The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying. She had picked up ...

The 13 books of the ‘Booker dozen’ has been winnowed down to just six novels — all from very established authors but only one Brit ...

Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, ...

Geoffrey Kabaservice on political violence and assassinations in the 1960s. Plus: Is Trump making a massive political miscalculation?

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Gavin Abundis watched as firefighter Adrian Chairez demonstrated how he uses pulleys and harnesses to rappel down buildings. “You’ve probably seen it in the movies where they’re ...

H-1B visas have long been used to undercut U.S. employment, but Trump's proposed $100,000 won't fix the problem.

The state’s $4.215 trillion in business output was the nation’s No. 1, and topped globally only by the U.S., China, and Germany.

Local history projects are some of the biggest casualties as 19 California campuses are missing over $5.2 million in canceled federal grants.

This fall, every high school in California was supposed to offer ethnic studies — a one-semester class focused on the struggles and triumphs of marginalized communities. But the class appears stalled, ...

On Friday, September 19, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a package of bills adopted by the California Legislature. Key among these were AB 1207 and SB 840, which extend the state’s Cap-and ...

A federal lawsuit by the UC Regents would provide legal and symbolic support to researchers who so far have been fighting on their own.

Every state will lose money, but the Education Department's decision hits California hardest. The state receives over a quarter of all of these diversity grants, since it has a high percentage of ...