• Tammy Tumbling wants to help African American communities in O.C.

    Tammy Tumbling wants to help African American communities in O.C.
    Tammy Tumbling knows what it feels like to be put down because of the color of her skin.
    She also knows what it feels like to be raised up.
    It’s why this past Juneteenth, she took $25,000 from her own bank account to launch the African American Alliance Fund.
    “The cards were stacked against us as African American kids, but because of friends and allies, we were able to be successful,” says Tumbling, now 54 and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Orange C
  • Orange County girls basketball Top 25: JSerra rises to top spot

    Orange County girls basketball Top 25: JSerra rises to top spot
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls basketball rankings as of Tuesday, Jan. 6. The team records are through Monday, Jan. 5.
    Notable this week: JSerra climbs two spots to No. 1 after defeating previously top-ranked Fairmont Prep 51-33 in the Premier Division final at the SoCal Holiday Prep Classic in San Diego. … Troy leaps five spots to No. 7 on the strength of an impressive victory against Beckman at the Mari
  • Mickey Rourke denounces GoFundMe that raised over $100K in his name

    Mickey Rourke denounces GoFundMe that raised over $100K in his name
    Mickey Rourke says he is not behind the GoFundMe that was ostensibly initiated to help the Oscar nominee and former boxer avoid eviction.
    The 73-year-old star of “The Wrestler” broke his silence late Monday in a 5-minute Instagram Reel amid reports that he’d been given three days’ notice last month to pay nearly $60,000 in back rent or face eviction from his Los Angeles bungalow, which spurred the crowd-funded campaign that’s thus far raised over $100,000.
    “So
  • Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two

    Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two
    By JULIA FRANKEL
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank into two, according to a government tender.
    The tender, seeking bids from developers, would clear the way to begin construction of the E1 project.
    The anti-settlement monitoring group Peace Now first reported the tender. Yoni Mizrahi, who runs the group’s settlement watch division, said initial
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  • Is circumstantial evidence really effective? Ask the Lawyer

    Is circumstantial evidence really effective? Ask the Lawyer
    Q: I just sat on a jury for the first time. It was a criminal case and there was not much direct evidence, but a bunch of circumstantial details. We deliberated and found the defendant guilty. Is circumstantial evidence typically what is offered, and is it persuasive most of the time?
    T.W., Diamond Bar
    Ron Sokol
    A: Circumstantial evidence does not directly prove an element of the alleged misconduct, but provides information from which the trier of fact may draw reasonable inferences to reach a c
  • Musk’s AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children

    Musk’s AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children
    By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer
    LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool.
    On Tuesday, Britain’s top technology official demanded that Musk’s social media platform X take urgent action while a Polish lawmaker cited it as a reason to enact digital safety laws.
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  • Trump administration thanks the media for keeping quiet before the strike that captured Maduro

    Trump administration thanks the media for keeping quiet before the strike that captured Maduro
    By DAVID BAUDER
    In the wake of last weekend’s U.S. military action in Venezuela, the news media got something it has seldom heard from the Trump administration: a “thank you.”
    Related Articles After Maduro capture, Trump’s tough talk evokes a return to the days of American imperialism Trump says the US ‘needs’ Greenland for Arctic security. Here’s why Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban Trump&rs
  • Tacos Los Cholos opens new Orange County location

    Tacos Los Cholos opens new Orange County location
    There’s a distinct aroma that follows Tacos Los Cholos whenever the growing restaurant chain plants roots, the scent of mesquite smoke and prime meats hitting the grill. Now, that savory perfume has found another new home along downtown Santa Ana’s Fourth Street corridor.
    Marking its fifth location, the lauded taqueria officially opened its doors on Dec. 22, located on the ground floor of the eight-story Rafferty building, brining new energy to the thoroughfare that’s currently
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  • SoCal Edison offers compensation to only 82 Eaton fire victims 2 months into recovery program

    SoCal Edison offers compensation to only 82 Eaton fire victims 2 months into recovery program
    By Malena Carollo | CalMatters
    After just over two months, Southern California Edison has drawn more than 1,800 customers to a compensation program meant to settle scores of lawsuits against the company over the deadly Eaton Fire.
    As of Monday, the company has made offers to 82 of those who applied, Pedro Pizarro, CEO of Edison’s parent company Edison International, told CalMatters.
    Also see: With winter looming, Eaton fire survivors demand SoCal Edison provide housing relief
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  • SoCal Edison compensated only 82 Eaton fire victims 2 months into recovery program

