Enrique Marquez, a neighbor and friend of one of the San Bernardino shooters, has been arrested for allegedly providing material support to terrorists, officials said. … [Read more...]
Offshore Drilling Heats Up As Candidates Approach South Carolina
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton works the crowd in North Charleston, S.C., Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015. Clinton recently said she would take a "hard look" at proposed offshore Atlantic drilling. … [Read more...]
These Are Some of the Faces of a Refugee Crisis You Didn’t Know About
Qaraqosh, Iraq, was turned into a war zone in August 2014 when ISIS fired mortars at the northern city. … [Read more...]
Overhead Bin Bursts Open, Passenger Gets Head Injury
Before a British Airways plane had even left Heathrow Airport on Monday, a passenger was struck on the head by falling luggage, causing him to collapse. … [Read more...]
It’s Now Safe for Los Angeles Public Schools to Reopen Tomorrow
Los Angeles schools have been deemed safe and will reopen tomorrow morning after the FBI determined that a threat emailed to the district was not credible, according to district officials and the mayor. … [Read more...]
Major National Security Issue CNN Didn’t Raise During GOP Debate
Tuesday’s GOP debate was scheduled just three days after nearly 200 countries adopted a historic climate agreement in Paris. Though the debate focused on national security, touching on ISIS, North Korea and terrorism. But CNN failed to address climate change, which the Pentagon has deemed a major national security threat. … [Read more...]
Mexican Waters Reached by Oil From Deepwater Horizon Disaster
BP may have settled in United States court after the largest marine oil spill in history polluted the Gulf of Mexico, but now a Mexican civic organization is seeking remediation for alleged ecological damages from drifting contamination affecting Mexican sea life. … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Public Schools Closed Because of Threats
All Los Angeles Unified School District schools have been ordered closed Tuesday due to a “credible threat” of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district. … [Read more...]
Cities Could Be Key to Solving Climate Crisis
Cities, already in the forefront of initiating actions to combat climate change, are poised to have an even greater impact in the coming years if they can overcome such barriers as financing and the misperception that tackling emissions is harmful to economic growth, according to research released this week. … [Read more...]
California’s Oil And Gas Industry Spent $10 Million Getting Rid Of Environmental Review
In this Dec. 18, 2012 photo, one of the region's thousands of oil pumps sits in the foreground of the new Westside Parkway under construction in Bakersfield, Calif. Much of the economic boom Bakersfield is enjoying is because high oil prices and new technology for extraction have revived the $10 billion industry that seemed dried up 25 years ago when Kern County set out to … [Read more...]