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NAPA — Around three o’clock on Friday afternoon, Roki Sasaki announced he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Less than 24 hours later, the San Francisco Giants hosted the first leg of their FanFest Tour in Napa to garner excitement for the coming season. Talk about timing. “At the end of the day, he chose that team,” left-hander Kyle Harrison told this news organization. “That’s the way you have to look at it. I think that’s probably where he thought he was going to get better after going through all those processes. … Maybe he found that was the best fit along with some other guys he knew on the team. I don’t know. We have to beat the Dodgers, though, so I could care less about that.” For the Giants, Sasaki’s decision to join the Dodgers especially stings because San Francisco’s brass wasn’t shy about expressing its interest. At the Winter Meetings, president of baseball operations Buster Posey and general manager Zack Minasian both had raving review for “The Monster of the Reiwa Era.” Posey, in particular, described the possibility of Sasaki pitching

President-elect Donald Trump told ABC News in an interview Saturday he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban in the United States. The app is scheduled to be banned due to a bipartisan congressional law that ordered the platform to sever ties with China-based parent company ByteDance by Sunday. Trump, who called for a TikTok ban during his first administration, has said in the last couple of months that the app shouldn’t be removed and told ABC News he is looking into his options to salvage it. “I’m the one who is going to be calling the shots. Most likely, I’ll extend for 90 days,” he told ABC’s Rachel Scott. “You have the extension for 90 days as you probably know. I’ll do that until we figure something out.” He did not provide further details on how an extension could be enacted. The bipartisan law has a provision allowing an extension, but only provided that the three conditions are all met and certified by the president. The first condition is “a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified”;

By Luke Barr, Mireya Villarreal, and Armando Garcia Saturday, January 18, 2025 8:32PM Donald Trump’s administration is planning a “large-scale immigration raid” for mass deportations Tuesday in Chicago, the Wall Street Journal reported. As part of President-elect Donald Trump’s strategy to secure the border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will carry out post-inauguration raids as early as Tuesday, sources briefed on the plans told ABC News. ICE will likely start in Chicago and could move on to other big cities, according to sources, who noted the plans could change. The agency has been ramping up its operations in anticipation of Trump’s plan to carry out deportations, and the agency put out a request for ICE agents to volunteer to help with at least some of the operations, according to a source. The plans were first reported by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Agencies that fall under the Department of Homeland Security umbrella, such as Enforcement and Removal Operations, which handles deportations, and Homeland Security Investigations, have been put on “alert” by the incoming administration, officials with knowledge of the plan told ABC

NAPA — The temperature at Napa Yard hovered in the low 40s for much of Saturday’s FanFest. Every breath, every word produced clouds of vapor. But in several weeks’ time, pitchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison will venture down to Scottsdale, Arizona, where they’ll be greeted by true baseball weather. And heightened expectations, too. “Anytime this comes around, we get the itch,” Harrison told this news organization. “Baseball season is right around the corner, so we’re excited to be out here. Can’t wait for the offseason to be over.” Willie Mays jerseys are popular at the San Francisco Giants FanFest event, where starting pitcher Kyle Harrison took the stage at the Napa Yard, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Napa, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) With the Giants failing to lure right-handers Corbin Burnes and Roki Sasaki to San Francisco, they’ll be leaning heavily on Harrison and Hicks to take steps forward and provide more — both quality and quantity — than they did last season. Harrison, 23, and Hicks, 28, are at different points in their careers, but last year, they both recorded career-highs

CHICO — Coaches love having players who give them flexibility with their lineups. For Chico High School coach Tiberiu Marinescu, that is exactly what he has in senior Juliana Carranza, who scored two goals in Chico’s 5-0 victory over Red Bluff High School on Friday night at Panthers Stadium. Marinescu started Carranza, in her fourth year of varsity soccer at Chico, at the defensive midfield spot before moving her up to the forward line, where would tally both of her goals in the second half. “It’s amazing, it’s every coach’s dream,” he said. “It’s good to have (a player like Carranza); I am very lucky. She’s an amazing athlete; she’s tactically disciplined; she has the quality, obviously, so it’s a great relief to me to have that flexibility.” Marina Carlos celebrates her second-half goal with Olivia Lourenco (2), Selma Buxrud, Nyessa Santos (20), and Sienna Jones (17) in Chico High’s 5-0 win over Red Bluff on Friday, Jan.. 17, 2025, in Chico, California. (Rick Silva/Daily News) While Carranza patrolled the defensive midfield, slowing down the Spartans (12-4-1 overall, 1-1 in the Eastern Athletic League), her

