Is there any sound in sports better than that CRACK as baseball meets bat followed by those involuntary oohs and ahhs as fans track a long fly ball to see if it is triumph or disappointment? Triumph or disappointment: That is what fans of the Dodgers and Angels are thinking about going into the 2022…
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Tustin native, 1st Lt. Sean McGaffigan is excited to do the opening day flyover of Angels Stadium today, April 7, with his friends, family and favorite ball club watching from below. “I immediately volunteered for it when I saw it pop up,” McGaffigan, a member of the 729th Airlift Squadron at March Air Reserve Base…
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By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, major players in the war, appear…
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Young builders will have just a few more hours today, April 7, to finish construction on the tiny homes, playhouses, sheds and other buildings they started Wednesday. Team members from Huntington Park High School work on their structure as more than 250 students from 17 high schools and community colleges from around Southern California take…
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The most remarkable part of how Dewayne Dedmon became “The Mechanic” might not be the way a social-media account created a nickname that went viral to the degree of formally being adopted by the Miami Heat. The most extraordinary element is how it so aptly fits the hard-working, gritty reserve center. “When I was a…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is expected to confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black woman on the high court and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his historic pick. Three Republican senators have said they will…
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says more government regulation is needed to police the proliferation of cryptocurrency and other digital assets and to ward off fraudulent and illicit transactions. In practice, one result would be that users would get documentation of their crypto dealings for use in filing their taxes.…
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By DAVID SHARP PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Navy that once wanted smaller, speedy warships to chase down pirates has made a speedy pivot to Russia and China — and many of those recently built ships could be retired. The U.S. Navy wants to decommission nine ships in the Freedom-class of littoral combat ships —…
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By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will take up legislation Thursday to end normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities. Both bills have languished in the Senate. “It’s a big, big deal that we…
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By The Associated Press The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine, but it has underlined the 27 nations’ inability to agree on a much more sweeping embargo on oil and natural gas that would hit Russia harder but risk…
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