In a Facebook post, the California Highway Patrol Santa Anna division posted a photo of the actual vehicle involved in the incident. Police described the vehicle as a white Volkswagen Golf Spotswagen with non-tinted windows. “The Golf appears to be a 2018 or 2019 model and the license plate is unknown,” police said in the post. According to police, the Volkswagen was occupied by a female driver and a male passenger....

Where the authority for such a probe, as executed, comes is not clear. There are no “little-known codicils” in the U.S. Constitution giving the speaker of the house unlimited power to preserve order in times she regards as a national emergency, like when Hillary Clinton fails to win and election. What is actually occurring is a naked grab for political power, driven by partisan donors and activists applying pressure to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to drive Trump from office....

In the leading case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that even the advocacy of the use of force is constitutionally protected, unless it is specifically “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action.” In subsequent decisions the courts have narrowly defined “incitement” to exclude the kind of speech delivered by President Trump. It is beyond dispute, therefore, that his speech—disturbing as it may have been—is within the core protection of political speech....

No one comes out of “Election” unscathed. Poor Mr. McAllister, who would seem to be the voice of morality, is willing to betray all the principles of democracy–not to mention his marriage vows–in his increasingly unhinged efforts to stop the Flick juggernaut. Director Payne, who adapted Tom Perrotta’s novel with Jim Taylor, has an authentically dire view of human behavior, which he expresses in crisp, edgy and sometimes startlingly raunchy style....

We need both the health and economic threats to be taken seriously - without one eclipsing the other. Although the death rate has been relatively low, any loss of life is a tragedy. Despite the relatively low numbers of deaths, the global movement of people and goods has ground to a halt, and travel plans and supply chains that we took for granted just weeks ago now seem like unimaginable luxuries....

The viral Reddit post—titled “AITA for not talking to my MIL [mother-in-law] after she insisted my daughter not sign at the dinner table”—has been upvoted 13,200 times since it was shared to the subreddit “Am I the A**hole” on Wednesday. Redditor @Thin_Crab_664 shared the post, revealing she’s a 29-year-old female who has a daughter from a previous relationship. Her current husband, 30, is the closest to a dad the girl has known....

For 21 hours the world’s eyes were on China–specifically on Yang Liwei, the 38-year-old former MiG pilot whose 600,000- kilometer voyage won him the adulation of millions of Chinese citizens. But China’s moment in the limelight really belonged to its engineers–not just the ones who managed the nuts and bolts of the launch itself, but the ones who run the country. Their ranks include China’s new President Hu Jintao, a hydroelectric engineer who graduated from prestigious Tsinghua University–China’s MIT–and six of nine people on the powerful Politiburo Standing Committee....

When I say “conflict,” I am speaking narrowly and exactly about conflict between the accounts of Professor Hill and soon-to-be Justice Thomas as to what happened when they worked together at the Education Department and EEOC. That, not the broader question of his professional acceptability as a justice, was what was at issue, and though the question was narrow, its implications were and remain stupendous. On it everything rode, including the broader question of Thomas’s acceptability, since he stood to be demonstrated (by her account) a bully and a perjurer, just as she stood to be demonstrated (by his) both a perjurer and a malicious destroyer of a man’s reputation....

Word from Cleveland Browns territory this week has veterans players unhappy at Manziel and fellow first-round pick Justin Gilbert as another season fades into obscurity. Here are two telling quotes from: — Linebacker Karlos Dansby regarding Manziel, to The Plain Dealer of Cleveland: “When you’re a first-round pick, you’ve got to c’mon, man. They’ve got to reset their goals and they’ve got to do it fast.” — Safety Dante Whitner regarding Gilbert, to ESPN: “It’s time to grow up and not be a kid anymore....

Sandin, who is likely to develop into a top-4 and lead the next wave on the Leafs’ blue line, racked up two assists in six games. While he wasn’t necessarily playing terribly — and showed that he could keep up at the NHL level — coach Mike Babcock had different thoughts. “We can’t get him on the power play in front of the guys we got, can’t get on the penalty kill....

What more can be said about a tyrant who has already been the subject of countless biographies? As Montefiore proves, the answer is “a lot.” The British author mined the archives and published as well as unpublished memoirs, and interviewed the surviving wives and children of Stalin’s henchmen. The result is an incredibly rich, detailed portrait of the man and the members of his inner circle that dwells less on politics than personal behavior that knew no bounds....

Perhaps this is why it seems so offensive to watch the Bush administration self-consciously pursuing and consulting what it calls “the Catholic vote.” Most recently this has been applied to whether the White House will support stem-cell research, which could lead to a cure for any number of serious illnesses. One of the administration’s house Catholics quipped not long ago, “In 1960 John Kennedy went from Washington down to Texas to assure Protestant preachers that he would not obey the pope....

What links excessive CEO pay packages with the shabby (and sometimes illegal) way that some mutual-fund companies have treated investors? Answer: both involve flaws in the way boards of directors work, flaws that aren’t likely to be fixed by the much-hyped drive to clean up corporate America. It’s the old problem of too many lawyers, too many rules, not enough common sense. Instead of simply making it clear that corporate and mutual-fund boards should do the right thing–reining in CEO compensation and policing fund-management practices–we’re focusing on whether board chairmen and a majority of directors are “independent,” meaning that they do little or no business with the company other than accepting directors’ fees and perks....

NASA posted the captivating footage to Twitter on Sunday after a geomagnetic storm hit our planet. The time-lapse video shows a view from the ISS as it traveled around 270 miles above the Indian Ocean toward the Coral Sea east of Australia, during which time the “magnificent” aurora could be seen. Auroras—otherwise known as the northern or southern lights—are vibrant displays of light caused by the interaction of high-energy, charged particles emitted by the sun with the Earth’s protective magnetic field, or magnetosphere....

Periodical cicadas are seven species from the genus Magicicada, which emerge every 13 or 17 years in North America. The cicadas that have emerged in parts of the eastern U.S. and Midwest this year are referred to collectively as “Brood X.” Periodical cicadas spend most of their lives underground as nymphs—a juvenile phase in their lifecycles. After spending 13 or 17 years below the soil—the time period differs between species—the insects crawl out of the earth, immediately try to find a tree (or another vertical surface) and molt, transforming into their adult phase....

The Associated Press reported that while the event coordinators hired a private security company, the Houston Police Department was also involved with crowd control and other safety duties at the Travis Scott show on November 5th. Houston Police Department Spokeswoman Jodi Silva declined to comment to the AP about whether they were considering handing the investigation to a private agency. “All of the information we have available to put out at this time has been placed out on Twitter,” Silva said....

In a statement delivered to a U.N. Security Council meeting called by the U.S. on Monday, Indian permanent representative T.S. Tirumurti said New Delhi was closely following the latest developments as Russia continued to amass troops, equipment and supplies near the border with Ukraine. Moscow officials have repeatedly rejected speculation on any impending invasion but have also demanded a halt to NATO’s eastward expansion, leaving Europe and the world on edge....

“Serology tests are blood-based tests that can be used to identify whether people have been exposed to a particular pathogen by looking at their antibodies, or specific proteins produced by the body in response to an infection. Serology tests can be helpful in determining whether someone was infected in the past with the coronavirus, whether or not they ever developed symptoms of the disease,” Johns Hopkins University (JHU) explains....

The narrative includes how they have plans to run an academy or already have one, how they are starting reserve teams or how their set of players shall play in the Under-15 and Under-18 leagues. All one needs to do is speak to any club official or coach and they shall probably give a lecture on how successful their model is and how they have the perfect roadmap to India’s rise as a footballing nation....