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INGLEWOOD — Clippers coach Tyronn Lue sees the games slip by and along with them, opportunities to turn around the season. With their record at 6-18, each loss makes the next game much more critical, down to the minute, even less. “Every second counts, every day counts, every possession counts,” Lue said after practice on Tuesday. “We’ve played better. We’ve been close. It’s just one turnover that you shouldn’t have (made) or one missed box out or one missed open 3 and you can win the game. We’ve been close. “Just got to continue to keep plugging away and we…

By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut. The benchmark rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another, and the Fed has two goals when it sets the rate: one, to manage prices for goods and services, and two, to encourage full employment. The benchmark rate also affects the interest rates consumers…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she “has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump.” Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of “politics as a blood sport.” The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide within the party, with some candidates continuing to focus on Trump while others barely mention his name. Figuring out…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The IOC set a target Wednesday of early 2026 to detail a new policy on eligibility in female sports that could see transgender athletes excluded from the Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry also stressed the Olympic body’s statutory belief in access to sport being a human right for all people at grassroots and recreational level. The two-time Olympic champion swimmer created a working group after taking office in June to review “protecting the female category.” Coventry won an IOC presidential election where most of the seven candidates promised a…

By Todd Kelsey, Ph.D. We all have those boxes stored somewhere. You know, the ones with the stack of yellow Kodak envelopes, a VHS tape labeled “ ’87 Road Trip,” maybe even a floppy disk or two. These boxes hold the stories of our lives: birthdays, graduations, vacations, love stories. But here’s the thing: Many of our modern memories no longer live in boxes. The photos we once printed out at places like the drug store or Fox Photo now live as bytes in dozens of scattered places — Google Drive, iCloud, an old laptop, a forgotten hard drive, an…

By AAMER MADHANI and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. The U.S. has conducted a series of deadly military strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean on boats that the Republican administration has alleged are carrying drugs. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of…

LOS ANGELES — The top half of Deshonne Redeaux’s grill just didn’t fit quite right. So, the sixth-best running back in the class of 2026 walked around with a gleaming underbite during a private National Signing Day celebration, hosted by sports and culture agency StampX. “Deshonne’s got a vibe,” LAFC co-founder Shaun Neff told event guests. “He crushes it on the field, but he’s building his personality. He’s building his look. He’s got that. It is important for your personal brand to pick your lane.” The USC football program locked in the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation on…

By Todd Woody | Bloomberg A California state agency won’t meet Governor Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the January Los Angeles firestorms. At a meeting of the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection on Monday, chair Terrence O’Brien said officials would wait until March 2026 to continue work on regulations to require ember-resistant zones, called Zone Zero, around some 2 million houses in high-risk wildfire areas. That means it could be mid-2029 or later before any mandate takes effect for existing…

By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security before being approved for travel. The notice published Wednesday in the Federal Register said Customs and Border Protection is proposing collecting five years worth of social media information from travelers from select countries who do not have to get visas to come to the U.S. The Trump administration has been stepping up monitoring of international travelers…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Paramount Skydance says the Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings withdrew from its bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery to avert a possible national security review. Paramount’s revised filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of its takeover bid said the Chinese company had dropped its $1 billion financing commitment out of concern, since it would be a “non-U.S. equity financing source,” that its bid might be subject to a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS. That was even though…