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While Planned Parenthood’s federal funding remains uncertain, its Los Angeles affiliates are affirming that their clinics’ doors will stay open to patients. At a Monday, July 21 press conference, L.A. county lawmakers and reproductive health care advocates said they are “sounding the alarm” about the aftermath of the reconciliation bill, recently signed into law by President Donald Trump. Among a myriad of other things, the new law aims to end Medicaid reimbursements to abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of reproductive health services. However, Planned Parenthood L.A. CEO Sue Dunlap said her clinics — for now —…
By THALIA BEATY, Associated Press Dawn Price signs rent checks worth about $160,000 every month for 79 people that her nonprofit helps house in Laguna Beach, California. Usually, she logs into an online portal to withdraw enough from an account funded by a grant from the federal housing agency. But in February, she couldn’t. Access had been temporarily cut off for many housing organizations as part of the Trump administration’s cuts and funding freezes. “That was just a sea change for us for those dollars to be so immediately at risk,” said Price, the executive director of Friendship Shelter, which…
Entering 2024, the Rams were darling picks for the most exciting offense in the NFL. A beefed offensive line, healthy years from Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp, continued growth from Puka Nacua and Kyren Williams after their breakouts, plus Sean McVay stirring the drink? There was a lot of reason for optimism. But by the end of Week 2, the Rams were trying to put the offense back together with duct tape. Nacua, Kupp and two starting linemen were staring down extended absences. Stafford struggled to find a reliable target, while Williams didn’t have the space in the box to…
The USC football team cracked the top 10 in the Big Ten Conference preseason poll, and UCLA is predicted to finish in the bottom half of the conference. The Trojans are picked ninth and the Bruins are 15th in the annual preseason media poll released by Cleveland.com, which began compiling predictions after the Big Ten ceased to issue a poll 15 years ago. Twenty-four media members participated, including beat writers from all 18 Big Ten teams. USC went 7-6 overall last season, 4-5 in Big Ten play. Lincoln Riley enters his fourth season as the Trojans’ head coach with expectations…
NEW YORK — Everything was going well for the Angels … until it wasn’t. The Angels scored the first four runs of the game and still led by three in the seventh inning, only to lose, 7-5, to the New York Mets on Monday night. It was a crushing loss for the Angels (49-51), who are perilously close to falling out of the wild card race as they approach the July 31 trade deadline. The Angels began the day four games out of the last of the three American League wild-card spots. “It just sucks,” Angels starter Tyler Anderson said.…
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade County, Florida’s southern district is the wrong venue for the lawsuit since the detention center is located in neighboring Collier County, which is in the state’s middle district. Decisions about the facility also were made in Tallahassee and Washington, Kevin Guthrie, executive director for the Florida Division…
LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman had a sleepless night after Sunday’s game. He wasn’t tossing and turning, worrying about getting hit in his left wrist by a pitch nor was he kept awake by the pain from a serious injury to that wrist. He wasn’t able to sleep soundly because he thought he had stumbled on something that could “fix” his swing and was anxious to try it out. “I saw a picture of my stance in the World Series yesterday that was sent to me,” Freeman said. “I was like, that looks like I’m more into my front ankle.…
RIVERSIDE — Two men accused with three others of gunning down a Mead Valley resident during a home invasion robbery that occurred almost two decades ago are in custody in Riverside County. DeShawn Cordell Hill, 36, and Kenneth Tucker II, 37, both of Riverside, were arrested in the last two weeks following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Cold Case Unit investigation. Their co-defendants, Keith Isaiah Crutchfield, 37, of Killeen, Texas, and brothers Dennis Jamal Haynes and Kenneth Lamar Haynes, both 37 and of Phoenix, Arizona, are awaiting extradition following their arrests since the start of the month. All of the…
By CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. Her comments were a rare suggestion of daylight between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have often been aligned on politics and foreign policy, particularly with the recent attacks on Iran’s nuclear program. However, Trump is pushing for an end to the war in Gaza and trying to support the new Syrian government as the country emerges from years of civil war, and…
There’s a lot at stake as the Sparks sit three games outside of the playoffs at the midway point of the season. If the 8-14 Sparks don’t improve in the second half of the season, they will miss the playoffs for a franchise record fifth consecutive season. If they don’t reach the postseason, the Sparks will have nothing to show for it. The team has already traded away its 2026 first-round pick to the Seattle Storm, which currently has the second-best odds at becoming the No. 1 pick due to the team’s current two-year cumulative record. Despite a 1-4 start,…