• President Biden doesn’t know how to make government work

    President Biden doesn’t know how to make government work
    President Joe Biden says, “I know how to make government work!”
    You’d think he’d know. He’s worked in government for 51 years.
    But the truth is, no one can make government work.
    Biden hasn’t.
    Look at the chaos at the border, our military’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable record-high debt …
    In my new video, economist Ed Stringham argues that no government can ever work well, because “even
  • Mater Dei celebrates former girls basketball coach Kevin Kiernan during school rally

    Mater Dei celebrates former girls basketball coach Kevin Kiernan during school rally
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSANTA ANA — Mater Dei honored departing girls basketball coach Kevin Kiernan during a school rally Wednesday with heart-felt messages and tickets to watch his beloved Boston Celtics.
    Before a packed gathering in the gym, Mater Dei president Mike Brennan recounted Kiernan’s coaching accomplishments, including leading the Monarchs to two national championships. But the sentiments soon focused on
  • Orange County baseball Top 25: Huntington Beach, Santa Margarita trade places, May 15

    Orange County baseball Top 25: Huntington Beach, Santa Margarita trade places, May 15
    This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings.
    Notable this week: Huntington Beach’s 3-2 win over Santa Margarita in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs moves the Oilers to No. 2 in the rankings, a position held by Santa Margarita last week. … Fountain Valley rises into the Top 10. The Barons finished second in the Surf League, behind Huntington Beach, and finished ahead of Los Alamitos, a Division 3 semifinalist. … Beckman rises to No. 18 after advancing to the Di
  • Lakers reportedly receive permission to interview several coaching candidates

    Lakers reportedly receive permission to interview several coaching candidates
    The Lakers have taken another significant step in their search for a new head coach.
    ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Wednesday that the Lakers secured permission to interview several assistants for their head coaching opening, including: Denver’s David Adelman, New Orleans’ James Borrego, Boston’s Sam Cassell, Minnesota’s Micah Nori and Miami’s Chris Quinn.
    This comes on the heels of Monday’s ESPN report that the Lakers’ initial focus will be
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  • Dine Latino Restaurant Week highlights Latin America’s foodie hotspots

    Dine Latino Restaurant Week highlights Latin America’s foodie hotspots
    The Latino Restaurant Association is helping to highlight the flavors of Latin America with its DINE Latino Restaurant Week from May 14-19.
    In its third year, the event is part of the Los Angeles-based association’s restaurant program, which aims to raise awareness about delicious foods from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean. This week, more than 100 restaurants across the cities of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside counties
  • Crowd gathers around Gaza Solidarity Encampment, demanding UCI reverse suspensions, divest

    Crowd gathers around Gaza Solidarity Encampment, demanding UCI reverse suspensions, divest
    Students and supporters calling for UC Irvine administrators to drop suspensions of students involved in a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus and meet other demands kicked up the pressure on Wednesday.
    A couple hundred supporters gathered right outside the walls of the Pro-Palestinian encampment in the afternoon in response to a call for an emergency coalition protest.
    Chants could be heard coming from within the camp, while supporters on the outside brought noisemakers and drums to add to the
  • Crowd at Gaza Solidarity Encampment demanding UCI reverse suspensions, divest; police have arrived

    Crowd at Gaza Solidarity Encampment demanding UCI reverse suspensions, divest; police have arrived
    Students and supporters calling for UC Irvine administrators to drop suspensions of students involved in a Gaza Solidarity Encampment on campus and meet other demands kicked up the pressure on Wednesday.
    A couple hundred supporters gathered right outside the walls of the Pro-Palestinian encampment in the afternoon in response to a call for an emergency coalition protest.
    Over the course of an hour, the encampment was expanded to take over the quad area in front of the Physical Sciences Lecture H
  • UCLA track and field coach Avery Anderson announces retirement

    UCLA track and field coach Avery Anderson announces retirement
    UCLA Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Avery Anderson announced his retirement from coaching Wednesday, according to a statement from UCLA Athletics.
    “I love this university, and I’ve been honored to lead these talented young men and women here in Westwood,” Anderson said in the statement. “I have been extremely blessed to have this chapter in my life, but I’ve chosen to retire from coaching.
    “I’ve poured my heart and soul into UCLA’s t
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  • UCLA star gymnast Selena Harris dismissed from team and in transfer portal

    UCLA star gymnast Selena Harris dismissed from team and in transfer portal
    Selena Harris, the 2024 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year and 12-time All-American, was dismissed from UCLA gymnastics Tuesday and is currently in the transfer portal, as confirmed by a UCLA spokesperson.
    Ben Royer of the Daily Bruin was the first to break the news in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. UCLA Athletics has not provided any further details.
    “shhhhh ,” Harris posted on X on Wednesday morning in response to a post that she was in the transfer portal.shhhhhhttps://t.co/HDUio
  • GM’s Cruise pays more than $8 million to pedestrian run over and dragged by robotaxi

