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Studies show too much noise, particularly loud, irregular noise, can hurt a child's brain development, because if sound is irregular, it distracts our brains and makes concentration more difficult. -
The San Diego Unified School District is closing its iHigh Virtual Academy for middle and high school students. -
A 2021 state law took investigations into California police shootings out of the hands of local cops. Now, some families say the new system is agonizing in its own way. -
Three popular campgrounds at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Monday because of a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. -
For decades, the genre has had a stealth mission: promoting public health. It started with Doug E. Fresh's "Stroke Ain't No Joke." -
The recently enacted PUMP Act requires most employers to provide private lactation spaces, but does not provide monetary support to do so. -
Reckless behavior with money can be a warning sign of cognitive decline — and the condition can put people at risk of financial ruin. There are few institutional safeguards in place. -
What's it like to be a Black immigrant or refugee in America? We had a hundred or so conversations with people in Tennessee — one of the Blackest states in the country — to find out. -
This weekend in the arts: Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore at San Diego Museum of Art; "Good Natured" at the downtown library; Thirty years of genre books at Mysterious Galaxy; new (and closing) exhibits at Bread and Salt; Broadway's "1776"; City Ballet's "Alice in Wonderland"; and Prebys Play Days at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. -
An ethics inquiry is examining whether Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Presbyterian minister, broke Arizona House rules when she hid Bibles from the members' lounge in a protest.
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