California, the state where fortunes are made and lost in a weekend, muscle-bound movie stars become governors, and box office takes carry as much weight as football scores. Lesser regions may affect to snub the Golden State, but with the largest GDP in the country and the eighth largest in the world, California doesn't care.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 4:12:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43023/beverly-hills-turf-war-splits-wealthy-residents.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA turf war has broken out between two upscale Beverly Hills enclaves, home to the likes of movie mogul Sumner Redstone and basketball legend Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Business Journal reports. Residents of North Beverly Park got fed up with nannies and other employees of their South Beverly Park neighbors using their private road and banned them from doing so.http://www.newser.com/story/43023/beverly-hills-turf-war-splits-wealthy-residents.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 7:37:11 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43148/californias-supreme-court-to-rule-on-prop-8.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCalifornia's top court is wading back into the fray over gay marriage. The state's Supreme Court says it will rule on the legality of Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex weddings. Justices asked both sides for more written arguments and will hold a hearing in March and issue a decision about 3 months later, the Los Angeles Times reports. The court rejected a bid to allow same-sex marriages to continue until the issue is decided.http://www.newser.com/story/43148/californias-supreme-court-to-rule-on-prop-8.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 19:35:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43124/hathaways-new-man-a-bad-seed-too.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAnne Hathaway has a “sexy” new man, and he’s no high-flying fraudster like her now-in-prison ex, but they may share a quality. Still-struggling actor Adam Shulman is an “opportunist,” a source tells the New York Post . “When he was at Brown [University], he went after all the heiresses. It's like Anne is addicted to losers.”http://www.newser.com/story/43124/hathaways-new-man-a-bad-seed-too.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 12:29:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43092/prop-8-furor-squeezes-calif-court.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCalifornia’s moderately conservative Supreme Court faces pressure from both fronts of the gay-marriage battle, the Los Angeles Times reports. Opponents of Proposition 8—including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger—are collecting arguments for why the amendment should be struck down, while supporters have promised to oust judges who rule the other way. Justices are supposed to ignore such threats, but that may prove difficult.http://www.newser.com/story/43092/prop-8-furor-squeezes-calif-court.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 8:40:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43070/chuck-norris-prop-8-foes-wreaking-anarchy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultOpponents of California's gay marriage ban need to learn how democracy works, Chuck Norris argues at TownHall.com. Post-election Proposition 8 protesters are attacking churches for backing the ban and threatening boycotts, Norris writes, when they should be accepting the majority vote of their fellow Californians. "Like it or not, it's the law now," the actor writes. "The people have spoken."http://www.newser.com/story/43070/chuck-norris-prop-8-foes-wreaking-anarchy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 2:18:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43033/obama-vows-to-engage-vigorously-in-climate-fight.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIn an unexpected video appearance today at a conference on climate change, President-elect Barack Obama promised to fight global warming, saying the stakes are too high to continue delaying action and denying global warming. He vowed to usher in a “new era of global cooperation” come January and says he'll “engage vigorously” in international negotiations, AFP reports.http://www.newser.com/story/43033/obama-vows-to-engage-vigorously-in-climate-fight.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 14:32:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42999/prop-8-should-take-effect-amid-suits-calif-ag.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAs gay-rights campaigners petition the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, the state’s attorney general is urging the court to let the measure banning same-sex marriage take effect. Jerry Brown asked the court to rule on the lawsuits to give the question “certainty and finality”—and wants to avoid marriages that could end up in legal limbo in the interim, the Los Angeles Time s reports.http://www.newser.com/story/42999/prop-8-should-take-effect-amid-suits-calif-ag.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 6:29:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42816/maria-shriver-why-im-a-cafeteria-catholic.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCalifornia First Lady Maria Shriver likes the "compassion and justice of Jesus Christ" advanced by her Catholic religion, but can't abide the church's positions on gays, divorce and a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, she reveals in a Washington Post interview. "I'm a cafeteria Catholic," she declares, referring to her habit of following only Catholic teachings she believes in.http://www.newser.com/story/42816/maria-shriver-why-im-a-cafeteria-catholic.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 16 Nov 2008 5:31:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42781/huge-mormon-push-doomed-proposition-8.html?refid=rss_all_defaultVigorous Mormon efforts were behind the success of California’s gay-marriage ban, the New York Times reports. Mormon leaders said they saw the ban as a “fundamental moral issue,” and contributed almost half of the $40 million collected to push Proposition 8 through; they coordinated an extensive campaign to contact voters, with church members accounting for some 90% of early door-knockers for the cause, said a strategist.http://www.newser.com/story/42781/huge-mormon-push-doomed-proposition-8.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 15 Nov 2008 9:14:04 CST