MINNEAPOLIS — Players in the Dominican Republic can sign professional contracts once they turn 16, so it’s rare for a team to find anyone worthwhile who is much older than that. That’s why José Fermin’s ascent to the big leagues is so intriguing. The Angels signed Fermin just before his 22nd birthday, in October 2023,…
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Country music artist Zach Bryan closes out the opening night of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival on the Mane Stage in Indio, Friday night, April 25, 2025. Country music fans dance and sing along as Zach Bryan performs on the Mane Stage on the opening night of the Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire…
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The Rams made their second trade-up of the third day of the NFL draft to select Ohio State defensive tackle Ty Hamilton with the 148th overall pick in the fifth round. The Rams sent their 2026 fourth-round pick to the Chicago Bears to move up from 195th overall in the sixth round to move up…
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Lana Del Rey turned the Stagecoach Country Music Festival into her own enchanted bayou on Friday, April 25, at the Palomino, delivering a breathtaking set that blended classic Americana and country, and her own flare of dreamy indie pop that she’s known to make all her own, combined with bold, personal storytelling. As chants of…
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia’s Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “very close to a…
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The weakness in California’s job market is not what you might think. In 2024, California bosses grew staffing by 131,000 workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was 15% slower than 2023’s job creation. Minus the pandemic era’s gyrations, it was the worst year for California employment since the post-Great Recession’s 115,600 decline…
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Fifty years ago, one Saigon fell, and another arose. It was never supposed to be that way. On April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army captured the democratic South Vietnamese capital. The last Americans evacuated the city, taking as many South Vietnamese allies with them as they could. The two-decades-long Vietnam War was effectively…
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As a teenager, Paul Hoang used to have daily panic attacks. Every night, he’d suffer nightmares. He’d lie down in bed and become immobile. “I thought I’d been sat on by a ghost,” he said, alluding to an old Vietnamese expression. “I thought that was normal.” He also thought his childhood as a refugee was…
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Someone passed a box of tissues to Sequoyah Thiessen. Child abuse, she told the Senate Health Committee, drove her to drugs at age 15. But at 22, she vowed to get sober. Thus began a hellish descent into California’s private-pay, insurance-money-fueled segment of the addiction treatment system. “Treatment,” she told the senators, was an oxymoron…
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While we bide our time awaiting word of the funeral ceremonies for the American democratic republic, whose death occurred, as California columnist Joe Mathews clocks it, recently, aged 236, we can only flail randomly at the atrocities being perpetrated out of the White House. When you pop your head up out of the foxhole for…
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