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Students from Vanden High School ponder a question during the Academic Decathlon at Solano Community
College in Rockville, Saturday. Vanden won the competition and earned a berth in the state competition.
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FAIRFIELD — Vanden High School took first place Saturday overall in the North Bay Region Academic Decathlon. The team is invited to go on to compete and represent Solano County at the state competition. Also going to the state competition is Campolindo High School, whose team took second overall. They will represent Contra Costa County at state. Third place was awarded to Basis Independent Silicon Valley Charter from Santa Clara County. The North Bay Region Academic Decathlon registered 285 students from 17 schools to the
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A card is raised by the Vanden High School Academic Decathlon team at Solano Community College in Rockville, Saturday. all day event Saturday at the Solano Community College in rural Fairfield. Solano County Office of Education hosted the event again this year with eight Bay Area counties
represented including Solano, Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Santa Clara, Sonoma and Yolo, according to a press release. “I’m thrilled to see
more than 280 students challenge themselves to further their learning, knowledge and public speaking skills,” Solano Superintendent of Schools Lisette EstrellaHenderson said in the press release. The Solano County Office of Education hosts Academic Decathlon “to inspire students to foster a spirit of inquiry and lifelong learning, and the performances we saw today leave no doubt that these students are going to achieve lifelong success,” Estrella-Henderson said. The event has been held since 1981, when Solano County Office of Education began sponsoring the Academic See Vanden, Page A7
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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden have agreed to meet Wednesday to discuss raising the U.S. debt ceiling, reducing government spending and avoiding a sovereign default. “We’re going to meet this Wednesday,” McCarthy said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling” and “take control of this runaway spending.”
The planned meeting, which was confirmed by a White House official, will pit McCarthy’s call for spending cuts as a condition of any deal against Biden’s refusal to treat the federal debt ceiling as a bargaining chip. “Now I know his staff tries to say something different, but I think the president is going to be willing to make an agreement together,” McCarthy said. “I’m hopeful.” In a statement on Jan. 20 looking ahead to a meeting with McCarthy, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre emphasized Biden’s stance that “the debt ceiling
is not a negotiation” but “an obligation of this country and its leaders to avoid economic chaos.” Biden expects Congress to “do their duty” and raise the ceiling, she said. McCarthy said that while reductions in Social Security and Medicare should be “off the table,” all discretionary spending, including the U.S. defense budget, should be reviewed for waste. The California Republican declined to speculate on the chances of a short-term extension of the federal debt ceiling, a stopgap that House
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Israel may penalize the families of Palestinian attackers by revoking identity cards and residency if they support the violence, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, after a deadly shooting near a synagogue escalated some of the bloodiest inter-communal violence in years. The rising violence comes ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week. He’ll meet Netanyahu, members of his new right-wing Israeli government and Palestinian leaders who have severed security cooperation over a military raid on the West Bank city of Jenin in which nine Palestinians were killed last week. The government will debate the proposed new measures, Netanyahu told a weekly Cabinet meeting, as well as expanding
and speeding up the licensing of weapons to thousands of Israeli citizens, also including the rescue services, he said, expanding on plans announced overnight. This would include ZAKA, the Jerusalembased paramedics and search and rescue group, which has 3,000 volunteers, he said. “Imagine that they, and others, will be armed. This of course significantly increases the ability to respond,” he said. In the weekend attack, a 21-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem shot dead seven Israelis near a synagogue. In separate violence, a 13-year-old shot a man and his son headed toward the Western Wall in the Old City. It has been one of the bloodiest months in Israel and the occupied West Bank in years. If the government See Israel, Page A7
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LOS ANGELES — When Rachel David arrived at her Benedict Canyon home early Saturday morning after a night out, she thought the rows of flashing police cars were part of a film shoot, which is fairly common in the area. She soon found out it wasn’t a movie set. Police said three people were shot to death inside a car and four wounded outside during a gathering in the 2700 block of Ellison Drive, a quiet cul-de-sac tucked away in a secluded neighborhood north of Beverly Hills. Authorities on Sunday identified the victims as Nenah Davis, 29, of Bolingbrook, Illinois; Destiny Sims, 26, of Buckeye, Arizona; and Iyana Hutton, 33, of Chicago. The shooting capped a deadly week in California. A gunman killed
11 people in a mass shooting in Monterey Park last weekend, and two days later, another assailant fatally shot seven people at two farms near Half Moon Bay. “I wait for my Ubers right at that corner,” David said Saturday morning, pointing at the intersection of Ellison and Arby drives, where there was a slash of yellow police tape. “Not anymore.” Investigators on Saturday afternoon were still searching for a suspect or suspects, and gave little information about what happened or who was involved other than to say the attack — during which more than 30 shots were fired – was not random. Authorities towed from the scene a white Porsche SUV, and a black Mazda SUV that had bullet holes on both
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