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California taxpayers will spend at least $2 million to correct inaccurate voter guides sent to some registered voters ...

On The Map is where we highlight famous, and not as well-known, musical sites that you can visit. This month we check into ...

Hell no, we’re not going to sit back and watch this democracy get destroyed,” Newsom said. “We’re fighting back.” ...

In the world of college football, the bombshell firing from Happy Valley has Nebraska fans worried about the status of their own head coach. Penn State fired Ja ...

After the voter guide was mailed out to millions ahead of the Nov. 4 election, California revealed a labeling error in a map depicting proposed congressional districts.

Below, we’ve compiled the 50 greatest rap songs about sex, spread across more than four decades. You might want to have your headphones on for this one; these tracks are definitely NSFW, unless you’ve ...

Two teenage boys in Florida are being called heroes for their response to a five-second TikTok video last month that may well have averted disaster all ...

The question for California is, do we still try to be purists in support of independent redistricting while all of this is ...

Frustrated with the way Palo Alto schools taught math, Munger joined the state’s curriculum commission in 2003. He waded into ...

Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the "Thrilla in Manila" 50 years ago. It's still viewed as the greatest and most brutal ...

The Sun Fresh closure is just part of a growing urban food desert and food insecurity problem in the area. Six miles away in ...