Starting next year, instruction of cursive penmanship will be mandatory for all California elementary school children. 

Bakersfield Republican Kevin McCarthy says he’ll resign from Congress at the end of the year, after being ousted from the House speakership. Does he leave with bitterness?

Norman Lear died on Tuesday at age 101. He masterminded some of the most groundbreaking shows of the 1970s: “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” “Maude,” and “Good Times.”

Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham is out with his first novel in nearly a decade. It’s set during COVID, but the word “pandemic” doesn’t appear once.