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ANAHEIM — As he works to get his offense to the lofty heights that are expected, Angels rookie Christian Moore is making plays on the lesser-regarded side of his game. Expected to be a work in progress on defense at second base, Moore has instead thrived there in less than two weeks as a major leaguer. While Moore made a diving catch to preserve a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning of a game last week against the Baltimore Orioles, that matchup ended in a 3-2 loss in 10 innings. Instead, he is particularly fond of a catch he made…
Around the Bay Area, the Marin County Civic Center is known as Frank Lloyd Wright’s greatest achievement. The largest constructed work to come off his drafting table, it’s a shining Versailles of inimitable vision that may be quite an eye-opener for those coming in simply to fight a traffic ticket. But Wright’s quieter legacy lies in the houses he designed for ordinary people. There are roughly a half-dozen around the Bay Area, executed in a modest yet alluring style he called Usonian (his shorthand for architecture that’s uniquely “United States of North Independent America”). Young professionals wrote the star architect…
By JONEL ALECCIA and JAMIE STENGLE DALLAS (AP) — A new Texas law promoting the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda requires first-ever warning labels on foods like chips and candies that contain dyes and additives not allowed in other countries. It could have far-reaching effects on the nation’s food supply, but a review of the legislation shows it also misrepresents the status of some ingredients that would trigger the action. The law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday requires foods made with any of more than 40 dyes or additives to have labels starting in 2027…
DENVER — The mystery continues. After a hot two weeks following his return from a fractured toe, Mookie Betts has slipped back into another slump. Going into Tuesday night’s game at Coors Field, Betts was 6 for 37 (.162) over his previous 10 games. As the Dodgers reach the midpoint of their season this week, Betts is batting .254 with a .338 on-base percentage and a .391 slugging percentage – all would be career-lows for the perennial All-Star. He has never posted an OPS under .800 in his career but went into Tuesday at .728. “I am. I think we…
By BERNARD CONDON Federal traffic safety regulators are looking into suspected problems with Elon Musk’s test run of self-driving “robotaxis” in Texas after videos surfaced showing them braking suddenly or going straight through an intersection from a turning lane and driving down the wrong side of the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that it has asked Tesla for information about the apparent errors. Though many other videos show robotaxis driving perfectly, if regulators find any major issues, that would likely raise questions about Musk’s repeated statements that the robotaxis are safe and his claim that Tesla…
The U.S Border Patrol on Tuesday accused a 48-year-old landscaper forcibly detained in Santa Ana last week of attacking them with his weed whacker. The agency drew widespread condemnation after a video posted to social media on Saturday showed the landscaper being pinned to the ground and repeatedly punched in the head by at least one agent. Narciso Barranco, who was working a landscaping job at an IHOP when he was approached by the armed, masked agents, is now accused of swinging his weed whacker at them and resisting arrest. “Show the full story. If you swing a WEED WACKER…
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline. And Republicans in Congress are staying put to get it done. The Senate is gearing up for weekend work, while House Speaker Mike Johnson told lawmakers Tuesday to keep their schedules “flexible” as they prepare for more votes. “We are making good headway,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. He expects the Senate will get this “past the finish line” by the end of the week,…
Changes are expected for the Lakers. And not just the change in ownership, with the Buss family last week agreeing last week to sell the majority ownership of the franchise to Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter and TWG Global at a valuation of approximately $10 billion. But roster changes are also expected to be made soon. In his last public comments with reporters, Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka, who also received a promotion to be the franchise’s president of basketball operations as part of a contract extension in mid-April, acknowledged on May 1 that a lot of work is needed…
By MATT O’BRIEN In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and must now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from online “shadow libraries” of pirated copies. U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco said in a ruling filed late Monday that the AI system’s distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text…
By MIKE CORDER THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has a sleepover this week in the Netherlands that is, quite literally, fit for a king. Trump is visiting The Hague for a summit of the 32 leaders of NATO on Wednesday, and his sleeping arrangements have received a significant upgrade. He is scheduled to arrive Tuesday night and be whisked by motorcade along closed-off highways to the Huis Ten Bosch palace, nestled in a forest on the edge of The Hague, for a dinner with other alliance leaders hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander. Trump had been expected…