By Ellen Knickmeyer, Zeke Miller and David Rising | Associated Press WASHINGTON — China announced Friday it was ending all contact with the United States on major issues — including crucial climate cooperation that led to the international 2015 Paris accord — as tensions and public rebukes ratcheted higher over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit…
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Four years ago, Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates ran unopposed for his second term. This time around will be different. And it may even get a little awkward. His opponent is Scott Field, the former assistant city attorney who filed an age discrimination lawsuit against Gates and the city in 2019. Field and Neal…
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At least seven of the Giants’ 11 rookie draft picks project to play prominent roles in the 2022 NFL season. That much is clear a week into Brian Daboll’s first training camp. The Giants’ high expectations for their young players reach far beyond first-round blue chippers Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal on both sides of…
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Last Sunday, I wrote a response to Orange County Republican congressional candidate Scott Baugh’s nativist views on immigration. To briefly rehash it, while on a podcast, Baugh argued, in relation to immigration, “When you dilute the culture with other cultures so rapidly [the culture] necessarily starts to fray.” I argued that was nonsense, that immigrants…
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It was a small scuffle at the end of practice Friday, one of those football skirmishes involving massive lineman near the line of scrimmage that gets broken up before there’s time to comprehend how it started. The important thing is everybody on the Jets abided by the rules. Or, abided by the lone rule. “One…
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By Alan Fram | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democrats pared part of their proposed minimum tax on huge corporations and made other changes in their giant economic bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday, as they drove toward delivering a campaign-season victory to President Joe Biden on his domestic agenda. In an unusual peek…
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COSTA MESA — The air horn cut through the early-morning buzz of Day 8 of the Chargers’ training camp at Jack Hammett Sports Complex, signaling the start to their workday. It was 8:45 a.m. Friday, time to begin a 15-minute walk-through before a period of stretching followed by the start of practice. All-pro safety Derwin…
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The second year of Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld San Diego promises more howls, shrieks and screams than the inaugural year in addition to more haunted houses, updated scare zones and a new live show. Howl-O-Scream runs on select nights from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31 at the San Diego marine park. Sign up for our Park…
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For a second summer, South Coast Repertory departs its indoor stages and travels some 20 miles south to set up on the outdoor plaza at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Under the seasonal presenting title “Outside SCR,” the theater’s al fresco attraction is “Million Dollar Quartet,” a musical hit on Broadway a decade ago. SCR artistic…
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Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he said held back necessary information and misled his team about its true user base, according to media reports. According to The Washington Post, the countersuit filed by the billionaire and Tesla CEO filed…
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