California’s high housing costs mean more than 80% of families can’t afford a median-priced home in this state, where the price tag hovers around $900,000, the president of the California Association of Realtors said during a forum with several of the candidates for governor. As a result of being forced to delay their dreams of…
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VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics will officially open later Friday amid the tensions of war in the Middle East and with some countries intending to boycott the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage. Related Articles Iran won’t compete at Milan Cortina Paralympics as its only athlete can’t travel…
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Irvine has arranged for people in the city without a place to sleep to have a bed at Costa Mesa’s Bridge Shelter under a temporary new partnership between the two cities. The Costa Mesa City Council unanimously approved an agreement this week that gives Irvine access to a majority of the beds at the homeless…
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Here are five things to work on in the garden this week. Flowers: Cape jewels (Nemesia caerulea) are a perennial that would like to bloom throughout the year but are held back by hot summer weather. Its suitability to our climate stems from its origin in the South African Cape Floristic Province, whose climate approximates…
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By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third…
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By DIDI TANG WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed travel bans on three Chilean officials over the possible construction of a submarine fiber optic cable with China, while warning Peru against ceding control over a Chinese-built mega port. Under pressure from President Donald Trump, who had threatened to take the Panama Canal back under U.S.…
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By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer Remarks by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the American press emphasizes U.S. casualties in the Iran war because it “wants to make the president look bad” are a reminder of something that has endured across many decades and conflicts: the tension and trepidation about news that reminds Americans of…
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By SAMY MAGDY, MICHELLE L. PRICE and AAMER MADHANI CAIRO (AP) — The Trump administration is confronting mounting discontent from allies in the Persian Gulf who have complained they were not given adequate time to prepare for the torrent of Iranian drones and missiles bombarding their countries in retaliation for strikes launched by the U.S.…
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of minority Shiites rallied Friday in Pakistan’s capital and elsewhere in the country to denounce the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes, as the U.S. Embassy In Islamabad issued a security alert warning Americans of possible violence. Related Articles Sri Lanka takes custody of an Iranian…
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Q: Hey, Honk: My situation probably doesn’t rise to a level that requires your muscle, but it might serve as a warning to other drivers. As I was driving along Harbor Boulevard recently alongside an Orange County Transportation Authority bus, the driver veered into my lane and our mirrors crashed together, sending parts flying. My…
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