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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis WriterMELBOURNE, Australia — Ben Shelton’s Australian Open quarterfinal foe, Lorenzo Sonego, produced the shot of the tournament – diving to his left for a volley with so much spin that the ball bounced on one side of the net, then floated back over to the other – but it was the American who ended up with the victory on Wednesday (late Tuesday night PT).The left-handed Shelton did some entertaining of his own, including earning cheers by doing a couple of push-ups after tumbling in the concluding tiebreaker, and reached his second Grand Slam semifinal at…
SAN JACINTO — Riverside County sheriff’s investigators Tuesday were seeking the public’s help locating a man possibly involved in a fatal attack on another man and a teenager in San Jacinto. (Image courtesy Riverside County Sheriff’s Office) Jonathen Elijah Amezola of Corona is a person of interest in the Jan. 12 shooting, according to the sheriff’s department. The agency posted Amezola’s picture and description on its social media channels, saying only that he had been connected to the deadly attack in a neighborhood, where patrol deputies were called to investigate a firearm assault. Officials previously said it happened in the…
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — For Marco Rubio, the easy part is over. He was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state with unanimous support, Democrats joining Republicans in praising his acumen and judgment.Now comes the task that will make or break his tenure: retaining the full backing of his new boss, Donald Trump.The 53-year-old Rubio is coming into the job with more experience than President Trump’s previous secretaries of state, having spent the last 14 years in the Senate becoming intimately acquainted with U.S. foreign policy from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East…
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis WriterMELBOURNE, Australia — Iga Swiatek’s latest lopsided win at the Australian Open came via a 6-1, 6-2 score in the quarterfinals against No. 8 seed Emma Navarro on Wednesday (Tuesday night PT).The second-seeded Swiatek not only has not dropped a set so far in the tournament, but also has lost a grand total of only 14 games as she seeks her first title at Melbourne Park and sixth Grand Slam trophy overall. The last woman to make it to the Australian Open semifinals having ceded fewer than 15 games was Maria Sharapova back in 2013.“I’m…
By HALELUYA HADERO, Associated PressPresident Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain – including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.In an executive order signed on Monday, Trump instructed the U.S. attorney general to not enforce the ban for 75 days while his administration determines “the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown” of TikTok.Under a federal…
LOS ANGELES — Mick Cronin has a method to his big man rotation and, frankly, he doesn’t care if you believe there’s really a succinct plan or not.When the UCLA men’s basketball coach chose not to play Aday Mara at all on Friday because he felt William Kyle III’s athleticism could better match Iowa’s quickness, it wasn’t because Mara had played himself out of the rotation.“I love Aday,” Cronin said then.Cronin gave Kyle the first crack in the Bruins’ game against Wisconsin on Tuesday night, but after Kyle was slow to close out on a pair of 3-point shots, both…
Menifee police have arrested a man who they say fatally struck a pedestrian with his car and fled. Miguel Angel Castillo, 28, of Menifee was arrested at 4:41 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, on Wilkes Drive, more than nine hours after 53-year-old Lucia Delgado of San Bernardino was found dead in a dirt field near McCall Boulevard and Aspel Road, east of the 215 Freeway, police said Tuesday. Delgado had at some point left Menifee Global Medical Center, said Chase Coburn, a police spokeswoman. Coburn said she didn’t know whether Delgado had been discharged or had left the hospital on her…
By STEVE PEOPLESNEW YORK (AP) — Democrats knew this was coming.President Donald Trump promised a shock-and-awe campaign to deliver major policy victories immediately after he took office. Much of it was outlined in the Project 2025 document that Democrats predicted he would adopt.But in the hours since Trump’s inauguration, Democrats are struggling to confront the sheer volume of executive orders, pardons, personnel changes and controversial relationships taking shape in the new administration.In less than two days, the Republican president has moved to end diversity and inclusion programs across the federal government, withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, blocked…
ANAHEIM — The Ducks matched the defending champions stride-for-stride through two periods on Tuesday night, but they were tucked away summarily in the third as the Florida Panthers prevailed, 5-2, at Honda Center after winning by an identical three-goal margin in Saturday’s shutout of the Ducks in Florida.Opening-salvo goals by Frank Vatrano and Mason McTavish set up a vigorous effort in the middle frame for the hosts, but their fancy-stat dominance didn’t translate to the scoreboard. Two goals in the opening five minutes of a lackluster third period condemned the Ducks to a defeat in which Lukáš Dostál turned in…
RANCHO CUCAMONGA — U.S. Forest Service investigators Tuesday were seeking the public’s help identifying two men who broke into a locked fire engine and stole equipment from a crew standing by for deployments during the Santa Ana wind events across the Inland Empire.The theft occurred in the predawn hours Friday in the 9500 block of Milliken Avenue, near Fourth Street, in Rancho Cucamonga, according to the USFS.Agency spokesman Tyler Smith said that a crew assigned to San Bernardino National Forest Engine No. 336 had positioned the truck behind the Hilton Inn Express & Suites for ready deployment to any wildland…