LOS ANGELES — Cornerback Tre'Davious White has been given permission by the Los Angeles Rams to seek a trade, coach Sean McVay says. McVay also said Monday that the Rams (3-4) would like to keep the two-time Pro Bowl selection. White signed a one-year, $4.25 million deal with Los Angeles...
American Consumers Feeling Much More Confident as Election Day Nears
WASHINGTON — American consumers are feeling quite a bit more confident this month as Election Day approaches, a business research group says. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index jumped to 108.7 in October from 99.2 in September. It was the biggest monthly gain since March of...
Stephen Curry Will Miss at Least Two Games for Warriors With Left Ankle Injury
SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry will miss at least the next two games for the Golden State Warriors nursing an injured ankle that he hurt in a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night. Curry had an MRI exam after the game and it showed no structural damage...
Trump Ally Steve Bannon Is Released After Serving 4 Months in Prison for Contempt of Congress
Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from prison early Tuesday, after serving a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Bannon left the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, according to Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for...
CA’s Anti-Crime Measure Has 73% Support, but Rent Control Appears Headed to Defeat: Poll
With Election Day approaching, California voters are solidifying their choices in key races and state propositions, according to the latest Public Policy Institute of California survey conducted Oct. 7-15. Key Propositions Draw Mixed Support California voters will also weigh in on 10 state propositions, including two $10 billion state bonds,...
Freddie Freeman Homers in Fifth Straight World Series Game, Ties George Springer’s Record
NEW YORK — Told he had tied a World Series record by homering in five straight games, Freddie Freeman grinned. "Let's hopefully make it six," he said. Freeman put Los Angeles ahead 15 pitches into the game with a two-run homer off Clarke Schmidt, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat...
Trump Repeatedly Refers to CNN’s Anderson Cooper as ‘Allison’
Former President Donald Trump has spent the past several days calling CNN host Anderson Cooper by a woman’s name, as he devotes much of the final stretch of a close presidential campaign to increasingly unfiltered displays of grievance and bigotry. On at least three occasions since Friday, twice at rallies...
6 Takeaways From Donald Trump’s 3-Hour Podcast With Joe Rogan
Former President Donald Trump taped a nearly three-hour episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Friday. He courted the show’s young male audience by floating the idea of eliminating the income tax, talking about mixed martial arts fighters, praising the military skills of Gen. Robert E. Lee and speculating that...
Six Fresno Gang Members Shot and No One Is Saying a Word: Police Chief
Six people were injured but are expected to survive in what Fresno's top cop called a gang-related shooting Saturday night. “Well, on Saturday night, the same time that we were investigating the officer-involved shooting and murder over in southeast Fresno, we received a call for service in Amador and A...
How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?
Opinion by Maureen Dowd on Oct. 26, 2024. WASHINGTON — Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brother Ari. But a quote from Ari, the Hollywood macher, to Puck’s Matthew Belloni about the gender chasm in 2024 caught my eye. “This election is gonna come down to...