• Race and place can contribute to shorter lives, research suggests

    Race and place can contribute to shorter lives, research suggests
    By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org
    There’s growing evidence that some American demographic groups need more help than others to live longer, healthier lives.
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  • With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails

    With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails
    By ERIC TUCKER, MICHELLE L. PRICE and ZEKE MILLER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first three weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump has moved with brazen haste to dismantle the federal government’s public integrity guardrails that he frequently tested during his first term and now seems intent on removing entirely.
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  • Ben Simmons officially signs with Clippers

    Ben Simmons officially signs with Clippers
    Ben Simmons, a former No. 1 draft pick, officially signed a deal with the Clippers, the team announced on Monday. Per team policy, the terms of the agreement were not released.
    Simmons cleared waivers over the weekend after Brooklyn Nets reached a buyout deal that made him a free agent after three seasons. The three-time All-Star played 33 games (24 starts) for the Nets this season, averaging 6.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and a team-leading 6.9 assists in 25 minutes per game. He shot 54.7% (93 for 17
  • ‘Back to plastic’: Trump pushes for plastic straws as he declares paper ones ‘don’t work’

    ‘Back to plastic’: Trump pushes for plastic straws as he declares paper ones ‘don’t work’
    By MATTHEW DALY
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to reverse a federal push away from plastic straws, declaring that paper straws “don’t work” and don’t last very long.
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  • California lawmakers want tougher penalties for looting and first responder shams

    California lawmakers want tougher penalties for looting and first responder shams
    A group of California lawmakers, joined by top law enforcement officials and county leaders, introduced bipartisan legislation Monday, Feb. 10, that aims to impose tougher penalties on looters and those who impersonate first responders during natural disasters.
    Co-written by two Democrats and two Republicans, Assembly Bill 469 would allow prosecutors to seek felony charges instead of misdemeanors for both crimes, effectively keeping offenders incarcerated longer—a move lawmakers say will h
  • Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

    Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
    By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER
    NEW YORK (AP) — A top official at the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered federal prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has cultivated a warm relationship with President Donald Trump.
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  • Private jets collide at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, killing at least 1 person, authorities say

    Private jets collide at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, killing at least 1 person, authorities say
    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — At least one person was killed and others were injured when private jets collided Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona, authorities said.
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  • Final Orange County girls basketball stat leaders: 2024-25 regular season

    Final Orange County girls basketball stat leaders: 2024-25 regular season
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThese are the final Orange County girls basketball stat leaders that OCVarsity.com will publish for the 2024-25 season.
    The leaderboards are based on stats published on MaxPreps.com.
    SCORINGName, school
    GP
    Pts
    PPG
    Gloria Barrera, Buena Park
    24
    714
    29.8
    Adyra Rajan, Fairmont Prep
    28
    653
    23.3
    Angelina Bado, Ocean View
    13
    297
    22.8
    Rylee Bradley, Marina
    28
    584
    20.9
    Melia Hinojos, Anaheim
    15
    293
    19.5
    Vivian Villag
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  • Disneyland visitors planning return trips ‘sharply down,’ report says

    Disneyland visitors planning return trips ‘sharply down,’ report says
    Disneyland and Disney World are seeing a growing number of Disney fans not planning to book a return visit anytime soon because of the high cost of tickets and other in-park perks despite aggressive discounts and promotions, according to a new report.
    The Wall Street Journal reports that the Happiest Place on Earth has become one of the most expensive spots on the planet for many Americans — and in growing numbers Disney fans are not planning on going back.
    “Internal discussions over
  • Chino maker of furniture used in Trump hotels on brink of bankruptcy

    Chino maker of furniture used in Trump hotels on brink of bankruptcy
    Royal Custom Designs, a Chino-based manufacturer of high-end furniture to the biggest hotel chains in the United States — including President Donald Trump’s privately held hotels — may shed its entire workforce and file for bankruptcy protection after an Indiana bank cast doubt on a proposed turnaround plan.
    The company will terminate 142 jobs and file for bankruptcy protection as early as this week if the owners can’t convince First Internet Bank of Indiana to approve it
  • Servite football adds transfers Kale Murphy of Mission Viejo, Benjamin Harris of Long Beach Poly

    Servite football adds transfers Kale Murphy of Mission Viejo, Benjamin Harris of Long Beach Poly
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSophomores Kale Murphy of Mission Viejo and Benjamin Harris of Long Beach Poly have transferred to Servite, Friars football coach Chris Reinert confirmed.
    Murphy, who plays quarterback, surfaced as an incoming freshman to watch at Mission Viejo with his play at the Diablos’ summer passing tournament in 2023.
    The 6-foot-3,182-pound Murphy helped Mission Viejo’s freshmen team finish 10-0 in 2023
  • Fair Oaks Burger was a place to ‘come for food, stay for friends.’ Then, it survived the Eaton fire

