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A bill working its way through the California State Senate looks to allow non-U.S. citizens — potentially including illegal immigrants — to become law enforcement officers in the state. The law appears to be just the latest attempt by California Democrats to not only remove penalties for those who break the law by illegally entering the United States, but open up opportunities for those who may not have legal status in the United States. SB 960, introduced by Senator Nancy Skinner — who represents Senate District 9 encompassing Oakland, Berkeley, and Richmond on the east side of San Francisco Bay...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. In this April 23, 2021, file photo, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. U.S. Evan Vucci/AP Photo The U.S. Department of the Interior is requesting public input on new names for more than 650 geographic features with racially offensive names — 28 of those sites are in Wisconsin. In November, DOI Secretary Deb Haaland signed Secretarial Order 3404 declaring a word that originated as an Algonquin term for "woman" a derogatory name. Its meaning has shifted after centuries of use by white people as an offensive term...

Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors has spoken against a report that reveals her organization’s purchase of a $5.8 million mansion in southern California, calling the story a “racist and sexist” attack on the movement.Patrisse Cullors attends an event in West Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2020. According to the April 4 report by New York Magazine, the 6,500 square-foot California estate was bought in October 2020 using money that had been donated to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which acts as a fundraising umbrella for BLM activism. It’s unclear who leads the foundation since Cullors stepped down...

Santa Cruz County is seeking a nearly a $1.7 million settlement in a civil wrongful death suit against capital murder defendant Steven Carrillo. According to court records, Carrillo, 34, of Ben Lomond, was served notice of the wrongful death lawsuit while incarcerated. Carrillo has been held at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Dublin since shortly after his June 6, 2020 arrest and did not respond to the lawsuit within a legally allotted time period. Meanwhile, Carrillo is pending trial in a criminal case stemming from a June 6, 2020 shootout with law enforcement outside Carrillo’s Ben Lomond home. He...

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine, penned an article on the subject of disinformation to lead into the magazine's conference with Obama strategist David Axelrod in Chicago. We might expect him to at least mention the recent exposure of the falsehood that the information on Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."Now that The New York Times and The Washington Post finally got around to admitting the authenticity of Hunter's emails, you'd think now is a time for engaging with this inconvenient truth. However, in Goldberg's Wednesday article on the topic -- "Disinformation Is the Story of Our Age" --...

Doing taxes for a relative, first year small business at home. Needing to know where to put entire purchase cost of (used) computer and software for the business. He purchased the computer from his previous employer; this is the computer he used while employed with employer. So according to IRS, it cannot be put under Bonus Depreciation since he himself used it before: "The used property requirement is met if the acquisition of the used property by the taxpayer meets the following five requirements: (a) the property was not used by the taxpayer or a predecessor at any time prior...

My background is that I have served in military intelligence for most of my career. I am an officer and an intelligence colonel who retired last fall. I started here in January at the university as a teacher. I teach intelligence. As I have spent most of my career in intelligence, Russia and the Soviet Union have always been my point of interest. As a young lieutenant, I was sent to what was then Leningrad to study the Russian language. Even then I started to wonder why the Russians were doing things differently than we do? Why do they see...

With their options rather limited, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors have just decided that Will Smith will not be able to attend the Oscars for 10 years for slapping Chris Rock on-stage at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27. “The Board has decided, for a period of 10 years from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs, in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards,” said AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson of Smith’s “unacceptable and harmful behavior”...

Warm weather attracts hundreds of beach-goers to the Central Coast to cool off in the Monterey Bay. Lifeguards are putting out the usual warnings when entering the water but there are also some hazards on beaches that they're warning the public about. Aaron Cummings of San Jose beat the traffic over Highway 17 to escape the heat on Thursday. "I'm out early. No fog, so we knew it was going to be hot today that's why we headed over here," Cummings said. Hundreds of people fill beaches throughout Santa Cruz County with the same plan to cool down. There are...

