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LOS ANGELES — Playing without leading scorer Kelsey Plum and guard Odyssey Sims, the Sparks proved no match for the Seattle Storm. The short-handed hosts trailed by 34 points in the second half and had few answers for a stifling defensive effort from the Storm in a 98-67 loss on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena. The Sparks shot 32.8% from the field (21 for 64) and scored a season-low 67 points. They were outscored 28-14 in the third quarter, trailed 75-51 heading into the fourth and lost their second straight game to drop to 4-9. Rickea Jackson led the Sparks…

On the floor of the Senate, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California once again lashed out at President Donald Trump and his administration on Tuesday, June 17, for what he described as the militarization of Los Angeles, and urged members of Congress and the American people to push back against a president whom Padilla accused of abusing his powers. In blistering remarks just five days after he was forcibly removed from U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s press conference while trying to ask a question, Padilla issued a stern warning that democracy itself is at stake. “It’s not just…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer SUNRISE, Fla. — Stanley’s stay in South Florida is getting extended. The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions by beating the Edmonton Oilers, 5-1, in Game 6 of the Final on Tuesday night, becoming the NHL’s first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and ’21 and the third team to do it this century. Sam Reinhart scored four goals, becoming just the sixth player in league history and first since Maurice Richard in 1957 to get that many in a game in the Final. His third to complete the hat trick sent…

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Monday proposed deeper Medicaid cuts, including new work requirements for parents of teens, as a way to offset the costs of making President Donald Trump’s tax breaks more permanent in draft legislation unveiled for his “big, beautiful bill.” The proposals from Republicans keep in place the current $10,000 deduction of state and local taxes, called SALT, drawing quick blowback from GOP lawmakers from New York and other high-tax states, who fought for a $40,000 cap in the House-passed bill. Senators insisted negotiations continue. The Senate draft…

LOS ANGELES — Even Shohei Ohtani was curious how he would feel after pitching in a major-league game for the first time in 22 months. “I did hit 100 (mph) today, so I want to see first where my body feels and how it reacts,” he said through an interpreter following Monday’s game. Before Tuesday’s game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani was “feeling good” after his one-inning, 28-pitch outing against the San Diego Padres. “I think he’s just a little fatigued but feels good,” Roberts said, adding that there was no thought given to giving Ohtani the day off…

By MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press A schism has opened among President Donald Trump’s most devout MAGA supporters and national security conservatives over the Israel-Iran conflict, as some longtime defenders of the president’s America First mantra call him out for weighing a greater U.S. role in the region. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, commentator Tucker Carlson and conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk — with legions of their own devoted followers — are reminding audiences of Trump’s 2024 promises to resist overseas military involvement after a week of deadly strikes and counterstrikes between Israel and Iran, and discussion of U.S.…

NEW YORK — Kyle Hendricks put on a clinic for every velocity-challenged pitcher in baseball. The Angels’ soft-throwing right-hander pitched six innings in a 4-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. Statistically, the Yankees have been one of baseball’s highest scoring teams and the Angels have been one of the worst at preventing runs, but the Angels nonetheless shut out the Yankees in the first two games of this series. The Angels (35-37) became the first team since the Toronto Blue Jays in 2015 to shut out the Yankees in back-to-back games at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees…

On Saturday, as an estimated 5 million people took to the streets in more than 2,000 U.S. cities to protest Donald Trump’s immigration raids and his increasingly monarchical tendencies, a columnist in my local newspaper posed a seemingly simple question: “What’s wrong with enforcing the law?” It’s a fair question — on the surface. But it overlooks the deeply human consequences of Trump’s approach. To her, the deportation of some 11 million undocumented individuals — including those brought here as children, those with expired visas, those awaiting court decisions, and even those granted temporary humanitarian relief from repressive regimes in…

By ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press Tax credits for crucial clean energy and home energy efficiency projects would still be phased out, albeit less quickly, under Senate Republicans’ proposed changes to a massive tax bill, while electric vehicle incentives and other provisions intended to move the United States away from fossil fuels would be gutted rapidly. Senate Republicans cast their version of the bill as less damaging to the clean energy industry than the version House Republicans passed last month, but Democrats and advocates criticized it, saying it would still have significant consequences for wind, solar and other projects. “They…

Leigh Steinberg was representing NFL players in an era when TV announcers, instead of saying that a player had gone into concussion protocol as they do now, were just as likely to say he’d gotten his bell rung. No, we didn’t know as much then about traumatic brain injuries as we do now. “In the late ’80s, I’m representing half the starting quarterbacks in the NFL, and they keep getting hit in the head,” Steinberg said in a phone conversation last week. “And we go to doctors and ask, ‘How many is too many whence you contemplate retirement?’ And they…