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What even are Oscar predictions, really?

When making predictions, Pop Culture Happy Hour host Linda Holmes follows this complicated formula: She looks at precursor awards, she considers Academy history — and she listens to her heart.

Former RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, shown at last November's Republican presidential primary debate on NBC. The network hired her and then fired her in the course of a week after a newsroom revolt.

NBC fired Ronna McDaniel. But TV news has a bigger pundit problem

NBC's hiring and firing of former GOP chief Ronna McDaniel may inspire more distrust from conservatives. Yet journalists said her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election made her unacceptable.

A previous Project [BLANK] performance is shown in Bread and Salt's Brick Room in an undated photo.

San Diego weekend arts events: 'Machine Music,' Shellie Zhang, 'Modern Women' and more

This weekend in the arts: Experimental electronic music at Bread and Salt; Shellie Zhang at ICA San Diego North; "Modern Women" at San Diego Museum of Art; the San Diego Symphony's "Noel Noel"; "The Nutcracker" in Balboa Park; and The New Pornographers at the Belly Up.

A judge blocks the foreclosure sale of Elvis' Graceland, after his heir alleges fraud

Riley Keough, Elvis' granddaughter, alleged that the company advertising a foreclosure sale of Graceland had forged documents. A Tennessee judge issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday to halt it.

The Chinese and the Olympic flag wave during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations despite positive tests for banned substances, allowing them to compete in the 2021 Tokyo Games.

Justice Department opens a criminal probe of the Chinese Olympic doping scandal

One focus of the probe appears to be on the World Anti-Doping Agency, which reviewed repeated positive drug tests by elite Chinese swimmers.

A new flu is spilling over from cows to people in the U.S. How worried should we be?

Pigs and goats likely catch it too. It's been found in humans' noses in the Southwest — and in the air at airports and at chicken farms in Malaysia.

Vince LaPietra helps his son Teddy play on a playground in Balboa Park, Aug. 14, 2022.

After-school care lacking in California's ambitious expansion of transitional kindergarten

While every kid is guaranteed a spot in their local public school, they aren’t guaranteed a spot in after-school care.

A volunteer holds up a map for their allotted area for the Vista and San Marcos Point-in-Time Count, Jan. 25, 2024.

Homelessness count increases by 3% from last year, Point-in-Time Count reveals

The number of people experiencing homelessness in San Diego County in 2024 increased by an estimated 3% over the previous year, according to data released Wednesday from January's Point-in-Time Count.

Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings following an evacuation order by the Israeli army on Monday amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.

Israel's army tells Palestinians to evacuate parts of Rafah

The Israeli military on Monday ordered tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate, a move indicating Israel's offensive on Gaza's southmost area could be imminent.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., paid recently expelled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., to record a video message aimed at Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. Like Santos, Menendez is under a federal indictment.

Senator hires an indicted and ousted representative to troll an indicted senator

"I thought my ethically-challenged colleague" should hear from former Rep. George Santos, said Sen. John Fetterman. He hired Santos to record a message for Sen. Bob Menendez.

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