By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON — The Clippers got Texas two-stomped in Houston. Jabari Smith Jr. had a season-high 28 points with five 3-pointers, Alperen Sengun had a triple-double and the Houston Rockets never trailed in a 125-104 rout of the Clippers on Friday night in the NBA Cup Group Play opener for…
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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S. In a Friday ruling, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan sided with the state of Texas and a group…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now CIF-SS BOYS WATER POLO CHAMPIONSHIPS Previews of Saturday’s CIF-SS finals at Mt. SAC. All games to be streamed live on NFHS Network. OPEN DIVISION JSERRA (26-3) VS. NEWPORT HARBOR (30-0), 5:10 p.m. Outlook: The Orange County rivals collide for the Open Division title…
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Relatives of a Playa Vista actress who appeared in several episodes of “Gossip Girl” and on “Blue Bloods” and was reported missing a week ago conceded Friday that she has been found and said they would return donations made to a GoFundMe page created to help bankroll a search effort. The admission by the family…
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The winds in California get a bad name when they worsen devastating fires across the state but wind also is a clean form of energy the state is looking to harness further. The first big wind farms in the U.S. were built in California, then the industry boomed nationwide. There are now more than 60,000…
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The Southern California News Group Guild ratified its first labor contract Friday, Nov. 15, three years after newsroom journalists voted to unionize in 2021. The contract includes minimum pay rates and certain job protections for 120 Guild members employed by the 11-newspaper group. The contract for SCNG Guild, a unit of Media Guild of the…
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Welcome to the Southern California News Group’s high school football score updates for Friday, Nov. 15. We’ll have updates from throughout the area, including highlights provided by our large group of reporters at the games. Stay on top of all of the action with our Friday Night Football host, John W. Davis, who will be…
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Huntington Beach officials proclaimed victory Friday when an Orange County judge ruled that the city’s new voter ID law was legal, a setback for the California attorney general’s office, which warned that voter ID could soon throw the city’s 2026 elections “into chaos.” In the March primary election, Huntington Beach voters approved adding language to…
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. Previously that distinction went to Ronald Ziegler,…
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LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Gottlieb learned, five years ago, not to micro-manage. To avoid over-coaching. This was her first foray into the NBA, where loose offensive sets and general simplistic flow abounded, and when she first arrived in Cleveland as an assistant on John Beilein’s staff Gottlieb was confused as to when exactly the Cavaliers…
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