When Randall Avila paid a visit to his local Department of Motor Vehicles a couple of years ago to renew his driver’s license, he was presented with a question at the end of his transaction: “Are you a U.S. citizen?” Avila, the executive director of the Republican Party of Orange County, knew the question was…
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(CNN) — A 16-year-old boy was shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Missouri, after he went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers, police said. Ralph Yarl in a photo shared by family in a GoFundMe page.Credit: GoFundMe Ralph Yarl was “shot twice and struck in the head and arm” on…
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK | Associated Press NEW YORK — Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime. The House Judiciary Committee,…
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Students and staff at Aliso Niguel High School have been evacuated from campus after a threat was phoned in Monday morning, April 17, authorities said. Orange County sheriff’s deputies were called to the campus just past 7:45 a.m. and were investigating, Sgt. Mike Woodroof said. Students were evacuated to Foxborough Park just north of the…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent much of the last year tossing figurative tea leaves around where anyone and everyone who’s interested can try reading them. His advertising and name-calling against potential future presidential rivals like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott drew stares during the last campaign season, even though it cost…
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By DAVID A. LIEB Frustrated by college diversity initiatives he says are “fomenting radical and toxic divisions,” Texas state Rep. Carl Tepper set out to put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education. The freshman Republican lawmaker filed a bill to ban such offices. Three months later, he filed a new…
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It’s difficult to understate how much anticipation there was around Frank Ocean’s headlining set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday, April 16. The elusive hip-hop star hadn’t played a live show since 2017. Ocean had been announced as a Coachella headliner in 2020 only for that year’s festival to fall victim…
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By Melissa Alonso | CNN The US Coast Guard is assisting Mexican navy crews in the search for three American sailors, last heard from on April 4 near Mazatlán, Mexico, according to a Coast Guard news release. Kerry O’Brien, Frank O’Brien and William Gross are all “experienced sailors,” according to a joint statement from their…
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By JULIE WATSON The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple and yellow look like paint swatches from space. From the mist-shrouded San Francisco Bay Area to the Mexican border and across the deserts of Arizona, there are flashes…
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For weeks, 73-year-old Ann Jaramillo had been bracing for the decision that could redefine her golden years. It had been nearly a decade since the retired Salinas teacher found out her benefits package had been miscalculated by her school district — and nine years since CalSTRS, the teachers’ state retirement agency, told her that she…
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