• US stocks are drifting around their records as AMD rallies

    US stocks are drifting around their records as AMD rallies
    By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting in mixed trading on Wednesday.
    Related Articles Small grocers and convenience stores feel an impact as customers go without SNAP benefits Mega Millions jackpot grows to $965 million for Friday’s drawing A happy circumstance: Bob Ross paintings sell for more than $600K to help public TV stations What to know about Trump’s plan to give Americans a $2,000 tariff dividend Cleto Escobedo III, Jim
  • Elaine Parker: Three healthcare reform ideas for Congress

    Elaine Parker: Three healthcare reform ideas for Congress
    As 2025 winds down, enhanced Obamacare subsidies are finally set to expire. Yet, congressional Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to preserve this temporary, pandemic-era giveaway that should have sunset years ago. The scheme not only hides the true cost of care for millions of Americans but undermines genuine efforts to reform our broken healthcare system with choice, transparency, and competition.
    If conservatives are resolute, this could be the rare exception to Ronald Reagan’s adage
  • Agree with him or not, Noam Chomsky’s ideas are still worth grappling with

    Agree with him or not, Noam Chomsky’s ideas are still worth grappling with
    Today marks the 97th birthday of Noam Chomsky, known both for his status as  “the father of modern linguistics” as well as his prolific political commentary.
    I’m aware that as the opinion editor of an editorial page that tilts libertarian he’s an unusual figure to highlight, but he was intellectually influential to me ever since I read a booklet of his (“9/11”) sometime in 2002 (I would’ve been 11).  Though I came to identify more with thinkers
  • Ducks blow past Blackhawks in lopsided rout

    Ducks blow past Blackhawks in lopsided rout
    Ducks right wing Beckett Sennecke (45) reacts after scoring against the Chicago Blackhawks during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
    Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier (61), center Mason McTavish (23), right wing Beckett Sennecke (45), and defenseman Olen Zellweger (51) celebrate after scoring against the Chicago Blackhawks during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swop
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  • No. 16 USC women overcome sluggish start in win over Washington

    No. 16 USC women overcome sluggish start in win over Washington
    LOS ANGELES — The No. 16 USC women’s basketball team recovered from a sluggish start to hand Washington its first loss, 59-50, and win its Big Ten Conference opener.
    The win marked head coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s 100th win as head coach at USC.
    The Trojans (7-2 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) out-worked the No. 21 Huskies on the boards and grabbed 50 to Washington’s 38. The Huskies (8-1, 0-1) came into the game as the second-best rebounding team in the conference at 44.9 rebounds per
  • FBI seeks woman suspected in fraud schemes in Orange, Los Angeles counties

    FBI seeks woman suspected in fraud schemes in Orange, Los Angeles counties
    LOS ANGELES — A 73-year-old woman accused of defrauding the Banc of California if about $14.7 million nearly a decade ago remains wanted by the FBI.
    Mary Carole McDonnell is suspected of multiple fraud schemes beginning in July of 2017 that continued until at least May of 2018 throughout Orange and L.A. counties, federal officials said Saturday.Mary McDonnell is wanted for alleged bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. She has ties to Los Angeles, California, Montgomery Alabam
  • LeBron James’ late heroics help Lakers hold off 76ers

    LeBron James’ late heroics help Lakers hold off 76ers
    PHILADELPHIA — With Luka Doncic being away from the team and in Slovenia for the birth of his second daughter for the start of the Lakers’ three-game trip, Coach JJ Redick was hopeful the star guard would be feeling like himself for Sunday’s road game against the Philadelphia 76ers.
    But what wasn’t mentioned was LeBron James, back in the lineup after a one-game absence because of sciatica and left foot joint arthritis, resembling the version of himself that the Lakers hav
  • Lakers’ Marcus Smart could return to lineup Wednesday against Spurs

    Lakers’ Marcus Smart could return to lineup Wednesday against Spurs
    PHILADELPHIA — After being sidelined for six consecutive games because of back ailments, including Sunday’s road game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Lakers Coach JJ Redick is hoping Marcus Smart will be back in the lineup in his team’s next game.
    Smart wasn’t available Sunday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, sitting out because of left lumbar muscle strain – another change in injury designation after being listed with lower back injury management in the previous thre
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  • Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Monday midday – limited visibility

    Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Monday midday – limited visibility
    5 Freeway through Grapevine is under a dense fog advisory which was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 6:23 p.m. The advisory is in effect until Monday Dec. 8, at 11 a.m.
    The NWS Hanford CA states to anticipate, “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1000 and 2500 feet.”
    “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” according to the NWS. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of di
  • UCLA rallies in final second to beat USC for men’s water polo title

    UCLA rallies in final second to beat USC for men’s water polo title
    Frederico Jucá Carsalade points in excitement during UCLA’s win over USC in the the men’s water polo championship on Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center in Stanford, CA on Friday, Dec. 7, 2025.(Ross Turteltaub, UCLA Athletics)
    STANFORD, Calif. — Frederico Jucá Carsalade scored with one second remaining to cap a four-goal fourth quarter, and UCLA rallied to beat USC 11-10 to win the men’s water polo championship on Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center.
    It was th
  • Former Dodger Jeff Kent elected to baseball Hall of Fame

    Former Dodger Jeff Kent elected to baseball Hall of Fame
    FILE – New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens watches a home run by Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz during sixth inning MLB baseball Wednesday night, Aug. 29, 2007 at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)
    FILE – San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds watches the flight of his home run, his 755th, during the second inning of a baseball game game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007.(AP Photo/ Kevork Djansezian, File)
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  • Liberation, Juan Hernandez win close one at Los Alamitos

    Liberation, Juan Hernandez win close one at Los Alamitos
    Heavily favored Liberation and jockey Juan Hernandez had to work for the filly’s first stakes win, edging 4-1 Cecilia Street and Diego Herrera in the $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes at Los Alamitos on Sunday.
    Cecilia Street challenged front-running Liberation first on the far turn, and again after slipping a length behind in mid-stretch, but couldn’t get by the John Sadler-trained daughter of Omaha Beach and Ponytail.
    Liberation, who paid $2.60 after winning by a half-length, had fini
  • OCFA chief to retire in January, tentatively accepts federal agency director role

    OCFA chief to retire in January, tentatively accepts federal agency director role
    Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy will retire from the agency after the turn of the new year and has tentatively accepted a federal position, according to a memo sent out Friday night and obtained by the Southern California News Group.
    Fennessy, who has served as OCFA chief for nearly eight years, said he has tentatively accepted a director role with the newly created United States Wildland Fire Service, pending completion of a federal onboarding process.
    “Serving alongside
  • Rams thump Cardinals to stay tied atop NFC West

    Rams thump Cardinals to stay tied atop NFC West
    Rams running back Kyren Williams celebrates after running for a touchdown as Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker looks on in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
    Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford passes the ball in the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
    Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett warms up before facing the
  • Lincoln Riley set to return to Alamo Bowl, this time as head coach of USC

    Lincoln Riley set to return to Alamo Bowl, this time as head coach of USC
    LOS ANGELES — The USC football team (9-3) will be traveling to San Antonio, Texas to play TCU in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 30.
    It’ll be head coach Lincoln Riley’s second time coaching in the bowl game. He served as the interim offensive coordinator for Texas Tech in 2009 and helped the Red Raiders beat Michigan State 41-31.
    “It was probably one of the more emotional games that I’ve been a part of,” Riley told reporters during a press conference on Sunday.
    Texas T
  • Alexander: UCLA women boat-race Oregon — and they’ll hear about it

    Alexander: UCLA women boat-race Oregon — and they’ll hear about it
    LOS ANGELES — Every season is its own journey, and while the twists and turns can be anticipated, they’re not necessarily predictable.
    And while UCLA women’s basketball continued the momentum that has them ranked fourth in the AP Top 25, with what at first glance would seem to have been an easy 80-59 rout of Oregon in their Big Ten opener Sunday afternoon, there were those moments during the course of the afternoon, the ones that coach Cori Close tends to address quickly a
  • Photos: Events in Brear, Garden Grove and Irvine help spread holiday cheer

