Day: June 9, 2022

SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Thursday) JOCKEYS / WINS Juan Hernandez / 95 Flavien Prat / 73 Tyler Baze / 46 Abel Cedillo / 39 Diego Herrera / 33 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 52 Doug O’Neill / 37 John Sadler / 35 Mark Glatt / 32 Bob Baffert / 27 WEEKEND STAKES AT SANTA…

As working sessions began at the Summit of the Americas in downtown Los Angeles, President Joe Biden on Thursday, June 9, challenged business leaders to join with Western Hemisphere nations to prepare the global economy for the coming decades through investments in supply chains, clean energy and the “digital future.” President Joe Biden waves after…

  Awash in a $97.5-billion surplus that surpasses the entire budget of almost every other state, California officials obviously are not spending much time with a sharpened pencil, trying to whittle away unnecessary spending items. Local governments are doing surprisingly well, also, with Los Angeles County recently passing a $38.5-billion plan. So it’s unlikely that…

Cal State Fullerton commencement ceremonies took place  May 23-26. Total number of commencement ceremonies: 12 Total eligible* graduates – undergraduate students: 9,756 Total eligible* graduates – graduate students: 1,186 Total number of students registered** for commencement ceremonies: 10,031 Total number of registered** guests and family members at commencement ceremonies: 73,215 From left, Amy Santos embraces…

Instagram is an incredibly popular photo-sharing app where users can upload and share their pictures with friends and family members. However, in recent years, Instagram has also begun to allow its users to create videos and short clips that they can share on the app too. These videos and images are often called Instagram Reels…

A little after noon on Thursday, Jabari Smith and Orlando Magic coach Jamahl Mosley gave each other a fist bump at the AdventHealth Practice Facility inside Amway Center. A few seconds later, Mosley, who was speaking with other Magic personnel, patted Smith on his left shoulder and the two shared a smith as Orlando’s chief…

Racing fans were hit by a bombshell five weeks ago when Rich Strike, dismissed at odds of 80-1, stormed home in the stretch to win the Kentucky Derby. Was it a fluke, a product of insanely fast fractions that set up his closing kick, or is the Keen Ice colt just now figuring things out…

Eric Garcetti’s sorry saga continues. According to recent reporting by Politico, “Democratic powerbrokers close to Eric Garcetti privately pressured Sen. Mark Kelly to support the Los Angeles mayor’s ambassadorial nomination, according to five people familiar with the outreach. As part of the push, they left the strong impression that the Arizona Democrat could find himself cut…

NBA superstar Dwyane Wade spoke out against the onslaught of laws targeting transgender youth, adding that he fears for the safety of his 15-year-old daughter Zaya, who’s trans, “every time she leaves the house.” The three-time NBA champion and philanthropist was in New York City on Tuesday, as one of the speakers at the Time…

WASHINGTON — The owner of an inn on the Canadian border who said he had been assaulted by a Border Patrol agent may not sue the agent for violating the Constitution by using excessive force, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The decision, by a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, stopped just short of overruling a…

NBA superstar Dwyane Wade spoke out against the onslaught of laws targeting transgender youth, adding that he fears for the safety of his 15-year-old daughter Zaya, who’s trans, “every time she leaves the house.” The three-time NBA champion and philanthropist was in New York City on Tuesday, as one of the speakers at the Time…

  Awash in a $97.5-billion surplus that surpasses the entire budget of almost every other state, California officials obviously are not spending much time with a sharpened pencil, trying to whittle away unnecessary spending items. Local governments are doing surprisingly well, also, with Los Angeles County recently passing a $38.5-billion plan. So it’s unlikely that…

WASHINGTON — The owner of an inn on the Canadian border who said he had been assaulted by a Border Patrol agent may not sue the agent for violating the Constitution by using excessive force, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The decision, by a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, stopped just short of overruling a…

Cal State Fullerton commencement ceremonies took place  May 23-26. Total number of commencement ceremonies: 12 Total eligible* graduates – undergraduate students: 9,756 Total eligible* graduates – graduate students: 1,186 Total number of students registered** for commencement ceremonies: 10,031 Total number of registered** guests and family members at commencement ceremonies: 73,215 From left, Amy Santos embraces…

Instagram is an incredibly popular photo-sharing app where users can upload and share their pictures with friends and family members. However, in recent years, Instagram has also begun to allow its users to create videos and short clips that they can share on the app too. These videos and images are often called Instagram Reels…

A victory appears likely for the conservative incumbents on the Orange County Board of Education as well as for Superintendent of Schools Al Mijares. Trustees Mari Barke, Tim Shaw, and Lisa Sparks are well in front of their leading opponents in the June 7 election, according to the latest voter tallies released Wednesday evening by…

The UCLA baseball team entered Saturday needing four consecutive wins to advance out of the Auburn Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins easily cut the task to three with a 16-2 blowout of Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday. No. 2 seed UCLA (39-23) still has a tough road ahead to make it out of the…

The writing process is a creative process, for the most part, and when it comes to having too much freedom to work with, sometimes time is not of the essence. Do this often enough and you might just develop a habit of writing as and when your muse visits you. This, however, isn’t how it…

USC executive senior associate athletic director Brandon Sosna is leaving the athletic department for a front office job with the Detroit Lions, a source confirmed Thursday. Sosna arrived at USC in 2019 alongside athletic director Mike Bohn, whom he worked with at Cincinnati. During his tenure at USC, Sosna played a major role in revitalizing…

In simple, bold strokes of black on white, Emma Grove’s debut graphic novel begins and ends with a scene about a missing book in a therapist’s office. That missing book sets up the mystery that Grove must solve in “The Third Person” (available now from Drawn & Quarterly), a memoir about how her goal of…