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Ratings score The year 2024 had the Summer Olympics and a huge election, but football dominated the ratings once again. Here’s a look at TV trends. MOST-WATCHED PRIME TIME TELECASTS OF 2024 (total U.S. viewers) The year’s most-watched telecasts (in Live+7 ratings), according to broadcast and cable measurements, in both total viewers and adults 18-49 Rank Program (Network) Viewers Date aired 1. Super Bowl LVIII: Kansas City vs. San Francisco (CBS) 121,009,000 Feb. 11 2. NFC Championship: San Francisco vs. Detroit (Fox) 56,632,000 Jan. 28 3. AFC Divisional Playoff: Kansas City vs. Buffalo (CBS) 50,715,000 Jan. 21 4. NFC Playoff:…

Along with inflation, anger towards uncontrolled immigration was a significant factor in President Trump’s victory last November, and Trump promised to address the issue immediately after his inauguration.And he did. On Trump’s first day back in office, the President signed a series of executive orders authorizing the arrest and deportation of illegal migrants, specifically those who commit crimes.To be sure, this move is broadly supported. According to Associated Press polling, more than 8-in-10 (83%) Americans – including a majority of Democrats (53%) – support deporting immigrants who have been convicted of a crime.And while this is a long overdue policy,…

New California law, under Civil Code Section 5551, required a visual inspection of “exterior elevated elements” by Jan. 1, 2025. That deadline has expired, leaving a liability risk for unaware or otherwise noncompliant HOAs.The statute arose from 2019’s Senate Bill 326, sparked by a dry-rotted balcony which in 2015 collapsed and killed six people in Berkeley. Apartment landlords are subject to a similar Health and Safety Code statute from SB 721, enacted in 2018.Section 5551 applies to HOAs with buildings consisting of at least three attached units (so duplex-type condominiums are excluded), and only to areas which are the HOA’s…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO, ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, holds more than $1 million of stock in a fashion company founded in China. He established a nonprofit that spent big on promotion but little on its mission. And he advised a roster of foreign clients, including a Czech arms maker that top Republicans have criticized for being too tight with U.S. adversaries.Patel entered Trump’s orbit as a congressional staffer of modest means. But the years since have been unquestionably lucrative as Patel parlayed proximity to Trump and…

An American president doesn’t get to campaign on a platform of non-intervention in foreign affairs and a pulling back of our military forces overseas and then suddenly float an idea about a massive deployment of U.S. troops — in Gaza, of all places — and then expect a pass from the American people and the opinions of world leaders about the wild contradiction.“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,” Trump said this week, apparently to the surprise of even his closest aides. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling…

By SETH BORENSTEIN and ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Saving the planet is so 2024. Clean energy leaders across the globe are now tailoring their messages to emphasize the greener side of green: wealth-building. It’s an idea that sells far better in the new world of nationalism and tycoon leaders.Messaging from the U.S. renewable energy industry and the United Nations on climate change has typically focused on the urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions for the sake of environmental and human health. To bolster the argument, they cite record-shattering heat around the world, the frequent climate disasters…

By AAMER MADHANI and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba didn’t skimp on the legwork as he prepared for his first meeting with President Donald Trump.He huddled this week with SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, two executives Trump recently hosted at the White House. He sought advice from his immediate predecessor, Fumio Kishida.Ishiba even called on the widow of Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister with whom Trump bonded over rounds of golf during his first term.“It will be our first face-to-face talks, so I would like to focus on building…

LOS ANGELES — The sun would crest over the desert hills in Las Cruces, its beating rays inescapable to most marooned in New Mexico. But Rashaun Agee kept his room black. He had shut the light out. He shut it all out.He would FaceTime his uncle Delroy Folkes those few years ago, from his dorm at New Mexico State, and Folkes would be confused. It was the daytime. But the only light from the other end of the phone would come from the soft glow from Agee’s television, from the in-game Madden menu, dancing with the shadows across his face.That…

Q: Hey, Honk: Around 25 years ago, Caltrans was doing an experiment on the 405 Freeway in Irvine. Workers embedded metal strips in the outside two lanes where trucks primarily drive to see if this reinforcement would prevent potholes from forming. Sounded like a great idea. The strips are still visible today with no potholes, just not in the right two lanes as the freeway was widened. Did they forget about the idea? Can The Honk dig up the answer? – Ken Hardy, Newport Beach  A: The ol’ Honkster has one of the best shovels in the business. Those strips,…

By JON GAMBRELL, Associated PressDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that “there should be no negotiations with such a government,” but stopped short of issuing a direct order not to engage with Washington.Khamenei’s remarks upend months of signals from Tehran to the United States that it wanted to negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crushing economic sanctions worth billions of dollars. Following Khamenei’s comments, the Iranian rial…