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Chapman University is facing pressure to fire a professor who spoke at the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. just hours before violent rioters stormed the Capitol building. Chapman University professor John Eastman (left) stands alongside Rudy Giuliani, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, at rally near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. (Getty Images) Controversial Chapman University law professor John Eastman appeared on stage with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, where they urged his supporters to head to the Capitol. In response, over 150 Chapman faculty...

...The Shasta County Board of Supervisors had planned to meet virtually Jan. 5 because of an uptick in coronavirus cases. The supervisors’ chambers in Redding were closed. Seats had been removed. The public speakers’ microphone was disabled. But, in protest, a newly elected supervisor unlocked the doors. In poured dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury. Three supervisors attending virtually watched from afar as threats flew amid the speeches.... In some ways, the rhetoric in that officially closed county government facility carried a hint of the rage that would boil over 2,800 miles away when pro-Trump rioters stormed the...

San Francisco police are preparing for a pro-Trump protest at Twitter's headquarters, a building which has been essentially abandoned since the start of the pandemic last year, with most Twitter employees working remotely. The potential protest comes days after Twitter banned the president from using its service — his favorite form of communication to millions of followers — following what the company called his continued incitements to violence in the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol last week by a mob of his followers. "The San Francisco Police Department is aware of the possibility of a demonstration...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Sunday called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. The announcement comes as a growing number of Congressmembers have called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office. Below is the text of a letter Pelosi sent to her Democrat collogues: Dear Democratic Colleague, On this Sunday, as we pray that God will continue to Bless America, I write to inform you of our next actions, which will be made with the great solemnity that this moment requires. I want to call to your immediate attention the action to...

About 100 Trump supporters and 100 counterprotesters, some of whom described themselves as anti-fascists, stood off with San Diego police for hours in the heart of Pacific Beach Saturday, with officers trying to keep the opposing groups apart following skirmishes. Police reported on Twitter that officers had been struck by a glass bottle. Rocks and eggs were also being thrown at police, and pepper spray was being deployed in their direction from the crowd, police said. They did not say who was responsible. At one point, officers fired what appeared to be pepper ball rounds into the anti-fascist crowd during...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) stated that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Wednesday was “utterly irresponsible,” and that while he didn’t tell people to break into the Capitol, he “betrayed” the trust of his supporters.

Jan. 8—The union representing 1,500 Sacramento County sheriff's deputies is calling for county Board of Supervisor chairman Phil Serna to resign following a social media post in which he described people supporting President Donald Trump as "traitors" and "dead to" him. Serna wrote Sunday evening to his personal Facebook page, in part: "If you are a supporter of Donald Trump, you're dead to me. You don't matter. You are irrelevant. You are a traitor." The Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs' Association released a statement Wednesday calling Serna's remarks intolerant and a "declaration of hatred," saying he should immediately resign. "A bias...

President-elect Biden Certified Over 4,700 Georgia Absentee Votes Tied to Non-Residential Addresses Inactive Registrations Stayed on Kentucky Rolls Despite Consent Decree Judicial Watch Exposes a $1 Billion Mask Deal Between California and Chinese Company Nasdaq Wants to Require Minority and Female Directors for Members President-elect Biden Certified To give some perspective on the controversies we’ve witnessed in this election, remember that four years ago this week Obama, Biden and Comey were talking about spying on and targeting Donald Trump and his team for prosecution. In my view, the election results in the various battleground states were compromised by unlawful...

The crisis designation would empower the newly named triage officers — usually critical care and emergency room doctors — to decide which patients at county hospitals would get access to resources such as ventilators, respiratory therapists and critical care nurses when they become too scarce to be provided to every patient. Hospitals outside the county system will have to decide on their own whether to invoke similar urgency measures, though state officials told them last week that they should have triage plans ready. Inside many overflowing Southern California hospitals, a form of undeclared rationing appears already to be taking place....

This is how it starts, with an article here, an interview there. Scotland is now under a total nationwide lockdown. I think even dogs and cats are included. England is about to issue a total national lockdown. Here we have an influential Democrat State Senator—supported by Republicans like Catherine Baker, calling for a complete and absolute statewide lockdown—for four weeks. In March, Dr. Strangelove, Anthony Fauci told us a two week national shutdown would end the crisis. He knew he was lying. So, why would we expect a four week lockdown to work—or last just four weeks? Why are they...

