• Live updates for Rams vs. Seahawks

    Live updates for Rams vs. Seahawks
    The Los Angeles Rams host the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC West showdown at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. It's going to be a great challenge, let’s do something special today. #SEAvsLAR//embed.scribblelive.com/js/jwflvplayer/player-licensed.swf
  • After ‘lean’ recovery moments, Rams QB Matthew Stafford ready for playoffs

    After ‘lean’ recovery moments, Rams QB Matthew Stafford ready for playoffs
    LOS ANGELES — While the football world was full of speculation, wondering whether his disappearance into a red-light therapy airstream spelled the end of his career, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford’s summer was filled primarily with uncertainty.
    Uncertainty about what his 17th season would look like. Whether or not the aggravated disk in his back would cooperate enough to allow him to practice, let alone let him start in Week 1.
    “It’s touch and go, we didn’t reall
  • Northwood football coach Erik Terry resigns after one season

    Northwood football coach Erik Terry resigns after one season
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowNorthwood football coach Erik Terry has resigned after one season for family reasons, he confirmed Tuesday.
    Terry said will he continue as co-athletic director at the Irvine Unified school.
    This past season, Northwood finished 4-6, including a 1-4 in the Foxtrot League, and missed the playoffs.
    Three players earned first-team all-league honors. They were defensive linemen Jacob Harper and Xayn Ali and ath
  • CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold US secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84

    CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold US secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84
    WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84.
    A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday.
    Ames admitted being paid $2.5 million by Moscow for U.S. secrets from 1985 until his arrest in 1994. He admitted disclosing the identities of 10 Russian officials and one East European who were spyin
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  • Portion of Highway 2 to Wrightwood, Mountain High reopens after storm damage

    Portion of Highway 2 to Wrightwood, Mountain High reopens after storm damage
    The main road into Wrightwood and to Mountain High resort has reopened to again allow visitors back into the popular mountain town.
    Highway 2 – from Highway 138 in San Bernardino County to west of Mountain High – reopened Tuesday, Jan. 6, the Wrightwood Chamber of Commerce announced. It’s welcome news as the town struggles to repair following devastating floods on Christmas Eve.
    “After a period of limited access, our town is excited to see guests return.” an announc
  • Pamela Smart seeks to overturn conviction for having teenager murder her husband

    Pamela Smart seeks to overturn conviction for having teenager murder her husband
    By MICHAEL CASEY
    BOSTON (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations.
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  • Renowned astrophysicist Jayawardhana is new Caltech president, only 10th in school’s history

    Renowned astrophysicist Jayawardhana is new Caltech president, only 10th in school’s history
    After a short speech, the next president of Caltech greeted faculty, staff and students along the path outside the Athenaeum, the Pasadena institute’s dining club that for a century is where legendary scientists shared theories about the cosmos over a meal.
    Ray Jayawardhana, the provost at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an astrophysicist, was introduced on Tuesday, Jan. 6 in front of about 400 cheering onlookers as only the 10th president in the 105-year history of the prestigio
  • Prediction markets could change sports betting nationwide, report says

    Prediction markets could change sports betting nationwide, report says
    By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal
    A gambling research company says prediction markets could become a $1 trillion industry nationwide when fully mature, with $435 billion of that coming from contracts on sports outcomes.
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  • Automakers face an ‘EV winter’ in 2026 as sales growth slows

    Automakers face an ‘EV winter’ in 2026 as sales growth slows
    By Kyle Stock and Lili Pike, Bloomberg News
    Growth in global sales of electric vehicles is expected to slow this year as China winds down some subsidies, Europe wavers on its phase-out of combustion engines, and U.S. producers and policymakers make a U-turn from the segment.
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  • A dead whale found on the bow of a ship in New Jersey sparks an investigation

    A dead whale found on the bow of a ship in New Jersey sparks an investigation
    GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J. (AP) — After a dead whale was found on the bow of a container ship docked in New Jersey, authorities were working Tuesday to remove the carcass and determine the endangered animal’s cause of death.
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  • A Craigslist ad seeking child actors for Minnesota day care center was posted as a prank

