EDUCATION SPOTLIGHT

UC Continues Annual Tuition Hikes Despite Student Appeals. Here’s How Much It Will Increase

Already, the UC is enrolling about 4,000 more California students than the state is giving them money for. Because of this, UC reported that it

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Kim Kardashian’s Potential Brain Aneurysm Rupture

Kim Kardashian is trying to keep her cool after being diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. In fact, the reality star has been advised by her

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Economic Questions: The Stephanie Kelton Question

Yves here. This Richard Murphy recap of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth is an opportunity to introduce friends and colleagues to Modern Monetary Theory, or

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The California Democrat Leading the Charge on the Epstein Files Release

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18: U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) speaks during a news conference on the “Epstein Files” outside the U.S. Capitol on November

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Dancing With the Stars: Whitney Leavitt Eliminated Before Finale

Despite the show-stopping moves, Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas won’t be riding a little red corvette into the Dancing With the Stars finale. Though they

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Top of the BoP and Other Trump Fantasies From the Battlefields of Ukraine and Gaza to the Shores of Pakistan and Venezuela – This Is How The US Is Retreating

Yves here. John Helmer provides some background below on the back and forth over draft texts on the UN resolution that attempts to put lipstick

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Stanford Protesters Negotiating Plea Deals as Trial Begins

“The reason that misdemeanors are even on the table is that Judge Ryan has indicated that she didn’t believe this resembled felony conduct,” Johns said.

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Kaitlyn Bristowe, Sasha Farber & More

That makes them “great friends,” she stressed. “Not dating.”  Indeed, Farber confirmed to E! News’ The Rundown‘s Erin Lim Rhodes that he wasn’t partnering up with Bristowe (“Definitely no

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Godzilla v. Mothra: How Google Is Winning Struggle Among AI Giants to Control News Flow

Yves here. This article describes some very important effects of the current direction of travel of AI Western-style, as in large language models, on news

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New Report Reveals Strain of Data Centers on California’s Grid

Hard facts about data centers are tough to find in California because most rent out power, cooling and floor space to other companies, said Ren,