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Mount Miguel High School in Spring Valley is one of nine high schools in the Grossmont Union High School District that pivoted its teacher librarian into the classroom this school year.

Grossmont schools already feeling impacts of library cuts

Teachers and students say the Grossmont Union High School District board’s recent decisions to eliminate school librarian positions limit students’ access to libraries and further exacerbate concerns of censorship.

From Descartes to punk rock, the letter X has an extraordinary history

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left), Brazil's federal Supreme Court minister Alexandre de Moraes and Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, have all been sanctioned by the Trump administration.

How Trump's Treasury is shifting sanctions to punish his critics and reward friends

Spain's Prime Minister called U.S. strikes against Iran "unjustified." When other foreigners in power have used similar language against the U.S. or Israel, they were sanctioned by the Treasury.

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., along with other members of the Democratic Women's Caucus of the House of Representatives, are calling for all clinics that get Title X funding to get the same dollars in 2026 as in 2025.

Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches

Title X is a 56-year-old federal grant program that supports thousands of clinics that provide birth control and STI testing and treatment. Those clinics could face a funding gap because of a Trump administration delay.

In 2019, the International Labor Organization estimates there are more than 24 million migrant workers across the Gulf region alone, and the ILO reports that over 92% of the work force in the UAE alone is made up of foreign workers.

Far from home, millions of migrant workers in the Gulf are trapped by war

These foreign nationals are the silent engines that keep many of the region's cities running, but the war has exposed some of their biggest vulnerabilities.

Leqaa Kordia, left, embraces friends, family and suppporters after being released from the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, Monday, March 16, 2026.

Last protester in detention after Trump's campus crackdown has been released

Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the West Bank who has lived in New Jersey since 2016, had been held in a U.S. immigration detention center in Texas since last March.

Charlie Chaplin engages in a ballet with an inflatable globe in his political satire "The Great Dictator," which displays elements of the idea of tactical frivolity, a tool currently on display in Portland protests where people have been wearing cute but ridiculous inflatable costumes. (1940)

Cinema Junkie and Midday Movies explore 'tactical frivolity'

As protests take on a more theatrical — and often humorous — tone, Cinema Junkie teams up with Midday Movies to look at tactical frivolity in film and real life.

Here are Illinois' 2026 primary election results

Live election results: Get the latest on Illinois' Senate, House and gubernatorial primary races.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them.

Tennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material

The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools.

The covers for the books, "Talking to Writers" by author and Writer's Symposium By the Sea director, Dean Nelson, are seen in this graphic.

What conversations with writers can teach us about the craft

Journalism professor Dean Nelson draws on interviews with famed writers in his two latest books. Then, Midday Movies dives into satire in film. And finally, arts events to check out this weekend.

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