The truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions is tightening the screws on the auto industry, forcing Ford, General Motors and other car companies to shut down plants or otherwise reduce production on both sides of the U.S. border. The bumper-to-bumper demonstration by the self-proclaimed Freedom Truck...
Chen Blows Away the Field for Elusive Olympic Gold
BEIJING — Nathan Chen remembers making the long drive with his mother from his home in Utah to Rafael Arutyunyan's training base in Southern California. He had started out in figure skating just a few years earlier, using his sister's skates and sleeping in the car to follow his...
Feds Douse Social Media Firestorm: No Money for Crack Pipes
WASHINGTON — Dousing a social media firestorm, the Biden administration said Wednesday that a grant program to counter harm from illicit drugs will not pay for safer pipes to smoke crack or meth. The White House was put on the defensive as outrage from the political right, some of...
Jacobellis Finally Wins Olympic Gold Medal, 1st for US
Lindsey Jacobellis is finally an Olympic gold medalist. Let that sink in for a moment because Jacobellis has been trying for 16 years. Jacobellis helped make the wild sport of snowboardcross famous. Who could forget her premature celebration as she approached the finish line in the 2006 Turin Games,...
California Republicans Elect New Leader in State Assembly
Republicans in the California Assembly have elected a vocal critic of the state's Democratic governor as their new leader. Assemblymember James Gallagher of Yuba City will replace Marie Waldron of Valley Center, the caucus announced Tuesday. Republicans control 19 of the 80 seats in the state Assembly, making it...
UCLA Settles Gynecologist Sex Abuse Suit for $243.6 Million
The University of California has agreed to pay $243.6 million to settle allegations that hundreds of women were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist, lawyers and the university announced Tuesday. The settlement covers about 50 cases involving 203 women who said they were groped or otherwise abused by...
Tesla Posts Record Profit, Won’t Produce New Models in 2022
Tesla Inc. on Wednesday posted record fourth-quarter and full-year earnings as deliveries of its electric vehicles soared despite a global shortage of computer chips that has slowed the entire auto industry. Although the company predicted it would be able to build 50% more vehicles than it made last year,...
Cost Soars to $105 Billion for CA High-Speed Rail Project
SACRAMENTO — Another $5 billion has been added to the cost of California’s ambitious but long-delayed high-speed rail line, according to estimates released Tuesday that show it could take $105 billion to finish the route from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The figures were included in the California High-Speed...
Shiffrin Bombs Out of Olympic Ski Race Again
BEIJING — The first question posed to Mikaela Shiffrin as she met with reporters after her second consecutive quick exit from an Alpine skiing race at the Beijing Games was short, simple, and to the point: What happened? The complicated, thought-out, talked-out answers that followed entailed little analysis of...
McConnell Rebukes RNC, Calls Jan. 6 ‘Violent Insurrection’
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is criticizing the Republican National Committee for censuring two House GOP lawmakers investigating the “violent insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it’s not the party’s job to police the views of lawmakers. As former President Donald Trump has downplayed the attack by his supporters...