Christmas comes twice a year for the UCLA women’s basketball team: once in December, and again in March. “It feels like Christmas,” Bruins graduate student guard Camryn Brown said. “It genuinely does when tournament season comes around. You play all these games throughout the season to be your best in March for a tournament like…
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SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 46 Flavien Prat / 41 Antonio Fresu / 38 Frankie Dettori / 28 Hector Berrios / 20 Umberto Rispoli / 20 Trainers / Wins Doug O’Neill / 27 Mark Glatt / 22 Phil D’Amato / 22 Bob Baffert / 21 Steve Knapp / 19…
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An escalating wave of Starbucks worker victories continued this week when baristas at a Seal Beach store voted to join Starbucks Workers United. Their 9-3 vote marks the 32nd California location to unionize. Workers at the 12470 Seal Beach Blvd. store join more than 400 Starbucks stores nationwide that have unionized in their fight for…
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Showers, cool temperatures and windy gusts may have you double-checking the calendar this weekend. “It will feel like a cold winter day in the middle of March,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Moede said. After a cool, partly cloudy Friday with temperatures in the 60s, about a tenth to a third inch of rain is…
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Horses vying to qualify for the Kentucky Derby have more than usual to prove in the upcoming three Saturdays of major, pivotal, final preps for the May 4 classic. It’s natural for fans to measure this year’s prospects not only against one another but also against the Bob Baffert-trained horses who aren’t eligible for the…
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By Matthew Lee | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel soured further over Israel’s war against Hamas, notably its intent to mount a major military operation against the southern…
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By Hanna Arhirova and Anton Shtuka | Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired more than two dozen missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday, attacking the Ukrainian capital for the first time in six weeks and sending panicked residents flooding into the relative safety of the subway system in a scene reminiscent of the…
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The presidential election is a dead heat between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. A nationwide Florida Atlantic University poll released Tuesday found Biden and Trump tied at 44%. When the responses were narrowed to likely voters, Biden fared slightly better, but the contest is still essentially tied, with 47% for Biden and…
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Nada Hassanein | Stateline.org (TNS) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year approved two breakthrough gene therapies for sickle cell disease patients. Now a new federal program seeks to make these life-changing treatments available to patients with low incomes — and it could be a model to help states pay for other expensive…
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Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire | CQ-Roll Call (TNS) WASHINGTON — Incumbents on the hot seat won, one without really breaking a sweat, while other primaries and special elections in California, Illinois and Ohio set matchups for fall battlegrounds or picked nominees for safe open seats. Here are nine things to know about the…
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