    Photos: Events in Brear, Garden Grove and Irvine help spread holiday cheer
    Liam, Noah and Sophia Reyes enjoy a bouncy snow globe Saturday.
    Merrymakers celebrated the holiday spirit at Garden Grove’s annual “Winter in the Grove” event Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. Festivities included sled runs carved into 50 tons of snow, carnival games, dancer troupes and choirs–culminating with the lighting of a 24-foot tree and visit from Santa. (Photo by Michael Goulding, Contributing Photographer)
    Emma Gallian and Brooklyn Hudson, both 5, share some sledding thri
  • Photos: Events in Brea, Garden Grove and Irvine help spread holiday cheer

    Photos: Events in Brea, Garden Grove and Irvine help spread holiday cheer
    Liam, Noah and Sophia Reyes enjoy a bouncy snow globe Saturday.
    Merrymakers celebrated the holiday spirit at Garden Grove’s annual “Winter in the Grove” event Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. Festivities included sled runs carved into 50 tons of snow, carnival games, dancer troupes and choirs–culminating with the lighting of a 24-foot tree and visit from Santa. (Photo by Michael Goulding, Contributing Photographer)
    Emma Gallian and Brooklyn Hudson, both 5, share some sledding thri
  • Viral video falsely IDs bail bondsman as ICE, accuses him of stealing truck in Anaheim

    Viral video falsely IDs bail bondsman as ICE, accuses him of stealing truck in Anaheim
    A viral video in which a man was accused of being an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who allegedly stole a pickup after detaining an Anaheim man actually depicted a bail bondsman who detained a fugitive and took his truck because there was a lien, authorities said on Sunday, Dec. 7.
    The case was unrelated to immigration, they said.
    Anaheim city spokesman Mike Lyster said the city was aware that the bail bondsman would be operating in the western part of the city on Dec. 2 to take a man
  • LA City Council seeks answers about federal Olympic task force

    LA City Council seeks answers about federal Olympic task force
    A Los Angeles City Council committee on the 2028 Olympic Games has asked local organizing committee officials to clarify the role and responsibilities of a federal task force in the preparations for the Games.
    Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez asked in a motion requesting LA28 officials provide the council’s ad hoc committee on the Olympic and Paralympic Games in a Monday meeting with a detailed presentation “on the new federal Olympics task force, its purpose, jurisdiction, anticipated
  • Lauren Betts plays up to billing in UCLA’s rout of Oregon

    Lauren Betts plays up to billing in UCLA’s rout of Oregon
    LOS ANGELES — UCLA battled through the wringer of tough non-conference foes over the previous two weeks. Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee tested the might of the Bruins and provided coach Cori Close some answers on what the fourth-ranked team in the country needed to improve.
    “We are really poor in our aggression and inconsistent with our rebounding levels,” Close told the Southern California News Group earlier this week, “and that has got to improve quickly.”
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  • Betts plays up to billing in UCLA’s rout of Oregon

    Betts plays up to billing in UCLA’s rout of Oregon
    LOS ANGELES — UCLA battled through the wringer of tough non-conference foes over the previous two weeks. Oklahoma, Texas, and Tennessee tested the might of the Bruins and provided coach Cori Close some answers on what the fourth-ranked team in the country needed to improve.
    “We are really poor in our aggression and inconsistent with our rebounding levels,” Close told the Southern California News Group earlier this week, “and that has got to improve quickly.”
    UCLA mo
  • Man dies after keeping 7-year-old son above water when kayak capsizes in Lake Perris

    Man dies after keeping 7-year-old son above water when kayak capsizes in Lake Perris
    A 54-year-old father died after helping to keep his 7-year-old son afloat after their kayak capsized at the Lake Perris State Recreation Area on Saturday, Dec. 6, authorities said.
    California State Park peace officers responded to reports of screaming and people in distress in the water near Moreno Beach shortly before 4:15 p.m., State Parks officials said.
    They arrived by patrol vessel to the capsized kayak and immediately brought the man, who was unconscious and partially submerged underwater,
  • Kings hit the road looking to build off rout of Blackhawks