    A Craigslist ad seeking child actors for Minnesota day care center was posted as a prank
    By MELISSA GOLDIN
    As the Trump administration continues to investigate a series of alleged fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents, social media users are falsely citing a Craigslist ad as evidence of such deceit.
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  • Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for months, says DOJ

    Shooter who killed Brown students and MIT professor planned attack for months, says DOJ
    By LEAH WILLINGHAM and MICHAEL CASEY
    BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for months and left behind videos in which he confessed to the murders, according to information released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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  • New lawsuits blame suicide, terminal illness deaths on Palisades fire

    New lawsuits blame suicide, terminal illness deaths on Palisades fire
    The wife of a man who killed himself after his home burned down in the Palisades fire is among more than a dozen plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits blaming the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other defendants for causing or hastening the deaths of their relatives.
    The lawsuits — the first death-related litigation in the Palisades fire — were brought last month under a pilot law, state Senate Bill 447, that expired Dec. 31 and allowed plaintiffs to sue for the pain, suff
  • Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, dies at 80

    Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, dies at 80
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80.
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  • State officials recommend approval of controversial solar project near Baker

    State officials recommend approval of controversial solar project near Baker
    State energy officials have recommended approval of a solar plant near the Mojave National Preserve that has been opposed for nearly 20 years by environmentalists who claim it will endanger desert bighorn sheep and obstruct their migration patterns.
    On Dec. 29, the California Energy Commission released an environmental impact report on the proposed Soda Mountain Solar Project, a 300-megawatt solar electrical generating plant and 300-megawatt battery storage system on 2,670 acres of federal land
  • Clippers rookie Kobe Sanders has breakout game against Warriors

    Clippers rookie Kobe Sanders has breakout game against Warriors
    INGLEWOOD — With 10 seconds left in Monday night’s game and the Clippers clinging to a one-point lead, rookie Kobe Sanders prepared to make a move to the basket.
    What did he have cooked up before Coach Tyronn Lue called a timeout?
    “I had a bucket,” Sanders said without hesitation.
    Sanders’ confidence is a bit bold but without swagger. He unapologetically says he knows how to play basketball, isn’t afraid to breathe down the necks of Steph Curry or Luka Doncic
  • On the hook for uninsured residents, counties wonder now how they’ll pay

    On the hook for uninsured residents, counties wonder now how they’ll pay
    By Christine Mai-Duc and Claudia Boyd-Barrett | KFF Health News
    In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn’t afford to see a doctor.
    For several years, that number has been zero in the predominantly white, largely rural county stretching from Sacramento’s eastern suburbs to the shores of Lake Tahoe.
    The trend could be short-lived.
    County health
  • Angel Stadium field turned into dirt racing track

    Angel Stadium field turned into dirt racing track
    Before the lucious green outfield is shaped and manicured for the upcoming baseball season in Anaheim, it is being transformed by crews this week into a dirt pit.
    Angel Stadium traditionally hosts AMA Monster Energy Supercross and Monster Jam events in January and February — a rip-roaring couple of weeks that require some 500 truckloads of dirt to be hauled in to cover the field of the stadium, with mounds formed to create giant ramps for the riders and drivers.
    While Feld Entertainment wo
  • Trump store in suburban Philadelphia ‘kind of run its course’ and is set to close

    Trump store in suburban Philadelphia ‘kind of run its course’ and is set to close
    By MIKE CATALINI
    BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it’s closing its doors, six years after opening.
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  • The Original Saugus Cafe, which closed its doors on Jan. 4, could reopen soon

    The Original Saugus Cafe, which closed its doors on Jan. 4, could reopen soon
    After announcing that after almost 140 years of serving comfort food, Jan. 4 would be the final day for The Original Saugus Cafe, it looks like the Santa Clarita diner may get a second chance at life.
    According to a report posted on Jan. 5 by Santa Clarita radio station KHTS-FM, the cafe, which was established in 1886 and is Los Angeles County’s oldest restaurant, will reopen under new ownership.
    Demetrio Lopez, a customer since 1980, says goodbye and wishes well to Michaela Vuong, who has
  • How Delcy Rodríguez courted Donald Trump and rose to power in Venezuela

