• Keep your pets cool this summer

    Keep your pets cool this summer
    As temperatures rise, it’s important to remember that our pets don’t have the same ability to put on shorts and a tank top when the going gets hot as we do. Our dogs can overheat quickly in warm temperatures, and heat stroke can be fatal.
    Holistic veterinarian Dr. Kathy Wentworth, who owns PetPoint Medical Center & Resort in Irvine, says heat stroke symptoms will typically begin with excessive panting as dogs attempt to cool themselves down.
    They can have difficulty breathing, br
  • Robbers appear to target 7-Elevens in Orange, Los Angeles counties

    Robbers appear to target 7-Elevens in Orange, Los Angeles counties
    Authorities are trying to determine if a series of robberies at 7-Eleven stores around Orange and Los Angeles counties are connected.
    Around 1:24 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, officers responded to a robbery at a 7-Eleven in the 2000 block of East La Palma Avenue in Anaheim, where a clerk said multiple male suspects climbed over the counter, took cash drawers with money inside and drove off in a light-colored sedan, said Sgt. Eric Anderson with Anaheim police.
    Minutes later, police were called to ano
  • Federal judge says Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Virginia is ‘masquerading’ in the job

    Federal judge says Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Virginia is ‘masquerading’ in the job
    By ERIC TUCKER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Two judges in Virginia are rejecting Trump administration arguments that a White House loyalist can continue serving as a top federal prosecutor in the state, with one on Tuesday soliciting applications for a replacement and the other prohibiting Lindsey Halligan from continuing to represent herself in his court as a United States attorney.
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  • John Phillips: LA needs a dose of reality. Is Spencer Pratt the answer?

    John Phillips: LA needs a dose of reality. Is Spencer Pratt the answer?
    On the one year anniversary of the fire that burned down Pacific Palisades, reality show star, fire victim, and frequent social media critic of the city of Los Angeles’ pathetic leadership, Spencer Pratt announced that he would be challenging hapless Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in her 2026 reelection bid.
    While speaking at the “They Let Us Burn!” protest in the Pacific Palisades near the charred remains of his house, Pratt said, “On Jan. 7, 2025, [his wife] Heidi [Montag
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  • Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance say they are expecting their fourth child

    Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance say they are expecting their fourth child
    By ALI SWENSON
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, are expecting a son in late July, they announced in a social media post on Tuesday.
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  • Leslie Aragon shaping Rosary girls basketball in first season as coach

    Leslie Aragon shaping Rosary girls basketball in first season as coach
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA game-winning 3-pointer coming out of a timeout in the final seconds of regulation. The continued development of young players. And an enthusiasm for hosting girls basketball showcases.
    The signs of coach Leslie Aragon’s impact on the Rosary program have surfaced in multiple ways in his first season.
    On Monday, the signals grew louder as Emalynn Vong sank a 3-pointer coming out of a timeout with 2.
  • Ducks head to Colorado looking to build on 4-game winning streak

    Ducks head to Colorado looking to build on 4-game winning streak
    ANAHEIM — Riding their second-longest winning streak of the campaign, the Ducks traveled to face the same opponent that ended their longest, the Colorado Avalanche.
    The Ducks have distanced themselves from a nine-game trainwreck, chugging along with four consecutive victories. When they last went to the Mile-High City, they lugged seven straight triumphs in tow, but lost 4-1 on Nov. 7.
    In between their two strongest surges of the season, the Ducks had won consecutive games just twice. The
  • Republicans ask US Supreme Court to bar California from using new House maps while case is decided

    Republicans ask US Supreme Court to bar California from using new House maps while case is decided
    The California Republican Party asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily block California from using the Proposition 50 congressional maps that voters approved in November while awaiting a decision by the nation’s highest court on whether the maps are constitutional.
    The emergency application was filed Tuesday, Jan. 20, following a decision by a federal three-judge panel in Los Angeles last week, which, in a 2-1 ruling, said California can use the new, voter-approved U.S. House maps for
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  • Editorial: Trump’s increasingly unhinged bluster on Greenland

    Editorial: Trump’s increasingly unhinged bluster on Greenland
    With his domestic policies doing little to ease affordability concerns while stirring up chaos in select cities, it’s no wonder the president has fixated on foreign affairs in his first year back in the white House.Lately, the president has revisited his preoccupation with annexing Greenland in an increasingly belligerent manner.President Donald Trump’s recent message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, provided in a letter rather than his usual social-media free ass
  • US forces seize seventh sanctioned tanker linked to Venezuela in Trump’s effort to control its oil

    US forces seize seventh sanctioned tanker linked to Venezuela in Trump’s effort to control its oil
    By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to take control of the South American country’s oil.
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  • US forces in Caribbean seize seventh sanctioned oil tanker linked to Venezuela

