonio avenues in Pomona around 7...

A pursuit ended after about two hours when the driver crashed into a big rig in Pomona Tuesday evening. The chase went through Riverside and Jurupa Valley, then made its way through the San Gabriel Valley and Diamond Bar. The vehicle was going through Pomona around 6:15 p.m. as Sky5 arrived above the chase. At least six sheriff’s patrol units were chasing the pickup truck. The car was going in the opposite direction of traffic in the area of Holt Avenue, driving through red lights. The driver got into at least one collision on surface streets in Pomona, then continued...

Southern California houses don’t have gutters. Not enough rain. I wish I could say I noticed this, with my keen journalist’s eye. But it was my wife who, strolling around the lovely college town of Claremont, east of Los Angeles, pointed it out. That happens a lot. What I noticed was the sign for the “Black Graduation Ceremony” two days before commencement at Pomona College, the liberal arts school where my kid got his degree Sunday. The sign was the first thing I saw stepping on campus, and set the tone. What could black graduation be? Like black proms at...

A shootout in Pomona, Calif., left one police officer dead and another injured, officials say.

A U.S.-based Saudi professor and former U.N. fellow says he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a "myth" and says America eventually will collapse like the Soviet Union. Abdullah Mohammad Sindi, who has taught at four American schools, told Iran's Mehr News Agency Dec. 26, "I agree wholeheartedly with President Ahmadinejad." "There was no such a thing as the 'Holocaust,'" Sindi said, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. "The so-called 'Holocaust' is nothing but Jewish-Zionist propaganda. There is no proof whatsoever that any living Jew was ever gassed or burned in Nazi Germany or...

A geology professor at Pomona College admits students to her “Southern California Earthquakes and Water” course through a blanket of racial and socio-economical discriminations. Professor Linda Reinen’s flyer introduces her class as a unique and intriguing hands-on exploration into the tectonic and hydrologic challenges faced in California. It then lowers the hammer of discrimination against white, middle-class students, specifying her racial and income level preference on how she accepts students for enrollment.

According to the ethos of black students at Pomona College, one of the nation’s most competitive (and expensive) small liberal arts colleges, white people cannot legitimately study and write about black criminals. Tony Airaksinen of Campus Reform writes: Students at Pomona College have published a demand letter urging administrators to rescind their offer to hire Sociology Professor Alice Goffman because she’s white. The “Letter to the Pomona College Sociology Department,” published last Friday argues that by hiring Goffman, the administration has neglected their commitment to promoting diversity and supporting women of color. “This practice is detrimental to Pomona’s goal of...

SNIPPET: "They are: Soheil Omar Kabir, 34, a Pomona man who is an American citizen from Afghanistan; Ralph Deleon, 23, an Ontario man who was born in the Philippines; Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, 21, an Upland man who was born in Mexico and whose was U.S. citizenship was pending; and Arifeen David Gojali, 21, of Riverside." SNIPPET: "The three men followed the essays of the now-deceased al-Qaida leader Anwar Al-Awlaqi, who led terrorist operations in the Arabian Peninsula." SNIPPET: "Santana and Deleon told the plot to a confidential informant working for the FBI, according to the complaint." SNIPPET: "In order...

Stuart Lynn Dunn made an unauthorized departure Saturday around 8 p.m. from a secured mental health facility in Pomona where he was being confined to post-release supervision, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Martin Rodriguez said. Dunn was previously convicted of stalking Kunis, when he allegedly violated a restraining order by repeatedly trying to contact the “Black Swan” actress and temporarily lived in a vacant home she owned, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2012.

Debate over abortion-related legislation took a combative turn in the Assembly today when a Pomona Democrat blasted male ignorance of women's bodies, then defied house floor leaders who asked her to stop. Assemblywoman Norma Torres' outburst ended nearly an hour of fierce debate over Senate Bill 623 to continue a pilot project in which physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives provide first-trimester aspiration abortions. The measure ultimately passed, 46-24, despite Republican opposition. Torres began her floor speech by noting the words of Todd Akin - though not mentioning his name. The U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri sparked a national...

Pomona residents will roll out the red carpet Thursday as President Barack Obama stops by the Edison International Vehicle Electrics plant in the city. Daniel Swift said he was delightfully surprised when he heard Obama was planning to visit his hometown of Pomona. The rehabilitation of downtown and efforts to bring in more small businesses reminded Swift of changes Obama is trying to introduce. Obama will visit the plant at 265 N. East End Ave., in the morning. The visit may be tied to the advances that Edison has made with its electric vehicles. The tour is scheduled for 10:30...

2nd Annual NHRA Torco Racing Fuels NationalsVirginia Motorsports Park – Richmond, Virginia October 5 - 7, 2007 NHRA.com's Torco Racing Fuels Nationals homepage      The NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series returned to Virginia last year with a race that shattered Pro performance barriers, especially in Pro Stock with Jason Line setting the National record that helped him capture the World Championship. This is the last 2007 “Countdown to 4 Championship” race. After this Sunday’s final elimination rounds the field of eight drivers eligible for the championship in each category - Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock - is...

Workers shot in Pomona, one fatally POMONA - Three construction workers on a breakfast run were shot, one fatally, by a gunman who peppered their vehicle with bullets on a quiet side street Tuesday morning in western Pomona One of the men was taken by ambulance to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, where he died, said Pomona police Sgt. Rob Baker. Two others were airlifted to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Baker said one man was in critical condition. The other was listed as stable. The men were driving in a Ford Explorer from the Mission-71 Business Park project...

The most successful congregations are those that do not seem to have much going for them, according to a renowned urban evangelist. First Presbyterian Church of Pomona, Calif., had more than 2,000 members in 1939. With membership down to 80 people 50 years later, the church was on the verge of extinction, the Presbyterian News Service reported. At that time, the once thriving church was only interested in preserving itself and returning to "the glory years," evangelist Robert Linthicum had said at a Presbyterian Church USA social justice conference in New Orleans recently. "If the church is caught up in...