Enhancing students’ skills in reading and math… or training students in progressive activism? Long Beach Unified School District in California seems to favor the latter, paying high school students $1,400 each in taxpayer money to become left-wing social justice warriors. And we wouldn’t even know about it if not for an investigative report from The…
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East Bay punk rock band and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day will play an intimate show at House of Blues Anaheim on Tuesday, March 19, ahead of the launch of its massive summer stadium tour. Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. Monday, March 18 at LiveNation.com. The Saviors Tour will…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it’s impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals. The former president’s lawyers wrote in a court filing that “obtaining an…
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Westminster High School named state winner in STEM competition A Westminster High School team was selected as the state winner for California in the 14th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition. Each state winner gets a package of $12,000 in technology for their school. Westminster High School MERITS students were recently announced as state winners for the 14th…
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Katie Gee Salisbury was a 19-year-old intern at Los Angeles’ Chinese American Museum when she first heard of film star and TV actress Anna May Wong. “I was totally taken aback that there could have been an Asian American movie star in the 1920s and ‘30s and that I also had never heard of her,”…
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The Santa Ana City Council is set to consider an emergency ordinance at its Tuesday, March 19, meeting that would add distance requirements for people protesting at private residences. An increasing number of picketers in Santa Ana and surrounding areas are targeting specific residences, city staffers said in a report to the council, “expressing their…
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Ina Garten, cookbook author and Food Network TV host, turns beef stew into the ultimate comfort food in her cookbook “Modern Comfort Food” (Clarkson Potter). She includes the usual vegetables, such as potatoes, onions, carrots, and peas, but boosts the flavor by including fennel as well. Instead of using the traditional beef chuck, she ups…
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If you like to hike, chances are good that you know AllTrails. More than 60 million hikers use the San Francisco-based hiking app, which offers 400,000 curated trail guides to locations around the world. With more than a billion miles of trails logged, the platform was named Apple’s iPhone app of the year in 2023.…
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Electric Light Orchestra fans should be over the moon this morning, as Jeff Lynne’s ELO has announced plans for a 27-date North American tour in 2024. And, yes, it’s absolutely the best concert news that we have heard this year. The trek is dubbed the The Over and Out Tour, signifying this will be the…
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Orange County’s first Bass Pro Shops’ Outdoor World is opening at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 27 in Irvine. A ceremony Wednesday is invite-only, with the full store opening Thursday to the public. The outfitter known for its cavernous shop of all-things outdoorsy has been working around the clock to convert a shuttered Walmart Supercenter into…
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