Are We Close To Finding A Cure For Cancer?

A team of British scientists has shed more light on how cancer might be spread in the body, describing a so-called "chase-and-run" phenomenon involving malignant and healthy cells.

Researchers at University College London have discovered that cancer cells are attracted to healthy cells and follow them around until they group together and spread the disease to different organs. 

Healthy cells try to escape when contact is made, but the chemical molecules they produce continue to attract their diseased counterparts, the scientists found. 

Read more at CTV News

Is This The Beginning Of The End For The Calderon Family?

Los Cerritos Community Newspaper Publisher Brian Hews and Investigative Reporter Randy Economy are now featured in a new internet video that specifically highlights the latest on the FBI case that is directly targeting the “Calderon Political Family” and the Central Basin Municipal Water District.

View the video below.

Read more at Los Cerritos News

Does This Woman Deserve To Be Criticized? 

The idea that couples should be paired by body weight (thin with thin, and overweight with overweight), has lead one Californian woman to stand up and face bullies that taunt her everyday.

Gloria Shuri Nava, 25, from San Jose, is overweight. Her 22-year-old boyfriend of 18 months, Ali, who she met online, is 'fit and muscular'; and according to Miss Nave, many people can't comprehend why he would want to date her.

In a candid essay for Yahoo!, Miss Nava writes: 'When people say things out loud, their comments range from cruel ("Is he blind?" "He's only with you to get a green card") to awkward quips such as, "It's great he can see past your looks," or "He's so nice for being with you."

Read more at Daily Mail

Do You Believe The Plea Of Snowden’s Father Will Help?

The father of Edward Snowden, the former analyst who leaked information on top-secret surveillance programs, is appealing to his son to return to the United States and to resist temptation to release “any secrets that could constitute treason.”

“I sense that you’re under much stress [from] what I’ve read recently, and [ask] that you not succumb to that stress … and make a bad decision,” Lon Snowden told Fox News in an interview.

“I would like to see Ed come home and face this. I shared that with the government when I spoke with them. I love my son.”

Read more at National Post

Do you believe taxpayers should have been informed about the proposed amendment?

For millions of California homeowners, Saturday was a day that will live in infamy. Without a single public hearing, the California Assembly passed Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 8 (ACA 8), the most egregious attack on Prop. 13 ever to come out of the Legislature.

ACA 8 would repeal Prop. 13’s requirement that local “special taxes” (taxes intended for a specific purpose or purposes) be approved by a two-thirds vote. Instead, special taxes imposed for the repayment of local bonded indebtedness would be reduced to 55%. The ostensible justification for ACA 8 is to make it easier to finance local “infrastructure.” 

There are several reasons why ACA 8 will inevitably inflict severe harm on California homeowners. First, while state bonds are repaid out of the state’s general fund -- into which most Californians contribute through income or sales taxes -- the same is not true for local bonds. Local bonds, usually referred to as “general obligation” bonds, are repaid exclusively by property owners. That means that voters who do not own property can vote to raise taxes on those who do. 

Read more at Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

Do You Believe LAPD Could Have Prevented The Death Of The West Hills Woman?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles elementary school teacher is accused of chasing down and fatally stabbing his estranged wife, months after she petitioned for a restraining order, and hours after she informed police he had violated that order.

Michael Rodney Kane, 46, was arrested Monday in San Bernardino County for allegedly killing his wife, Michelle Ann Kane, 43.

The arrest came after Michelle Kane was stabbed to death in the middle of a quiet San Fernando Valley neighborhood block.

In her court filings, she alleged multiple instances of abuse by her husband in front of their two young children and said he'd threatened to kill her multiple times since she began divorce proceedings in December.

She wrote in a petition for a restraining order granted April 24 that her husband had told her "that I should 'go ahead and get a restraining order, it won't protect you, but it will make you feel better,'" and that she'd delayed requesting such an order out of fear of how he'd react.

He had threatened to kill her using piano wire, an ice pick, guns or pipe bombs, court documents allege.

Read more on the KFI News Blog

Do You Believe The U.S. & Taliban Can Agree On A Peaceful Plan? 

U.S. and Taliban representatives will meet soon for the first time to begin what are expected to be long and complex negotiations for a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday. 

The officials told NBC News that the meeting will take place in the next several days in the Qatari capital of Doha. The Taliban will open an office there for the purpose of negotiating directly with the Afghan government, the officials said. A precise date was not announced.

"This is a key milestone on the way to the complete transition of responsibility for security to Afghans by the end of next year," a senior U.S. administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said via conference call after the announcement was made.

Read more at NBC News

Do You Believe USC’s reputation Is In Jeopardy?

WASHINGTON (AP) The FBI has reached a milestone in its 63-year-old program of pursuing its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives."

It has added the 499th and 500th names of fugitives to have appeared over the years on its regularly updated list.

The FBI says citizen cooperation has led to 155 of the fugitives being apprehended or their bodies found.

The two new additions are Jose Manuel Garcia Guevara, who allegedly murdered a 26-year-old woman in the presence of her 4-year-old stepson in Lake Charles, La., in 2008; and Walter Lee Williams, a former California professor wanted for the alleged sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad to engage in illicit sex acts with children.

Read more on the KFI News Blog