When actor John Cho considered the role of a real-life middle-grade author, the idea appealed to him instantly. “We moved around a lot as a kid,” says Cho, a star of both the “Star Trek” and “Harold & Kumar” film franchises. “They were kind of lonely years for me, and books – I don’t say…
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The U.S. Postal Service is seeking assistant mail carriers for shifts in several Orange County cities. The agency will host three local job fairs at various branches in the days and weeks ahead. The starting hourly wage is roughly $19. The USPS said its job fairs will help applicants create an online employment profile so…
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Big change was in store for people like John Garamendi and Ken Calvert and Raul Ruiz from the moment California’s bipartisan and fairly apolitical redistricting commission published its final maps in mid-December. But only now that the March 11 filing deadline has passed can we see which longtime members of Congress will be threatened and…
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Our search for the winner of the NCAA Tournament began in the NBA, with first-round projections for the upcoming draft. You cannot survive March Madness without elite talent. From there, the search moved to the Pomeroy adjusted efficiency ratings, to locate the most effective offenses in the land. You cannot advance through March without being…
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It is when public sentiment is strongest in favor of action by government that our country’s constitutional constraints most urgently need to be remembered and applied. Today, the nation’s sentiment is growing in favor of action, possibly including the use of force, by our commander-in-chief to oppose Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Yet the Constitution says…
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By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A wounded pregnant woman who was taken on a stretcher from a maternity hospital that was bombed by Russia last week has died, along with her baby, The Associated Press has learned. Images of the woman, whom the AP has not been able to identify, were seen around…
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I recently bought a tuner off of an online marketplace – a Denon TU680NAB, arguably one of the best tuners of the modern age. It was developed by Denon in cooperation with the National Association of Broadcasters to showcase the best of what AM and FM radio offered back in 1993, the year it was…
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Roddy Doyle became a literary star with novels like “The Commitments,” “The Van,” and “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” which teemed with exuberant life. But what do you write about when exuberance, and even life itself, has been sidelined? Doyle’s latest collection of short stories, “Life Without Children,” examines the quiet isolation and inner turmoil…
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By SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — France lifted most COVID-19 restrictions on Monday, abolishing the need to wear face masks in most settings and allowing people who aren’t vaccinated back into restaurants, sports arenas and other venues. The move had been announced earlier this month by the French government based on assessments of the improving…
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By YURAS KARMANAU LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks Monday as Russia’s military forces bombarded Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine with a punishing assault that the Red Cross said has created “nothing short of a nightmare” for the country’s civilians. After an airstrike on a military…
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