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For Indigenous street vendors, offering free meals in L.A. is more than charity

In Los Angeles, Zapotec street vendors organize free weekly cookouts — but it’s done for more than charity.

California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy

The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.

Lawmaker wants to ban CRT, I asked him what it is

His answers were ... interesting.

Textbook Case of Bad Textbooking

How Moses helped write the Constitution and other things you can learn in high school textbooks in Texas

20 uniquely Canadian insults | Cottage Life

Canadians have a reputation for being the politest people on the planet — that is until someone butts in line at Tim’s. Then we can throw it down with the

Jon Rahm out of Memorial Tournament with COVID midway through record-setting performance

Jon Rahm is a professional golfer, which means that he spends a good amount of his life traveling, a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels and other common areas where a lot of people mass and spread germs.

What HIPAA Isn’t

Word of mouth has turned a narrow health-records law into a supposed health-privacy Bill of Rights.

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | Artnet News

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.

The Extortion Economy

Ransomware has become one of the most common types of cyber-crime, devastating individuals, businesses, and government agencies. Law enforcement has largely failed to catch or deter the hackers, who are usually foreign. But we found that U.S. companies, exploiting regulatory loopholes and sometimes…

Op-Ed: When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts?

The pandemic hastened the rise of digital reading for school assignments. But for most students, print is the most effective way to learn.