Peppered recently with allegations of racism, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer complained – at times tearfully – at the false picture that his election opponent was painting. This Editorial Board agreed that those allegations lacked context and nuance. We defended Spitzer. Yet Spitzer’s campaign is attacking his opponent with a similar innuendo-filled smear campaign.…
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Mangoshi is a little girl unlike others. At the age of 7, she’s been charged with saving her mother’s life. It would be a daunting task for anyone to take on, but Mangoshi’s bravery and maturity shine through. So begins the new children’s book, “Every Leaf a Hallelujah,” by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. The…
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“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead. Buzz: Southern California home prices broke another $100,000 price barrier nearly 11 times quicker than the previous 100K breakthrough.Source: My trusty spreadsheet tracked DQNews’ median prices for six Southern California counties and the benchmark’s history of breaking through $100,000 price levels.…
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By Frank Pallotta | CNN Business Netflix knows you share your password. And soon you might have to start paying for the privilege. Over the last year, Netflix been working on ways to “enable members who share outside their household to do so easily and securely, while also paying a bit more,” the company said…
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GENEVA (AP) — Nearly three dozen companies worldwide will soon start making generic versions of Pfizer’s coronavirus pill, the U.N.-backed Medicines Patent Pool that negotiated the deal said Thursday. The Medicines Patent Pool said in a statement that agreements signed with 35 companies should help make Pfizer’s antiviral nirmatrelvir, or Paxlovoid, available to more than…
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A Moscow court has extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges. They were identified as containing oil derived from cannabis, which could…
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We’ve all heard stories about university administrators cracking down on free speech. But free expression is suffering even without these enablers, and that should worry us. In a recent New York Times op-ed, University of Virginia senior Emma Camp powerfully defended freedom of expression as she described her own practice of self-censoring while on campus.…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pointed toward a lower open bell Thursday, one day after the Federal Reserve announced its first interest rate hike since 2008 in an effort to combat surging prices. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both edged 0.3% lower following another big day of gains…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients and his deputy Natalie Quillian are leaving the administration next month, the White House announced Thursday. They will be replaced by Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Zients, an experienced manager and government executive, was…
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By JOE McDONALD BEIJING (AP) — Companies in Shenzhen, a major Chinese business center, will be allowed to reopen while efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks progress, the government said Thursday, following a citywide shutdown that rattled financial markets. Testing of everyone in the city of 17.5 million people is “progressing smoothly,” said a deputy mayor,…
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