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Draymond Green, Gary Payton II to return to Warriors; Brandin Podziemski, Trayce Jackson-Davis sent to G League
SAN FRANCISCO — After playing their last game without both Draymond Green and Gary Payton II, the Warriors expect to get both of their defensive stalwarts back on the floor for their 5:30 p.m. PT game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday. Green missed the Warriors’ 105-108 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday for…
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‘We could never talk about it’: 102-year-old veteran recalls her secret World War II codebreaking work
Students packed a lecture center at the University of Pittsburgh this week to hear from Julia Parsons, who decoded Nazi messages and helped win World War II.
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Rancho Cielo students, award-winning house, celebrated at Salinas event
SALINAS – The top-prize-winning Nexus_01 home and the Rancho Cielo team that designed, created and transported it to competition and back, was on proud display Thursday at the Rancho Cielo Open House celebrating those involved and the structure itself. “It feels great to bring the project home, to bring the trophies home, to share the…
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Monterey Peninsula Unified launches bus driver cadet program
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has launched a new bus driver cadet training program with the hopes it will incentivize new drivers to join the district. Tom Thorpe, the district’s director of transportation, explained that the district started the program because of how difficult it is to find applicants willing to go through the process.…
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New speaker scrambles as gov’t shutdown approaches
By Stephen Groves and Kevin Freking | Associated Press WASHINGTON — With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions…
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Pro-Palestinian Protestors Ascend on Lockheed Martin
Chants echoed across the mountaintops on Friday morning as around 25 pro-Palestinian demonstrators showed up at Lockheed Martin Space System’s Bonny Doon facility to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. Protestors stood outside the gates of the facility and lined the road leading up to it, yelling chants of solidarity with the…
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Peggy Townsend and the Call of the Wild
Santa Cruz author Peggy Townsend talks about her brand new adventure novel, The Beautiful and the Wild, launched Nov. 7 at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Christina Waters: In your previous Aloa Snow books you capitalize on physical jeopardy with which to trigger the action surrounding (and propelling) your main characters. In this new book as well,…
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Florida judge keeps Trump’s May 2024 documents trial date
By Eric Tucker | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida on Friday declined to delay Donald Trump’s classified documents trial, calling a request by the former president’s defense lawyers to postpone the date “premature.” But she pushed back other deadlines in the case and signaled that she would revisit the trial date…
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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh banned from team’s final 3 games due to sign-stealing scandal
Jim Harbaugh has been banned from Michigan’s three remaining regular-season games by the Big Ten for a sign-stealing scheme that has rocked college football.
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Jared Leto really climbed the Empire State Building
Jared Leto managed to climb the historic Manhattan skyscraper in a stunt to announce his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars is embarking on a world tour.
