In the highly anticipated Imperial Valley matchup between Calexico and Imperial to reach the CIF Division IV final on Saturday – it was the Bulldogs who got the better bite on Thursday.
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Gustavo Dudamel surprisingly announced his resignation as music director of the Paris Opéra, two seasons into a six-year contract scheduled to run through the 2026-27 season. A 42-year-old Venezuelan who lives in Madrid, Dudamel was hired in February by the New York Philharmonic as its music director starting with the
Continue Reading By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition. Early findings from the National Institutes of Health’s study
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Two clashing climatic behemoths, one natural and one with human fingerprints, will square off this summer to determine how quiet or chaotic the Atlantic hurricane season will be. An El Nino is brewing and the natural weather event which warps weather worldwide dramatically dampens hurricane activity. But at the
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) — Just beyond the pastoral gardens and traditional homes of an eastern Hungarian village, a gigaproject of Chinese industry is taking shape. Bulldozers and excavators are already preparing the land for construction of a nearly 550-acre electric vehicle (EV) battery plant. The 7.3 billion euro ($7.9 billion)
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Sabin Ceballos homered to center field leading off the top of the 10th inning to spark Oregon’s 8-6 comeback win over top-seeded Stanford on Thursday night, wrapping up pool play in the Pac-12 Tournament. Both teams advance to Friday’s semifinals with Oregon playing Washington and Stanford facing Arizona. The Ducks (35-20)
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Imperial and Calexico face off in baseball for a trip to the championship game, and a Hawks soccer star announces where he’s heading next.
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG and SAM METZ Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Members of a small polygamous group accused of child sex abuse of underage girls whom the group’s leader claimed as brides were arraigned in federal court on Friday. Sam Bateman and the three women followers, who are each represented by different attorneys, entered not
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG and SAM METZ Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Members of a small polygamous group accused of child sex abuse of underage girls who the group’s leader claimed as brides are expected to appear in federal court on Friday. Sam Bateman and the three women followers scheduled to appear for their arraignment were
Continue Reading By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal is celebrating 70 years since Mount Everest was successfully scaled for the first time. Thousands of people have set out to reach the peak, but the climbing conditions have changed. On the world’s tallest mountain, temperatures are rising, glaciers and snow are melting, and weather
Continue Reading By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Two top rights groups say the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan amount to gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists on Friday released a new report that highlights how the Taliban
Continue Reading By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced a new government strategy to fight hate, bias and violence directed at Jews. The document released Thursday outlines more than 100 steps the administration and its partners can take to combat an alarming rise in antisemitism. The strategy is centered around four
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury earned their first win of the WNBA season with a 90-81 victory against the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night. Diana Taurasi had 23 points and 10 assists, while Griner added 19 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. Phoenix, which finished with 13 3-pointers, hit 11 of
Continue Reading By JOHN FLESHER and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, weakening a bedrock environmental law enacted a half-century ago to cleanse the country’s badly polluted waters. A 5-4 majority significantly expanded the ability of farmers, homebuilders and other developers to dig
Continue Reading By MARK PRATT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America’s shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government. The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration
Continue Reading GILBERT, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a school bus crash in South Carolina has sent at least 18 people including several students to the hospital. The South Carolina Highway Patrol says the bus and a tanker truck collided Thursday afternoon near Gilbert, southwest of the capital of Columbia. The Highway Patrol says 36 passengers were
Continue Reading LIMA, Peru (AP) — Anti-drug police in Peru have seized 58 one-kilo packages of cocaine that with a picture of the Nazi flag on the outside and the name Hitler printed in low relief. The discovery occurred Thursday in the port of Paita, on Peru’s northern Pacific coast close to its border with Ecuador. According
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WASHINGTON (NBC / KYME, KECY-TV) – In the midst of negotiations, President Biden is pushing back on a debt default deal with House Republicans. The June 1st deadline is a week away leaving high stakes between Biden and McCarthy. Both sides have not yet reached an agreement, but are getting closer to striking a deal.
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The characters are pure noir: Pat, a “dark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered” young man; Myra, a “cheesecakey” woman whose “thick blonde hair” fell “off her bare head to brilliant brassy effect.” And they talk the way crime fiction characters used to talk, as crafted by James
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, SEUNG MIN KIM, KEVIN FREKING and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said a deal to resolve the government’s debt ceiling crisis seemed “very close” late Friday, even as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic default was pushed back to June 5 and seemed likely to drag negotiations
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