For many Americans, their ancestors’ first glimpse of the United States was the Statue of Liberty, emblazoned with a call welcoming the “huddled masses” and “wretched refuse” of the old world to breathe free. America’s greatest strength is still our ability to absorb the best of what the world has to offer and to turn…
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It was the last 15 minutes of a nine-hour sportfishing boat trip on Monday, March 7, when a fisherman aboard the Clemente dropped his line baited with live sardine in an area three miles off Camp Pendleton known as Box Canyon. It wasn’t long until the bait was taken and whatever was hooked ran the…
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“I love going to work,” Ted Danson says. “I love writers. I love actors. I love studios. I love driving through the gate, I really do.” For Danson, of course, the television studio – and your living room – is a place where everybody knows his name. It has been 40 years since Sam Malone…
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California is a shining example of economic and social progress, a beacon to the rest of the nation and the rest of the world. Doubt it? It must be true because Gov. Gavin Newsom said it Tuesday in his fourth State of the State address, declaring, “now, in the midst of so much turmoil with…
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I have a story I want to tell you. Some of you know I have cancer, the Big C, a fact I discovered when I got back from a vacation to India in 2019. After the doctors relieved me of various organs that I no longer needed, they started a series of treatments that did…
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Orange County transportation officials are looking at possible improvements to the dreaded traffic and congestion on the 91 Freeway. The study, now underway by the Orange County Transportation Authority, is looking for ways to decrease the number of vehicles on the freeway’s 23-mile stretch between Los Angeles and Riverside counties, as well as a mile…
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Wednesday that reducing the skyrocketing number of deaths in the latest coronavirus surge is the city’s priority, putting a plan to test the entire population on hold in the latest flip-flop in the government’s pandemic response. Lam said there is “no specific time frame” for…
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By JUSTIN SPIKE ZAHONY, Hungary (AP) — After bombs started falling in her hometown of Kharkiv, Annamaria Maslovska left her friends, her toys, and her life in Ukraine and set off on a days-long journey with her mother toward safety in the West. After finally crossing the Hungarian border by train along with hundreds of…
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government will proceed with a deal to purchase 17 military transport helicopters from Russia that was signed and partially paid for before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the defense chief said Wednesday. The 12.7 billion-peso ($249 million) contract to acquire Mi-17 helicopters was signed in November and the Philippines…
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By ROBERT BURNS and LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks into its war in Ukraine, Russia has achieved less and struggled more than anticipated at the outset of the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War II. But the invading force of more than 150,000 troops retains large and possibly decisive advantages…
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