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College of the Desert (COD) is now a California Virtual College (CVC) and is offering more than 10,000 virtual courses. Students across California can enroll in COD’s classes. Val Martinez Garcia, Vice President of Instruction at COD believes that online courses will be especially helpful for economically disadvantaged families. He says “online classes provide more
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, Holmes Lybrand and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Rudy Giuliani didn’t see two former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as “human beings” when he spread conspiracy theories about them after the 2020 election, their attorney told a Washington, DC, jury Thursday during closing arguments in the defamation damages trial.
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday to relight a replacement menorah after the first one was vandalized and its pieces dismantled and strewn about, prompting the Oakland Police Department to launch a hate crime investigation earlier in the day. Police said in an email that the vandalism occurred by Lake Merritt just
Continue ReadingBy MICHELE GILE Click here for updates on this story LAGUNA BEACH, California (KCAL) — The Laguna Beach community has come together to rally around a crossing guard who was injured on the job on Monday, when he was hit by a car and sent to the hospital. Andy Belletti, a 66-year-old crossing guard with
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. agents recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas manufacturers, including the Chinese company behind Elf Bar, a line of fruity disposable vapes that has become the top brand among American teens, officials said Thursday. Officials pegged the value of the e-cigarettes seized
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. agents recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from overseas manufacturers, including the Chinese company behind Elf Bar, a line of fruity disposable vapes that has become the top brand among American teens, officials said Thursday. Officials pegged the value of the e-cigarettes seized
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is initiating a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio. The Environmental Protection Agency has said it will review
Continue ReadingBy SHARON CHIN Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — In San Francisco, a husband and wife have volunteered in the fight against food insecurity for more than 36 years. You’ll often find Rich and Terry Horrigan, side-by-side, serving others. On this day, they give away fruit in the Bayview at
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan jury will soon decide if Jonathan Majors is guilty of assaulting his girlfriend following two weeks of clashing narratives about whether the rising Hollywood star was the aggressor or victim during a chaotic struggle in the backseat of a car. The court case has
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — El ministro de Economía del Gobierno de Javier Milei, Luis “Toto” Caputo, anunció este martes un conjunto de medidas económicas que delinearán la primera etapa de la nueva gestión. “Tenemos que evitar una catástrofe”, anticipó al comienzo de un mensaje previamente grabado, cuya emisión se retrasó dos horas. Entre esos
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors will begin deliberating on Thursday to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay two former Georgia election workers for spreading lies about them that led to a barrage of racist threats and upended their lives. Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby
Continue ReadingBy KRISTINA REX Click here for updates on this story BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Dr. Merle Berger, one of the founders of Boston IVF and a former professor at Harvard Medical School, has been sued by a former patient, who alleges that he secretly impregnated her with his own sperm more than 40 years ago.
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to travel to Milwaukee on Wednesday, marking his third visit to the battleground state this year. The White House announced Thursday that Biden plans to discuss his economic agenda while in Milwaukee. No other details about the trip, including where exactly he was going, were announced. Biden was
Continue ReadingBy JERAMIE BIZZLE Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — The world’s greatest bowler is from west suburban Oswego. This is not just someone pumping themselves up. he earned the title in November. A.J. Johnson took the gold medal in the singles competition at the Pan American Games in Chile. He told
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Argentina conoció este miércoles cifras de una inflación creciente y, según vaticinan analistas y los propios datos, reflejan una situación que solo puede empeorar. Según el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (Indec), el indicador de noviembre fue 12,8% frente a octubre, o sea, en un solo mes. Esto eleva
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — A newly-filed report by the Food and Drug Administration describes an incident in a Wisconsin hospital where a woman was shot in the buttocks after bringing a gun into a room with an MRI machine. According to the FDA, the 57-year-old
Continue ReadingBy RILEY MOSER Click here for updates on this story MAPLEWOOD, Minnesota (WCCO) — A St. Paul man was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for stealing a Maplewood family’s dog from their porch and holding it ransom. Christopher Brigham, 24, stole a 3-year-old French bulldog named Pablo on May 9. In October, he
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — El 4 de diciembre de 2015 el entonces presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, dio la noticia al mundo: “Encontramos el galeón San José!”. Tras una larga historia de litigios legales de compañías privadas involucradas en su búsqueda, y reclamos diplomáticos de países que dicen tener derechos sobre el tesoro
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Nelson Peltz’s investment management firm Trian Fund Management is planning to nominate the activist investor and a former chief financial officer of Disney for seats on the media and entertainment company’s board, continuing a proxy battle that began earlier this year. Trian, which owns $3 billion of common stock
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia has overturned a fine handed to a veteran human rights advocate for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. The court sent Oleg Orlov’s case back to prosecutors, who have sought the co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial
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