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NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani will make his next mound start for the Los Angeles Angels in Friday night’s homestand opener against the Kansas City Royals. The two-way Japanese star threw just two innings and 31 pitches in Monday’s start at Boston before his outing was cut short by an 85-minute rain delay. “We

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden’s stalled judicial nominees. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans block temporary replacement for Feinstein on key Senate panel, leaving many Biden judicial nominees in limbo.

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson pondered the Golden State Warriors’ current playoff situation and expressed some relief. In years past under the old best-of-five format, the defending champions would have been on the brink of elimination trailing 2-0. Thompson, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green have never been in

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer United Airlines said Tuesday that it lost $194 million in the first quarter, but its revenue soared compared with last year, and the airline said consumer demand remains strong despite economic uncertainty. United predicted that results in the April-through-June quarter will be slightly better than Wall Street expects. Like

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that children are required to receive so they can attend school, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden handed down the decision Monday in a lawsuit filed last year by

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District and union officials announced Tuesday that a tentative deal has been reached on a new contract that would give a significant pay raise to teachers, nurses, counselors and other educational staff in the nation’s second-largest school system. The deal calls for the nearly 35,000 members

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Jake Haener bristles when asked about the obvious comparison to fellow experienced but undersized quarterback Brock Purdy. “I just feel like Brock is different. I’m different. There’s different things that we do in our games,” said Haener, the former Fresno State star. “Brock

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer The road to the U.S. Open began this week for thousands of players, with an 18-hole local qualifier in the Houston area on Monday and another in North Carolina on Wednesday. A dozen or so players from LIV Golf already decided to pass by not entering. That includes Louis

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that Republicans won’t allow Democrats to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, arguing that they only want a stand-in to push through the most partisan judges. McConnell called the effort to place a substitute

By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. There’s that hairless tail after all. But Runa at the San Diego Zoo is doing her best to counter the bad press. She is one of a handful of such so-called ambassadors showing