By HALELUYA HADERO, Associated Press The clock is ticking toward a U.S. ban on TikTok, but users seeking clarity on what that will mean did not get much Saturday from the company that runs the popular video-sharing platform or the tech giants that offer the TikTok app in their digital marketplaces. However, President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he was considering granting an extension that might allow TikTok to keep going beyond Sunday, when a law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect. The ban’s timing has complicated matters, perhaps in TikTok’s favor: the outgoing Biden administration reiterated Saturday that it considers the law’s implementation and enforcement to be the responsibility of Trump, who takes office on Monday and has pledged to “save” the app. Under the law, TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, had nine months to sell the platform’s U.S. operation to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to extend the deadline by 90 days if a sale is in progress. Are there any viable deals on the table? Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI submitted a proposal

Like several other pending unrestricted free agents around the NHL, San Jose Sharks center Nico Sturm figures he’ll be moved to another team before the NHL trade deadline in March if he doesn’t receive a contract extension offer. Related Articles San Jose Sharks | Slow start, ‘cute’ play dooms Sharks in loss to Columbus Blue Jackets San Jose Sharks | As he hits milestone, Sharks’ Vlasic recalls his first few weeks in the NHL San Jose Sharks | Sharks’ first round pick sheds light on his trade request from Sudbury San Jose Sharks | As milestone nears, Sharks’ Vlasic has bone to pick with NHL: ‘It’s absolutely absurd’ San Jose Sharks | Sharks beat Detroit Red Wings with barrage of third period goals “Realistically, as long as nothing’s done, I might probably expect to get moved,” Sturm told this news organization in late December. “If there’s no contract extension, that’s just the reality of life in the NHL.” Sturm, now in the final year of a three-year, $6 million contract he signed with San Jose as a free agent in 2022, said his agent spoke

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — During hearings on Merrick Garland’s nomination to be President Joe Biden’s attorney general, the longtime federal appeals court judge told senators in 2021 that he hoped to “turn down the volume” on the public discourse about the Justice Department and return to the days when the agency was not the “center of partisan disagreement.” It didn’t go as planned. Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters and restore the department’s reputation for independence after four turbulent years under Republican President Donald Trump, who fired one attorney general and feuded with another. Now the soft-spoken Garland, who was denied a seat on the Supreme Court by the Republican-led Senate before Trump’s 2016 election, is leaving with the department under siege on all sides and his own legacy in question. Those on the right are incensed over the department’s effort to hold Trump criminally responsible for his failed effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, and have accused prosecutors of going too easy on Biden’s son Hunter. Democrats have claimed Garland failed

By LOLITA C. BALDOR WASHINGTON (AP) — It is unclear who will take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. As of Friday, officials said they had not yet heard who will become the acting defense secretary. Officials said the military chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force were getting ready to step in as acting service secretaries — a rare move — because no civilians had been named or, in some cases, had turned down the opportunity. As is customary, all current political appointees will step down as of noon EST on Inauguration Day, leaving hundreds of key defense posts open, including dozens that require Senate confirmation. In addition to the top job and all three service secretaries, all of their deputies and senior policy staff will leave. The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote Monday on Trump’s choice to head the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, but the full Senate vote may not happen until days later. As a result someone from the Biden administration would have to take

By Amanda Hernández, Stateline.org Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in Washington state. Multiple jail breaks in Pennsylvania. Prisons and jails across the United States are overcrowded and understaffed, jeopardizing the safety of incarcerated people, correctional officers and surrounding communities. As state legislatures convene in the coming weeks, many lawmakers are focusing on a key criminal justice issue for prisons and jails: more oversight. Accountability for the nation’s correctional facilities is decentralized and inconsistent. While some states, counties and municipalities have independent oversight bodies, many rely on internal mechanisms or lack formal systems altogether, according to Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, which runs the National Resource Center for Correctional Oversight. Policy experts predict that correctional oversight will take center stage in this year’s legislative sessions, driven by mounting scrutiny of worsening prison and jail conditions and the growing adoption of independent oversight bodies across the country. Adding to the momentum, President Joe Biden last year signed a law creating an