    US forces in Caribbean seize seventh sanctioned oil tanker linked to Venezuela
    By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday as the Trump administration continues its efforts to take control of the oil in the South American country.
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  • USC, Alijah Arenas ready for new chapter against Northwestern

    USC, Alijah Arenas ready for new chapter against Northwestern
    Alijah Arenas switched between his forehand shot and backhand, flicking the plastic ball over the net to his opponent, former NBA star Brandon Jennings.
    Arenas shuffled up and down the pickleball court and shifted laterally, quickly racking up the points and shutting out Jennings in the game, 11-0.
    “I’m trying to learn how to lose,” Arenas joked after the match. “Winning has gotten tiresome.”
    The friendly competition was posted to the YouTube channel for Gilbert Are
  • Cláudia Nunes: How CEQA is freezing AI competition at the infrastructure level

    Cláudia Nunes: How CEQA is freezing AI competition at the infrastructure level
    California is the engine of global AI. It’s the ecosystem where the companies and technologies driving today’s AI revolution were born. But an environmental law passed in the 1970s for a radically different industrial economy, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), is now threatening to stall that engine.
    By subjecting virtually every large data center project, as well as the critical electric grid infrastructure needed to power them, to lengthy environmental reviews, publi
  • Longtime Foothill boys basketball coach Jim Reames dies

    Longtime Foothill boys basketball coach Jim Reames dies
    Jim Reames, who coached the Foothill boys basketball team from 1978 to 1992, died on Jan. 11.
    The cause of death and Reames’ age at the time of his death have not been disclosed.
    His career record at Foothill was 236-18. His teams at Foothill qualified for the CIF Southern Section playoffs 12 times.
    Reames also was a social sciences and physical education teacher at Foothill.
    Reames was also an assistant coach at Santa Margarita.
    A funeral Mass will take place Feb. 3 at 11 a.m. at St.
  • Jurors selected in trial for alleged murder-for-hire plot of Border Patrol leader in Chicago

    Jurors selected in trial for alleged murder-for-hire plot of Border Patrol leader in Chicago
    By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press
    CHICAGO (AP) — A jury was selected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of offering a $10,000 bounty for the life of a Border Patrol commander behind an immigration crackdown in Chicago last year.
    Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, faces one count of murder-for-hire. Federal prosecutors allege he’s a “ranking member” of the Latin Kings gang who offered a reward for Gregory Bovino’s killing. The Border Patrol official has been the public
  • Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on guns in stores and hotels

    Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on guns in stores and hotels
    By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely to strike down Hawaii restrictions on carrying guns into stores Tuesday in the justices’ latest firearm case since their landmark decision expanding Second Amendment rights.
    The Trump administration backed the challenge to the law barring guns in places like malls and hotels unless the property owner specifically allows them. It’s sometimes referred to as a “vampire rule,” for
  • Israel’s settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month

    Israel’s settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month
    By JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press
    YATZIV SETTLEMENT, West Bank (AP) — Celebratory music blasting from loudspeakers mixed with the sounds of construction, almost drowning out calls to prayer from a mosque in the Palestinian town across this West Bank valley.
    Orthodox Jewish women in colorful head coverings, with babies on their hips, shared platters of fresh vegetables as soldiers encircled the hilltop, keeping guard.
    The scene Monday reflected the culmination of Israeli settlers’ lo
  • Orange County boys soccer Top 10: Orange Lutheran rises to No. 2

    Orange County boys soccer Top 10: Orange Lutheran rises to No. 2
    ORANGE COUNTY BOYS SOCCER TOP 10
    (Records through Jan. 19)
    1. Mater Dei 10-0-1: The Monarchs got a crucial win over JSerra, 1-0, on a goal by Santiago Schelotto and tied St. John Bosco, 2-2. They are in first place in the Trinity League with a 4-0-1 record. Previous ranking: 1
    2. Orange Lutheran 8-2-1: The Lancers last week beat Servite 2-1 and Santa Margarita 3-1. They are tied with Servite for second place in the Trinity League. Previous ranking: 4
    3. Servite 8-5: The Friars defeated St. John
  • A look at Trump’s Board of Peace and who has been invited

    A look at Trump’s Board of Peace and who has been invited
    By JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press
    JERUSALEM (AP) — The Board of Peace led by U.S. President Donald Trump was originally envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire plan. The Trump administration’s ambitions have ballooned into a more sprawling concept, with Trump extending invitations to dozens of nations and hinting it will soon broker global conflicts, like a pseudo-U.N. Security Council.
    More details are expected when Trump participates in an announ
  • A$AP Rocky brings the Don’t Be Dumb World Tour to the Kia Forum

    A$AP Rocky brings the Don’t Be Dumb World Tour to the Kia Forum
    A$AP Rocky has announced his Don’t Be Dumb World Tour, a major global run in support of his newly released album “DON’T BE DUMB,” marking his first full-length project in nearly eight years.
    Promoted by Live Nation, the 42-date tour will bring Rocky’s long-awaited return to arenas across North America, Europe and the United Kingdom.
    The tour will make a Southern California stop at the Kia Forum in Inglewood on June 27, one of several major North American dates that
  • Testimony ends in Uvalde officer’s trial over response to 2022 school shooting, case set for jury

