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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert will visit Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 15 in the first game on Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” package. The Week 2 matchup between AFC West rivals was announced on Thursday during the first round of the NFL

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Minjee Lee shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko after the first round of the Palos Verdes Championship. Coming off a third-place tie Sunday in the LA Open at Whilshire Country Club, Lee had a bogey-free round at hilly Palos

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Maybe it won’t be so easy for defenses to focus all their attention on Atlanta Falcons tight end Kyle Pitts after all. The Falcons added help for Pitts in the NFL draft, and with that help came impressive size. The Falcons continued to emphasize

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Chicago will host the WNBA All-Star Game for the first time, the league announced Thursday. The game will coincide with two major youth girls’ basketball tournaments being played in Chicago the weekend of July 10. The league will host a two-day “WNBA Live” event that weekend. “We are thrilled

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Among the scathing findings of an investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd is that Minneapolis police used covert or bogus social media accounts to monitor Black individuals and groups despite having no clear public safety rationale for doing so. The report released

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Thursday in a trial over former reality television star Blac Chyna’s lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Khloé Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, whom she alleges spread false stories of abuse to ruin her television career. In her closing argument, Chyna’s attorney Lynne

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Corden said he will be bowing out of his late-night CBS TV show next year, calling it a “good time to move on and see what else might be out there.” Corden announced his decision during the taping of Thursday’s “The Late Late Show,”

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Corden will be bowing out of his late-night CBS TV show next year. Corden told of his decision during the taping of Thursday’s “The Late Late Show,” which he began hosting in 2015. In a statement, CBS President and CEO George Cheeks lauded Corden

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California has added a matchup with San Jose State to its football schedule for 2023. USC added the Spartans in place of a previously scheduled matchup with BYU, the school announced Thursday. USC will host San Jose State at the Coliseum on Aug. 26, 2023, in a so-called “Week Zero”

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels haven’t won a playoff game in over 12 years, and they haven’t finished with a winning record since 2015. With a five-game winning streak and a wealth of confident players across their roster, the Halos are starting to believe this year

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Minjee Lee shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead over top-ranked Jin Young Ko halfway through the first round of the Palos Verdes Championship. Coming off a third-place tie Sunday in the LA Open at Whilshire Country Club, Lee had a bogey-free round at hilly

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Judges denied the innocence claims Thursday of four men who were convicted of killing the grandfather of NBA star Chris Paul when they were teens, even though a key witness has recanted her testimony. In 2020, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission found sufficient evidence of factual innocence to send their

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer shot in the leg on a San Diego freeway was wounded during a struggle with a motorist involved in a single-vehicle crash who lunged for the officer’s firearm, authorities said Thursday. The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon when the officer responded to the crash on the center

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s attorney general on Thursday subpoenaed ExxonMobil as part of what he called a first-of-its-kind broader investigation into the petroleum industry for its alleged role in causing a global plastic pollution crisis, allegations that the company called meritless. Attorney General Rob Bonta said the industry for

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a 3-month-old baby kidnapped from their San Francisco Bay Area home said a woman arrested in the case met the family at church and had been spending a lot of time with them ever since she was nine months pregnant. Carolina Ayala told Spanish language television stations

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA guard David Singleton is returning for a fifth year with the Bruins, while center Myles Johnson is leaving the team to finish his graduate degree in electrical engineering. Both players announced their plans on social media Thursday. Singleton is taking advantage of an extra

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Brown will retire after this season, his 18th with the club. The 37-year-old made the announcement Thursday ahead of the Kings’ regular-season finale. Los Angeles will face Edmonton in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Brown has played in a franchise record 1,295

CINCINNATI (AP) — Ha-Seong Kim hit a tiebreaking, three-run double in the sixth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-5 Thursday to complete a season sweep in the series. Left fielder Tommy Pham just missed a diving catch of Kim’s two-out, sinking line drive, which gave San Diego infielder five RBIs

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Amber Heard pushed to have details of her marriage with fellow actor Johnny Depp included in an op-ed piece that she wrote about domestic violence, even though her lawyers wanted those passages removed from the article, which is now the subject of a libel lawsuit,