Ed Brubaker, author of the new graphic novel “Where the Body Was” with artist Sean Phillips, has created an incredible array of comics, from his “Criminal”series and the Hollywood noir “The Fade Out” to memorable runs writing superhero comics featuring Batman, Cat Woman, The Uncanny X-Men and Captain America – even creating the character The Winter…
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If you don’t think too much about it, it’s easy to imagine that the links of the food chain stretch only as far as, say, the nearest Trader Joe’s to our dinner plates. But one publication aims to put the focus on an overlooked, but essential link in that chain – farm and agricultural workers.…
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By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends. Biden and his top aides…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, Jan. 19 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday. FRIDAY’S SCORES GIRLS…
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON | AP Medical Writer Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard. COVID-19 is leading hospital admissions among the respiratory viruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers had plenty of success going up against the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs when Aaron Rodgers was running the show. The Niners knocked Rodgers and the Packers out of the playoffs four times, including twice in the previous four seasons.…
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LOS ANGELES — This was sheer deliverance, an undulating crowd of Trojans red roaring as Bruin blue walked off the floor in disappointment, a true milestone in Lindsay Gottlieb’s rebuild of the USC women’s basketball program checked firmly and thoroughly off the list. As the buzzer sounded in a 73-65 victory over their crosstown rivals…
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A Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend, once accused in a headline-grabbing case of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women, are seeking unspecified damages from the county of Orange. While the sex charges were dropped or dismissed against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley, the legal costs and flood of bad publicity damaged them financially…
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The city of Laguna Beach is putting some new property it has acquired to use so residents can try out their skateboarding skills. New, temporary skateboard ramps – costing the city $75,000– are up at the Laguna Beach Community and Recreation Center on South Coast Highway. Tyler Marriner, 8, ride a new skate ramp at…
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Thousands of workers at the California State University system’s 23 campuses are ready to kick off a five-day strike next Monday, Jan. 22 — as tensions between the California Faculty Association and the CSU continue to broil around ongoing labor contract negotiations. The California Faculty Association announced its intentions to launch the strike, planned for…
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