{"id":107,"date":"2025-10-13T01:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:26:05","slug":"a-good-week-for-uc-berkeley-a-bad-week-for-katie-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107\/","title":{"rendered":"A good week for UC Berkeley, a bad week for Katie Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arrow.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Venerable East Bay university wins two Nobel Prizes \u2014 Omar Yaghi for chemistry and John Clarke for physics \u2014 bringing Cal\u2019s total number of faculty Nobel winners to 28 since 1934 with five in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arrowdown.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Porter<\/p>\n<p>Former Orange County congresswoman and Democratic candidate for governor comes under scrutiny as video of her cursing a staff member is released days after she berated a TV reporter during an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline_third lazyautosizes alignleft lazyload\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/arrow-sideways.png\" \/>Motorists<\/p>\n<p>Gas prices typically drop in California in the fall, when summer demand ends and cheaper winter-blend fuel comes online. But a fire at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo could send prices upward.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley Venerable East Bay university wins two Nobel Prizes \u2014 Omar Yaghi for chemistry and John Clarke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[148,147,146,150,143,145,144,149],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california-gas-prices","tag-gas-prices","tag-katie-porter","tag-nobel-prize","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-uc-berkeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}