LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Lexie Brown scored 20 points, rookie Cameron Brink led a defensive effort that three times did not allow a clear shot in the final possessions and the Los Angeles Sparks defeated the Washington Mystics 70-68 on Tuesday night. With Los Angeles (1-2) leading 67-66, Washington had the ball and called
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation’s most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead to catastrophic flooding are forcing a reckoning that environmentalists and
Continue ReadingBy TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation’s most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead to catastrophic flooding are forcing a reckoning that environmentalists and
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Two mushroom farms in Northern California agreed to pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages for dozens of employees stemming from a federal work- and living-conditions investigation that started after seven people were fatally shot there in 2023, the US Department of Labor said
Continue ReadingBy Edward Szekeres and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia, a government official has said, after a week of deadly unrest in the Pacific archipelago. Macron was leaving Paris on Tuesday night and will “set up a mission” in the French territory, government spokesperson Prisca
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Tom Brady is coming into the booth of Fox Sports top NFL team with seven Super Bowl rings. Greg Olsen is leaving it with another Sports Emmy award. After being named Outstanding Emerging On-Air Talent last year, Olsen was named the top Event Analyst during the three-hour ceremony at
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Tom Brady is coming into the booth of Fox Sports top NFL team with seven Super Bowl rings. Greg Olsen is leaving it with another Sports Emmy award. After being named Outstanding Emerging On-Air Talent last year, Olsen was named the top Event Analyst during the three-hour ceremony at
Continue ReadingBy NAPAT KONGSAWAD Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Singapore Airlines says most of the passengers who were on one of its jetliners that was battered by severe turbulence have been flown to Singapore from Bangkok. The airline says 143 passengers arrived in the city state shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday. Airline CEO Goh Choon Phong
Continue ReadingBy BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joc Pederson slugged a three-run homer for his 500th career RBI, Christian Walker went deep and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3 on Tuesday night. The Dodgers had their four-game winning streak at home snapped as they got outhit, 12-6. Every player
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — A North Korean propaganda song extolling Kim Jong Un as “a great leader and a friendly parent” has gone viral on TikTok, with mashups and dances racking up millions of views, leading to South Korea banning the tune due to “psychological warfare.” Seoul’s media regulator on
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT, SCOTT McFETRIDGE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — An undisclosed number of people were killed when a tornado tore through a small town in Iowa, leaving a wide swath of obliterated homes and crumpled cars and also twisting and toppling wind turbines outside of the town. After devastating
Continue ReadingBy HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Zhang Zhan has been released from prison after serving four years for charges related to reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Zhang was charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and served her full term. But on the day of her release a week ago, her
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Joe Biden and his guest of honor at a White House state dinner chew over foreign policy, a female chef duo takes care of the culinary diplomacy. Cris Comerford is the White House executive chief and Susie Morrison is the executive pastry chef. Both are
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hunter Biden ’s lawyers will press a judge Wednesday to delay his trial that’s set to begin next month in Los Angeles on charges that he schemed to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. The president’s son is seeking to push the
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hunter Biden ’s lawyers will press a judge Wednesday to delay his trial that’s set to begin next month in Los Angeles on charges that he schemed to avoid paying $1.4 million in taxes. The president’s son is seeking to push the
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii court has ordered the manufacturers and distributors of the blood thinner Plavix to pay the state a combined $916 million after finding the companies failed to disclose the efficacy and safety of the medication, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The judgement was issued against
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii court has ordered the manufacturers and distributors of the blood thinner Plavix to pay the state a combined $916 million after finding the companies failed to disclose the efficacy and safety of the medication, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The judgement was issued against
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A convicted felon who gunned down a 39-year-old San Jacinto man after the victim slapped him during an argument was convicted today of first-degree murder and other charges. A Riverside jury deliberated barely a day before finding Melvin Mario James Landry, 42, of San Jacinto guilty of killing Gilbert Wah in 2020. Along with murder,
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. The case, one of four criminal prosecutions against Trump,
Continue ReadingBy ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The conservative parental rights group Moms for Liberty plans to spend more than $3 million on a multi-state advertising blitz to increase its membership and engage voters before November, following through on a pledge it made last year to become more politically active across the country
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