    Fair Oaks Burger was a place to ‘come for food, stay for friends.’ Then, it survived the Eaton fire
    Nestled on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and East Calaveras Street lies a modest burger joint with a bright red roof and a mural on the exterior that reads, “Come for the food, stay for the friends.”
    For nearly 37 years, Fair Oaks Burger has been serving Altadena, offering a selection of Mexican, Chinese and American staples. It’s the kind of neighborhood institution where patrons are like family and the food is as comforting as a home-cooked meal.
    “We’re like the
  • Final Orange County boys basketball stat leaders: 2024-25 regular season

    Final Orange County boys basketball stat leaders: 2024-25 regular season
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThese are the final Orange County boys basketball stat leaders that OCVarsity.com will publish for the 2024-25 season.
    The leaderboards are based on stats published on MaxPreps.com.
    SCORINGName, school
    GP
    Pts
    PPG
    Brandon Benjamin, Canyon
    29
    880
    30.3
    Christopher Trotter, Saddleback
    23
    582
    25.3
    Mason Hodges, San Juan Hills
    27
    665
    24.6
    Michael Ahern, Capo Valley Christian
    27
    664
    24.6
    Sean Le, Westminster
    20
    477
  • California fails the ‘nation state’ test

    California fails the ‘nation state’ test
    A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States was cleared to gather signatures late last month.
    According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the California Independence Plebiscite of 2025, or Calexit, would create “a 20-member state commission on California sovereignty and independence from the United States” that, by 2028, would “be required to produce a public report on the ability of California to govern itself as an inde
  • How bookstores in Pasadena and Monrovia became local aid resources after wildfires

    How bookstores in Pasadena and Monrovia became local aid resources after wildfires
    On a recent Friday afternoon at Underdog Bookstore in Monrovia, Kealie Mardell-Carrera paused mid-conversation as a woman entered the store.
    “How are you doing?” Mardell-Carrera asked the new arrival, who described a long day of cleaning up ash from the Eaton Fire at her mother’s house.
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    After checking in, Mardell-Carrera got down to business — but she wasn’t selling boo
  • Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood

    Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
    By MARCIA DUNN
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday.
    The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away, considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.
    Astronomers have known about this galaxy for more than a century and so were surprised when Euclid revealed the bright glowing ring, reported in the journal As
  • Kings lose defenseman Andreas Englund to Nashville on waiver claim

    Kings lose defenseman Andreas Englund to Nashville on waiver claim
    The Kings lost defenseman Andreas Englund to a waiver claim by the Nashville Predators, ending the rugged rearguard’s tenure in Los Angeles after a season and a half.
    Englund, 29, saw his position within the organization diminish almost as rapidly as it had risen. He played all 87 games between the playoffs and regular season last year after establishing himself as a fearless fighter, a fan favorite and what former coach Todd McLellan called “the shepherd of the group.”
    However
  • Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions

    Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions
    By SEAN MURPHY and DEVI SHASTRI
    Fifteen measles cases — mostly in school-aged children — have been confirmed in a small county in West Texas with one of the highest rates of vaccine exemptions in the state.
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  • Headline-grabbing economic statistics obscure the harsh realities many face

    Headline-grabbing economic statistics obscure the harsh realities many face
    Millennial wealth has quadrupled in the past few years, but many aren’t in a mood to celebrate.
    The illiquidity of home equity and retirement savings are causing many millennials to write off the wealth as “phantom wealth,” according to CNBC.
    Of course, there’s really no such thing as phantom wealth. You either own the asset or you don’t, and it either has value or it doesn’t.
    But these millennials still have a point – cash flow matters.
    Last week,
  • New strain of bird flu is detected in a Nevada dairy worker, CDC says

    New strain of bird flu is detected in a Nevada dairy worker, CDC says
    By MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA
    NEW YORK (AP) — A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year, federal health officials said Monday.
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  • Elon Musk-led group proposes buying OpenAI for $97 billion. OpenAI CEO says ‘no thank you’

    Elon Musk-led group proposes buying OpenAI for $97 billion. OpenAI CEO says ‘no thank you’
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of investors led by Elon Musk says it is offering more than $97 billion to buy OpenAI, escalating a legal dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found.
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  • Farhan Zaidi returning to Dodgers organization as a special advisor

