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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ALI SWENSON WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years lack the bipartisan support needed for passage. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Tuesday that the Democratic legislation does not include enough reforms to curb…
By MATTHEW PERRONE WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials have opened a safety review of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from RSV, the respiratory virus that sends thousands of American children to the hospital each year. The long-acting drugs from Merck and Sanofi are not vaccines, but the government review comes as health officials and advisers under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. roll back recommendations on routine childhood vaccinations. A spokesman for Kennedy described the inquiry as a routine safety evaluation and said the FDA “will update product labeling if warranted by the…
SAN DIEGO — Even with Rodney Rice sidelined, the USC men’s basketball team has shown it has plenty of firepower. Chad Baker-Mazara scored a season-high 31 and Ezra Ausar scored 22 of his career-high 29 points in the second half before fouling out as USC used the second half to take control and beat San Diego, 94-81, on Tuesday night, bouncing back from their first loss of the season. Reserve Jaden Brownell scored 16 points and shot 4 for 5 from 3-point range for USC (9-1), which eventually stopped committing turnovers and separated itself from USD (3-6) with an 18-2…
The Redlands school board is debating the fate of two books on library shelves at two high schools that have been challenged for alleged explicit content. On Tuesday night, Dec. 9, board members are discussing whether “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “Push” by Sapphire should remain in the libraries. RELATED: Two books could be pulled from Redlands school library shelves The debut novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison was published in 1970 and addresses racism, beauty standards, child abuse and sexual abuse through the eyes of 11-year-old Pecola after the Great Depression. “Push” is a 1996 novel…
By MARK VANCLEAVE and STEVE KARNOWSKI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown targeting the community. City Council Member Jamal Osman, a Somali American who represents the neighborhood, witnessed the confrontation, as did an Associated Press videographer. Minnesota’s Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — has been on edge the past couple of weeks since President Donald Trump said in a social media post Thanksgiving night that he…
By SCOTT BAUER MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state. The judge also refused to cancel a Monday preliminary hearing for Trump’s former attorney, who also previously worked as a judge in the same county where he is being prosecuted, and two other former Trump associates. The three former Trump aides face 11 felony charges each in relation to their roles in the 2020 fake elector scheme. They are: Jim Troupis, who…
PITTSBURGH — The Ducks kicked off their five-game road trip with a thrilling victory. Beckett Sennecke scored a short-handed goal with one-tenth of a second left in regulation to force overtime, Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout and the Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3, on Tuesday night for their fifth win in seven games. Ducks goaltender Ville Husso had just reached the bench for an extra skater, when the 19-year-old Sennecke drove to the net. He eluded three defenders and his shot deflected off the glove of Pittsburgh’s Erik Karlsson and into the net. A replay review confirmed the…
Seven people have been arrested in connection with a September home invasion robbery in Irvine, where residents were held at gunpoint and their hands and mouths duct-taped in a failed attempt to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, officials announced Tuesday, Dec. 9. The final outstanding defendant was arrested by U.S. Marshals last week in Las Vegas after a manhunt, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said. The break-in happened around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 23 in the 5000 block of Royale Avenue, when a sleeping man woke up to the sound of breaking glass. He had been asleep with…
By JIM MUSTIAN and JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of environmental justice initiatives. Federal authorities quietly ended the monitoring this year as they pulled the plug on a similar settlement over wastewater problems in rural Alabama, according to three former law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the move wasn’t made public. Without federal monitoring, advocates in Houston said city officials have become less responsive…
New UCLA head football coach Bob Chesney poses for photos during his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at UCLA. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) New UCLA head football coach Bob Chesney speaks to reporters during his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at UCLA. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond talks about new head football coach Bob Chesney during Chesney’s introductory press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at UCLA. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) New UCLA head football coach Bob Chesney,…