MAYVILLE, N.Y. — The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Rushdie...
Ohtani’s Big Night: Two Homers, Six RBIs Lead Dodgers Past Athletics
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani homered twice and drove in six runs on his bobblehead night, and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Athletics 19-2 on Thursday night to remain unbeaten in their last six series. After losing the opener 11-1, the Dodgers outscored the Athletics 28-5 over the final...
California Assembly Advances Bill to Toughen Penalties for Soliciting Sex From Older Teens
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly on Thursday approved harsher penalties for soliciting sex from 16- and 17-year-olds, with an exception for cases where there is an age difference of three years or less between both parties. It's an updated version of legislation that recently threw Democrats into political turmoil,...
California Man Wrestles Gun From Officer and Is Shot After Entering Police Car
A video released by a Southern California police department showed a man wrestling a gun away from an officer and getting into her police car before another officer shot and killed him. An officer said “he has my gun. He has my gun. Please don’t shoot me. Please don’t shoot...
Criminal Investigation Opened in Rape and Sexual Assault Allegations Against Smokey Robinson
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that it has opened a criminal investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against Motown music luminary Smokey Robinson. The department said in a statement that its Special Victims Bureau is “actively investigating criminal allegations” against Robinson. Last week,...
Trump Tells Republicans to Unite Behind Sweeping Tax Bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to unite behind his sweeping tax bill on Friday, as party hardliners calling for deeper spending cuts threatened to block the bill from clearing an important procedural hurdle. "Republicans MUST UNITE behind" the legislation, Trump said on social media as he...
Tulare Man Arrested After Fight Ends in Stabbing
A Tulare man was arrested Thursday after allegedly stabbing another man during an argument over property, police said. Officers responded around 3:55 p.m. to reports of a fight in the 200 block of West Inyo Avenue, according to the Tulare Police Department. The caller reported that one of the men...
US Consumer Sentiment Deteriorates Further in May
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer sentiment slumped further in May while one-year inflation expectations surged as households remained concerned about the economic impact of President Donald Trump's aggressive and often erratic trade policy. The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers on Friday said its Consumer Sentiment Index dropped to 50.8...
Conservative Republicans Revolt Over Domestic Policy Bill, Threatening Its Path
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans in the House were in open revolt Thursday over their party’s major legislation to deliver President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, threatening to derail the tax and budget measure over concerns that it would add too much to the deficit. In the latest indication of the dissent...
No Cuts for Schools, More Funding for Early Literacy in Newsom’s Revised Budget
TK-12 schools and community colleges can expect the same funding in 2025-26 that they received this year, plus a small cost-of-living adjustment, and there will be a big boost for early literacy, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed Wednesday in the revision to his January state budget plan. Schools and community colleges...