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For the first time since 2010, the NHL draft is in Los Angeles, at the Peacock Theater on Friday and Saturday. Then, the host Kings will look to bolster their organizational ranks, beginning with Friday’s first round. It’ll be the first decentralized draft – the prospects will be in L.A. but the executives will be in their home cities – and also the first draft for the Kings to be presided over by newly hired general manager Ken Holland. “As we come towards the draft this weekend, I would anticipate, around the league, there’s going to be lots of trades,”…

By HOLLY MEYER and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX WASHINGTON (AP) — Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors allowing religious chaplains to provide support services for public school students, a new poll finds. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows the complexity of Americans’ attitudes toward religious expression in schools, which varies depending on the kind of expression and sometimes crosses partisan lines. The findings also highlight tension points in the country’s long-standing debate over the role of religion in public schools, which continues to drive legislation…

By JAY COHEN, AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Youth sports are a big part of Karli Casamento’s life. Her son, Jax, 15, golfs and plays on three baseball teams. Her youngest son, Colt, 7, plays baseball and basketball. The costs, especially for Jax, add up in a hurry. That’s why Casamento, 48, and her husband, Michael, 46, are watching closely for the ramifications of tariffs on their rising youth sports budget. “All of their equipment I’m sure comes from China,” said Karli Casamento, a second-grade teacher in suburban Philadelphia. “As they get bigger, they need new equipment. So that is…

By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the final days of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government. Related Articles Families and businesses are concerned about the effect of tariffs on youth sports States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules Key Medicaid provision in Trump’s big tax cut and spending bill is found to violate Senate rules US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying…

ANAHEIM — The Angels provided baseball draft followers with the ultimate irony this week. An organization that is routinely roasted for its failures in scouting and player development achieved a feat so rare that none of the players involved were even born the last time it happened. On Monday night, the Angels used eight players who they drafted in the first round in a 9-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox. The 1991 Milwaukee Brewers were the last team to have that confluence of homegrown first-rounders in the same game. Baseball America editor-in-chief J.J. Cooper, whose publication annually rates the…

Los Angeles City Hall has a fiscal deficit of almost a billion dollars. One of the budget-busting items is not entirely related to the general problem of the City Council and the mayor simply overspending, overpaying employees and failing to plan for a rainy day. But the $289 million the city spends in a single year in legal settlements and jury verdicts certainly doesn’t help the budget balance. In fact, it’s an absolutely economically insane jump from the $64 million in such payouts Los Angeles made just a decade ago. Even the 2022 figure was a relatively workable $91 million.…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Zahid, 25, completed her studies in December, but so far she hasn’t found a job in the industry that surrounds her. “It stings a little bit,” she said. “I never imagined it would be this difficult just to get a foot in the door.” Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider. The case centers on funding for other health care services Planned Parenthood provides in South Carolina, but the ruling could have broader implications for Medicaid patients. The court split 6-3 in the opinion, with the three liberal justices dissenting. Public health care money generally can’t be used to pay for abortions. Medicaid patients go to Planned Parenthood for things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing,…

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is drifting toward the brink of another record. The S&P 500 was 0.4% higher in early trading and just 0.5% below its all-time high, which was set in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 207 points, or 0.5%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher. McCormick, the seller of cooking spices, helped lead the way and rallied 5.3% after delivering a better-than-expected profit report. The company also gave a forecast for profit over its full fiscal year that…

By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s top leaders doubled down Thursday on how destructive the U.S. attacks had been on Iran’s nuclear facilities and described in detail the study and planning behind the bombing mission. In a rare Pentagon news briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to shift the debate from whether the nuclear targets were “obliterated,” as President Donald Trump has said, to what they portrayed as the heroism of the strikes as well as the extensive research and preparation that went…