The fire burned 128,050 acres and destroyed 14 buildingsThe man who started the 2020 Dolan Fire in Big Sur was found guilty in a Salinas courtroom on Thursday. Ivan Geronimo Gomez was found guilty of 16 felonies including arson, marijuana cultivation, injury to a firefighter and animal cruelty. The Dolan Fire eventually destroyed 128,050 acres and 14 structures, and may have killed 11 endangered condors. More than a dozen firefighters were injured, one critically, when they had to deploy their emergency fire shelters. Gomez could be facing 24 years in prison.

A Texas florist’s right to possess firearms was restored by a judge Thursday, weeks after she was sentenced to two months probation and a $5,000 fine for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden granted Jenny Cudd’s request to rescind a term of her probation that banned her from owning of possessing any “firearm, ammunition, destructive device or dangerous weapon.” In his Thursday ruling, McFadden acknowledged Cudd wore a "bulletproof sweatshirt" to the Jan. 6 protest, but he accepted her explanation that she wore it out of fear that...

The president of a North Carolina chapter of the far-right group the Proud Boys entered a plea agreement Friday with prosecutors investigating the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Charles Donohoe, 34, who has close ties to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and assaulting and impeding police officers. The maximum charges are 20 years for conspiracy and eight years for the assaulting and impeding police charge, although he's expected to receive a lighter sentence for pleading guilty and cooperating with prosecutors. As part of the plea agreement, Donohoe admitted that, "At least as early...

I’ll never forget the first time I heard the calm but catalyzing words of Dr. Mildred Jefferson. I was instantly hooked. How could I have never heard of this devout Christian woman until my 30s? She was the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951 – during the racist Jim Crow era in America. She became the first female surgeon hired at Boston University Medical Center. Dr. Jefferson was awarded 28 honorary degrees. Notable historical figures have been celebrated for far less. I had to scour the internet for bits and pieces of her life that...

ROME -- Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia's war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is causing, threatening millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere with hunger and malnourishment, the United Nations said Friday.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, averaged 159.3 points last month, up 12.6% from February. As it is, the February index was the highest level since its inception in 1990.FAO said...

A DHL cargo jet broke in half after sliding off the runway while landing at San Jose’s international airport. The fire department says the Boeing 757 had taken off from Juan Santamaría Airport just west of the capital but decided to return after detecting a failure in the hydraulic system. Officials say that upon landing the aircraft skidded, turned and broke in two, exposing its cargo.

Biden Has A Brain Freeze, Then Lies About Traveling With Xi VIDEO AT LINK.................. Washington Post fact-checked this in 2019 and found it false… BIDEN: "I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that's when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don't know that for a fact." pic.twitter.com/hoiGCUGckR — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 8, 2022

Democratic Party would be wise to emulate. One political writer recently argued that the Colorado governor was a "model of how you can build a coalition of the normal and decent." It's true that Polis was one of the first Democrats to shed the hysterical federal COVID regime. And his occasional pushback against fringe progressive economic ideas -- the norm among Western Democrats not that long ago -- certainly makes him seem less radical. Yet his support for what is likely the most extreme abortion law in America, maybe the world, should put an end to any talk about national...

Massive News Two Acquitted In Whitmer Case, FBI Misconduct Central "In a huge defeat for the U.S. Department of Justice, a jury today acquitted 2 men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the fall of 2020." @julie_kelly2

The academy's 9,000 members had been 'completely split' on the decision There were 'hundreds of WhatsApp groups' where they were arguing over it Smith slapped host Chris Rock on March 27 for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head He later won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in King Richard Smith apologized for the violence, and Jada said she wished he hadn't slapped Rock Rock has been quiet on the controversy, saying only that he was 'processing' it Hollywood was split on whether or not the actor should get to keep his award

It used to be that a Hawaii seat in the U.S. Congress didn’t come open all that often. It’s prestigious, it pays handsomely, there are no term limits and it’s nearly impossible to lose reelection. Also, franking privileges! But over the last two decades Hawaii has elected nine House members including two who served, left office and then went back to D.C. again: Ed Case and Colleen Hanabusa. The expectation that U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele is poised to leave Washington after just one term in an effort to move into the governor’s quarters at Washington Place has at least three...