By GEOFF MULVIHILL Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S., creating a 23-hour day that throws off sleep schedules, plunges early-morning dog walks into darkness and inspires millions of complaints. Even though polls show most people dislike the system that has most Americans…
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MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida university has launched an investigation into a group chat started by an official with the Miami-Dade chapter of the Republican Party that included violently racist slurs, antisemitic comments and misogynistic language. The chat, which was denounced by the state GOP, involved students and several top conservative leaders at Florida…
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TOKYO — This is the Shohei Ohtani effect. Ohtani put on a giant show in batting practice hours before he hit a grand slam in the second inning — in the first he doubled on the first pitch of the game but didn’t score — as Japan hammered Taiwan 13-0 on Friday in Pool C…
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By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — Midway through Ramadan, Muslims across the United States are striving to maintain the holy month’s traditional mix of prayers and festive spirit under a cloud of worrisome events. The federal government’s immigration crackdown has affected many of their communities. Virulent anti-Muslim rhetoric is surging.…
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The world according to Jim: • Mick Cronin is close to becoming a regular at the top of the notes column. This time, I can’t criticize him at all. … • The UCLA men’s basketball coach gets it, probably more than most, when it comes to the new age of college sports: Universities allowed to…
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Alana Stott said she’s slept just a few hours since Saturday. The mother of three from Rancho Mission Viejo is a security expert who has been fielding WhatsApp and social media requests from Americans stranded in the Middle East seeking to get back to the United States. The calls and requests have been non-stop since…
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SACRAMENTO — MAGA’s philosophical twists and turns are hard to follow given that whenever Donald Trump changes his mind his supporters have three go-to approaches. First, they claim his latest notion is part of a 3D chess game even if, by all appearances, Trump would struggle to play one-level tic-tac-toe. Second, they distract our attention:…
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By Kate Ashford, NerdWallet Recently, a listener of NerdWallet’s Smart Money podcast submitted a question about budgeting for long-term care for her father-in-law: We are looking at how we can have him move closer to us into an independent/assisted living situation. We would like to build a budget to help him understand what type of…
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By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes on Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors — a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be…
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Too harsh a taskmaster? Public safety overkill? Stifling an industry vital to America’s economic future? Yes, yes and yes, if you ask the Trump administration, which is overhauling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (which oversees the teardown of San Onofre) and paring back rules for experimental reactors at the Department of Energy (which is responsible for…
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