SoCal voters to select new state lawmakers

Los Angeles-area voters go to the polls Tuesday in special elections to fill three open Assembly seats. Two spots are vacant because lawmakers resigned amid harassment claims, potentially making room for more female lawmakers, but candidates say issues related to sexual misconduct at the Capitol aren't top-of-mind for many voters.

Professor Calls Genocide Morally Required

Mohammed Abed reaffirmed his belief that genocide is not always immoral and is sometimes even morally required in an email to The Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. The California State University, Los Angeles professor argued in his 2015 paper , "The Concept of Genocide Reconsidered," that genocide - defined as "a violent process that aims at the liquidation of protected groups" - doesn't need to involve mass murder, and the perpetrators of genocide can have a wide variety of motivations, not all of which are evil.