    Kings hit the road looking to build off rout of Blackhawks
    LOS ANGELES –– As the Kings seek to shake old habits, they travel to face the NHL’s two newest franchises, the Utah Mammoth on Monday and the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday.
    They certainly hope to build on a 6-0 beatdown of the Chicago Blackhawks in which they dominated play for 40 minutes, accumulated a season-high in goals and brought their goal differential into positive territory for the first time in 2025-26 (+1).
    There was a power-play goal, a rarity for the past month and a
  • Kings hit road looking to build off rout of Blackhawks

    Kings hit road looking to build off rout of Blackhawks
    LOS ANGELES — As the Kings seek to shake old habits, they travel to face the NHL’s two newest franchises, the Utah Mammoth on Monday and the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday.
    They certainly hope to build on a 6-0 beatdown of the Chicago Blackhawks in which they dominated play for 40 minutes, accumulated a season-high in goals and brought their goal differential into positive territory for the first time in 2025-26 (+1).
    There was a power-play goal, a rarity for the past month and a half,
  • Emergency drilling in Newport Beach tackles methane and oil leaks from 1920s well

    Emergency drilling in Newport Beach tackles methane and oil leaks from 1920s well
    Crews in Newport Beach are conducting an around-the-clock drilling operation to fix an abandoned 1920s-era oil well that leaked methane and oil into a home on the Balboa Peninsula.
    “The state of CA & city of Newport Beach are beginning emergency remediation of an abandoned 1920s oil well near Marcus Ave & 36th St.,” the Newport Beach Police Department announced Saturday on X. “A specialized drill rig has arrived, with nighttime and 24/7 operations for the next 10 days.&
  • Man stabbed, killed in drive-thru lane of chicken restaurant in Santa Ana

    Man stabbed, killed in drive-thru lane of chicken restaurant in Santa Ana
    A man died at a hospital Saturday, Dec. 6, after he was stabbed in the drive-thru lane of a chicken restaurant in Santa Ana, authorities said.
    Santa Ana police were called to the Pollo Campero restaurant, 2320 S. Bristol St., about 4:30 p.m. after a man called police and told them he saw a man down in the drive-thru, Officer Natalie Garcia said.
    The stabbing occurred in the drive-thru lane, but the circumstances surrounding it were not known, Garcia said. Detectives canvassed the area for possib
  • Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties

    Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties
    By BILL BARROW
    Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.
    Trump blasted Cuellar for “Such a lack of LOYALTY,” suggesting the Republican president might have expected the clemency to bolster the GOP’s narrow House majority heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
    Cuellar, in a television interview Sunday after Trum
  • Chargers vs. Philadelphia Eagles: Who has the edge?

    Chargers vs. Philadelphia Eagles: Who has the edge?
    CHARGERS (8-4) vs. EAGLES (8-4)
    When: Monday, 5:15 p.m.
    Where: SoFi Stadium
    TV/Radio: Ch. 7/ESPN; 640 AM/94.3 FM (Spanish)
    Line: Eagles by 2½
    Notable injury designations
    Chargers: OUT: TE Tucker Fisk (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: RB Omarion Hampton (ankle), RB Hassan Haskins (hamstring), QB Justin Herbert (hand), DL Otito Ogbonnia (elbow).
    Eagles: OUT: DT Jalen Carter (shoulders), OL Lane Johnson (foot). QUESTIONABLE: S Marcus Epps (shoulder), OL Myles Hinton (back).
    What’s at stake: The C
  • Man shot, killed by Anaheim police officer in residential neighborhood

    Man shot, killed by Anaheim police officer in residential neighborhood
    An Anaheim officer on patrol working a gang enforcement assignment shot and killed a man in front of a home Friday night, but what prompted the officer to fire was unclear, authorities said Saturday, Dec. 7.
    Two officers were on patrol around 9:30 p.m. in the 800 block of South Philadelphia Street when they stopped to talk with some people in front of a home, Sgt. Matt Sutter said.
    At some point during the interaction, one of the officers fired, hitting a man, Sutter said. The man died at the sc

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