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Students and faculty at Covina High School were evacuated Monday due to a threat, officials said. A spokesperson for the Covina-Valley Unified School District told KTLA that someone phoned in a threat against the school late in the morning. Officials did not consider the threat to be credible, however, they evacuated the school as a … Read more

The unprecedented attention heaped on the Pac-12’s stellar lineup of quarterbacks is ever-so-slightly misguided. A portion of that spotlight should be directed at what lies in the shadows. At the understudies. The second stringers. There’s more to quarterback play than the quality of the starter, and the Hotline’s Quarterback Comfort Quotient (QBCQ) attempts to address … Read more

From the day he turned his attention from grifting in the real estate world to running for president in 2015, former President Donald Trump has presented journalists with a serious dilemma: How does a news organization shine a spotlight on a strangely charismatic, bullying, brazen liar without becoming his target or his enabler? CNN demonstrated … Read more

As the U.S. government on Wednesday released its latest inflation report, the watchdog Accountable.US put out a new analysis detailing how Americans face food insecurity while major food corporations are padding their profits with price hikes. “Big Food’s staggering increase in earnings shows they did not need to raise prices so high on consumers but did so anyway to … Read more

For years before Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, was killed in the subway, the city had its eye on him. He was on a list informally known as the Top 50, a roster of people in a city of eight million who stand out for the severity of their troubles and their resistance … Read more

The News The man should have gotten Alzheimer’s disease in his early 40s — he had a gene mutation that guaranteed it, or so it seemed. Scans of his brain even revealed severe atrophying and the hallmarks of the disease: rough, hard, amyloid plaques and spaghetti-like tangles of tau proteins. But the fatal brain disease … Read more

When Congress and the White House created the Fed in 1913, they were skeptical about giving either the government or the private sector unilateral power over the nation’s money supply. So they compromised. They created a public Fed Board in Washington, alongside quasi-private reserve banks around the country. Those reserve banks, which ended up numbering … Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a congressional voting district in South Carolina should be restored after a lower court struck it down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., ruled in January that the state’s First Congressional … Read more