LGBTQ students are returning to hostile school environments — even in California
Starting seventh grade last week came with the usual nervous excitement of a new school year for Juniper Loveday-Brown, a student at Willowside Middle School in Santa Rosa. Juniper, 12, was looking forward to seeing friends, especially classmates in the school’s Gay Straight Alliance club.
Understanding California’s college students’ protests over Israeli-Palestinian conflict
During back-to-back days at one of California’s largest universities, hundreds of students took to marches, impassioned speeches and megaphones to condemn the mass death that has afflicted Israelis and Palestinians: The attack by Hamas in Israel on Oct. 7, and the Israeli military response since then.
Newsom gets no California love for his political ambitions. Maybe he should try elsewhere
Bill Clinton was a man of large appetite and no small ambition when he served as Arkansas governor, a job he assumed at the age of 32. So it was hardly a surprise when, 14 years later, Clinton launched a bid for president.
Biden and Mexico’s leader will meet in California. Fentanyl, migrants and Cuba are on the agenda
President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, two strong allies who don’t always get along personally, will talk migration, fentanyl trafficking and Cuba relations on Friday.
Biden signs temporary spending bill averting government shutdown, pushing budget fight into new year
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a temporary spending bill a day before a potential government shutdown, pushing a fight with congressional Republicans over the federal budget into the new year, as wartime aid for Ukraine and Israel remains stalled.