    Testimony ends in Uvalde officer’s trial over response to 2022 school shooting, case set for jury
    By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press
    Witness testimony ended Tuesday in the trial of a former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer accused of failing in his duty to stop a gunman in the critical first minutes of the 2022 Robb Elementary School attack, setting up the case to go to the jury.
    Defense lawyers for Adrian Gonzales rested their case after calling just two witnesses, including a police tactics expert to bolster their claim that Gonzales did the best he could after driving onto campus amid a
  • What is required to prove not guilty by reason of insanity? Ask the Lawyer

    What is required to prove not guilty by reason of insanity? Ask the Lawyer
    Q: Someone kills a loved one. The proof is clear that he did it. The defense lawyer, however, argues he is not guilty by reason of insanity. What does that actually mean and how can it even be proved?
    R.M., Woodland Hills
    Ron Sokol
    A: California Penal Code Section 25(b) requires the defendant to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence (which means “more likely than not”), that at the time of the offense, he could not understand the quality or nature of his act or distinguish right
  • How Gabriel Tallent’s novel ‘Crux’ explores the risks of climbing and life

    How Gabriel Tallent’s novel ‘Crux’ explores the risks of climbing and life
    On a video call, Gabriel Tallent is recounting a terrifying climbing experience he hoped to capture in his second novel, “Crux,” a relentlessly intense but often funny coming-of-age story.
    “I was on a climb called Batwing Deluxe,” he recalls, describing a 20-foot unprotected portion of the climb that he was not prepared for. “There’s a piece of gear you could use, but I didn’t bring it. I went into it really confident. Then I accidentally stepped on my l
  • Orange County girls basketball Top 25: Sage Hills takes over No. 1 ranking

    Orange County girls basketball Top 25: Sage Hills takes over No. 1 ranking
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls basketball rankings as of Tuesday, Jan. 20. The team records are through Monday, Jan. 19.
    Notable this week: Sage Hill climbs three spots to No. 1 after extending its winning streak to 14 games with an 88-58 win against nationally-ranked Bishop Gorman of Nevada on Monday. The Lightning are the fourth different team to be ranked No. 1 in the county, joining preseason pick Mater Dei,
  • Orange County girls basketball Top 25: Sage Hill takes over No. 1 ranking

    Orange County girls basketball Top 25: Sage Hill takes over No. 1 ranking
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls basketball rankings as of Tuesday, Jan. 20. The team records are through Monday, Jan. 19.
    Notable this week: Sage Hill climbs three spots to No. 1 after extending its winning streak to 14 games. … The Lightning are the fourth team to be ranked No. 1 in the county this season, joining Mater Dei, Fairmont Prep and JSerra. … JSerra drops one position to No. 2 after a 47-
  • Rivals US and Canada could put North American dominance on display at the Olympics in Milan

    Rivals US and Canada could put North American dominance on display at the Olympics in Milan
    By STEPHEN WHYNO, AP Hockey Writer
    One more goal. That’s how close the U.S. was to beating Canada in the final at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics before losing in overtime.
    One more goal. That’s how close the U.S. was from tying Canada in the semifinals at the 2014 Sochi Olympics before losing 1-0.
    One more goal. That’s how close the U.S. was to beating Canada in the final at the 4 Nations Face-Off a year ago before losing in overtime.
    “Canada won, right?” U.S. cen
  • Supreme Court takes up politically charged case with independence of the Federal Reserve at stake

    Supreme Court takes up politically charged case with independence of the Federal Reserve at stake
    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s unprecedented bid to reshape the Federal Reserve board is putting the Supreme Court in a familiar position, weighing an emergency appeal from the president’s lawyers in a politically charged case.
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  • Mexico sends 37 cartel members to US in latest offer to Trump administration

    Mexico sends 37 cartel members to US in latest offer to Trump administration
    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down on criminal networks it says are smuggling drugs across the border.
    Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch wrote in a social media post on X that the people transferred were “high impact criminals” that “represented a real threat to the
  • Forecasters warn of a ‘major winter storm’ with ice threat from Texas to the Carolinas

    Forecasters warn of a ‘major winter storm’ with ice threat from Texas to the Carolinas
    By JEFF MARTIN and HAYA PANJWANI
    ATLANTA (AP) — With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to emerge this weekend that could coat roads with ice and knock down power lines across the South.
    Forecasters on Tuesday expressed fears that an ice storm arriving late this week and into the weekend could weigh down power lines, sending them crashing and causing widespread power outa
  • Israeli crews target UN facilities for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem

    Israeli crews target UN facilities for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem
    By SAM METZ
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to millions of people across the region.
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