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How 'Coachella of Conservatism' fizzled at Berkeley

LA Times' BENJAMIN ORESKES/JAVIER PANZAR: "Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and his entourage — including a Dutch Shepherd named Duke — arrived at UC Berkeley Sunday in a fleet of three Chevy Suburbans and made their way to the campus’ famed Sproul Plaza."

"It was a decidedly different entrance than what Mario Savio and other student activists made when they started the free speech movement at the same campus square in the 1960s."

"Yiannopoulos had been trying to summon the spirit of those days of free speech activism as he rallied for a week of right-wing dissent. But by Sunday, his grand plans had fizzled and big-name speakers had pulled out. The event itself was canceled."

A recent change to school curriculum under new state law has made fourth-grade projects a thing of the past.

Daily News' ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL: "For decades, fourth-grade students in California have had one project that has taken over dining room tables, required piles of popsicle sticks and kept parents and kids up at night completing it: building a model of one of the 18th- and 19th-century Spanish missions in the state."

"But under a new educational framework the state Department of Education is rolling out, the annual project may  become history."

"Why? Two reasons: it doesn’t effectively teach students about the mission period and, worse, it might be offensive, according to the state."

California's tax credit program providing incentives to film producers has maintained a booming job market, according to 2017's California Film Commission report.

Daily News' BOB STRAUSS: "The California Film Commission has released its annual report on how effective the state’s tax credit program has been at keeping film and television production in the state."

"It’s been quite effective, according to the CFC’s executive director, Amy Lemisch, whose office administers the program."

"I’m extremely pleased with the way it’s going,” Lemisch said. “We’ve seen increases in employment. We’re hearing from all the different soundstage facilities about how busy they are. I hear from crew people all the time. So we’re definitely seeing the results of an increase in production, which was exactly what the program was intended to do, and it seems to be working."

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California legislators are still trying to figure out serious solutions to the state's growing housing crisis.

Southern California News Group's JEFF COLLINS: "Millions, if not billions, in new dollars will flow to housing programs under a host of housing bills adopted in the final hours of the California Legislature. New rules will make it harder for local governments to block developments."

"And lawmakers put some teeth into weak, often ignored laws mandating that cities approve more housing."

"On Sept. 15, the last day to approve new laws, the legislature passed 15 housing bills aimed at easing a statewide housing shortage that’s fueling skyrocketing rents and home prices."

As the drama with North Korea unfolds, recent war game scenarios emulating combat with the Hermit Kingdom have left defense experts soberingly terrified of what could soon transpire. 

LA Times' BARBARA DEMICK: "This is the way a nuclear war begins."

"Simulations of a war on the Korean peninsula usually start with a relatively minor incident at the demilitarized zone between South Korea and its hostile northern neighbor, or a provocation that develops into a conventional war and then escalates."

"President Trump’s threatening posture toward North Korea — most recently exhibited at the United Nations, where he warned that the U.S. could “totally destroy” the country — has prompted military strategists to examine what would actually happen if a war broke out."

60 Minutes traveled to the swing state of Michigan to ask everyday Americans how they feel about the country and the president 8 months after the inauguration.

CBS' OPRAH WINDFREY: 'Last year's presidential election revealed a nation divided…over the media, popular culture and especially politics. People got their news from different sources, believed different things and watched close friends and family members stop talking over their choice of candidates."

"Eight months into the presidency of Donald Trump, we wanted to know if the divide was still as deep and bitter as before, so we traveled to a state that played a pivotal role in the election: Michigan. There, we gathered a diverse group of voters and asked them to lay everything out on the table. The group included a farmer, a drug counselor, a speech therapist, a former GM factory worker and a sales manager. And they all had a lot to say about the state of our union in the early days of the Trump administration."

Speaking of everyday Americans, Senator John McCain also told 60 Minutes on Sunday night that his brain cancer prognosis was 'very poor,' but that he has still found reason to celebrate with gratitude a 'life well lived' in the face of his mortality.

AP: "Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer."

"McCain underwent surgery in July for a brain tumor that was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, the same type of cancer that took the life of his former Senate colleague Edward M. Kennedy in 2009."

"McCain told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday night that he thinks about Kennedy a lot. He said Kennedy continued to work despite the diagnosis and “never gave up because he loved the engagement.”

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It was recently revealed by Jared Kushner's lawyer that the president's son-in-law had used a private email server to conduct official government business.

AP: "President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday."

"Between January and August, Kushner received or responded to fewer than 100 emails from White House officials from his private account, attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement that confirmed Kushner's use of a personal address in the first months of the administration."

"The use of a private email account to discuss government matters is a politically freighted issue that factored prominently in last year's presidential election. Trump repeatedly attacked Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for setting up a private email server as secretary of state, a decision that prompted an FBI investigation that shadowed her for much of the campaign."

Trump administration announces new travel ban

AP: "The Latest on President Donald Trump's travel ban (all times local):"

"7 p.m."