To win a Southern Section Division 1 softball championship this season, a team is going to have to figure out how to topple JSerra pitcher Liliana Escobar. Itβs not easy. She pitched the Lions into the Division 1 semifinals on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Gardena Grove Pacifica. She struck out 10 and walked…
French-Italian auto group Stellantis and China’s Dongfeng have announced a plan to launch a joint venture based in Europe, with Stellantis having a controlling 51% stake.Β The deal would see Dongfeng’s new electric models assembled in Stellantis’ plant in western France to comply with the EU’s new “Made in Europe” rule that would require 70%…
Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chainβs history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad blood for the bookseller. James Daunt, the chief executive credited with breathing new life into the retailer, is clarifying the storeβs stance on stocking its shelves with AI-generated books, saying its not true that heβs…
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, May 20, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Congress will have the best chance in the courts to block a controversial $1.8 billion “lawfare” compensation fund set up by the Department of Justice to settle a lawsuit by…
Itβs entirely possible β as hard as it may be to conceive in these deeply tribal, us-vs.-them times β for two competing notions to be true. Tina Peters personally enriched herself and betrayed the public trust by perpetrating a harebrained scheme to βproveβ the 2020 election in Mesa County, Colo., was rigged against President Trump….
SOUTHERN SECTION BASEBALL PLAYOFFSTUESDAYβS RESULTS THIRD ROUND DIVISION 1 Pool A Norco 9, Ayala 2 Pool D Corona 6, Corona Santiago 1 Pool C Cypress 8, Sierra Canyon 0 Pool B La Mirada 11, Huntington Beach 1 SECOND ROUND DIVISION 2 Elsinore 6, Santa Margarita 4 Ganesha 5, South Hills 2 Newport Harbor 4, Great…
Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking to block the new $1.8 billion “lawfare” fund set up by the Department of Justice to compensate Trump allies who claim they were victims of prosecutorial overreach. “In the most brazen act of presidential…
After marathon five-hour talks, representatives from the EU Parliament and the EU Council agreed on Wednesday to go ahead and ratify the trade pact found with the US in July 2025. US President Donald Trump had threatened to increase tariffs on EU autos to 25 percent if the deal wasn’t implemented by July 4. Also…
When Meow Wolfβs Los Angeles location opens later this year, one of its biggest residents will be a 20-foot-tall, 1,000-pound amoeba-like creature named WoWoW. Created by the L.A.-based multimedia collective Everything Is Terrible, WoWoW is alternately described as a βcosmic entityβ and a βcartoony, root vegetable floating alien god.β The multi-eyed organism will serve as…
Nearly three months after the United States and Israel launched their large-scale bombing campaign against Iran and about six weeks since the April 8 ceasefire took effect, President Trump faces an inflection point. Does he return to war? Maintain the ceasefire and U.S. blockade on Iranian ports in the hope of cutting a deal on…