Southern California was hit by the wettest winter in years. The snowpack, an important measurement of the state’s water supply, looks great. And in mid-May — two months after the official end of winter — the rain and snow just keep coming. California was clobbered this week by another storm, which…
Herman Wouk, the prolific and immensely popular writer who explored the moral fallout of World War II in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Caine Mutiny” and other widely read books that gave Americans a raw look at the horrors and consequences of war, has died at his Palm Springs home, where he wrote…
The pilot of the F-16 that smashed Thursday afternoon into a warehouse near March Air Reserve Base is doing well and might have been already released from the hospital, an official said at a Friday morning press conference. He was able to eject from the fighter jet and deploy a parachute. Six responding officers and…
Erika I. Ritchie, military reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group, has been named a winner of the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting in 2018. The 32nd annual awards, sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, honor “distinguished reporting on the presidency and national defense.” Judges…
MORRISTOWN, Ariz. — Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss expression entertained millions on the internet, has died at age 7. Her owners wrote on social media Friday that she experienced complications from a urinary tract infection and “passed away peacefully” Tuesday “in the arms of her mommy.” Her owners said “Grumpy Cat has helped millions of people…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-led House is expected to pass a sweeping bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy on lawmakers’ final day in session Friday, joining Alabama and several other states that have moved recently to severely restrict the procedure. If enacted, the ban would be among the…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday delayed any decision to impose tariffs on car and auto-part imports, deciding against ratcheting up trade disputes or impacting ongoing talks with European nations and Japan. Trump has made it clear that any final decision on the matter hinges on trade negotiations between the United States and the…
By ZEKE MILLER, LISA MASCARO and JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON — Unveiling a new immigration plan, President Donald Trump said he wanted to provide a sharp contrast with Democrats, and he did — aiming to upend decades of family-based immigration policy with a new approach that favors younger, “totally brilliant,” high-skilled workers he says won’t compete…
An F-16 returning to March Air Reserve Base in Moreno Valley after a routine training mission crashed after its hydraulics failed and its pilot ejected, base officials said Thursday. The jet crashed into a building off the base, on Van Buren Boulevard near the 215 Freeway, about 3:45 p.m. Captured…
President Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts. On Friday, a federal judge in Oakland is set to consider arguments in two cases that seek…
