By AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally spoke Friday after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication during which fundamental differences have come into focus over a possible pathway to Palestinian statehood once the fighting in Gaza ends. Biden and his top aides…
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By CARLA K. JOHNSON | AP Medical Writer Winter is here, inflicting its usual array of symptoms — coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever — and, this year, a new COVID-19 variant is dominating the scoreboard. COVID-19 is leading hospital admissions among the respiratory viruses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.…
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers had plenty of success going up against the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs when Aaron Rodgers was running the show. The Niners knocked Rodgers and the Packers out of the playoffs four times, including twice in the previous four seasons.…
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LOS ANGELES — This was sheer deliverance, an undulating crowd of Trojans red roaring as Bruin blue walked off the floor in disappointment, a true milestone in Lindsay Gottlieb’s rebuild of the USC women’s basketball program checked firmly and thoroughly off the list. As the buzzer sounded in a 73-65 victory over their crosstown rivals…
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The city of Laguna Beach is putting some new property it has acquired to use so residents can try out their skateboarding skills. New, temporary skateboard ramps – costing the city $75,000– are up at the Laguna Beach Community and Recreation Center on South Coast Highway. Tyler Marriner, 8, ride a new skate ramp at…
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A Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend, once accused in a headline-grabbing case of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women, are seeking unspecified damages from the county of Orange. While the sex charges were dropped or dismissed against Dr. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley, the legal costs and flood of bad publicity damaged them financially…
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Thousands of workers at the California State University system’s 23 campuses are ready to kick off a five-day strike next Monday, Jan. 22 — as tensions between the California Faculty Association and the CSU continue to broil around ongoing labor contract negotiations. The California Faculty Association announced its intentions to launch the strike, planned for…
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USC AT ARIZONA STATE When: Saturday, 11 a.m. Where: Desert Financial Arena, Tempe, Ari. TV/radio: FOX/790 AM Records: USC 8-10, 2-5 in Pac-12; Arizona State 10-7, 4-2 in Pac-12 Notable injuries: USC: QUESTIONABLE: G Boogie Ellis (hamstring); OUT: G Isaiah Collier (hand); PROBABLE: C Joshua Morgan (respiratory illness); ARIZONA: N/A USC latest result: The void beckons, and its tendrils are firmly…
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The memories of ‘Andy’ Kao are vivid for Francois Ung and his wife Shally: A great sense of humor. A man who helped them with their Arcadia donut business, and who over time felt like part of their own family, including when they bonded over ballroom dance. And then came Jan. 21, 2023, when a…
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Hawaiian surfer Carissa Moore, who for years dominated on the elite World Tour and made history clinching the first-ever surfing gold medal for Team USA, has announced she is stepping away from competitive surfing. The announcement from the World Surf League about the 31-year-old surfer’s decision comes just before the start of the Lexus Pipe…
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