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By MELISSA GOLDINDuring a signing ceremony Wednesday for the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, made a similiar claim on Tuesday during her debut press briefing, stating that the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.” She called the alleged aid “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”But there’s no credible…

Finally, a real libertarian is president.That’s in Argentina, where Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular.Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world. Then, years of big government brought high inflation and poverty. By last year, Argentina was one of the poorest and least free countries in the world.Then Milei, an economist, ran for office, saying things like, “The state is not the solution. The state is the problem!”The media called him “radical”…

By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITHTestifying Tuesday in his own defense, a Hollywood producer charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a model and her friend denied giving them the drugs that killed them.David Brian Pearce told the downtown Los Angeles jury hearing the case against him that he “didn’t personally see” 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola “consume any drugs,” and said he had “absolutely not” provided the women with any cocaine after they returned from an early-morning rave in downtown Los Angeles to his residence on Olympic Boulevard in Beverly…

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONEWASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate hearings as he tries to make the case to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary.Kennedy is seeking to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the $1.7 trillion agency that funds medical research, public health outreach, food and drug safety, hospital oversight, funding for community health care clinics as well as Medicare and Medicaid.Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee expressed hope Kennedy could help reduce chronic diseases and…

Esther Matarranz doubled the fun on the way to No. 700.Matarranz recorded her second double-double of the season as the UC Riverside women’s basketball team beat Cal State Bakersfield 60-48 on Saturday, Jan. 25 for the 700th victory in the history of the program, which began in the 1971-72 season.The 6-foot-2 senior forward had a key steal and a layup with 2 minutes remaining to finish off CSU Bakersfield and get the Highlanders back in the win column. Matarranz totaled 12 points, 10 rebounds, three steals, and one block.“(It) was a great win to protect our home court,” head coach…

Los Angeles is a Democrat-run city, with a Democrat mayor, not a single Republican on the City Council, and a dominant Democrat Party that decides which candidates get the official blessing and which ones get cast out to the wilderness.LA’s version of ideological diversity is a healthy mix of left-wingers, far-left nut jobs, and Nithya Raman.This lopsided political arrangement means that it doesn’t matter how incompetently the local officials responded to the fires that ravaged the city, because there are never any consequences for Democrats from city voters.No water in the reservoir?  That’s global warming.Forgot to tell the fire department…

By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those aimed at slowing climate change and encouraging use of electric vehicles. The vote was 56-42 in Zeldin’s favor. Zeldin, a former Republican congressman from New York, is a longtime Trump ally and served on Trump’s defense team during his first impeachment. He voted against certifying Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. Zeldin, 44, said during his confirmation hearing that…

LOS ANGELES — For a brief moment, it existed. The transfers caught their first glimpse and the returners gained a reminder. A look into an unbounded Dylan Andrews.The UCLA men’s basketball team was down one point with 4.9 seconds remaining in its game at Oregon on Dec. 8. Andrews grabbed an inbounds pass and immediately slipped, derailing the Bruins’ intended play. But he maintained his dribble, got a favorable switch and stepped back for a game-winning 3-pointer.Forced to take matters into his own hands, Andrews didn’t flinch.Before that 73-71 win over the Ducks, he had been slumping, averaging 8.7 points…

The median price of a home in California of $863,000 is more than double the $417,000 median home price in the U.S. As a result, median family income of $96,000 in California is 38% below that necessary to qualify for the purchase of a median-priced home in the state. In sharp contrast, median income in the U.S. of $81,0000 is 9% above that needed to qualify for purchasing a median-priced home in the nation.During the 2020 to 2024 period, the most recent Bureau of the Census population report indicates that California lost 1.5 million people in net domestic migration (number…

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Jan. 28 unanimously approved lifting limitations on how long wildfire survivors can park their recreational vehicles at county-owned RV parks.The county owns two RV parks, one at the Bonelli Bluffs RV Resort and Campground in San Dimas, and the other at Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey. The Dockweiler park closed in January for maintenance but is expected to reopen in February.Also see: ‘Wildfire refugees’ scramble to find housing as rental prices soarThe five-member board needed to lift the limitations because the county’s Department of Parks and Recreation imposes a three-week-long…