    SoCal Edison compensated only 82 Eaton fire victims 2 months into recovery program
    By Malena Carollo | CalMatters
    After just over two months, Southern California Edison has drawn more than 1,800 customers to a compensation program meant to settle scores of lawsuits against the company over the deadly Eaton Fire.
    As of Monday, the company has made offers to 82 of those who applied, Pedro Pizarro, CEO of Edison’s parent company Edison International, told CalMatters.
    Also see: With winter looming, Eaton fire survivors demand SoCal Edison provide housing relief
    Fire sur
  • Security forces clash with protesters in Iran’s main market as at least 36 killed in demonstrations

    Security forces clash with protesters in Iran’s main market as at least 36 killed in demonstrations
    By JON GAMBRELL
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters angry over Iran’s ailing economy conducted a sit-in Tuesday at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, witnesses said, with security forces ultimately firing tear gas and dispersing demonstrators as the rest of the market shut down.
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  • Ukraine’s allies meet in Paris but progress is uncertain with US focus on Venezuela and Greenland

    Ukraine’s allies meet in Paris but progress is uncertain with US focus on Venezuela and Greenland
    By JOHN LEICESTER and SYLVIE CORBET
    PARIS (AP) — Ukraine’s allies met Tuesday in Paris for key talks that could help determine the country’s security after any potential peace deal is reached with Russia.
    Related Articles After Maduro capture, Trump’s tough talk evokes a return to the days of American imperialism Trump says the US ‘needs’ Greenland for Arctic security. Here’s why Trump’s vague claims of the US running Venezuela raise questions abou
  • After Maduro capture, Trump’s tough talk evokes a return to the days of American imperialism

    After Maduro capture, Trump’s tough talk evokes a return to the days of American imperialism
    By AAMER MADHANI
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about the larger message he’s trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit the deposed Venezuelan leader and his wife to the United States to face federal drug trafficking charges.
    “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere,” Trump declared following Maduro’s capture, “will never be questioned again.”
    In the days sinc
  • Trump says the US ‘needs’ Greenland for Arctic security. Here’s why

    Trump says the US ‘needs’ Greenland for Arctic security. Here’s why
    By DANICA KIRKA
    Location, location, location: Greenland’s position above the Arctic Circle makes the world’s largest island a key part of security strategy. But for whom?
    Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and U.S. President Donald Trump wants to make sure his country controls this mineral-rich island that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North
  • Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban

    Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first US pill ban
    By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press
    FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws including the country’s first explicit ban on pill abortions, ruling Tuesday that they violate the state constitution.
    The justices sided with the state’s only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the bans passed since 2022, the year that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
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  • Trump’s vague claims of the US running Venezuela raise questions about planning for what comes next

    Trump’s vague claims of the US running Venezuela raise questions about planning for what comes next
    By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so, raising questions among some lawmakers and former officials about the administration’s level of planning for the country after Maduro was gone.
    Seemingly contradictory statements from Trump and Secretary of Sta
  • Trump says Indiana US Rep. Jim Baird and his wife are recovering after a ‘pretty bad’ car crash

    Trump says Indiana US Rep. Jim Baird and his wife are recovering after a ‘pretty bad’ car crash
    By ISABELLA VOLMERT
    President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Indiana U.S. Rep. Jim Baird, a Republican, and his wife are recovering in the hospital following a car accident.
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  • Indiana US Rep. Jim Baird expected to make a full recovery following car crash, his office says

    Indiana US Rep. Jim Baird expected to make a full recovery following car crash, his office says
    By ISABELLA VOLMERT
    Indiana U.S. Rep. Jim Baird is expected to make a full recovery after his vehicle was struck in a car crash that hospitalized him, the Republican’s office said Tuesday.
    “He is extraordinarily grateful for everyone’s prayers during this time,” Baird’s congressional office said in a statement.
    The statement did not include further details about the crash. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the congressman’s wife was also hospitalized.
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  • Orange County girls athlete of the week: Harmony Golightly, Mater Dei

    Orange County girls athlete of the week: Harmony Golightly, Mater Dei
    Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls athlete of the week:
    Name: Harmony Golightly
    School: Mater Dei
    Sport: Basketball
    Year: Junior
    Noteworthy: The guard matched her season-high with 28 points and added seven rebounds and three assists to lead Mater Dei to a 58-55 victory against Nevada powerhouse Democracy Prep at the Matt Denning Hoops Classic. Golightly averaged 16.3 points in three other games.
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  • Here’s what to know about the unprecedented changes to child vaccine recommendations

