After a high-speed chase, Fresno County Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrested 20-year-old Oscar Duarte. Duarte, who reached speeds up to 120 mph during the 15-minute pursuit, was booked into Fresno County Jail on charges of evading police and reckless driving. The Fresno man was released with a...
Secret Service Agent Robbed at Gunpoint During Biden’s Los Angeles Trip, Police Say
LOS ANGELES — A U.S. Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint as President Joe Biden was visiting Los Angeles for a fundraising event over the weekend, officials said. The agent was returning from work Saturday night when he was accosted in a residential community in Tustin, about an hour's...
Celtics Break Tie With Lakers by Winning 18th NBA Championship
BOSTON — Jayson Tatum put his hands behind his head, with TD Garden fans standing on their feet cheering around him, and took it all in. Walking to the bench, he wrapped both arms around Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla. The journey was complete. The Boston Celtics again stand alone among...
Opinion: You Don’t Need a Ph.D. to Understand Climate Change, Just an Insurance Policy
You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change. As climate change increases the intensity and severity of extreme weather, the costs, both...
Ohtani and Paxton Lead Dodgers to Easy Win Over Rockies
DENVER — Shohei Ohtani had three hits, James Paxton pitched seven smooth innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Colorado Rockies 9-5 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series between the top and bottom teams in the NL West. Miguel Rojas and Jason Heyward also had...
Estrada’s 3-Run Homer in Ninth Lifts Giants to Win Over Cubs
CHICAGO — Thairo Estrada hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning to lift the San Francisco Giants to a 7-6 victory over the Cubs on a steamy Monday night. Heliot Ramos and Patrick Bailey also homered for the Giants, who won their second straight after erasing a 6-3 deficit...
Joe Biden’s Best Chance to Shake up the Race
To rewatch the two debates of the presidential campaign in 2020—an undertaking no kind person would recommend—is to encounter, amid the insults, two rather poignant moments. In each debate Donald Trump, then president, predicted that vaccines against covid-19 would be available by the end of 2020. Each time, moderators confronted...
How Crypto Money Is Poised to Influence the Election
Ryan Selkis, a cryptocurrency executive, was eating dinner at Mar-a-Lago last month when he got an unexpected invitation: Former President Donald Trump wanted him to come to the stage and say a few words. Crypto Data Firm Execs Attend Trump Events Selkis, who runs the crypto data firm Messari, was...
Biden’s Stimulus Juiced the Economy, but Its Political Effects Are Muddled
WASHINGTON — The $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package that President Joe Biden signed shortly after taking office has become both an anchor and a buoy for his reelection campaign. The Biden Created American Rescue Plan The American Rescue Plan, which the Biden administration created and Democrats passed in March 2021,...
Did You Buy a Disneyland ‘Dream Key’? Disney May Owe You Money.
People who paid nearly $1,400 for an annual pass to Disneyland will begin receiving checks in the mail this month from a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Disney of misleading customers into believing that the program carried “no blockout dates.” More than 100,000 people who bought...