IRVINE — When I say UC Irvine senior Diaba Konaté is utterly determined to win her next game, to do everything she can to extend her beloved basketball career, you say of course she is. So are hundreds of seniors whose playing days likely will end when their teams’ NCAA Tournament runs do. What makes…
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By DAVID CRARY (Associated Press) Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the biblical story of how a plot to exterminate Jews in Persia was thwarted, and thus is embraced as an affirmation of Jewish…
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By Aashna Shah | Bloomberg News SpaceX and Blue Origin LLC are competing to launch satellites and take humans to the moon. They are also paying big salaries to hire so many young and tireless engineers that old-line aerospace employers like Boeing Co. and NASA are finding it harder to fill positions. Most aerospace students…
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By DAVID HAMILTON (AP Business Writer) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Reddit, that vast, lively and sometimes chaotic repository of internet discussion, is expected to carry a valuation up to $6.4 billion when it conducts its initial public offering on the stock market. The offering also makes Reddit one of the first online companies to offer…
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By Marthe Fourcade, Bloomberg News The safety of intermittent fasting, a popular strategy to lose weight by limiting food intake to certain times, was called into question by a surprise finding from research presented at a medical meeting. Limiting mealtimes to a period of just eight hours a day was linked to a 91% increase…
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Two months before he produced the first triple-double in Big West Conference Tournament history, Aboubacar Traore nearly did one better, finishing a rebound shy of a “quadruple-double.” That’s right, the Long Beach State junior produced 18 points, nine rebounds, 10 assists and 10 turnovers in a double-digit loss at UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 13.…
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By April Dembosky, KQED and KFF Health News A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the market in December, promising an accessible and fast-acting medication for a debilitating illness. But most private health insurers have yet to publish criteria for when they will cover it, according to a new analysis of insurance policies. The lack of…
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Billy House | Bloomberg News (TNS) WASHINGTON — No Labels founding chairman Joe Lieberman said the centrist group has faced a “daunting” struggle to recruit a candidate to mount a third-party run for U.S. president. Related Articles National Politics | Election misinformation is a problem in any language. But some gets more attention than others…
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One of the stranger aspects of California’s political system is the degree to which local governments and the employees of various governments lobby other governments. For instance, the League of California Cities, an advocacy group that represents 476 cities, spent $2.13 million to lobby state lawmakers. Rarely do taxpayers have a similar seat at the…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that they still expect to cut their key interest rate three times in 2024 despite signs that inflation stayed surprisingly high at the start of the year. Yet they foresee fewer rate cuts in 2025, and they slightly raised their inflation…
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