LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource.
Although evidence is mixed and tentative, some analysts see evidence that hard-hit housing markets in California, Arizona and elsewhere are showing signs of healing.
High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House – the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival t…
Bill Gross deals blow to government with warning to his investors that Britain’s debt makes it a ‘must to avoid’The government’s hopes of claiming credit for reviving the British economy suffered a severe blow today when the world’s biggest buyers of bonds warned that the UK was a “must to avoid” for his investors as [...]
Allowing same-sex couples to get married would improve the well-being of children raised by gay parents but should not be pursued as social policy because it would further weaken marriage as an institution, the head of a private think tank testified du…
Apple announces impressive results as anticipation builds over launch of tablet computer deviceApple was celebrating the best quarter in its 34-year history tonight, as anticipation grew around the launch of the company’s tablet computerlater this week .Announcing its latest set of financial results, the California technology company said strong demand for the iPhone and its [...]
Lawyers for two same-sex couples challenging the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage rest their case.
A parent’s complaint over a ’sexually graphic’ definition has seen dictionaries removed from southern Californian schoolsDictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”.Merriam Webster’s 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade [...]
A psychologist testifying in a trial challenging California’s gay marriage ban says the vast majority of people have identities that are consistently heterosexual, gay or bisexual throughout most of their lives.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Winter storms that have hammered California for nearly a week tapered off on Friday as authorities lifted evacuation orders for most of the 2,000 Los Angeles-area homes in greatest danger of mudslides.