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By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — After fighting in Afghanistan, former U.S. Army soldier Mauricio Hernandez Mata returned home…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Los Angeles Clippers coach Tyronn Lue will replace Phoenix’s Monty Williams on the USA Basketball men’s…

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. will cut about 7,000 jobs as part of an ambitious companywide cost-savings…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will undergo surgery on his injured elbow later this month and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A driver who caused a crash that killed two people during a police chase last week in Los Angeles was high on heroin and…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google, a company built on finding quick answers to people’s questions, suddenly…

By MARK ANDERSON and DOUG FEINBERG AP Sports Writers LAS VEGAS (AP) — The WNBA is investigating former Las Vegas player Dearica Hamby’s…

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Two of the biggest names on the men’s entry list for the BNP Paribas Open are unlikely to play in the Southern…

By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jordin Canada is staying with her hometown Los Angeles Sparks. The guard was re-signed to a training camp contract on Wednesday.…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how…

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Microsoft’s stalled $68.7 billion deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard has hit a…

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer James Harden averaged 36 points a few seasons ago. Devin Booker once scored 70 in one game. There are many more…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man and woman were found dead Wednesday after an early morning fire in a Los Angeles home, authorities said. A cat also died.…

RIO DELL, Calif. (AP) — Humboldt County authorities have released the latest statistics on recovery from the December earthquake and aftershocks…

HELSINKI (AP) — Firefighters worked for a second day Wednesday to fully extinguish a blaze at a U.S. company’s drone plant in Latvia, as police…

By The Associated Press EDITORS — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passed Wilt Chamberlain for the NBA’s career scoring lead on April 5, 1984 during a…

By MORGAN LEE and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime and weapons…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James became the NBA’s career scoring leader on a step-back jumper late in the…

By The Associated Press Timeline of the National Basketball Association’s scoring record progression, focusing on LeBron James and his pursuit of…

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Isaiah Hill scored 17 points as Fresno State beat San Jose State 70-62 on Tuesday. Hill also added five assists and four…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LeBron James got the first official statistic of his NBA career on a rebound. His next entry on the stat sheet…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James has become the NBA’s career scoring leader, breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s mark of 38,387…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bronny James stepped over to his dad’s locker and played the phone video he had taken of…

By MATT CARLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Frank Vatrano scored 2:15 into overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A fire on board a New Jersey-bound United Airlines plane prompted it to return to San Diego International Airport and four people…

By MARK DIDTLER Associated Press TAMPA, Fla., (AP) — Timo Meier scored his second goal of the game and 30th this season 2:19 into overtime, and the…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The city of Eugene, Oregon, will join other local governments throughout the country in phasing out gas appliances in some…

By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small California city that was overrun by visitors four years ago when heavy winter rains…

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of arson was shot and killed by Southern California sheriff’s deputies after leading authorities…

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — An alleged gang member pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing six people, including a teen mother and her baby, last…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nikki Fargas, then known as Nikki Caldwell, was an assistant coach at the University of…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A total of 369 3-year-olds were made eligible to compete in this year’s Triple Crown series during the early nomination…

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike LaFleur is going to wait until he’s found a new house and new schools for his kids…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers are hiring former Carolina interim head coach Steve Wilks…

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season,…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks have signed former All-Star guard Layshia Clarendon to a training camp contract. Clarendon has averaged…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its…

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing,…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congress began considering critical aviation legislation on Tuesday in the aftermath of recent close calls…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — What was shaping up as one the biggest controversies in golf this year also turned out…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Amanda Kamekona, a former star softball player at UCLA, has been hired as a minor league hitting…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Brock Purdy’s bid to join the select group of quarterbacks to go from a backup for most of the season to a…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Barbra Streisand’s very long and very long-awaited memoir, a project she has talked about…