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Clippers center Ivica Zubac warms up prior to a game against the Atlanta Hawks on Jan. 4, 2025, at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. (AP Photo/Jayne-Kamin-Oncea) Clippers center Ivica Zubac, left, works the ball inside as Utah Jazz forward John Collins, right, defends during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Egan) Clippers center Ivica Zubac dunks as Houston Rockets center Jock Landale defends during the first half on Wednesday night at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Clippers center Ivica Zubac dribbles the ball during…

What exactly is stagflation and how does it affect housing and mortgage rates? Stagflation is a combination of high inflation (inflation is a general increase in prices creating reduced purchasing power), rising unemployment and slow economic growth, no economic growth or negative economic growth. As an aside, stagflation is different from a recession. The definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative Gross Domestic Product. How can we find ourselves in stagflation? In a word, tariffs. President Donald Trump’s tariffs ultimately create a tax on consumer goods and services because those additional duties will be passed to the…

By COLLEEN BARRY and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because of the revenues his tariffs are generating, but he suggested while meeting with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni that it would be easy to find an agreement with the European Union and others. Trump played down the likelihood of an accelerated timeline to wrap up deals, saying any agreements would come “at a certain point.” “We’re in no rush,” said Trump, hinting that he has leverage because other countries want access to U.S. consumers. Meloni’s meeting with…

What started out as a way to connect with his father has blossomed into one of the more notable young tennis careers in the Inland area. Under the weeknight lights of local parks in Riverside and Corona, Michael Chang learned to love the game and found a talent for shot-making. “It was how we bonded,” Chang said of his father, whose name is also Michael. “He played in high school (and) it was something we could play and bond over,” Chang, from Arlington High School who now stars for Riverside City College, is not related to the former pro tennis…

By Paige Gross, Stateline.org The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, traveling hundreds, possibly thousands of miles, before it makes its way back to you in just a second or two. It can be hard to wrap your mind around, said Vijay Gadepally, a senior scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, but large data centers are where nearly all artificial intelligence systems and computing happens today. “Each one of these AI models has to sit on a server somewhere,…

By ALI SWENSON NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday will hear arguments in three cases from national Democrats and voting rights groups that are challenging President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on elections, which, among other changes, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The Democratic National Committee, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters Education Fund and others are seeking to block Trump’s sweeping overhaul of federal election processes, alleging that the changes he wants are unconstitutional. The Republican president’s executive order says the U.S. has…

The Rams announced Thursday that their headquarters for the 2025 NFL draft will be hosted by the Los Angeles Fire Department Air Operations. A room within the Van Nuys fire station will serve as general manager Les Snead’s base of operations during the three-day draft next week, while an adjacent hangar will host team personnel and media during the event. Rams personnel were among the many Los Angeles residents affected by the January wildfires. Players and coaches evacuated their homes during the Kenneth fire in West Hills, with some team employees losing their homes and the team relocating to Phoenix…

By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures. But in the battle of the moment, it’s easy to lose sight of a decades-long alliance between the U.S. government and the nation’s most prominent universities, forged to fight a world war. For more than 80 years, that interdependence has been prized by academic leaders and politicians of both parties as a paragon for American discovery and innovation. “In some ways I think it’s a core part of the story of contemporary America,”…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia comes on the heels of a separate decision in August that concluded Google’s namesake search engine has been illegally leveraging its dominance to stifle competition and innovation. After the U.S. Justice Department targeted Google’s ubiquitous search engine during…

A re-sentencing hearing is set to begin Thursday morning in Van Nuys for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shotgun killings of their parents at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion more than three decades ago. The hearing — which is expected to continue Friday — comes just under a week after Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic denied a request by the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office to withdraw a motion filed under prior D.A. George Gascón’s administration that supported re-sentencing for Erik Menendez, now 54, and…