By Darius Tahir, KFF Health News Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System, doctors are nudged to talk about a patient’s treatment and end-of-life preferences by an artificially intelligent algorithm that predicts the chances of death. Related Articles Health | Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs are among 15 selected for Medicare’s price negotiations Health | Saying no is hard, but setting boundaries can improve your health Health | Surprise finding sheds light on what causes Huntington’s disease, a devastating fatal brain disorder Health | Proposed rules would require nutrition info, allergen warnings on alcohol labels Health | Tehama County issues advisory on health misinformation But it’s far from being a set-it-and-forget-it tool. A routine tech checkup revealed the algorithm decayed during the covid-19 pandemic, getting 7 percentage points worse at predicting who would die, according to a 2022 study. There were likely real-life impacts. Ravi Parikh, an Emory University oncologist who was the study’s lead author, told KFF Health News the tool failed hundreds of times to

And so begins the national and regional obsession with the 49ers and how much they will pay Brock Purdy to be their quarterback now and into the future. There are no playoffs or Super Bowl for the 49ers this year, with their news cycle dominated instead by conjecture over how many zeroes to put at the end of a contract extension for the quarterback who fell into their lap in 2022. Coach Kyle Shanahan, general manager John Lynch and ownership have been here before when it comes to mega-deals. The 49ers haven’t been afraid to pay the going rate and then some. At their season-ending press conference, Shanahan declared “I plan on Brock being here the whole time I’m here” and Lynch said “We have interest in Brock being around here for a long, long time” which on its face would seem to be an odd way of driving the price down. Purdy staked out his position the same day, hoping to avoid drama and get a deal done in time to be involved in the offseason program while stopping short of saying he’d participate

CAIRO — The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT), mediator Qatar announced Saturday, as families of hostages held in Gaza braced for news of loved ones, Palestinians prepared to receive freed detainees and humanitarian groups rushed to set up a surge of aid. But in a national address 12 hours before the ceasefire was to start, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was treating the ceasefire as temporary and retained the right to continue fighting if necessary. He claimed he had the support of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who told NBC News that he told the prime minister to “keep doing what you have to do.” Netanyahu also asserted that he negotiated the best deal possible, even as Israel’s far-right Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he and most of his party would resign from the government in opposition to it. The prime minister earlier warned that a ceasefire wouldn’t go forward unless Israel received the names of hostages to be released, as agreed. Israel had expected to receive the names from

Saturday, January 18, 2025 12:45PM Vitale, 85, has battled four different types of cancer in the past three and a half years. Dick Vitale, the legendary voice of college basketball, is returning to the air for the first time since 2023. The Hall of Fame broadcaster will call the Duke-Wake Forest men’s college basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 25 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Vitale, 85, has battled four different types of cancer in the past three and a half years. Most recently, he underwent surgery in the summer of 2024 after a biopsy of a lymph node in his neck showed cancer. Vitale announced on Jan. 8 that he was cancer-free. “I am absolutely ecstatic and I can’t believe this is happening after going through five major vocal cord surgeries, 65 radiation treatments and chemotherapy for six months,” Vitale said. “It’s been a very tough journey, but all of the prayers and messages from the beautiful fans have inspired me.” “I just hope that I can offer the people some basketball insights that can bring even more excitement to the

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations. The unanimous decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans – two judges appointed by Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and one by Democrat Barack Obama – is the latest blow for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, whose beneficiaries have lived in legal limbo for more than a decade. It signals no immediate change for its more than 500,000 beneficiaries, who can renew temporary permits to live and work in the United States. But the federal government cannot take new applications, leaving an aging and thinning pool of recipients. MORE: President Biden announces relief for some undocumented spouses of US citizens, ‘Dreamers’ The decision may tee up the policy for a third visit to the Supreme Court. Trump sought to end DACA during his first term, but he also occasionally expressed wishes that beneficiaries

Dangerous temperatures are sweeping the country, with 100 million people from the Plains to the Northeast feeling the chill. Even those in the South will see some effects. Several cities have already declared weather emergencies, and some areas are bracing for heavy wind and snow. Here’s what to know.

The Red Bluff High School girls basketball program is bringing back its pink-out game, “Slam Dunk Cancer.” The event started in 2011 when the team held the first-ever Pink Out game at Red Bluff High in honor of a beloved teacher who was battling cancer. The event was a success, bringing students, faculty, and the community together to raise awareness of cancer and the importance of prevention tactics. Since then, the event has continued to grow. Through the efforts of students at RBHS, nearly $20,000 has been gifted to St. Elizabeth’s Imaging Center over the years. This year, the program’s kick-off to basketball’s pink month will be on February 1 with a “Slam Dunk Cancer” Brunch at The Bluff Private Event Venue at 11 a.m. Silent auction items, door prizes and more will be displayed in the evening as the Spartans take on Redding Christian for Senior Night. RBHS Student Government will also provide daily activities during lunch break. The official “Slam Dunk Cancer” Pink Out game will take place on February 6, 7:30 p.m., at Spartan Pavilion. Lady Spartans will debut their new pink