    Here’s what to know about the unprecedented changes to child vaccine recommendations
    By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine children’s health.
    The overhaul is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will now recommend that all children get vaccinated against 11 diseases, down from 18 a year ago.
    The changes comes as U.S. vac
  • Wall Street rises on Big Tech gains and approaches records

    Wall Street rises on Big Tech gains and approaches records
    By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer
    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose on Wall Street Tuesday morning and approached more all-time highs.
    Related Articles Why home maintenance deserves a spot in the annual health and budget plans Trump Mobile’s golden phone remains nowhere to be found Big Tech’s fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES McDonald’s facing class action lawsui
  • Wall Street opens mixed as crude oil prices continue to climb

    Wall Street opens mixed as crude oil prices continue to climb
    NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are off to a mixed start on Wall Street. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1% in the first few minutes of trading Tuesday.
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average was essentially flat, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.2%. Tech stocks did better than the rest of the market. Semiconductor company Micron Technology rose 4%. Crude oil prices rose about 0.7%.
    Treasury yields climbed in the bond market. European markets were higher and Asian markets rose sharply overnight. Investors wil
  • Why ordering takeout or calling the dog walker might lead to a happier relationship

    Why ordering takeout or calling the dog walker might lead to a happier relationship
    By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH
    It turns out, love may benefit from a little less labor.
    Related Articles US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians If someone’s always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude? Flu season surged in the US over the holiday and already rivals last winter’s harsh epidemic Guns marketed for personal safety fuel public health crisis in Black communities Incarcerated women often don’t have enough per
  • Why home maintenance deserves a spot in the annual health and budget plans

    Why home maintenance deserves a spot in the annual health and budget plans
    By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY
    Many people start the new year thinking about ways to improve their health, be more organized and manage their finances. Experts say there is one area that touches on each of those resolutions — home care.
    Early and routine home maintenance goes beyond fixing visible damage. It helps ensure a healthy living environment, extends the life of a home and can protect its long-term value, according to real estate professionals. Planning ahead for regular upkeep and for unexp
  • Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California dies, reducing GOP’s narrow control of the House to 218-213

    Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California dies, reducing GOP’s narrow control of the House to 218-213
    By KEVIN FREKING and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Doug LaMalfa, a seven-term U.S. representative from California, has died, GOP officials said Tuesday. He was 65.
    FILE – In this image from video, Rep. Doug LaMalfa. R-Calif., speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, April 23, 2020. (House Television via AP, FIle)
    His death, confirmed by Majority Whip Tom Emmer and National Republican Congressional Committee C
  • Trump Mobile’s golden phone remains nowhere to be found

    Trump Mobile’s golden phone remains nowhere to be found
    By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press Technology Writer
    A golden phone that President Donald Trump’s family business promised to release last year remains mysteriously under wraps as the technology industry serves up a glut of new gadgets at CES in Las Vegas this week.
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  • Niles: Will a new record lead to a new focus at Six Flags?

    Niles: Will a new record lead to a new focus at Six Flags?
    For the first time in ages, one roller coaster holds the triple crown of coaster records. And that coaster does not reside in the United States.
    Intamin’s Falcons Flight last week opened officially at the new Six Flags Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia. At nearly 14,000 feet long with a drop of over 500 feet and a top speed of more than 155 mph, Falcons Flight is now the world’s longest, tallest and fastest roller coaster. Until last week, those records were held by three separate coaster
  • Trump administration’s capture of Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework

    Trump administration’s capture of Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework
    By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press
    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future.
    Now that world order — centered at the United Nations headquarters in New York, near the courtroom where Nicolás Maduro was arraigned Monday after his removal from power in Venezuela — appears
  • Former Uvalde officer accused of not protecting students during 2022 shooting goes on trial

    Former Uvalde officer accused of not protecting students during 2022 shooting goes on trial
    By VALERIE GONZALEZ, Associated Press
    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Families of students killed in the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre are among those who could testify at the trial of a police officer who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response and is charged with failing to protect children from the teenage gunman.
    Opening statements were set to begin Tuesday, a day after a judge seated a jury in what is a rare case of charges being brought against an officer who is accused of no
  • Five years after January 6, we’re watching the same threats rise again

    Five years after January 6, we’re watching the same threats rise again
    Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, I crouched on the balcony of the House Chamber as a violent mob incited by Donald Trump pounded on the doors. I heard gunshots, saw tear gas filling the air, I watched officers barricade doors and draw their weapons. And I remember the sound of rioters screaming for blood.
    I was one of a small group trapped in the gallery that day. We had been there to witness the peaceful transfer of power, and instead we had to flee for our lives. As we crawled on our hands

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