A “swing” call about an active shooter sparked a massive police response at Claremont McKenna College Thursday night, the day after similar false reports sparked panic and evacuation at Loma Linda Children’s Hospital in San Bernardino County. The department said it warned students at the shelter of five undergraduate colleges in the Claremont Consortium after…
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her large following base to oppose what Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer calls “argument” to accept the Family Republican Funding Act. “I think there is a deep sense of anger and betrayal,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters in Leesburg, Virginia. She said she and her…
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team debuted a website last month that categorized contracts the group said that the group has cancelled to save taxpayers’ money. Since then, the list has changed dramatically. New contracts were added, others were deleted. The value has changed and changed again. These changes tell a story about how the Musk team,…
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard speaks on stage during Tribeca X: Celebrating the 2019 day of entertainment and advertising in New York City. Getty Images by Ben Gabbe/tribeca x Greg Curtis first heard of the “Purpose Trust” in 2017, when he was working as assistant general counsel for Patagonia and was keeping an eye on the…
The owner of a recycling plant accused of exposing South Los Angeles high school students to toxic waste and metal projectiles will be in jail for several days for decades as judges determined they violated court orders. Matthew Weisenberg and Gary Weisenberg, owners of S&W Atlas Iron & Metal, were handcuffed and put on a…
Washington – Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff of California said they would vote with most Democrats against temporary measures to fund the government, for possible roads that could close by the end of this weekend. “This gives Donald Trump six months to continue to undermine the administration. This won't fly. What we should do is…
The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office confirmed that an tornado passed through the Pico Rivera area near downtown earlier Thursday as a powerful storm system hits heavy rain and destructive winds in Southern California. The office classifies it as zero, which is the lowest level on the enhanced Fujita scale, which can reach up…
When right-wing networks Newsmax and SmartMatic agreed to settle last fall’s election libel lawsuit by voting software companies, the financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed and appear to remain confidential. This is no longer the case. In regulatory filings released this week by Newsmax, the channel shows it agrees to buy a “five-year…
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigue, visited a command post in front of Kursk late Wednesday for his troops to invade Ukrainian troops on many territories occupied by the Russian border. The Russian leader's sharp visit comes the second day after the U.S. delegation met with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, where they…
Sculptor David Altmejd is in his studio. ©Tristan Lajarrige David Altmejd describes himself as a medium—an interpreter and channel that has been embedded in the material he works on. It took years, but the sculpture gradually showed him tools to transcend and inquire—into the physical structure of science and materials in human creativity and artistry….