WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, to serve in the same role. Trump made the announcement while departing the White House for a trip to Missouri. He called Barr “a terrific man” and “one of the most respected jurists in the country.”…
By AUDREY McAVOY PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — About 20 survivors are expected to gather at Pearl Harbor on Friday to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago. The youngest of the veterans are in their mid-90s. The Navy and National Park Service will jointly host the remembrance…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday he’s nominating State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “Heather Nauert will be nominated,” Trump said Friday before departing the White House on Marine One for an event in Kansas City. “She’s…
As heavy rain pelted Hollywood Burbank Airport on Thursday morning, the pilot of Southwest Flight 278 out of Oakland came over the intercom with a warning: The runway was short and wet. It was going to be a bumpy landing. Paris Organist, a 31-year-old Oakland resident sitting in the front row,…
The big orange “Katie Porter” sign is gone from the frontyard of Honour Del Crognale’s home in Tustin. It’s been replaced by four big vintage light-up Santas, clustered like a choir near the front door. “I think one is tacky, but a bunch of them make a statement,” Del Crognale told me when I visited…
On Oct. 31, 1940, Pvt. John G. Winbury gives a hug to his son, Robert Austin Winbury, 2, as he prepares to sail to Hawaii with the California National Guard 251st Coast Artillery unit.
By Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer NEW YORK >> Just two days after being named host of the Academy Awards, Kevin Hart stepped down following an outcry over past homophobic tweets by the comedian. Capping a swift and dramatic fallout, Hart wrote on Twitter just after midnight Friday that he was withdrawing as Oscars host…
A former Orange County CEO accused of providing insider information to ex-Angel’s star Doug DeCinces has agreed to a more than $1 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, leading federal prosecutors to drop the criminal indictment he was facing. After a pair of criminal trials ended in deadlocked juries, the civil settlement…
Riverside police arrested a community college and high school employee from Laguna Niguel on Tuesday, Dec. 4, on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. Authorities learned of a male suspect who had offered to pay a person who was presenting themselves as a girl under the age of 18 for a sexual encounter, according…