    How Delcy Rodríguez courted Donald Trump and rose to power in Venezuela
    By JOSHUA GOODMAN
    MIAMI (AP) — In 2017, as political outsider Donald Trump headed to Washington, Delcy Rodríguez spotted an opening.
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  • Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine

    Trump’s former Russia adviser says Russia offered US free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine
    By EMMA BURROWS
    Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time.
    The Russians repeatedly floated the idea of a “very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine,” Hill said during a congressional hearing in 2019. Her comments surfaced again this week and were shared on soc
  • FACT FOCUS: Trump sows confusion on number of childhood vaccinations

    FACT FOCUS: Trump sows confusion on number of childhood vaccinations
    President Donald Trump spread some confusion about childhood vaccinations in social media posts about changes to U.S. vaccine recommendations.
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  • Why Walter Isaacson says the Declaration of Independence can still unite us

    Why Walter Isaacson says the Declaration of Independence can still unite us
    Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 
    But in his book, Walter Isaacson has declared “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written” to be the second line of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th
  • New LAFD chief admits there were missteps in analysis of Palisades fire response

    New LAFD chief admits there were missteps in analysis of Palisades fire response
    On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the eruption of the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s recently sworn-in chief admitted there were missteps made by leadership in response to the blaze before committing to corrective action and further review to prevent residents from another harrowing wildfire experience.
    “We acknowledge where we must do better,” said Jaime Moore at an LAFD’s Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 6. “We take respon
  • Ex-OCFA chief blasts helicopter contract lapse, but officials say it won’t hurt firefighting

    Ex-OCFA chief blasts helicopter contract lapse, but officials say it won’t hurt firefighting
    An Orange County Fire Authority contract for a multi-agency fleet of firefighting aircraft has expired, drawing criticism from the outgoing fire chief, even as other officials tied to the program argue it shouldn’t have an impact on the amount of resources available to rapidly battle large-scale wildfires.
    At issue is the Quick Reaction Force, a partnership between OCFA, Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles and Ventura County fire departments dating back to 2022 that includes sev
  • Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concerns

    Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concerns
    By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MORIAH BALINGIT, Associated Press
    President Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is withholding funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states over concerns about fraud.
    “For too long, Democrat-led states and Governors have been complicit in allowing massive amounts of fraud to occur under their watch,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement.
    Th
  • What’s next in deposed Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro’s criminal case

    What’s next in deposed Venezuela leader Nicolás Maduro’s criminal case
    By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
    NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing in the U.S. — a spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life.
    The deposed South American leader and his wife, Cilia Flores, were arraigned Monday on drug trafficking charges, days after U.S. force
  • Mater Dei’s Kaeli Wynn stays positive after season-ending surgery

    Mater Dei’s Kaeli Wynn stays positive after season-ending surgery
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowMater Dei’s Kaeli Wynn smiled and chatted with well-wishers as she left the Meruelo Athletic Center in crutches and her leg in a stiff brace.
    The South Carolina basketball signee held her head high Saturday after the Matt Denning Hoops Classic as she discussed her recovery from a Dec. 3 surgery that wiped out her senior season.
    “I have a lot of positivity in me,” Wynn said. “This i
  • Theft of luxury handbags worth $100,000 foiled by Irvine police

    Theft of luxury handbags worth $100,000 foiled by Irvine police
    Would-be handbag thieves were caught by Irvine police officers after they entered a luxury shop at Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive, attempting to take roughly $100,000 worth of bags in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Jan. 6, authorities said.
    Building security contacted the Irvine Police Department to report two people spotted on camera entering the building, police said. Officers arrived and found two suspects hiding inside, and took both men into custody.
    Footage of the suspects shows them,

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