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Students in a sixth-grade class read at Stege Elementary School in Richmond, on Feb. 6, 2023.(Shelby Knowles / CalMatters)California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K
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Lisa Just looks out the back window of her Torrance home. She used to teach in the Long Beach Unified School District.(Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post)After more than a decade teaching in special education settings, Lisa Just was well-practiced at managing her Carver Elementary classroom in a...
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The Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling Tuesday upholding state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams.
Tom Kean Jr., the New Jersey Republican who's been away from Congress for almost four months with an unspecified medical condition, has returned to say he had been treated for depression.
Students in a sixth-grade class read at Stege Elementary School in Richmond, on Feb. 6, 2023.(Shelby Knowles / CalMatters)California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without r...
The Supreme Court ruled again that campaign funding is free speech protected by the 1st Amendment.
Murdaugh’s murder convictions and sentence of life in prison were overturned last month by the South Carolina Supreme Court. On Monday, a new judge laid out a timeline for hearings and set the retrial to start April 5. She also nailed down deadlines for making sure the defense and prosecution hav...
A somber memorial service was held at Edwards Air Force Base to honor the eight people killed in last week's B-52 bomber crash.
The plan, which avoids major cuts or significant new spending, is Newsom's last before he leaves office in January and as he considers a presidential run.
Two weeks ago, Jordan Stannard's life changed in an instant. As he was loading his 2-year-old daughter into the family Tesla, a car slammed into him.
Mario Joseph Bickham, 36, was charged Monday with two counts of murder stemming from the 2 a.m. June 23, 2025, crash which occurred on the southbound 405 Freeway just north of Moraga Drive. The crash killed 53- year-old LAPD Sgt. Shiou Deng and 34-year-old Jesus Garcia.
Experts share why millions of people lost their Affordable Care Act health insurance plans this year after federal subsidies expired.
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A major shakeup to the federal student loan system affecting millions of borrowers will take effect July 1.
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Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy and several other fields will now be eligible for higher student loan limits
In a 6-3 ruling the Supreme Court justices rebuked President Donald Trump's effort to end automatic birthright citizenship through an executive order. In a sharp rebuke to President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution guarantees automatic birthright citizenship to ...
The Supreme Court yet again loosened campaign finance restrictions on Tuesday by striking down limits on how much political parties may raise and spend on candidates. By a 6-to-3 vote along ideological lines, the court ruled the law, which had been enacted in 1974, violates political parties' Fi...
The Supreme Court has ruled President Trump’s crackdown on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, rejecting his executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The U.S. Supreme Court(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) The Supreme Court once again leaped into the culture wars on Tuesday, ruling that states may ban transgender girls from participating in sports at publicly funded schools. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other ...
Can't see the video above? Watch it here. President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations. More than a year into his second term, the White House has taken a sweeping approach to curbing illegal and legal migration. Ximena Bustillo, NPR's immigration policy correspondent, bre...
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