By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine’s president accused Russia of waging “a criminal and unprovoked aggression” that undermines all norms of war and the U.N. charter Wednesday at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Volodomyr Zelenskyy also urged world leaders to strip Russia of its veto power. The Ukrainian…
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The Rams traded running back Cam Akers to the Minnesota Vikings on Wednesday in exchange for a conditional swap of 2026 draft picks, the team announced. The Rams will receive the Vikings’ sixth-round pick in 2026 and send back their seventh-rounder should those conditions be met After a limited role in the season-opening victory over…
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The world associates the name Harry Winston with glamour and jewels – it’s synonymous with Hollywood stars, royal families and captains of industry. Marilyn Monroe ushered the name into legend when she breathlessly sang, “Talk to me, Harry Winston; tell me all about it!” in 1953’s classic movie “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” But for his eldest…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Mater Dei and Mission Viejo’s football programs, ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in Orange County, respectively, will be in the Washington metropolitan area this weekend for games. Mater Dei (4-0), ranked No. 1 in the county and the nation, departs Wednesday night…
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Disneyland may extend its 1959 monorail to a proposed 17,000-car parking garage and the Toy Story parking lot under a massive expansion plan envisioned for the Anaheim theme park resort. The potential extension of the Disneyland Monorail is buried deep in the 17,000-page Environmental Impact Report released last week by the city of Anaheim for…
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BY JUSTO ROBLES In the final hours of Sept. 15, 2022, Pablo Silva and four other Venezuelan men were wandering downtown Sacramento, a city they had never heard of, searching for a roof over their heads. They didn’t find it. They had traveled thousands of miles to escape violence and poverty in Venezuela. Silva said…
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SANTA ANA — A 60-year-old Huntington Beach man was convicted of misdemeanor manslaughter Wednesday for a collision that killed a 34-year-old man in Fountain Valley two years ago, but jurors deadlocked on a more serious charge of hit and run. David Stephen Kennedy II was convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the Sept. 11, 2021,…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Although the statement released by Shohei Ohtani’s agent about his surgery did not include the phrase “Tommy John surgery,” two orthopedic surgeons who read the statement believe that was the procedure Ohtani underwent on Tuesday. How the surgery is described is perhaps only a matter of semantics. The Angels and Ohtani’s…
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The Federal Reserve pressed pause on its campaign of interest rate hikes Wednesday, keeping the federal funds rate at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%. This is the second pause since the Fed started increasing the fed funds rate back in March 2022. The central bankers have made considerable progress toward achieving their goal of…
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Policymakers at the Federal Reserve have squeezed the budgets of debt-laden Americans – and rewarded those with money to stash in savings. The Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark rate, the federal funds rate, to over the past year-and-a-half to rein in inflation, which recently sped up as gas prices rose. Prices remain elevated, leading…
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