By ELLIOT SPAGAT | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Migration has taken center stage at an assembly of Western Hemisphere leaders, reflecting its emergence as a top foreign policy issue amid red-carpet drama over who comes and who stays home. The “Los Angeles Declaration,” to be announced while U.S. President Joe Biden meets with…
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Rock band Foo Fighters have announced two special tribute shows to honor its late drummer Taylor Hawkins. Hawkins, a Laguna Beach native, was 50 years old when he died suddenly on March 25 while the band had been in Bogotá, Colombia preparing to perform at Festival Estereo Picnic. Shortly after, the band announced it would…
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Kawhi Leonard said he could see it working out, and in a couple of years, Clippers fans should be seeing it, too – seeing game action on the largest ever double-sided halo display in an arena setting when the $1.8 billion Intuit Dome begins hosting the team’s games in 2024. “I said, ‘Look, I wonder…
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The next step could further define the degree that Udonis Haslem’s NBA story becomes one for the ages. With the Miami Heat captain turning 42 on Thursday, a return for a 20th season would put him in decidedly rarified air. The oldest player in the NBA this past season by four years over Carmelo Anthony…
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Q: Names like Donovan Mitchell and Bradley Beal keep getting thrown out there as players the Heat should get this offseason. In the case of Mitchell, why would the Jazz take on a contract like Duncan Robinson’s and what else would we need to throw in there to entice them? In the case of Beal,…
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As I’m writing this, it’s nine days since my daughter’s wedding, and I have finally managed to get dressed and stagger around like a normal human being. Well, OK, I’ll never be normal, but you get the idea. Our house was tuned to the “All wedding, all the time” channel for so long, I don’t…
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By Jessica Damiano Gardening in the shade is often thought of as a Sisyphean endeavor, swimming upstream against all odds with limited plant choices and no hope for color. But that notion couldn’t be further from the truth. Learning how to work with — not necessarily around — shady conditions, and finding the right plants…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom easily won this month’s California primary election. But no matter, he will still have to run this fall. After demonstrating overwhelming vote-getting power both in this balloting and last fall’s abortive, Republican-led recall election, is it possible he might somehow contrive to lose in November’s runoff election? The easy and very likely…
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Shortly after the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal broke in September 2016, W. Jay Abbott, the Special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis, reached out to USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny. “Hang in there,” Abbott wrote in an email to Penny. “You’ll be all right.” The email was among dozens of exchanges between the…
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Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa had a long talk during batting practice Tuesday with the man who controls his fate. General manager Rick Hahn was there too. The strange dynamic that brought La Russa back to the Sox after 34 years is the same reason he doesn’t have to worry about being fired,…
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