California National Guard troops rolled into La Mesa Wednesday night as an added layer of protection from violent agitators who may mix in with peaceful protesters during demonstrations planned this weekend. Last weekend, looters and arsonists took the spotlight from peaceful protesters standing for justice in the killing of George Floyd, and against police brutality and racial inequality. Tensions have been high in La Mesa since last week, when video surfaced on social media of a white La...

A San Diego business owner is trying to pick up the pieces after his optometry shop was looted in the early morning hours on Monday. In the early hours of Monday morning, looters came down C Street and started smashing the windows of the optometry shop around 1:50 a.m. When people came to board up the windows around 3:30 a.m., the video shows looters still inside. Cell phone video taken by a lawyer who works in the Emerald Plaza building clearly shows looters brazenly kicking down display...

George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, tested positive for the Coronavirus in April, an autopsy report released Wednesday (3 June) showed. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office released its official findings after seeking the family’s permission, which showed Floyd was diagnosed with COvid-19 on April 3. It, however, remains unclear as to where the information of him testing positive in April was drawn from. According to CNN, the test performed for the...

When she began self-isolating in her apartment in College Station, Texas, in March, Melissa Hodges thought it would be her big opportunity to finally learn to cook. After all, so many of her classmates at Texas A&M University, where she is a senior, were posting Instagram photos of glossy strands of spaghetti carbonara and citrus scones drizzled with a sticky glaze. Then she tried to heat up a frozen cheese pizza. “I stuck it in the oven at a random temperature because I didn’t bother to read...

In music, there’s no such thing as a comfort zone. That’s what Mumbai learned at the 11th edition of TEDxGateway 2020, themed Ideas Worth Spreading, where exceptional international talent showed that musical genius is a product of collaboration. Thumming it up A few years ago, Australian star beatboxer Tom Thum, who uses his mouth and vocal chords to create an array of sounds from a trumpet to a turntable scratching, entered into a surprising collaboration with composer and symphony conductor...