By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Wednesday that a Russian citizen was freed in the United States in exchange for Moscow’s release of American Marc Fogel, but refused to identify him until he arrives in Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the unidentified individual would return to Russia “in…
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By LEE KEATH, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land, rights groups say, warning it could be a war crime under international law. Trump doubled down this week on his…
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By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the state’s highest court Wednesday to argue how restrictive the ban should be. The law is being enforced in South Carolina as a ban on almost…
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By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last summer in a crackdown on student-led protests against the now-ousted former prime minister. In a new report, the Geneva-based office says security and intelligence…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation accelerated last month as the cost of groceries, gas, and used cars rose, a trend that will likely underscore the Federal Reserve’s resolve to delay any further interest rate cuts. The consumer price index increased 3% in January from a year ago, Wednesday’s report from…
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By LORNE COOK and TARA COPP, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and in sweeping remarks suggested that the way forward for Ukraine was for the country to abandon hopes of a return to its pre-2014 borders and prepare for a negotiated settlement with…
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LA CRESCENTA — “You can’t put this in the paper,” Shawn Zargarian said. “But I’m an –” – absolute taskmaster, terror on the sideline, thorn in the sides of generations of La Crescenta basketball players. A guy you would absolutely have loved your son to play for. Ask the men who suited up for Crescenta…
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UCLA’s Tyler Bilodeau shoots as Illinois’ Tomislav Ivisic defends during their Big Ten game on Tuesday night in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Craig Pessman) Illinois’ Kasparas Jakucionis advances the ball as Dylan Andrews defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against UCLA, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Champaign, Ill. (AP Photo/Craig Pessman)…
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LOS ANGELES — Blood spurted angrily from Wesley Yates III’s nose, for four minutes of game clock, marooned in the caverns of the Galen Center. On Tuesday morning, USC men’s basketball coach Eric Musselman left his house convinced his program would play against Penn State without two of its three top scorers. He had told…
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A self-described “order-at-the-counter seafood stand” in South L.A. made it to the top of Yelp’s Top 100 Places to Eat for 2025. Holbox is located near the entrance of a food hall called Mercado La Paloma in the Figueroa Corridor of Los Angeles. Customers wait for more than an hour to order “some of the…
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