The boys of summer are back. The Power is back in full swing. Lots of fans here for the 20th opening day. @KESQ @BlakeArthur24 @Tarp1969 @PSPowerBaseball pic.twitter.com/yuv5vPzidl— Kenji Ito (@KenjiitoKESQ) June 1, 2024 The Palm Springs Power began their 20th season on Friday night at Palm Springs Stadium against the SoCal Mvericks, winning 11-1. With
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By Esha Mitra, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — There’s no fresh water in the slums of Delhi’s Chanakyapuri neighborhood. It’s 49.9 degrees Celsius, or 121 Fahrenheit – the hottest temperature on record. The sun belts off the tin roofs of the shanties. Desperate people wait for drinking water to be delivered. When it arrives, there’s chaos.
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Nectar Gan, CNN Singapore (CNN) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday hailed the arrival of a “new convergence” in the Indo-Pacific, as the United States fortifies strategic and security partnerships in the region amid rising threats from China and Russia. “Today, we are witnessing a new convergence around nearly all
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said. The world hasn’t really noticed how the type of
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — Moving somewhere new when you retire isn’t uncommon. But deciding whether to take out a new mortgage to buy a home is a big deal. Much of your financial life is changing as you transition from a steady paycheck to a mix of fixed and variable income
Continue ReadingCORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Gavin Turley hit his fifth grand slam of the season and host Oregon State beat Tulane 10-4 on Friday night in front of a record crowd at the Corvallis Regional. Oregon State (43-14) will play UC Irvine (44-12) in the winners’ bracket game on Saturday. Tulane (35-25) faces Nichols (38-21) in
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. People who have worked at Israel’s only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained in the Gaza Strip say these are
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer told The Associated Press he was surprised at Trump’s stoic demeanor as he listened to the verdict that made him the first former U.S. president convicted of a crime. Todd Blanche was sitting to Trump’s left in the Manhattan
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Aaron Judge grew up watching San Francisco Giants games on television and in person, imagining himself launching long balls like Barry Bonds. In his first game here, he did his best Bonds impression. Judge capped a spectacular May by homering twice in his first game
Continue ReadingBy SHANE LANTZ Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Ty France hit a go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-4 on Friday night. The homer put some buzz back into the crowd of 40,001, after Jo Adell erased Seattle’s four-run lead with a pinch-hit grand
Continue ReadingSANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Jessada Brown hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Aaron Parker went 5-for-5, leading regional host UC Santa Barbara to a 9-6 victory over Fresno State on Friday night at the NCAA Tournament. Brown hit a solo home run in the first inning and added a three-run
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others. That’s according to comments from the rebels Friday. That is the highest publicly acknowledged death toll strikes carried out over the rebels’ attacks on
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — With the season on the line, Stanford’s NiJaree Canady delivered the kind of performance one might expect from the best player in college softball. The sophomore threw a three-hitter and the Cardinal defeated Oklahoma State 8-0 in six innings on Friday night in an elimination
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer The Sacramento Kings have agreed to a extension with coach Mike Brown to keep him under contract through the 2026-27 season, a person familiar with the deal said. The Kings and the 2022-23 NBA Coach of the Year reached agreement on the extension Friday night, the person told The
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ezequiel Tovar homered and had three hits, Dakota Hudson allowed only one run and four hits in seven-plus innings and the Colorado Rockies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 on Friday night. Hudson (2-7) entered the game with only 17 runs of support, the fifth-fewest
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — Tin Oo, one of the closest associates of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a co-founder of her National League for Democracy party, has died. He was 97. A charity worker confirmed his death Saturday morning at Yangon General Hospital. The cause of death was not immediately announced, but he
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg took office as Manhattan district attorney in 2022, he stunned his own staff by pausing an investigation into Donald Trump that appeared to be heading toward an indictment. Today, Bragg has cemented his place in history as
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict, Republicans in Congress are fervently enlisting themselves in his campaign of vengeance and political retribution as the GOP runs to reclaim the White House. Almost no Republican official
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From Cathedral City High School to undergrad at Stanford, medical school at Harvard, and now residency at UCLA. Back in 2015, Chai Arnold was awarded the Golden Lion Award by CCHS and given a street named after him. And now, Arnold wants to be the one to inspire and believe in the next generation of
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Mexican voters are poised to elect their first female president, a cause of celebration for many that has also touched off a flurry of false and misogynist online claims, blurring the lines behind fact and fiction. The two leading candidates, both women, have had to respond to demeaning attacks about
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