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By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday. Biden will meet with NATO and European leaders at a summit in Brussels on March 24. He will also attend…
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These quesadillas will blow your mind. They did mine. Behold the quesadillas fritas at Los Dorados BBQ, a new Cuernavaca-inspired taqueria in Santa Ana.  First things first, though: The restaurant’s name is mildly confusing. There is no barbecue or barbacoa here. Chef Miguel Romero’s menu does not revolve around a grill of any kind. In…
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U.S. rent inflation reached yet another record in January, fueled by red-hot markets such as Miami. Single-family rental prices jumped 12.6% from a year earlier, according to the latest CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index. All major metropolitan areas saw increases, but the Sun Belt experienced by far the biggest gains, with Miami’s asking rents up almost…
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USC’s Mike Bohn was named the 2021-22 FBS Athletic Director of the Year on Tuesday by the NACDA, the first Trojan AD to earn the honor. Under Bohn, USC won three NCAA team championships – women’s track and field, women’s water polo and women’s beach volleyball – while the athletic department posted its highest-ever graduation…
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 15, increased and extended a reward offered for information leading to a conviction in the death of Mitrice Richardson, a woman who went missing after being released from the sheriff’s Malibu-Lost Hills Station in 2009. Richardson, who grew up in Covina, was released Sept. 17,…
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By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill providing $13.6 billion in additional military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as part of a $1.5 trillion government spending measure that omits COVID-19 aid the White House says is urgently needed. The COVID spending was a casualty of…
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Q: The images from Ukraine are horrifying. If actions taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin are actual war crimes, what legally can be done? H.L.D., Carson A: The Geneva Conventions are several related treaties adopted and amplified from 1864 to 1949, and which represent a legal basis and framework for “the conduct of war” under…
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By Craig Trudell | Bloomberg The cheapest Model 3 in the U.S. is now $46,990, according to Tesla’s website. The company raised prices by 3% to 5% in both the U.S. and China, Dan Levy, a Credit Suisse analyst, said in a note to clients. Musk tweeted earlier this week that both Tesla and Space…
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In “Master,” Regina Hall plays a professor at an elite New England college, and one of the few Black people on a campus where malevolent supernatural forces may or may not be at play. Shadowy figures in long hooded cloaks appear in the distance. Dormitory hallways turn ominous. A young Black student’s nightmares fill with…
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A major factor in California’s startling evolution from a state with two evenly matched political parties to one utterly dominated by Democrats has been their back-scratching partnership with labor unions. Democratic politicians have delivered on the unions’ bread-and-butter priorities, from pension benefits to legislation making it easier to make public and private employees union members.…
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