In the wake of Measure R’s failure in the November general election, the Red Bluff City Council will meet on Tuesday night to provide direction to staff regarding revenue options for street repairs. The measure, which sought to impose ¾ of a cent special use tax to fund street improvements within the city, was 65.74% of the vote, but because it was a special tax that designated revenues to specific needs, it needed to meet or exceed a 66.67% threshold to pass. Kris Dieters (Daily News) Even after the City Council voted to pay for a recount completed by hand, the measure still failed to pass. The defeat at the ballot box leaves the council looking for ways to secure a long-term revenue source to repair the streets.  In the state, only one new special use tax was passed by voters in California; the other five that passed were extensions of previously passed taxes. In December, the council placed on its future agenda an idea to discuss options to secure revenue for improvements, knowing that an overwhelming number of voters in the last elections approved

As we watch in horror the devastation of the Los Angeles fires unfolding before us, I cannot help but be concerned about the animals affected. While most of our focus is on the destruction of the landscape, personal property loss, or the resultant human suffering, it is important to be acutely aware that, in any disaster where people suffer, pets, livestock and wildlife also suffer. The warnings regarding the air quality from the smoke from the wildfire range from unhealthy for specific groups to hazardous for everyone, including animals.  Urban wildfires release deadly chemicals from human-made materials which are chemically different from wildland fires, according to a 2022 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine  (https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/26540/Urban_Wildfires_Highlights.pdf ).  Emissions from these fires can negatively impact human health, not only in the immediate area of the fire but also hundreds of miles downwind.  Therefore, if you can see or feel the effects of smoke, be assured the animals are also experiencing it, and it is up to you to keep them as safe as humanly possible.  If you are wondering what the air quality

The Tehama District Fairgrounds was the host for the “Red Bluff Shoot Out” when District 1 California High School Rodeo Association invited District 2 from the west and District 3 from the south to participate in a rodeo last weekend. These are the results of the high school rodeo. SADDLE BRONC RIDING had 4 entries, but 1st was Zane Smull with a 56/1.   BAREBACK RIDING  had 4 entries: 1st Quentin Personeni, Oroville 138.5; 2nd Remmi Green, Dist. 2, 126;  3rd Caleb Taylor, Alturas, 60/1. BULL RIDING had 10 entries: 1st Giovanni Kent,  Red Bluff, 73.5/1; 2nd  Kevin Roundtree, Dist. 2, 72/1;  3rd Cole Lacy, Merrill, OR, 66/1. TIEDOWN ROPING had 24 ropers.  1st Hayden Boles, Orland, 29.11; 2nd Cody Knoll, Klamath Falls, OR, 32.99;  3rd Wyatt Stokes, Orland, 34.96;  4th Colton Hein, Dist 3, 35.35;  5th Blake Earley, Oroville, 36.56;  6th Caleb Gonzales, Dist 2, 37.17; 7th Blake White, Dist 3, 43.41; 8th Jace Kelley, Upper Lake, 44.97; 9th Collin Snyder, Dist 3, 15.34/1; 10th Carson Pray, Red Bluff, 17.18/1. STEER WRESTLING  had 8 wrestlers.  1st Casey Huston, Dist 2, 8.67;  2nd Karl Johnson, Etna, 8.98;  3rd Ilan Davis, Orland, 9.20;  4th Colton Hein, Dist 3, 15.67; 5th Westin

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KFSN) — Freezing temperatures have prompted President-elect Donald Trump to relocate his inauguration ceremonies indoors, leaving ticketed attendees disappointed. On Friday, Trump ordered the outdoor ceremony, which is traditionally held on the steps of the US Capitol, be moved indoors due to cold temperatures. Security has been particularly tight following an election cycle with two assassination attempts on Trump. “It’s important that we protect the outgoing President and the incoming president and members of Congress,” said Congressman Jim Costa. “It’s our government, and it’s our institutions. The executive and the legislative branch.” Monday’s inauguration is forecast to be the coldest in 40 years with temperatures in the low 20s and wind chills in the single digits. On January 20th, Trump will take the oath of office again, this time from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The move is not a total break from tradition. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office from under the dome of the Rotunda as well. The indoor ceremony will be more intimate with the Rotunda set to accommodate about 600. According to the inaugural committee’s