California parents are shelling out nearly $175 for a basic bundle of back-to-school supplies this year as the cost of classroom essentials piles on to already strained household budgets. The average basket of 21 essential school supplies costs $173.45, a 7.7% increase from last year, according to an analysis by Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation cited by Times of San Diego. Some individual items have risen by more than 20%. Notebooks cost about 23% more than last year, while notebook paper is up 20% and index cards have climbed 22.2%. Lunch boxes have risen nearly 27%, while dry-erase markers…
California drivers are getting a painful reminder that where they fill up can matter almost as much as what they drive. The state average for regular gasoline stood at $5.593 a gallon Sunday, according to AAA, putting California about $1.58 above the $4.012 national average. A county-by-county look at the latest available…
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A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tommy John, the former New York Yankees pitcher who first underwent the elbow surgery that has been used to further the careers of players for decades, released a statement to fans as the franchise celebrated Old-Timers’ Day on Saturday.John, 83, said in…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This may be it.”As you get older, things change in your life. Your children get older. Your parents get older. Just to put this thing into perspective, it’s looking like this is probably potentially going to be my last year,” Philadelphia Eagles…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins and defensive end Maxx Crosby were suspended from team drills at practice Saturday following their fight the day before, giving rookie QB Fernando Mendoza his first opportunity in training camp to run the starting offense.”We have…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68.The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys announced his death in a social media post that…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At the start of his eighth season as Ohio State football head coach, Ryan Day is looking for his eighth consecutive top 10 finish, including No. 5 last season when the Buckeyes fell short of defending their 2024 national championship.With those high…
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My Life With the Walter Boys is returning for season 4 on Netflix — but is every cast member coming back to the show. Based on Ali Novak‘s book, My Life With the Walter Boys follows recently orphaned Jackie, a teenage girl from Manhattan who relocates to rural Colorado after…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Democratic establishment won a key battle in the left’s ongoing civil war with its socialist insurgency on Saturday.Longtime Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, won his primary bid to seek another term in the House of Representatives, defeating progressive state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole.Case,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nine Republican candidates vying to permanently fill late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat spoke directly to voters Saturday at an event in Florence County, South Carolina, where they addressed the war with Iran, the rising tide of socialism in the Democratic Party…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Contempt of Congress.It sounds bad. And it usually is.But what does it mean?Holding someone in contempt of Congress usually stems from them refusing to testify before a House or Senate committee or declining to provide documents and information requested by lawmakers. Especially…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump could win the legal fight over his planned White House ballroom, say two legal experts who believe the U.S. the Supreme Court could end the case without weighing in on the underlying constitutional issue.In a lengthy social media post…
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It turns out Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro’s new romantic comedy, One Night Only, was pared way down — and for good reason. “I went through this on two movies. I have long pages of empirical data about it. … I believe it’s been a societal shift from taking nudity in adult situations and putting them on your phones at home for everybody,” director Will Gluck told Variety on Friday, August 7, of various sex scenes in big-budget flicks. “It’s more of a private, intimate thing that people don’t want to see when they’re in a shared experience. Whenever people…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX — A trip to Israel by bestselling author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza sparked what would become a three-year deep dive into biblical archaeology — a field he says offers striking support for the historical authenticity of the Bible.In an…
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