NEW YORK — An estimated 101.1 million people watched the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl over the Cincinnati Bengals on NBC and Telemundo, up from 2021 and capping a stirring playoff schedule for the NFL. Last year’s game had a television audience of 92 million, the lowest since 2006. The Nielsen company said…
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The California Showcase, the annual free one-day combine for overlooked high school and junior college football players seeking to play at the next level, was Terry Donahue’s baby. He felt it was as important to his legacy as his win-loss record during 20 years as UCLA’s head football coach, as important as having the Rose…
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By Rob Gillies | Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Ottawa’s police chief resigned Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada’s capital for over two weeks, while demonstrators elsewhere across the country abandoned their blockade at a U.S. border crossing. Trucks with horns blaring rolled out of the southern…
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By Seth Borenstein | Associated Press The seas lapping against America’s coastlines are rising ever faster and will be 10 to 12 inches higher by the year 2050, with major Eastern cities hit regularly with costly floods even on sunny days, a government report says. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and six other federal…
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Sitting in front of the small empanada shop on Avenida Del Mar in San Clemente, artist Joshua Paskowitz confessed the massive, colorful sunset mural of the city’s famed pier and waves he started weeks ago could have been done by now. But he’s simply enjoying the process too much, sitting out in the sun, talking…
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Measuring a whopping 15 inches in diameter, and sliced into wedges, the pizzabirria at the new Tacos Madre in Costa Mesa does look sort of like a pizza. Emphasis on “sort of.” It is sort of multiple things, the least of which is a pizza. The “pizzabirria” at Tacos Madre in Costa Mesa is a…
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The midnight deadline for a possible strike by bus drivers in Orange County passed with negotiators still at the table, union officials told their members in an early Tuesday morning update. Teamsters Local 952, which represents about 600 OCTA bus drivers, told its members talks were still ongoing and to check back for updates, averting…
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During a recent Lunar Festival in Riverside, Jennifer Cardenas talked with a young Latino man about getting vaccinated for COVID-19. After a few minutes of conversation, the man said the main reason he wasn’t vaccinated was fear that getting his name “in the system” might lead to trouble for a family member who’s undocumented. Cardenas,…
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT | The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies. The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles…
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When Jeffrey Wright was asked to lend his voice to the narration of a new docuseries on Abraham Lincoln, the actor watched a rough cut and read the words he’d be asked to speak. And then he was in. “I love our history, the history of America,” says Wright, a Tony and Emmy winner for…
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