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PASADENA (CBSLA) – The city of Pasadena will have volunteers walking city streets to ensure people are wearing face coverings.Volunteers will walk major streets around Pasadena to hand out masks to those who don’t have them and make sure those who do are wearing them.Pasadena city spokesperson Lisa Derderian told CBSLA Thursday the Rose Bowl Loop has been an area of concern. Last weekend, code enforcement officers informed 75 runners on the Rose Bowl loop trail that they need to wear face coverings.“This is something that we need to take very seriously, our numbers are significantly increasing daily, hospitalization is...

Yet somehow I wasn’t surprised to see Donald Trump supporters, those swaggering tough guys, turn one of their favorite Internet forums into a safe space where they no longer need to encounter criticism or opposition. Earlier today, Free Republic proprietor Jim Robinson announced that the discussion board would no longer tolerate opposition to Trump’s candidacy.

"Rep. Dennis Kucinich, erstwhile presidential candidate and strident opponent of the Bush administration, gave the most spirited speech of the session Tuesday condemning the war, the economy and the Republicans."

Teachers’ unions are pro-choice on abortion, but not on education. They use their enormous political capital with the Democrat Party to block voucher initiatives in whatever state or municipality proposes them, including in California. Consequently, many parents home-school their children at their own expense, even though they still have to pay local property taxes which are spent mostly on public schools their children do not attend. Right now, about 166,000 California children are taught at home. But last week, an California appeals court declared that all children must be taught by a “credentialed” teacher. It means that most home-schooling parents...

German authorities who sent 15 uniformed police officers to take custody of a 15-year-old girl who committed the crime of being homeschooled now have suggested a solution that, in their minds, would "resolve" the situation: the parents should give up custody of their other five children. The situation involving Melissa Busekros has been in the headlines ever since the beginning of this month, when the officers arrived at her parents' home with a court order allowing them to take her into custody, "if necessary by force." She had fallen behind in math and Latin, and was being tutored at home....

A GERMAN school bus driver could face jail time for giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute to pupils as they boarded each day. Police said they also found compact discs with neo-Nazi rock music on board the bus in the southern town of Vilshofen and were investigating whether the 39-year-old driver had played them for the adolescents. Teachers had reported the driver to police, accusing him of giving far-right CDs to the children. The suspect admitted during questioning to regularly giving the Nazi salute to the pupils over the course of several weeks.

ISLAMIST fanatics attacked us and yearn to destroy us. The Muslim civilization of the Middle East has failed comprehensively and will continue to generate violence. The only way to deal with faith-poisoned terrorists is to kill them. And the world's only hope for long-term peace is for moderate Muslims - by far the majority around the globe - to recapture their own faith. But a rotten core of American extremists is out to make it harder for them. The most repugnant trend in the American shouting match that passes for a debate on the struggle with Islamist terrorism isn't the...

Millions of airline passengers travelling through Russia will soon have to take a lie detector test as part of new security measures. The technology, to be introduced at Moscow's Domodedovo airport as early as July, is intended to identify terrorists and drug smugglers. If successful, it could revolutionise check-ins. At first, only passengers deemed suspicious will take the test Passengers will pick up the handset of a "truth verifier" machine while they are asked questions. Apparently the machine, developed by an Israeli company, can even establish whether answers come from the memory or the imagination. The technology is being used...

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Dad on trial over homosexual book District banned him from property after dispute at meeting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 21, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com David Parker, parent of kindergartner, stands before Judge Robert McKenna in Concord District Court April 28 after spending the night in jail (Photo: Article 8 Alliance) The trial of a Massachusetts man who was arrested after disputing the teaching of homosexuality in his son's kindergarten class has been continued until next month. In April, David Parker, of Lexington, spent a night in jail and was charged with criminal trespassing after refusing...

Mark Wellstone chants 'We will win' during his speech about his late father during a public memorial service Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002, in Minneapolis for U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia and three staff members who died Oct. 25 in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minn. (AP Photo/Jerry Holt, Pool)

In most democracies, the end of a long election campaign is received with relief by the voters. The citizens of Germany can be forgiven for being more grateful than average for the close of their proceedings. A miserable battle, which has revolved around personalities not policies and short-term populism not long-term dilemmas, has done nothing to address the real problems of Europe’s largest nation. It is difficult to conceive how any coalition which may emerge from the tortured post-poll negotiations will have either the mandate or the sense of mission to spur economic growth, slash unemployment or promote cohesion in...