By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA Technology companies helped pull stocks lower on Wall Street in afternoon trading Wednesday, placing the market on pace to end a four-day winning streak. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% as of 1:58 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 126 points, or 0.4%, to 35,165 and the…
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A treasure hunt spanning Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney will once again send scavengers searching inside shops, outside restaurants and around attractions for enormous Easter eggs themed to Disney characters. Disney fans can take part in the Eggstravaganza Scavenger Hunt from Thursday, March 31 through April 17 at the two Anaheim theme parks…
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FILE: Judge David Carter shares a laugh with children from the Childtime Daycare Center in Brea while taking a lunchtime walk near the old County Courthose in Santa Ana in 1998. “Let’s break the law,” the judge told me more than 20 years ago as we jaywalked across Broadway, toward a gaggle of kids climbing…
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By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, as he received a second booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine a day after federal regulators approved a fourth shot for those aged 50 and older. Biden spoke…
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By AAMER MADHANI and NOMAAN MERCHANT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about his nation’s forces’ poor performance in Ukraine. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss recently declassified intelligence, said Wednesday the intel finding indicates that…
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The Pac-12 on Tuesday announced it’s leaving downtown San Francisco next year when its lease expires. Where’s the new headquarters? Nowhere. There will be no conference office in the traditional sense, only a facility for content production. Most employees will be allowed to work in fully remote fashion, a move that will save millions in…
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith | Bloomberg When the coronavirus pandemic began in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign season, elections officials across the U.S. faced the massive expense of buying everything from face masks for poll workers to ballot counting machines to handle a surge in vote by mail. Congress provided only a fraction…
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As leisure and business travel continues to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and hotel rates rise to meet the demand, a local hotel management company is preparing to expand its footprint with six new hotel openings this year. Twenty Four Seven Hotels took a heavy hit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when…
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There’s music, comedy and more in store for Southern California casinos in April. Test your knowledge on facts about the the performers coming to the region. Q: What stand-up comedian and actor created a show based on his life as a kid? A: Chris Rock debuted “Everybody Hates Chris” in 2005. The show was loosely…
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When Royal Caribbean announced it was building yet another world’s largest cruise ship back in 2016, some cynics wondered about the need for a vessel so gigantic that it flirts with the mind-blowing 10,000 milestone in total passengers and crew. Then, when travel-thwarting COVID-19 surfaced during construction of the future record breaker, even more skeptics…
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