Day: June 3, 2025

More than 200 California bar exam-takers move from fail to pass after new scoring adjustment

11:28 am June 3, 2025

More than 200 people who took California’s bar exam in February will have their scores changed from “fail” to “pass” after a California Bar committee approved new scoring adjustments. The grading change affected 230 test takers in the State Bar of California’s latest attempt to mitigate the fallout of its disastrous February test, which was […]

Lead detective’s text messages cast shadow over Karen Read murder trial

9:30 am June 3, 2025

Special prosecutor Hank Brennan may have dulled the impact of inappropriate text messages the lead homicide detective sent regarding Karen Read days before she was charged with the murder of John O’Keefe – but they’re still damaging to the state’s case and not just because he used vulgar and obscene language, experts say. The texts […]

Trump’s fresh White House portrait sparks interest amid controversy over National Portrait Gallery leadership

8:28 am June 3, 2025

Nearly six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has a new portrait posted to the White House website. White House officials posted an eight-second video to social media on Monday, showing the new portrait being hung on the wall at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus. In his previous […]

Max Homa carries own bag in long U.S. Open qualifier, misses it in heartbreaking fashion

8:22 am June 3, 2025

Max Homa is among several big names who do not meet the exemptions for the 2025 U.S. Open in Oakmont, leaving his Oakmost fate up to a qualifier in Ohio on Monday. Dubbed “Golf’s Longest Day,” Homa was one of numerous golfers, including Rickie Fowler, Cameron Young, Bud Cauley, Jake Knapp, Padraig Harrington, and Adam […]

Trump pushes ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ as solution to four years of Biden failures: ‘Largest tax cut, EVER’

7:12 am June 3, 2025

President Donald Trump turned to social media on Monday evening to sell Americans on his vision for the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” calling it an opportunity to turn the U.S. around after what he called “four disastrous years” under former President Joe Biden. The House passed the spending bill in late May and it is now […]