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Irvine Rep. Katie Porter has repeatedly attacked her top Democratic rival in California’s 2024 Senate race, Burbank Rep. Adam B. Schiff, for accepting campaign contributions from oil, pharmaceutical, financial and other influential special interests trying to sway federal policy in Washington.She prided herself on not taking donations from corporate political action committees, unlike Schiff, who along with Republican former baseball All-Star Steve Garvey is leading in the polls as Tuesday’s primary election fast…

Zendaya is remembering her East Bay theater kid roots by donating $100,000 to the California Shakespeare Theater company, where the Oakland native received early training to become an actor and to pursue her career as a film and TV star, singer and model. The donation from the Emmy-winning “Euphoria” star comes as she and Timothée Chalamet have been promoting the March 1 release of the second part of the “Dune” film franchise. Cal Shakes, meanwhile, has been in the midst of a fundraising campaign to help it return to…

Both the donation number and amount are influenced by emotional and contextual cues derived from the disease relief projects on a fundraising website. Images and textual data from 1,763 projects were assessed to determine how positive and negative emotions, and external contextual cues factored in donation behavior on the Tencent Gongyi platform in China. Credit: Journal of Social Computing, Tsinghua University Press The…

A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history.The actions impacting Joan Donovan's work coincided with a $500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public…

Health Canada has granted approval to lift a ban on blood donations from people who lived or travelled in the United Kingdom, Ireland or France for long periods of time in the 1980s and 1990s, Canadian Blood Services said Wednesday.The ban was adopted more than two decades ago by blood agencies in many countries to prevent the transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow disease."But almost 30 years of research and surveillance have made it clear that…

Mattel, the company behind Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price and Barbie, pledged in 2017 to donate $49 million to UCLA to support its children’s hospital. But now the hospital says Mattel never came through with the money. According to a new lawsuit, the El Segundo toy company made “the inexplicable decision a few short years later to renege on that pledge,” and is now trying to offer the pediatric hospital just a few million dollars, plus a bunch of Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels cars and other in-kind donations.The suit, filed last…

Dwayne Johnson attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California.Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images)Movie stars make millions, but many working actors struggle to make ends meet—an issue that’s gotten more awareness thanks to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. While union members fight Hollywood studios for fair contracts, one of the most famous performers in the world is sharing some of his good fortune.Buy Now or Wait? How to Avoid Tech Buyer's RemorseAccording to a report in Variety, Dwayne…

Eminent American actor Alan Alda, best known for his role as Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce on the hit TV show M*A*S*H, is parting with his cherished combat boots and dog tags for a noble cause. FILE - Actor Alan Alda attends the "Marriage Story" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in New York. The combat boots and dog tags that Alda wore every day as he portrayed the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series "M*A*S*H" meant so much…

Eminent American actor Alan Alda, best known for his role as Benjamin Franklin ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce on the hit TV show M*A*S*H, is parting with his cherished combat boots and dog tags for a noble cause. FILE - Actor Alan Alda attends the "Marriage Story" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, in New York. The combat boots and dog tags that Alda wore every day as he portrayed the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye on the beloved television series "M*A*S*H" meant so much…