Los Angeles has been rocked by a magnitude 3.2 earthquake.The tremor occurred at 1.15am local time (9.45am GMT) three miles (5km) east of Lennox.Locals reported feeling the ground shake, with some tweeting that they were woken up by the quake.

Leonardo DiCaprio is the 2016 Oscar Winner for Best Actor. In his acceptance speech, DiCaprio brought attention to global warming. He stated, "Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species. We need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating."

Two former neighbors of Justin Bieber have filed a lawsuit against the pop star, claiming he and his bodyguards repeatedly harassed them and their family, vandalized their house with eggs and threatened them with anti-Semitic remarks.In the lawsuit Jeffrey and Suzanne Schwartz say Bieber hosted frequent loud parties and spat in Jeffrey Schwartz' face after he complained about the pop star driving his Ferrari at dangerous speeds down the street of their gated community in Calabasas, California.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comI wrote a column last August warning that the Armenian-American community and all people of good will would boycott the products and services of Anheuser-Busch, Boeing, Chevron, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, Los Angeles Airport, National Football League, Port of Oakland, and United Airlines, unless these companies cancelled their contracts with the Gephardt Group, one of Turkey’s notorious ...

WESTWOOD, CA–University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student body government on Tuesday night unanimously voted to divest $72.6 million dollars worth of University of California bonds and investments in the Republic of Turkey for their crimes in and the continued denial of the Armenian genocide.The resolution titled “A Resolution to Divest from the Republic of Turkey to End the Perpetuation of the Armenian Genocide” passed with a vote of 12-0-0 around 10:00 pm at Kerckhoff Hall in UCLA.

On 25 November Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met in Los Angeles with a group of American businessmen of Armenian origin and discussed issues related to different investment programs in Artsakh. Vice-premier Arthur Aghabekyan presented corresponding information on Artsakh's investment opportunities.In his speech President Sahakyan underlined the necessity of giving a new impetus to the implementation of business projects in Artsakh by the Diaspora and developing mutually beneficial relations ...