Top Global News
Muslim holy man calls for beheading of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. See story.
Top U.S. News Report says there are 1 million fewer illegal immigrants in America—see which states have the most and lost the most illegal residents. See story.
Top California News
Welfare payments to illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children increased to $52 million in Los Angeles in July. See story.
Top Global News
The Islamic Republic of Iran blasted peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, with Iran’s President chanting “Down with Israel.” See story.
Top U.S. News President Obama glosses over 54,000 jobs lost in August. See story.
Top California News
California court refuses to make Gov. Schwarzenegger or Attorney General Brown defend the law in the Prop. 8 case. See story.
Top Global News
The U.S. finally lists the Pakistani Taliban as a terror group, allowing financial and travel restrictions. See story.
Top U.S. News President Obama’s departing Council of Economic Advisers chairman, Christina Romer, has no clue as to why unemployment remains high, calls for more government spending—and tax cuts. See story.
Top California News
California Legislature passes 98 bills in its last day of regular session; see the complete listing of the mostly bad bills. See story.
Top Global News Israel’s Netanyahu to meet with Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders to talk peace. See story.
Top U.S. News Poll indicates Republicans may win big in the House elections. See story.
Top California News Today is the last day of California’s regular 2009-2010 legislative session—look for bad bills, a couple of budget votes, and a bunch of maneuvering, subterfuge, and deal making. See stories here and here.
North Korean communist party conference is a rare event, raises succession questions. See story.
Top U.S. News Young voters’ passion cools in 2010. See story.
Top California News
California dairy cow manure methane digester as a source of biofuel reduces one kind of emission (methane), but produces smog (NOx). See story.
Top Global News
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran still mulling over death sentence for woman accused of adultery; stoning remains a possibility. See story.
Top U.S. News Arizona’s governor demands that the U.S. State Department removes a critical reference to Arizona’s recently passed illegal immigration law in a UN human rights report. See story.
Top California News
California’s massive high-speed rail project will test the state several ways. See story.
Top Global News Speculation mounts in Japan that new political leadership with revive the economy and prevent the yen from growing more valuable relative to other currencies. See story.
Top U.S. News With the economy growing at 1.6% in the second quarter, revised down from 2.4%, Fed Chair Bernanke pledges action to avoid deflation. See story.
Top California News Budgetless, Schwarzenegger plans six-day Asian trip anyway. See story.
