Los Angeles Football Club head coach Steve Cherundolo intends to step down at the end of the season. On Friday, as LAFC (4-4-0, 12 points) prepared to visit the Portland Timbers (4-2-2, 14 points) for an MLS regular-season match, Cherundolo informed the coaching staff and players of his decision to return to Germany with his…
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By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked two federal judges to order the Trump administration not to deport any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law, contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s restrictions on how…
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EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers announced on Friday they had promoted Rob Pelinka to the organization’s president of basketball operations and extended his contract. Pelinka joined the Lakers in March 2017 as the general manager, with franchise icon Magic Johnson being hired as president of basketball operations the previous month, a position Johnson stepped down…
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A 2022 fire fueled an overhaul to Republic Services’ Anaheim Recycling Center, which has reopened bigger and better, officials say. With a damaged facility closed by fire, the waste and recycling company took the opportunity to rebuild with twice as much capacity. The latest in efficient technology for processing recyclable materials was installed, said General…
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By ALIA WONG, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have been stripped of their visas in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation. The suit filed by several American Civil…
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By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that…
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Gates are open and the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has officially kicked off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Friday, April 18. Campers sunbathe in the campground area of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Friday, April 18, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)…
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By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana to be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper. U.S. District Judge…
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By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking…
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From his first bullpen session this spring, there seemed to be something different about Yoshinobu Yamamoto. “I think he’s just comfortable,” Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior said this spring, putting his finger squarely on it. “It’s a similar situation that we all go through – new environment, language barrier at times. I think 12 months,…
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