Everyone in academe knows anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest bigotry. But at colleges across California and the nation, this prejudice has become increasingly acceptable and visible in the days since the Oct. 7 massacre of hundreds of Israeli Jews by the terror group Hamas. In many campus demonstrations, students have screamed that the mass slaying…
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With the success of its first location in Orange, Be Well OC will be bringing its mental health and substance abuse treatment services to Irvine with the construction of its newest campus. Be Well OC officials were joined by local leaders and community members to celebrate the groundbreaking on what will become a 75,000-square-foot facility…
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October brings a new fiscal year — and a new round of theme park price increases — for The Walt Disney Company. But Disneyland visitors have every right to question why they got it so much worse this year than fans of Walt Disney World. At Disneyland, the company raised the price of daily tickets…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The CIF-SS boys and girls cross country rankings released Monday, Oct. 16. Compiled by PrepCalTrack.com BOYS DIVISION 1 1 Great Oak 2 San Clemente 3 Mira Costa 4 Trabuco Hills 5 Beckman 6 Crescenta Valley 7 M.L. King 8 Millikan 9 Redondo…
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By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper celebrated his 31st birthday with a bang – a 420-foot homer on the first pitch he saw in the National League Championship Series. That merited a special tribute. As he rounded third base, the Philadelphia Phillies slugger concocted a celebration on the fly: Harper held…
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INGLEWOOD — Revenge is a dish served cold. But the Chargers misunderstood the assignment. Because they froze up on the big stage. Monday night’s showcase game became an exercise in futility for the Chargers’ new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore against the Dallas Cowboys, the team whom he’d coached the previous eight seasons before they parted…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The CIF-SS girls tennis polls, released Monday, Oct. 16 Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Tennis Committee. DIVISION 1 1. Mater Dei 2. Westlake 3. Palos Verdes 4. Mira Costa 5. Peninsula 6. Portola 7. Harvard-Westlake 8. Corona del Mar 9. Los Osos…
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INGLEWOOD — The Chargers had one final chance to pull out a third consecutive victory, a third consecutive narrow victory, but a two-minute drill went haywire and the Dallas Cowboys held on for a 20-17 victory on Monday night at SoFi Stadium. Stephon Gilmore intercepted Justin Herbert’s desperation pass with a little more than a…
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In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act extending protections in housing to everyone regardless of race, religion, national origin or sex. The Department of Housing and Urban Development created standards for how many people should be able to occupy a rental unit. The 1974 Consumer Privacy Act was passed to protect the…
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With school boardrooms becoming a dramatic front in the culture war over LGBTQ students and their privacy, California Gov. Gavin Newsom this fall signed a handful of bills intended to protect such students. School boards across California have begun debating new policies around transgender and gender non-conforming students and other LGBTQ issues. State lawmakers, meanwhile, engaged…
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