DALLAS — Willy Adames and San Francisco finalized a $182 million, seven-year contract on Tuesday, providing the Giants with a power-hitting shortstop in the prime of his career. It's a big splash by the Giants' new-look front office, which is now led by former All-Star catcher Buster Posey, who took...
Supreme Court Allows Investors’ Class Action to Proceed Against Microchip Company Nvidia
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing a class-action lawsuit that accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about its past dependence on selling computer chips for the mining of volatile cryptocurrency to proceed. The court's decision Wednesday comes the same week that China said it is investigating the microchip company over...
Secretary of State Blinken Is Returning to the Mideast in His Latest Diplomatic Foray
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East this week on his 12th visit since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year but his first since the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The upheaval in Syria has sparked new fears of instability in a region...
Atmospheric River Brings Weather Whiplash to East Coast as Bomb Cyclone Develops
PORTLAND, Maine — The U.S. East Coast was beginning a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather on Wednesday that was rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone. Freezing Rain Gives Way to Deluge and High Winds Parts of Maine experienced freezing rain that...
Bulldog Women Faced USC and JuJu Watkins. How Did Fresno State Fare?
LOS ANGELES — Kiki Iriafen had 24 points and 12 rebounds, JuJu Watkins added 21 points and No. 5 Southern California defeated Fresno State 89-40 on Tuesday night for the Trojans' fifth win in a row. Iriafen and Watkins combined for 18 of USC's 22 free throws. Rayah Marshall had...
San Diego Sheriff Defies New Policy to Limit Cooperation With Immigration Officials
SAN DIEGO — The sheriff of the nation's fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans. County Supervisors Vote to Restrict Sheriff's Cooperation with ICE Earlier Tuesday, San...
US Warns Russia May Be Ready to Use New Lethal Missile Against Ukraine Again in ‘Coming Days’
WASHINGTON — A U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that Russia may use its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again in "coming days," a U.S. official said Wednesday. The experimental Oreshnik missile is seen by U.S. officials more as an attempt at intimidation than a game-changer on the battlefield...
Malibu Wildfire Forces Evacuations and Warnings for 20,000, Including Dick Van Dyke and Cher
MALIBU, Calif. — Weather conditions were forecast to improve in Southern California, aiding firefighters in their battle against a wind-driven wildfire that has forced up to 20,000 people, including Cher, Dick Van Dyke and his wife, from their homes in Malibu. With much of the coastal city under evacuation orders...
Police Have Suspect Luigi Mangione’s Notebook Describing Rationale for CEO Killing
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, was found with a notebook that detailed plans for the shooting, according to two law enforcement officials. The notebook described going to a “bean-counter” conference and killing an executive, the officials said. “What...
California Banned Bilingual Education for Nearly 20 Years. It Hasn’t Recovered
In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, a small city surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked it up: You're going to learn a lot. You're going to like it. She believed them. A little girl who would one day become a...