    GM’s Cruise pays more than $8 million to pedestrian run over and dragged by robotaxi
    By David Welch
    General Motors Co.’s autonomous taxi unit has reached an $8 million to $12 million settlement with a pedestrian who was dragged by one of its self-driving vehicles in San Francisco, according to a person familiar with the situation.
    The settlement was struck earlier this year and the woman is out of the hospital, said the person, who declined to be identified discussing a private matter.
    In the October incident, a pedestrian crossing the road was struck by another vehicle be
  • Attorney General Rob Bonta’s absurd and unjust prosecution of Diana Teran

    Attorney General Rob Bonta’s absurd and unjust prosecution of Diana Teran
    Last month, the California Attorney General issued shocking felony charges against Diana Teran, head of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s Justice Integrity Unit – eleven of them in total. The charging documents are thin: they allege that during her work many years ago as the policing advisor to the Sheriff, Teran downloaded files documenting officer misconduct. The A.G. seems to believe that Teran later provided that information to the District Attorney’s office so
  • Avatar land coming to Disneyland resort, Disney CEO confirms

    Avatar land coming to Disneyland resort, Disney CEO confirms
    The DisneylandForward plan that has been full of promises but vague on specifics throughout the three-year approval process is finally starting to come into focus with a themed land based on the World of Pandora set to become the first project to break ground.
    Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed during the MoffettNathanson Media and Communications Summit on Wednesday, May 15 that an Avatar themed land is coming to the Disneyland Resort.
    “We have just gotten approval from the city of Anaheim for
  • These diets may reduce cancer, heart disease and early death, according to a 20-year review

    These diets may reduce cancer, heart disease and early death, according to a 20-year review
    By Sandee LaMotte | CNN
    Eating a vegan, vegetarian or lacto-ovo vegetarian diet significantly reduces the overall risk of developing cancer, heart disease and dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new “umbrella” analysis of more than 20 years of research.
    An umbrella review looks at existing metanalyses of large numbers of studies, providing a high-level view of existing research on a topic.
    In addition to lowering cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure
  • Stormy Daniels wore bulletproof vest to Trump trial, lawyer says

    Stormy Daniels wore bulletproof vest to Trump trial, lawyer says
    By JOSEPH WILKINSON | [email protected] | New York Daily News
    Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest under her outfits while she was testifying at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, her lawyer said.
    The former adult film star was “paralyzed” with fear ahead of the proceedings, attorney Clark Brewster said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
    “She was concerned about the security co
  • Massive manhunt under way in France for prison-break gang

    Massive manhunt under way in France for prison-break gang
    By John Leicester | Associated Press
    PARIS — A massive search was underway in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and freeing the inmate they were escorting. The prime minister vowed the gang would be caught, saying, “They will pay.”
    “We are tracking you, we will find you and we will punish you,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in parliament, to applause from lawmakers.
  • Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions

    Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions
    Julie Rovner, Rachana Pradhan | (TNS) KFF Health News
    Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona.
    Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Arizona has
  • Biden calls for presidential debates starting June 27 — and Trump agrees

    Biden calls for presidential debates starting June 27 — and Trump agrees
    Dave Goldiner | New York Daily News
    President Biden Wednesday called for two high-profile presidential debates starting with a clash on CNN in the network’s Atlanta studios on June 27 — and former President Trump quickly agreed.
    “I’ll be there,” Trump told Fox News. “Look forward to being in beautiful Atlanta.”
    The two rivals quickly agreed to the first debate after feisty Biden issued a challenge to square off against Trump next month in an early mornin
  • Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one

    Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one
    By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
    Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care.
    The slender, battery-powered gadget, called a BioButton, records vital signs including heart and breathing rates, then wirelessly sends the readings to nurses sitting in a 24-hour control room elsewhere in the hospital or in their homes. The dev
  • Energy drinks can lead to serious heart issues in kids and teens, health experts say

    Energy drinks can lead to serious heart issues in kids and teens, health experts say
    Carlton Gillespie | Miami Herald (TNS)
    Hennessy Sepulveda thought she was going to die.
    “I began dissociating as I was driving. I was 10 minutes away from my house. My vision started warping and the lights were hitting me really bright,” she said. “I felt my chest pounding, I felt a wave of panic hit me — I knew something was wrong.”
    Sepulveda, a Florida International University student who was 19 at the time, was admitted to the hospital, and was surprised by the c
  • Preakness Stakes preview: How to watch and what to expect

    Preakness Stakes preview: How to watch and what to expect
    The Preakness Stakes will have a Triple Crown possibility on the line when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in the field of eight horses Saturday in the 149th rendition of the race.
    Mystik Dan is coming off winning the Derby by a nose in that race’s closest finish since 1947. Bob Baffert-trained Imagination and Brad Cox’s Catching Freedom appear to be the most formidable challenges in the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Muth, who opened as the favorite, was scra
  • After announcing more job cuts, Tesla rallies investors to vote for Elon Musk’s $56B pay package

