San Diego, Calif. - U.S. Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) released a statement Monday announcing that he will be attending President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony Friday, saying he "greatly respects the office of the Presidency, even if he does not respect the man who will now inhabit it."

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tireless campaign against segregation earned him a legacy that stands among those of the greatest American heroes. He helped force the change that guaranteed every American’s right to vote and that tore down the institutional Jim Crow system.

But it is vital to King’s commemoration to remember that his vision extended well beyond voting rights and segregation. Prior to his assassination in 1968, he initiated a second Civil Rights campaign against American militarism and endemic poverty — problems that went unsolved and remain so in our time.

In December, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told CBS’s Face the Nation that she didn’t think people wanted a new direction for the Democratic Party. But recently, voters in California sent Pelosi quite the opposite message.

Tijuana, Mexico - The protests of Mexico’s gasoline price hike continued over the weekend at the main points of entry of San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, California.

U.S. authorities had to divert southbound traffic from Interstates 5 and 805.

It took hours to get traffic back to a regular flow.

The total number of demonstrators was estimated at close to 15,000.

On January 10, 2017, serial killer and hate criminal Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Upon interrogation, Roof admitted his assault was racially motivated and that he intended to spark a race war in the United States.

With the 2016 elections in the rear view mirror, politicos now look ahead to the 2018 midterm elections. In Maine, there are lingering questions over how ranked choice voting, approved by voters in 2016, will alter the state's political landscape.

San Diego, CALIF.- In an effort to educate, inform, and help young immigrants navigate changes that might be coming from President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policies, Alliance San Diego has launched a video and outreach campaign, "Rising Together." The purpose of the campaign is to help immigrants decide what to do before Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

San Diego, CALIF.- Mayor Kevin Faulconer proposed a hotel tax hike to pay for a convention center expansion during his annual State of the City address on Thursday night.

The relationship between the three giants of North America has never been a simple one. From wars and interventions, to visas and work agreements, it is clear that Canada, Mexico, and the United States’ closeness makes them de-facto partners.

The AFP reported Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to extradition to the United States on one condition: President Barack Obama must first grant clemency to imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years for leaking sensitive military and diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks in 2010.