Russia continues to struggle with its invasion of Ukraine, where troops are meeting stiff resistance from Ukraine’s military as well as civilians armed with everything from rifles to Molotov cocktails. While Russian soldiers are running out of food and fuel, they are also firing rockets into residential neighborhoods and using vacuum bombs to generate high-temperature…
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Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday March 1 edition of the Troy Story USC sports newsletter from reporter Adam Grosbard. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Congratulations. You made it. It is officially the first day of March, the month that lays claim to the most perfectly designed sporting event of…
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By Dina Bass | Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. said Zain Nadella, son of Chief Executive Officer Satya, died Monday morning. He was 26 years old and had been born with cerebral palsy. The software maker told its executive staff in an email that Zain had died. The message asked executives to hold the family in their…
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A couple hundred people start the Oso Fit 5K Fun Run and Community Health Fair on Saturday, February 26 at the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center in Mission Viejo. (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer) Oso the bear chases a runner as a couple hundred people run the Oso Fit 5K Fun Run…
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Like spawning salmon, Alaska’s cruise industry has endured an upstream battle over the past few years. 2020’s cruise season in the Last Frontier was wiped out entirely due to something you might have heard of called COVID-19. In 2021, Alaska’s traditional half-yearlong cruise period raised anchor three months late, and it took another lifting —…
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By Justin Spike and Vanessa Gera | Associated Press TISZABECS, Hungary (AP) — Of the hundreds of refugees gathered on the grounds of a small village school in eastern Hungary, almost all are women and children who left their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind to fight in Ukraine’s resistance to the deadly Russian invasion.…
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Amy Poehler can’t recall the first time she saw “I Love Lucy” as a child. The series, which starred Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, just always seemed to exist, she says. “It felt like the show was always on,” Poehler says. “I don’t know if I remember the first time I watched it, but I…
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Maleah Miller, right, of Santa Ana helps Frankie Vargas, 7, of San Clemente cast her line into the water during the annual Youth Fishing Derby in San Clemente on Saturday, February 26, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer) Stone Lake, 9, of San Clemente finds some space to herself on a crowded San Clemente…
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With California ending mask mandates in schools and most pandemic restrictions fading away, we asked readers if they plan to continue with any of the protocols despite lifted mandates. We got many responses, more than 100 so far. And if you want to provide a response, you can do so here. Many of the responses…
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Whither Dianne Feinstein? California’s senior U.S. senator, a California political fixture for more than a half-century, was facing a turning point even before her husband, financier and philanthropist Richard Blum, died on Sunday of cancer. The Senate’s oldest member at 88 and the state’s longest serving senator has clearly fallen out of favor with voters,…
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