    After announcing more job cuts, Tesla rallies investors to vote for Elon Musk’s $56B pay package
    By Dana Hull and Anders Melin
    Tesla Inc. is looking to woo its unusually large base of retail investors to get approval for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package.
    To help lead that drive, the company’s board has hired a strategic adviser, according to a person familiar with the matter. To bolster the campaign, the adviser is working with an outside law firm, the person said.
    The adviser has set up a dedicated Vote Tesla website to encourage participation among r
  • Rent growth outstrips wages in most US metros, new report shows

    Rent growth outstrips wages in most US metros, new report shows
    By Anna Helhoski | NerdWallet
    If you rent your home in a major metro area, chances are you already know this hard truth: Your pay raises aren’t keeping up with your rent hikes.
    A new analysis released on Tuesday by the rental website StreetEasy and its parent company Zillow found that rent growth has surpassed wage growth in 44 out of the 50 largest U.S. metros since before the pandemic. The report analyzed rental data from both company sites as well as wage growth data from the Bureau of
  • Home Depot sales slide as housing market weakens

    Home Depot sales slide as housing market weakens
    Home Depot Inc.’s string of negative sales extended into a sixth straight quarter as the big-box retailer struggles to overcome a weak housing market and lower demand for big-ticket items.
    Same-store sales, which investors use to track performance at locations open for at least a year, fell 2.8% in the company’s fiscal first quarter, a bigger drop than analysts were expecting. The Atlanta-based company was hit by “continued softness in certain larger discretionary projects&rdqu
  • Travel: Take a hike through ancient history in rural, mountainous Japan

    Travel: Take a hike through ancient history in rural, mountainous Japan
    Revered for guiding, the three-legged crow god surely had my back. In rural mountainous Japan, I hoofed up the steep Kumano Kodo trail, retracing ancient footsteps of emperors, shoguns, and nobles who trekked this same pilgrimage route seeking spiritual salvation more than 1,000 years ago.
    Mystical vibes wafted through the serene, dense, lore-loaded forest of towering cedar, cypress and camphor trees. A sign at the hallowed “milk rock” noted a wolf somehow dripped milk from the stone
  • Tiny homes: housing’s hot trend

    Tiny homes: housing’s hot trend
    Assia Awad | Wealth of Geeks
    Nearly  90% of the one in three Americans who stayed in an alternative living space rental enjoyed their time there. Alternative living spaces include tiny homes, modular homes, container homes, and converted vans or RVs.
    While they’re more popular as a vacation novelty, recent Google Trends data shows searches for information about tiny homes has increased exponentially since 2011.
    Sales seem to be largely to the 54% of Americans who want to invest an add
  • Amazon warehouse workers struggle to afford food, rent

    Amazon warehouse workers struggle to afford food, rent
    Five years after Amazon.com Inc. raised wages to $15 an hour, half of warehouse workers surveyed by researchers say they struggle to afford enough food or a place to live.
    The national study, published Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development, asked US employees about their economic wellbeing, including whether they’d skipped meals, went hungry, or were worried about being able to make rent or mortgage payments.
    Fifty-three percent of re
  • Californians are not paying their bills at the highest level since 2021

    Californians are not paying their bills at the highest level since 2021
    Californians started 2024 with the most challenges in paying their bills on time in nine quarters.
    If there’s a must-watch number out there to gauge the financial pulse of the consumer, it’s the New York Fed’s quarterly tracking of who’s paying their bills on time. These figures are compiled from an analysis of credit histories from Equifax. So, we’re talking about bill-paying patterns of folks with credit profiles.
    Caveat noted, we see that Californians had 1.27% o
  • Buddha’s birthday: When is it and how is it celebrated in different countries?

    Buddha’s birthday: When is it and how is it celebrated in different countries?
    By DEEPA BHARATH (Associated Press)
    The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C. This is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on the school of Buddhism or country to which one belongs. In several Asian countries, it is observed on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunisolar calendar, which th
  • Things are heating up at Wahoo’s Fish Taco

    Things are heating up at Wahoo’s Fish Taco
    Inside the kitchens of Wahoo’s Fish Taco, one size doesn’t fit all.
    “For us, everything comes in its raw form, and we tend to slice and dice and marinate ourselves. It requires a little more knife skills,” said Wing Lam, co-founder of the Tustin-based chain with his brothers Ed and Mingo Lee.To improve the cooking process, Wahoo’s Fish Taco is renovating its kitchens as well as freshening up its dining rooms.
    “The most important thing we’ve done is chang
  • 70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn’t

    70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn’t
    By ANNIE MA (AP Education Writer)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision — the fabled Brown v. Board of Education, taught in most every American classroom — still stands.
    But for decades, American schools have been re-segregating. The country is more diverse than it ever has been, with students more exposed to classmates from different backgrounds. Still, ar

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