Fleeing her Altadena home at 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 8, Jessica Coker-Lentz grabbed her family’s go-bags, thinking they would return to unpack soon enough. They’d evacuated because of fire before, and she reminded her children to pack “everything we can’t replace.” “I honestly didn’t think the house would burn,” Coker-Lentz said. Lost amid the ashes…
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By PHILIP MARCELO and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into some parts of Manhattan. Related Articles Transportation | Jobs cut at the FAA helped…
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By JONEL ALECCIA, Associated Press Health Writer A push to ban sugary drinks, candy and more from the U.S. program that helps low-income families pay for nutritious food has been tried before — but it may soon get a boost from new Trump administration officials. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed health and human…
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Some of you may be familiar with a certain ritual of American life: The doctor’s appointment. I don’t know anyone who actually likes doctor’s appointments — except maybe the doctor — but it seems to be an inevitable part of our lives, especially when you get to be old like me. As some of you…
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Now, $10,000 is barely pocket change for even the smallest local governments. But it could, say, pay for a modest wedding at a park overlooking the beach, or for a halfway decent used car, or for a year’s worth of property taxes for a lot of folks. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, though, the Orange County…
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By HANNA ARHIROVA and JUSTIN SPIKE, Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday of living in a Russian-made “disinformation space,” pointed comments that risked further souring relations with Washington as the American leader pushes for an end to the war. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin said…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD, ANDREA ROSA and PAOLO SANTALUCIA, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a complicated bronchial infection that has sidelined the 88-year-old pontiff for six days.…
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the now-infamous Executive Order 9066 on this day in 1942, which gave military commanders the power to prescribe areas “from which any or all persons may be excluded.” That gave the greenlight to forcibly relocate 112,000 residents of Japanese descent (two-thirds were American citizens) from their West Coast homes to…
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Santa Ana City Councilmember Jessie Lopez is running for the 68th State Assembly District seat in the 2026 election. Lopez said she is running with the belief that the government should be a force for good. “Making life more affordable, holding bad actors accountable and ensuring that every taxpayer dollar works for people, I’ve done…
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Just a few months ago, California voters decisively rejected Proposition 6. The measure, put before the voters by the state Legislature, proposed removing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. That has not deterred Assemblymember Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City, from reintroducing the idea. “We’re doing this again and going back because we felt like it…
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