Despite California Courts recognizing the concept of coercive control, there was no actual statutory prohibition against this form of domestic abuse. That changed in September 2020 when the Governor of California signed a bill into law clarifying the state’s Domestic Violence Prevention Act that coercive control constitutes a form of domestic abuse. Specifically, the law amends Section 6320 of the Family Code so that “disturbing the peace of the other party” (which is grounds to obtain a DV Restraining order) includes coercive control. The California legislature unequivocally recognized that actions that result in the destruction of “mental or emotional calm”...

On December 4, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) Build North Coast Corridor (NCC) crews performed the final concrete pour to complete the underground foundation for the new Interstate 5 (I-5) bridge at the San Elijo Lagoon in the City of Encinitas. The bridge reconstruction will help relieve traffic congestion, improve lagoon tidal flows, and create new bike and pedestrian paths when complete in late 2021. “Throughout the course of this regionally significant transportation project, the efforts to reestablish the health of the San Elijo Lagoon is an achievement with regional environmental benefits,” said...

The pro-Trump protester who was shot and killed in the Capitol building once launched into a tirade against California politicians for “refusing to choose America” over their political party in videos posted on Twitter. Ashli Babbitt recorded two heated videos while driving to work on Nov. 26, 2018, to discuss the crisis at the US-Mexico border.

LOS ANGELES — Ten congressional candidates from California filed a civil action in federal court this week, charging Gov. Gavin Newsom with overseeing an unconstitutional and fraudulent November general election. The complaint, which includes hundreds of sworn eyewitness reports of election code violations, irregularities and fraud, seeks to decertify the 55 electoral votes that the state awarded to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Other named defendants in the suit, filed by the Election Integrity Project-California in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, include Attorney General Xavier Becerra, whom Biden selected for a cabinet post, and Secretary of State Alex...

Six people were arrested on suspicion of murder in a weekend assault that left a 25-year-old Los Angeles family services counselor dead, sheriff's officials said Monday. Deputies were called about 9:50 p.m. Saturday to 5300 Angeles Vista Blvd. in the unincorporated Windsor Hills area, the site of Wayfinder Family Services, a nonprofit organization that provides support services to children, adults and families, said Deputy Joana Warren of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. They found David Mcknight-Hillman, who worked at the organization, suffering from injuries that indicated he was beaten, Warren said. Mcknight-Hillman, who was responsible for "the day-to-day care...

Close to half of that money — $1.5 billion — would help people purchase electric cars and build the charging stations necessary for drivers to use them. That proposal is part of Newsom’s goal to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars in California by 2035. Small businesses would get $575 million. The money would pay for grants of up to $25,000 each to small business owners, with priority given to areas and industries most affected by the pandemic. That money includes $25 million for small museums and art galleries that have been forced to close during the pandemic.

In the latest revelation of potential criminal fraud involving California jobless benefits, an analysis has found that more than $42 million in claims went to out-of-state prison and jail inmates, giving more clarity to what officials now estimate could be $4 billion in scammed coronavirus relief funds. A large number of Florida inmates, including a man sentenced to 20 years for second-degree murder, are among the thousands of out-of-state prisoners who have allegedly received California pandemic unemployment benefits, according to a December analysis commissioned by the state Employment Development Department and reviewed by The Times. The disclosures come as state...

After spending most of 2020 telling small businesses to close and limit their customers, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $4 billion worth of state spending he says will help them survive in 2021. Newsom was the first U.S. governor to impose a statewide stay-at-home order because of the coronavirus pandemic in March, earning praise at the time for decisive action to contain the spread. But a recent surge of cases has caused those restrictions to linger into 2021, shuttering bars, restaurants, barber shops, gyms and movie theaters for months at a time while imposing strict limits on capacity...

Colleen McCain Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is The Sacramento Bee’s new executive editor and will also serve as the regional editor for California, where McClatchy operates five newsrooms. Nelson, 46, is currently the national opinion editor for McClatchy, The Bee’s parent company, which operates in 30 markets across the country. She also is vice president and opinion editor for The Kansas City Star, and has extensive experience in covering national and local issues, as well as presidential campaigns and the White House. Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article248280940.html#storylink=cpy

Just before the end of 2020, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued an order stating that insurance companies cannot refuse to pay for a minor girl’s mastectomy just because she isn’t 18 yet. He reached this conclusion by defining the surgical removal of healthy breasts and the “creation of a male chest” as medically “necessary” for girls suffering from gender dysphoria (the painful sense of identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex) rather than “cosmetic.” This means that a gender dysphoric girl’s healthy chest would be considered “abnormal” if she identifies as male. “For far too long, individuals diagnosed...