By GREGORY KATZ LONDON — America’s national pastime made a positive impression on British fans the first time they got to see the game up close and personal on British soil. That may have been helped by a warm, picture-perfect day in often overcast London — baseball weather at its best, played on a midsummer’s…
By ANNALISA CAMILLI and FRANCES D’EMILIO LAMPEDUSA, Sicily — The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 migrants aboard has been arrested after she rammed her vessel into an Italian border police motorboat while docking at a tiny Mediterranean island Saturday in defiance of Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister. Jeering onlookers shouted “handcuffs, handcuffs”…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday dismissed Jimmy Carter’s swipe at the legitimacy of his election and said the charge was nothing more than a “Democrat talking point,” while offering his own digs at the 94-year-old former commander in chief. Trump said he was surprised by Carter’s comments alleging that Russian interference in the…
By PAUL WISEMAN and KELVIN CHAN WASHINGTON — Once again, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have hit the reset button in trade talks between the world’s two biggest economies, at least delaying an escalation in tension between the U.S. and China that had financial markets on edge and cast a cloud over the global…
Suki the cat during CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) Catlovers wait to adopt a cat during CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in…
CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in Pasadena, California. Crystal Salcido of Santa Clarita poses for a picture during CatCon, the world’s largest cat-centric culture event at the Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 29, 2019 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena…
Rapper Slim 400 was shot and wounded Friday night in an attack in Compton, according to a source familiar with the case. Slim 400’s condition was not known, and authorities were investigating. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department official confirmed a shooting occurred and that the victim was…
Santa Ana police are seeking the driver of a dark Toyota Camry that collided with a pedestrian in a wheelchair on Friday night. The collision occurred at about 10:37 p.m. near the intersection of 1st and Townsend streets. The person was left lying the roadway with a faint pulse and shallow breathing, according to police….
Authorities say E. coli bacteria encountered at the San Diego County Fair has killed one child and sickened three others. A Friday night release from the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency announced four confirmed cases linked to animal contact. While three cases didn’t result in…
A year after receiving the devastating news — just two weeks apart — that both their young children had rare cancerous brain tumors, Torrance parents Duncan and Nohea Avery say the kids are recovering well. There are even signs they will both soon be in full remission. Both children, Kalea, 7, and her brother Noah, 5,…