    Farhan Zaidi returning to Dodgers organization as a special advisor
    GLENDALE, Ariz. — Add Farhan Zaidi to the Dodgers’ list of offseason acquisitions.
    The Dodgers’ general manager for four seasons from 2015 through 2018, Zaidi is rejoining the organization as a special advisor. Additionally, Zaidi will help Dodgers owner Mark Walter with his other sports properties. In addition to being the controlling owner of the Dodgers, Walter has investments in the Sparks, Chelsea Football Club and the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
    Zaidi joined
  • Farhan Zaidi returning to Dodgers as a special advisor

    Farhan Zaidi returning to Dodgers as a special advisor
    GLENDALE, Ariz. — Add Farhan Zaidi to the Dodgers’ list of offseason acquisitions.
    The Dodgers’ general manager for four seasons from 2015 through 2018, Zaidi is rejoining the organization as a special advisor. Additionally, Zaidi will help Dodgers owner Mark Walter with his other sports properties. In addition to being the controlling owner of the Dodgers, Walter has investments in the WNBA’s Sparks, the Chelsea Football Club and the Professional Women’s Hockey Lea
  • Inspector General and President Trump deal new setbacks to high-speed rail boondoggle

    Inspector General and President Trump deal new setbacks to high-speed rail boondoggle
    In perhaps the least surprising news of this month, the California High-Speed Rail Inspector General concluded that the project was unlikely to commence service between Merced and Bakersfield in 2030, as it previously projected. 
    Further, the IG is skeptical about whether the California High Speed Rail Authority (Authority) can even meet the worst case 2033 service inception date it has quoted. Between the IG report and President Trump’s announcement of a federal investigation into th
  • US judge keeps Trump plan to push out federal workers on hold

    US judge keeps Trump plan to push out federal workers on hold
    By MICHAEL CASEY and CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press
    BOSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to downsize the federal workforce remains on hold after a courtroom hearing on Monday afternoon.
    It’s the latest example of how the Republican president’s ambitious plans have become ensnared in the judicial system.
    U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. had paused the deferred resignation program, commonly described as a buyout, last week.
    On Monday, he
  • Meta’s decision to ditch third-party fact-checkers is a no-brainer to preserve free speech online

    Meta’s decision to ditch third-party fact-checkers is a no-brainer to preserve free speech online
    When Elon Musk acquired Twitter and transformed it into X, he reignited the platform’s dedication to safeguarding the freedom of expression in the digital age. Positioned as a stronghold for free speech, X has sparked a broader conversation across the tech industry, with other platforms now exploring features to emphasize open dialogue and robust expression.
    At the start of the new year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan announced a significant shift in
  • Hawaii court rules against insurance companies in Maui wildfire, allowing $4B settlement to proceed

    Hawaii court rules against insurance companies in Maui wildfire, allowing $4B settlement to proceed
    By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, Associated Press
    HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurance companies can’t bring their own legal actions against those blamed for Maui’s catastrophic 2023 wildfire, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. The ruling allows a $4 billion settlement under threat by insurance issues to move forward.
    Other steps remain in finalizing the deal between thousands of people who lodged lawsuits and various defe
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to defend immigrants and sue President Donald Trump

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bills to defend immigrants and sue President Donald Trump
    A pair of bills to fund lawsuits against the Trump administration and defend immigrants from deportation became law when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation on Friday afternoon. The state Legislature, controlled by Newsom’s fellow Democrats, passed the bills early last week, ending a special session that Newsom called in December.
    The fate of one of the bills to provide $25 million for nonprofits that defend immigrants from deportation and represent them in other immigration proceedin
  • Housing restrictions for transgender college students approved by Utah Legislature

    Housing restrictions for transgender college students approved by Utah Legislature
    By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press
    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender college students in Utah will be prohibited from living in dorms consistent with their gender identity under a bill that cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday.
    The state House, which had already passed the measure, again approved it with small tweaks following a heated Senate debate in which one Republican told trans people, “If you don’t fit in, then that’s your own fault.”
    It passed wit
  • OCVarsity’s Steve Fryer and Dan Albano start the CIF-SS basketball playoffs with reactions, predictions and favorites

    OCVarsity’s Steve Fryer and Dan Albano start the CIF-SS basketball playoffs with reactions, predictions and favorites
    The CIF-SS boys and girls basketball playoff pairings were released Saturday and the first postseason games will be played this week.
    So Monday morning seemed like a good time to check in with reporters Steve Fryer and Dan Albano to get their reactions, insights and a few early predictions.
    Here is what Fryer had to say about boys basketball and Albano about girls basketball:
    What is your initial reaction to the first basketball playoff pairings done using computer rankings?
    Steve Fryer (boys ba

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