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Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (267+ words) By KATIE VOGEL and JACQUELYN MARTIN Teams of National Park Service employees and contractors deployed chemicals and ozone nanobubbles Tuesday in a bid to keep the algae in check, not dissimilar from efforts to clean the pool before Trump's renovation…...
The school choice scholarship boom benefits kids already in private school
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1272+ words) By BIANCA V'ZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE, AP Education Writers The second grader has trouble focusing. He doesn't listen to teachers and runs around the classroom, she explained. Could he be expelled? More families across the country are experimenting with…...
Pasadena City Council asks for clarity on tree removals amid PUSD's post-fire soil plan
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (665+ words) A controversial Pasadena Unified School District plan to remove toxic soil found contaminated after the Eaton fire " which includes cutting down about 200 trees " spilled over into Pasadena City Hall Monday night, June 15, during the City Council's latest meeting. Five people…...
Deputies, firefighters answer different call: rebuilding fire survivor's Altadena home
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (792+ words) There were no patrols needed at the lot on Terrace Street in Altadena Tuesday, not for the crew from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Nor were there fires to put out for the Los Angeles County firefighters working alongside…...
Your guide to fan events during NASCAR weekend in San Diego County
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (528+ words) San Diegans have a range of options for getting in on the fun of NASCAR weekend in Coronado, including meet and greets with drivers, watch parties and fan zones. While the races take place on Naval Base Coronado, and ID…...
Pasadena City Council approves $1. 4 billion balanced budget
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (392+ words) Pasadena City Council Monday, June 15, unanimously approved a balanced $1. 4 billion budget for fiscal year 2027. After the dust settled on a process that began late last year and included several public hearings and department presentations at the City Council committee level,…...
Republican Gov. Mike De Wine says Ohio should abolish the death penalty
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (773+ words) By JULIE CARR SMYTH and PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS, Associated Press "I do not believe that argument today can be successfully made, nor do I believe that there's any chance in the future the facts that I've cited to support that belief…...
Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386 M ocean observatory project
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (485+ words) The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million. Over the last decade it has tracked ocean circulation, marine ecosystems, climate change and extreme weather, producing data freely available to the…...
Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump's DOJ is investigating him and his wife
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (643+ words) The U. S. Department of Justice is investigating Gov. Gavin Newsom and first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, questioning people connected to them, the governor said Monday. Newsom, in a video message on Monday, June 15, accused President Donald Trump, long his political rival,…...
What's closed on Friday, June 19, for Juneteenth in LA County
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (163+ words) Juneteenth is a Black American holiday celebrated annually on June 19 to remember the day when word finally came in 1865 to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, that slavery had ended due to President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. The newest…...