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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Texas man has been charged with buying fireworks that he allegedly planned to use against law enforcement officers and government officials during recent immigration protests in California. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district of New Mexico announced the charges Wednesday, saying 48-year-old Grzegorz Vandenberg visited a store in southwestern New Mexico to purchase fireworks and asked employees for the largest explosives possible. According to court records, the man allegedly told store employees that he had previously served in the military’s special forces and could make pipe bombs. He said he was…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday, June 18, hinted at the possibility that his latest feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom over mass federal immigration raids – and the use of military troops to protect federal buildings and agents as they carry out those enforcement actions – could impact additional wildfire aid to California. Asked by a reporter if his latest “dust-ups” with Newsom could impact relief aid to help California recover from the devastating January wildfires, Trump said, “Yeah, maybe.” “Hatred is never a good thing in politics,” Trump went on to say. “When you don’t like somebody, you don’t respect…
VAN NUYS — A judge today confirmed an arbitrator’s award of nearly $1.4 million to a businessman who sued Reggie Bush for defamation after having settled a previous suit against the former Heisman Trophy winner and USC running back. Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Eric Harmon heard arguments in plaintiff Lloyd Lake’s petition, briefly took the issues under submission and issued his final ruling later in the day Wednesday. According to Lake’s petition, arbitrator Jeffrey G. Benz on April 12 awarded him $500,000, plus $764,640 in attorneys’ fees and about $116,780 in costs. Bush’s attorneys argued that the award should…
Two wild donkeys were recently shot with arrows in Moreno Valley, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said on Tuesday, June 17. The department did not disclose when the incidents are believed to have occurred. This is not the first time wild burros have been targeted. In 2022, a burro was shot with an arrow in a canyon north of Moreno Valley. Despite receiving treatment, the animal died. Another burro was shot in the ear in 2018. Reche Canyon, which stretches roughly from Colton in San Bernardino County to Moreno Valley in Riverside County, is home to a large population of…
By BRUCE SCHREINER FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a federal judge to strike down a Kentucky regulation that it says unlawfully gives undocumented immigrants access to in-state college tuition. The U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit says the regulation violates federal immigration law by enabling undocumented students to qualify for the lower tuition rate at Kentucky’s public colleges and universities, while American citizens from other states pay higher tuition to attend the same schools. “Federal law prohibits aliens not lawfully present in the United States from getting in-state tuition benefits that are denied to out-of-state U.S. citizens.…
NEW YORK — The Angels continue to have a mixed bag of imperfect pieces they are trying to wedge into right field while Mike Trout remains locked into the DH spot. Jorge Soler, who is primarily a DH, has been playing most of the time in right field lately, but on Wednesday he came up with a stiff back. That led Manager Ron Washington to put Luis Rengifo into right. Rengifo has played 32 games in right in his major league career, but for only three innings since 2023. “The reports I got from the organization are that Rengifo can…
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — The American flag has long flown from a pole on the White House roof, but that’s always been too small for President Donald Trump, who wants everything to be bigger and more beautiful. On Wednesday, massive new flagpoles were erected on the North and South Lawns of the White House. “It’s such a beautiful pole,” Trump said as workers used a crane to install the latest addition to the South Lawn. He returned to the same spot later in the day, saluting as the stars and stripes were hoisted for the…
The Buss family has agreed to sell the majority ownership of the Lakers to Dodgers chairman Mark Walter, the CEO of Guggenheim Partners, at a valuation of approximately $10 billion. It will mark the largest sale of a North American professional sports team all-time. ESPN first reported the sale on Wednesday afternoon, adding that Jeanie Buss will remain the franchise’s governor. “Laker fans should be [ecstatic],” Lakers icon Magic Johnson wrote in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) after news of the franchise being sold broke. Johnson is a minority owner of the Dodgers and part of the…
Every weekday, Inland Empire public schools serve up meals for kids. That includes summer. With classes over for the school year, school districts are teaming up with cities and others to keep the breakfasts and lunches coming. Kiki Median, right, and Emily Neil enjoy lunch at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in Redlands. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) Children at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside enjoy lunches provided by the Redlands Unified School District on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in Redlands. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) Kamden…
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — Amazon is gearing up to make as many as 10,000 robotaxis annually at a sprawling plant near Silicon Valley as it prepares to challenge self-driving cab leader Waymo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is also vying to join the autonomous race. The 220,000-square-foot robotaxi factory announced Wednesday heralds a new phase in Amazon’s push into a technological frontier that began taking shape in 2009, when Waymo was launched as a secret project within Google. Amazon began eyeing the market five years ago when it shelled out $1.2 billion for self-driving startup Zoox,…