Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent much of the last year tossing figurative tea leaves around where anyone and everyone who’s interested can try reading them. His advertising and name-calling against potential future presidential rivals like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott drew stares during the last campaign season, even though it cost…
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By DAVID A. LIEB Frustrated by college diversity initiatives he says are “fomenting radical and toxic divisions,” Texas state Rep. Carl Tepper set out to put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education. The freshman Republican lawmaker filed a bill to ban such offices. Three months later, he filed a new…
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It’s difficult to understate how much anticipation there was around Frank Ocean’s headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 16. The elusive hip-hop star hadn’t played a live show since 2017. Ocean had been announced as a Coachella headliner in 2020 only for that year’s festival to fall victim…
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By Melissa Alonso | CNN The US Coast Guard is assisting Mexican navy crews in the search for three American sailors, last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross are all “experienced sailors,” according to a joint statement from their…
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By JULIE WATSON The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple and yellow look like paint swatches from space. From the mist-shrouded San Francisco Bay Area to the Mexican border and across the deserts of Arizona, there are flashes…
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For weeks, 73-year-old Ann Jaramillo had been bracing for the decision that could redefine her golden years. It had been nearly a decade since the retired Salinas teacher found out her benefits package had been miscalculated by her school district — and nine years since CalSTRS, the teachers’ state retirement agency, told her that she…
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ROSEVILLE — The suspect in a Northern California shooting last week was wearing body-armor vest when he took two hostages in a public park, killing one, wounding the other and opening fire at California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said. The CHP officers approached suspect Eric Abril on April 6 near Mahany Park in Roseville, northeast…
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The field is set for the 2023 Congressional Cup. American skipper Christopher Weis and his crew won this year’s Ficker Cup on Sunday, April 16, beating New Zealander Megan Thompson in the finals of the annual sailing competition in Long Beach. But both Weis and Thompson will set sail in their Catalina 37 yachts off…
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When it was announced that Frank Ocean was going to headline Day 3 of Coachella, it was kind of a big deal: the Long Beach singer-rapper had not played live since 2017. So when fans that couldn’t make it to the festival found out Sunday that the performance wouldn’t be livestreamed, there was a lot…
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PHOENIX — Be prepared to be astonished by logic-defying feats and postseason spectacle the likes of which you’ve never seen before and can’t be seen anywhere else! Welcome to the Russell Westbrook Show. Naysayers be damned, it seems the Clippers knew what they were getting when they signed Westbrook when he came available late this…
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