L.A. Fire Devastates Historic Black Community in Altadena
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L.A. Fire Devastates Historic Black Community in Altadena

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Scenic and charming and tucked into the foothills, Altadena seemed like a secret just outside the reaches of Los Angeles. “I felt it was like back home — peaceful and calm and a little secluded,” said Shirley Taylor, who was raised in North…

Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students
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Judge Rejects Biden’s Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden’s effort to expand protections for transgender students and make other changes to the rules governing sex discrimination in schools, ruling that the Education Department had overstepped and violated teachers’ rights by requiring…

Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96
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Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founding father of France’s modern political far-right who built a half-century career on rants of barely disguised racism, antisemitism and neo-Nazi propaganda, has died. He was 96. His death was confirmed on X by Jordan Bardella, the current president…

Lance Bass claims his sitcom pilot was axed after he came out as gay
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Lance Bass claims his sitcom pilot was axed after he came out as gay

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Lance Bass claimed he once had the chance to star in a CW sitcom, but the pilot wound up on the chopping block soon after he came out as gay. The former *NSYNC member, 45, opened up about his missed opportunity on Tuesday’s…

Group applied to jobs using Jewish names, prior employers — what they found was troubling
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Group applied to jobs using Jewish names, prior employers — what they found was troubling

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday claims. The ADL conducted a field experiment that sent out 3,000 applications for administrative assistant…

Washington Post heir ‘retired’ assistant against her will: Lawsuit
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Washington Post heir ‘retired’ assistant against her will: Lawsuit

The son of the Washington Post’s late publisher Katharine Graham allegedly kicked his longtime personal assistant to the curb because she was too old, according to a lawsuit. Valrie Riddick was a loyal helper to Stephen Graham for 24 years — once even hauling her laptop and a printer to…