• Anne Heche 'crash house' in Southern California has been restored and is on sale for $1.35M nearly two years after actress tragically died at 53 after fiery solo car crash into home

    West LA abode has since been renovated and put on the real estate market. Emmy-winning actress died on August 11, 2022 at the age of 53, six days after the crash that left her with injuries that would prove to be fatal. Heche gained notoriety for romance with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000

  • Letters to the Editor: Hate California? That says more about you than California

    To the editor: Your print edition front page on April 8 had two articles about worsening circumstances in California with regard to climate change and housing, and a piece explaining the reasons conservatives don’t like us. It seems to be the norm for folks (even our friends and members of our family) to think negatively about the state. In reality, it is probable that not living within a budget leads to people thinking California is too expensive; that not knowing people different than we are...

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    Meta is going to make education a lot more interesting with a Quest education product

    Meta has said it will unveil a new product later in the year which will aim its Quest devices at education. It should make Quest devices easier for teachers to use in their classrooms.

  • California Unemployment Spikes

    California saw applications for unemployment benefits rise for the week ending March 30, according to the Department of Labor—a signal that the jobs market may become more challenging amid a rise in the state's jobless rate.In the Golden State, the number of jobless claims increased by 2,147, the largest rise in the nation. Pennsylvania followed with 1,913 new claims, and Iowa with 1,383. Overall, for the week ending April 6, claims declined by 11,000 to 211,000, below what economist...

  • If Your Galaxy Notifications Are Messed Up, Here's the Fix

    Samsung's latest One UI 6.1 update introduced a new setting to disable notification categories, but it's disabled by default. That means your notification category settings may have been disabled as well.

  • There’s no such thing as a neutral education

    The failures of the public school system are many: students are barely keeping up with baseline academic expectations, many have simply stopped showing up at all, and the resources allocated to districts to address both of these problems (totaling in the hundreds of billions of dollars) apparently have disappeared. Worse still, our public schools have […]

  • Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From

    Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls this weekend, in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to determine whether Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the country for a third consecutive term. Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that,according to data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey, one of the major challenges facing the country...

  • America is facing an education crisis

    How many people can say their fifth grade class trip helped launch them on their path in life? I can.

  • Walker Percy on How to Recover Education

    Why is it that so many students in the modern American education system say that school is “boring”? Aren’t they learning about the most fascinating aspects of our world? Isn’t part of human nature, as Aristotle teaches, to desire to know? In his brilliant essay “The Loss of the Creature,” the novelist and philosopher Walker

  • California sober: what does it mean and is it good for you?

    Weed is becoming more mainstream, with more people exclusively using cannabis products – here’s what you need to know about being ‘California sober’Cannabis, now legal in 24 states, is a $40bn industry in America. That may not be much compared to the $260bn alcohol market, but a shift is afoot. As booze trends down, with young people drinking less and beer sales in decline, sales of marijuana are creeping upward, and weed is becoming more mainstream – favored by senior citizens and stressed-out...

  • TRAGIC: I Was Right About the Hostages Being Dead

    Conservative criminal defense attorney and columnist Marina Medvin called it a "devastating Hostage negotiations update" because that's exactly what it is. In the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the Hamas terror organization, Hamas officials now say that "they wouldn’t commit to releasing 40 living hostages but could commit to 40 hostages total, dead or alive."

  • Huge protest in Argentina against education cuts

    Thousands marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday calling on President Milei to preserve university funding.