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I seldom experience dA jA vu in my aerial life, though it lurks around every corner of my ground-bound existence. Enough changes from flight to flight to find something fresh in every airborne encounter, and the shift in perspective makes even old haunts seem entirely foreign when seen from above.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the new version of "Celebrity Apprentice," is unfazed that President-elect Donald Trump has retained a producer's stake in the show. Schwarzenegger said Friday that it's just business, comparable to his situation when he became California's governor and retained a screen credit and kept earning royalties for the "Terminator" movie.
Colleges that expel students whom they suspect of having committed sexual assault are being asked to go further by specifying the reason for expulsion on their transcripts. Victims' advocates say it's critical to ensuring such students don't end up on other campuses without their new schools knowing the potential risk and to holding them accountable, long term, so they can't just move on with a clean slate.
In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump walks with CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast food executive Andrew Puzder as Labor secretary. In the background is Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
In a video titled "Man of Steel," J.J. Hanson goes for a run along a tree-lined road, pumps iron in his garage, plays in a park with his three-year-old son, and walks hand in hand with his beautiful wife. This idyllic image is spliced with tragedy: in 2014, Hanson was diagnosed with a quickly growing brain tumor.
With less than hour to spare, the Senate late Friday backed legislation averting a government shutdown as coal-state Democrats retreated on long-term health care benefits for retired miners and promised a renewed fight for the working class next year. The 63-36 vote sent the stop-gap spending bill to President Barack Obama, who signed the measure early Saturday morning.
A man casts his ballot as a map of Italy is seen in background at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.Italians are voting in a referendum on constitutional reforms that is being closely watched abroad to see if ... . Ballots are being put on a table at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.
The converted warehouse known as the "Ghost Ship" where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party was an artist workspace and illegal home for a rotating cast of a dozen or more residents, those who... The converted warehouse known as the "Ghost Ship" where a deadly fire ripped through a late-night dance party was an artist workspace and illegal home for a rotating cast of a dozen or more residents, those who lived there... A graduate student arrested on suspicion of killing the professor who oversaw his work at the University of California was described by some of his fellow classmates as a quiet but seemingly normal young man while others... The Green Party is dropping its court case seeking a statewide recount of Pennsylvania's Nov. 8 presidential election.
Universities and colleges in several states are considering labeling themselves "sanctuary campuses" amid fears from immigrant students and pressure from activists following the election of Donald Trump. California authorities say a fire has broken out at an Oakland warehouse where people were having a party and police say there are "casualties."
Aid agencies say that more than 30,000 people have fled rebel-h... . A Syrian boy displaced with his family from eastern Aleppo holds a sandwich and bread bag in the village of Jibreen south of Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.
The last time the Republican Party had a win like the surprise pulled off by President-elect Donald Trump, it came in California and it quickly turned the nation's largest state from a consistent toss-up political battleground to a solid Democratic bastion. That "victory" came when then-Gov. Pete Wilson won re-election - on Nov. 8, also the date of Trump's triumph - by a large margin in 1994 on the strength of a campaign directed largely against Latino illegal immigrants.
Rep. Xavier Becerra announced Thursday he would be leaving Congress to serve as California's attorney general, a move that takes the senior Democrat out of Washington but not off the front lines of the battle against the Trump administration. California Gov. Jerry Brown named Becerra to the spot Thursday opened up by the departure of Kamala Harris, who won a US Senate seat this November.
California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra on how, whether, and why his state will "resist" Trump-era national policies. Another Californian on the left.
Thousands of California National Guard troops will not have to repay enlistment bonuses and benefits they received a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a deal between House and Senate negotiators. Rep. Adam Schiff, whose congressional district includes Burbank, Glendale and the Pasadena area, said legislation will ensure soldiers who were required to pay back bonuses and benefits “they received in good faith are not the subject of clawbacks both now or in the future.” Southern Calfornia native John Bischler, who spent 13 years in the National Guard, said he was cautiously optimistic about the compromise.
In what might be shaping up as an echo of the 1960s, campuses in Southern California and around the country are responding to a pending Trump presidency with all manner of mourning and protest. Cry-ins, class walkouts, marches all have become routine parts of campus life in recent weeks, a response to the election of a candidate who denied climate change, repeatedly made statements viewed as misogynistic, and called for building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Michael Downing talks with Sayed Moustafa al-Qazwini, founding Imam of the Islamic Educational Center of Orange County at a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Government officials have condemned a hate-filled letter received by several California mosques that said Muslims would be exterminated by President-elect Donald Trump.
Reps. Barbara Lee and Linda Sanchez are facing off for a spot in House leadership. A woman of color will be elected to join House leadership this week for the first time, and she'll be a Democrat from California.
The chief executive of Blue Shield of California, the largest insurer on the state-run marketplace, says he's committed to selling coverage even as Republicans pursue a repeal of the federal health law. In an interview this week with California Healthline, Paul Markovich also criticized President-elect Donald Trump's support for the sale of insurance plans across state lines in order to boost competition and consumer choice.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California's drought stricken forests.