The University of California (UC) system has announced that it will no longer invest in private prison companies and divested the $25 million it held in GEO Group Inc, G4S, and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), according to the Los Angeles Times.

A northern California mosque was damaged with a firebomb early Saturday morning, in what KCRA, the local NBC affiliate, reported may be an anti-Muslim hate crime.

Fresno, California police are investigating an early Saturday morning attack on a Sikh man as a hate crime, according to the Fresno Bee.

Hours after telling the Associated Press and Washington Post that he expected to make significant changes to his campaign team, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson completely reversed course. In a statement obtained by Politico Wednesday, Carson said he has “100 percent confidence in my campaign team.”

After a Washington Post cartoonist depicted Sen. Ted Cruz’s daughters as props in his presidential campaign, the Texas senator fired back with a cartoon of his own. In a hastily Photoshopped drawing posted on Twitter Wednesday, the Post and New York Times appear as the “lapdogs” for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Seems like a better idea for a cartoon: Hillary and her lapdogs. pic.twitter.com/dou9c7fS4U

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 23, 2015

Newly-elected Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) reversed his Democratic predecessor’s executive order restoring voting rights to some 140,000 former felons late Tuesday night, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Hillary Clinton took aim at her GOP presidential rival Donald Trump in a Tuesday interview with the Des Moines Register, criticizing the outspoken real estate mogul's "penchant for sexism" a day after he lobbed some personal attacks at her.

Fox News host Eric Bolling resurrected the theory that Chelsea Clinton, who is expecting a second child, “timed out” her pregnancies to boost her mother Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Monday’s episode of the “O’Reilly Factor.”

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) issued a statement late Monday night condemning the death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas county jail earlier this year.

The editorial board of the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a front-page editorial on Sunday promising to maintain independence and transparency after being purchased by conservative casino mogul Sheldon Adelson in a secretive $140 million sale.