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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By JIM MUSTIAN and JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with the city of Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, part of the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of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,…
An Alhambra police officer wears Alec Sanders’ police number during his funeral service at Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, Dec. 9. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Alhambra police Officer Alec Sanders’ fiancée is comforted after his funeral service. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Alhambra police Officer Alec Sanders’ fiancé is comforted after his funeral service at Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Sanders was allegedly killed by a fleeing suspect in a reported stolen vehicle. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) A police officer attends Alhambra…
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE It’s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations — but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that’s under attack by the Trump administration? That’s getting more likely: The nation’s leading doctors groups are in an unprecedented standoff with federal health officials who have attacked long-used, lifesaving vaccines. The revolt by pediatricians, obstetricians, family physicians, infectious disease experts and internists came to a head when an advisory panel handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged an end to routine newborn vaccination against hepatitis B, a virus that can…
The Galaxy and the Los Angeles Football Club will kick off their 2026 seasons early with the first round of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. Dates haven’t been announced, but CONCACAF said the first leg of the opening round series could be played as early as Feb. 3. The Galaxy’s MLS opener is scheduled for Feb. 22. CONCACAF will announce the complete Round One and Round of 16 schedule “in the coming days.” The Galaxy will face Panamanian squad Sporting San Miguelito, which won the Central American Cup. The Champions Cup draw took place Tuesday in Miami. Despite their awful regular-season…
Eric Kay, the Los Angeles Angels’ staffer who provided Tyler Skaggs with illicit opioid pills, told a Texas detective that years before the pitcher’s death Kay had informed a vice president of the ballclub that he had used drugs with Skaggs, according to testimony Tuesday, Dec. 9 in an ongoing wrongful death trial. Delaney Green, who investigated Skaggs’ death in a Texas hotel room at the start of an Angels’ road trip in July 2019, confirmed that Kay, in an interview with law enforcement, alleged that he previously had spoken to Tim Mead — a former Angels’ vice president and…
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity. Sometime in the past few days or weeks, EPA altered some but not all of its climate change webpages, de-emphasizing and even deleting references to the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, which scientists say is the overwhelming cause of climate change.…