41+ min ago   (776+ words) UC Berkeley’s law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants by illegally using race in admissions, the Department of Justice alleged Wednesday in an investigative finding that expands the Trump administration’s probes into University of California admissions practices. For more…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (851+ words) A woman who worked for labor leader César Chávez and the United Farm Workers organization he helped found is suing a pair of related nonprofits for negligence, sexual harassment and civil rights violations, claiming they facilitated her abuse and did…...

6+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1040+ words) MINAB, Iran — The sun set over this southern Iranian city, and Heydar Sadeghi was where he can be found almost every evening: on a bench next to the shattered remains of his grandson’s school. His face was soaked with tears....

9+ hour, 13+ min ago   (518+ words) Astronaut Victor Glover, a Southern California native who piloted NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon this year, is stepping back from the space agency. He began a full-time leadership position at his alma mater, Cal Poly in San Luis…...

13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (927+ words) Whether you love DEI, despise it or view it with uninterest, there’s no question that President Trump’s relentless assault on the principle threw a ticking bomb into the upper echelons of corporate and institutional managements. Businesses, universities, law firms and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1136+ words) Scholarship Prep South Bay, a Wilmington charter school, touts a rare benchmark of success. Last year, none of the substantial number of homeless students it educates were chronically absent, school officials said, a goal they hope to maintain as school…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (460+ words) California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study. The new working paper from the…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (282+ words) Brad Wright, a former UCLA basketball player who made it to the NBA, announced his resignation from El Camino Real High‘s board of directors, effective Tuesday, in a letter sent to teachers. He has served as board chairman since…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (533+ words) Brooks Orradre is a senior at Southern Methodist University, studying both psychology and business. In a way, the Newport Beach native has melded both into a business enterprise he recently began — even if it involves an industry he wasn’t previously…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (672+ words) When the pandemic nearly ended his hair-cutting career, Hector Trinidad didn’t give up. He bought a school bus. Better known as “Hector the Barber,” Trinidad, 50, now makes his living parking his barbershop on wheels at Hoover and 31st streets, adjacent to…...