By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday said that it has new intelligence that shows Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have swapped letters as Russia looks to North Korea for munitions for the war in Ukraine. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby detailed the latest finding…
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Something significant is missing from the recent official apology by the office of the California attorney general for culpability in the World War II Japanese-American internment. The wording leaves out the name of the man who made it all possible: Franklin D. Roosevelt. In this respect, it has similarities to the 10 most widely used American history…
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The word that shows up most frequently on UCLA football’s depth chart ahead of its season opener against Coastal Carolina is “or.” At tight end, Hudson Habermehl or Moliki Mateo or Carsen Ryan could be on the field. At running back, it could be T.J. Harden or Carson Steele or Colson Yankoff. And at quarterback,…
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The Republican candidate I liked the most, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has a stalled campaign. After much fanfare when he announced, his campaign has taken off like a herd of turtles. Maybe knowing DeSantis was the number one contender for the Republican nomination, the mainstream media had enough time to trash (aka tenderize) him. Much…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the U.S. flew at least one long-range bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against the North. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a…
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Debby Waldman | (TNS) KFF Health News When Deborah and Warren Blum’s 16-year-old died by suicide in November 2021, they went into shock. For two days, the grief-stricken Los Angeles couple didn’t sleep. But when it came time to write a death notice, Deborah Blum was clearheaded: In a heartfelt tribute to her smart, funny, popular child,…
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PHILADELPHIA — Playing center field and batting second for the Angels … Luis Rengifo. Rengifo started Wednesday in the defensive position and lineup spot often occupied by Mike Trout, a symbol of how horribly wrong this Angels season has gone as well as how much the Angels think of Rengifo’s improvement and versatility. Rengifo might…
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Gretchen McKay | (TNS) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The last few weeks of August and the first of September are often bittersweet. With the kids heading back to school, our kitchen gardens rapidly maturing and vacations to the beach sadly in our rear-view mirror, it means the sunny days of summer will soon be behind us. Not…
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Soaring mortgage rates and stubbornly high prices pushed homebuying in Los Angeles and Orange counties to the slowest-selling July on record. Purchases of houses and condos, existing and new, totaled 6,496 in July in the two counties, according to CoreLogic. That’s down 14% for the month and down 18% for the year. How slow is that?…
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It used to be that you could toss a bowling ball down Main Street USA without hitting a soul on Halloween night or Christmas morning because kids and their families had something better to do on those classic holidays. Now Disneyland is the thing to do during the Halloween and Christmas seasons that stretch from…
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