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What to know about Gov. Newsom’s plan to offset California’s $45-billion deficit
Faced with a $44.9-billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda by eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs ...
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Police arrest dozens as they clear pro-Palestinian protest camps at Penn, MIT and Arizona
Police made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hours after police tear ...
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Fireworks, drones, Travis Scott hats: USC hosts alternative graduation event. Feelings are mixed
No valedictorian speech. No celebrity speakers. No main-stage ceremony, and no massive graduate walk to “Pomp and Circumstance” before tens of thousands of guests. Instead, USC’s graduating ...
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Regulators approve sweeping change to the way most Californians are billed for electricity
Ignoring hundreds of complaints by electricity customers from across the state, the California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to fundamentally change how electricity is ...
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2 climbers found dead after summiting Mt. Whitney via treacherous route
Two climbers who were reported missing on Mt. Whitney’s experts-only Mountaineer’s Route on Tuesday have been found dead. Andrew Niziol, 28, of South Lake Tahoe, and Patty Bolan, 29, were ...
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Opinion: The commencement USC students, and their parents, should have had
Last weekend as a parent, and 36 years ago as a student, I went to Michigan Stadium to be among tens of thousands for the annual graduation ceremony of the University of Michigan. On Saturday ...
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Silenced USC valedictorian walked the stage and the crowd reaction was anything but silent
The crowd inside USC’s Galen Center erupted in a prolonged symphony of applause Friday as Asna Tabassum — the Muslim valedictorian whose speech was canceled by university leaders amid ...
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Jewish families say anti-Israel messaging in Bay Area classrooms is making schools unsafe
In the weeks after Hamas’ deadly cross-border attacks on Israeli towns and Israel’s ensuing bombardment of Gaza, a seventh-grade Jewish student at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco grew ...
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Dodgers Dugout: How do the Dodgers do in clutch hitting situations?
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and the Dodgers have won 12 of 14 and are on pace to win 108 games. The “this team is horrible” people have ...
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‘Are you a Zionist?’ Checkpoints at UCLA encampment provoked fear, debate among Jews
Eilon Presman was about 100 feet from the UCLA Palestinian solidarity encampment when he heard the screams: “Zionist! Zionist!” The 20-year-old junior, who is Israeli, realized the activists ...
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USC’s faculty senate censures President Carol Folt and provost over commencement
The body that represents USC’s faculty voted Wednesday to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around ...
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GardaWorld heist: The reason $30 million was in a Sylmar warehouse and not a bank
The biggest cash heist in L.A. history didn’t go down at a bank. It occurred at a warehouse in a quiet corner of Sylmar. Early on March 31, thieves breached the roof of a Roxford Street facility ...