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By JOCELYN GECKERThe U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.The department’s Office for Civil Rights said it investigated nine complaints against University of California schools in Los Angeles (UCLA), Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis and Santa Cruz. The complaints alleged the schools failed to respond effectively to antisemitic and anti-Arab harassment.The civil rights office concluded the universities “appear not to have responded promptly or effectively” to allegations of discrimination and…

Here are the IE Varsity first-team selections for the 2024 high school football season.Grand Terrace’s Exzavior Oliver stiff arms San Gorgonio’s John Rubio in a CIF Southern Section Division 11 football quarterfinal game on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)FIRST TEAM, OFFENSEQB: Bryson Beaver, Vista Murrieta, Jr.QB: Husan Longstreet, Centennial, Sr.RB: Logan Barbour, Yucaipa, Sr.RB: Dorian Hoze, Murrieta Valley, Sr.RB: Exzavior Oliver, Grand Terrace, Sr.WR: Cory Butler Jr., Centennial, Sr.WR: Travon Garrison, Damien, So.WR: Sean McCullough, Vista Murrieta, Jr.WR: Amarion Orange, Rancho Verde, Sr.OL: Roman Angulo, Beaumont, Sr.OL: Derrick Cooper, Rancho Cucamonga, Sr.OL: Drew Hill, Centennial,…

By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press Airlines WriterDrivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.The auto club AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day, which would top the previous holiday-season high set in 2019. The two weekends on either side of Christmas look to be some of the most crowded times on the road and at airports.Trade group Airlines for America also foresees record travel, saying it…

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — They warned about him. Now they’ll have to work with him.A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office, hoping to avoid antagonizing him to ensure they’ll have a working relationship with his new administration.They’re in a precarious position: adopting caution while also weighing their party’s desires to stake out early, and often combative, positions against Trump’s agenda.“It’s a combination of fighting like hell if your values are attacked or if your innocent communities or innocent people are attacked. And then on…

The Kings can see the finish line and feel the fresh linens on their own beds as their second seven-game road trip of the season will come to a close with a back-to-back set against the NHL’s worst team by points percentage and, then, its best.Their weekend will consist of a pair of matinees about 28 hours apart. First, they’ll visit the vastly disappointing Nashville Predators on Saturday before traveling to Washington to face former Kings Pierre-Luc Dubois and Matt Roy, who are now plying their trade with the Capitals.Friday was a well-deserved day off after Thursday’s 7-3 win over…

By ADRIANA MORGA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The holidays are meant to be a time of celebration with family and friends. But they can also bring pressure to spend money on gifts, gatherings and plane tickets home, exacerbated by brand emails, social media influencers and family expectations. With credit card debt rising and prices for many items still high due to inflation, overspending during the holiday season can add to the financial stress many Americans are already experiencing, said Dr. Marketa Wills, CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association. “The idea that one is on the…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CHRIS MEGERIANWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is abandoning his effort to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first step in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn’t enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite them and advance its agenda more quickly.Even as the Biden…

LOS ANGELES — The day after JuJu Watkins’ first college basketball season ended, her tears long dried but the pain still burning, longtime trainer Phil Handy texted the USC sensation to keep her head held high.The Trojans’ cardinal-carpet run had ended at the start of April at the hands of a UConn program that represented everything Watkins and these Trojans wanted to be. She was hounded off the ball and there was only so much the freshman could do, taking over a third of her program’s shots from the floor in a 29-point losing effort. And Watkins broke down at…

The party is over for a US retailer that for decades bedazzled birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers and weddings.Party City Holdco’s chief executive told corporate employees on Friday that the company is shuttering all stores, according to a report by CNN.The nation’s largest retailer of party supplies has been dogged by lagging sales, putting pressure on the company to pay its rent at some 800 locations. It has at least 80 locations in California.Also see: Big Lots liquidation looms after plan to sell to Nexus Capital falls apart“That is without question the most difficult message that I’ve ever had to deliver,” Barry…

Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.orgMore than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally expanded its interpretation of the Second Amendment, federal courts throughout the country continue to strike down state restrictions on gun ownership.Since the high court’s 2022 decision — in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen — that firearm regulations must have some historical comparison going back to the country’s founding, some state restrictions have been ruled unconstitutional. But lower courts are still figuring out the limits of that historical test and have not yet come to a broad agreement on key gun-related laws.Still,…