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The Angels are the only major league team never to have lost 100 games in a season. It is a nice distinction, but the apparent determination to maintain it has detracted from the pursuit of what should be the primary goal: a second World Series championship. Losing 100 games is nothing to be proud of, but it is also nothing to be scared of, provided there is a plan to do something beyond save money. The Baltimore Orioles lost 100 games three years ago, and five years ago, and six years ago. They had a plan: rid themselves of veteran players, let the losses pile up, draft and develop good young players, build a winning core. On Wednesday, for the fourth time in six games this season, the defending American League East champion Orioles beat the Angels. The Angels do not tank because owner Arte Moreno believes paying fans deserve a competitive team every year, but Angel Stadium was two-thirds empty Wednesday, with resale tickets available for $1 and entire sections vacant all around the upper deck. The Angels are five games under .500, a

On Sunday nights in West Hollywood, the stretch of gay bars lining Santa Monica Boulevard look mighty different when a Sissy Stroll is underway. The monthly bar crawl, which includes the hot spots Revolver , Mickey’s and Heart , was created by dynamic trio the Sissy Squad . The mission? Curate a social hangout that prioritizes genuine connection among queer Black people, queer people of color and those who support them, while joyfully taking up space in WeHo’s notoriously white nightlife scene. The Sissy Squad consists of Matthew Brinkley , a.k.a. Dr. Brinkley, a psychotherapist who focuses on relationship and queer life coaching; Neville, a.k.a. Aunt Jackie, an event producer and founder of Obtaining Mental Wellness Inc.; and David Brandyn , a writer and sex educator. In an effort to satisfy their appetite for stepping out on the town while at the same time addressing the lack of comfortable social spaces for queer people of color in West Hollywood, the group channeled their creativity and community-building skills into creating the change they wanted to see with support from partners House of Love Cocktails , Impulse

Updated on: April 25, 2024 / 6:40 AM EDT / CBS/AP Tracing family trees to catch killers Inside the genetic genealogy being used to solve crimes 13:49 A man imprisoned since last year has been indicted on murder and other charges in the 2012 slaying of a retired farmer found shot to death in his western Indiana home, police said Wednesday. A Sullivan County grand jury indicted William Ray Grimes on charges of murder, burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary in the December 2012 slaying of Lowell Badger, state police said. Badger, 85, died during a burglary at his rural Sullivan County home about 30 miles south of Terre Haute. Badger was found dead on the bedroom floor, and a 46-inch TV and safe were taken from his home, Indiana State Police previously said.   Lowell Badger Indiana State Police Grimes, 38, is currently incarcerated at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in nearby Carlisle serving a 2023 sentence for battery, theft and unlawful possession of a firearm. The Indiana Department of Correction database shows Grimes’ earliest release date is Jan. 2, 2053. A phone message seeking comment

My father and I only argued about one thing regularly: his driving. Because he had epilepsy. In 1948, when my father was 17, he fell out of a moving car. He was in a coma for three days. A dime-sized titanium plate was put in his skull. Thirteen years later he started having both petit and grand mal seizures. I was 9 years old when I first saw him have a seizure. He was driving the two of us in East Salinas and an elderly man with a cane was walking across the road. Suddenly my father slumped down with his head on his chest. The elderly man saw us coming at him. He rushed forward and tapped the side of our car with his cane as it nearly hit him. I knew nothing about cars but as we continued off the side of the road I slammed my left foot down on the brakes so hard we both smashed our heads against the windshield. That was the first of my father’s car accidents. His license was taken away after it happened. Despite being a

DETROIT —  In keeping with tradition, the top prospects in the NFL draft participated in a youth football event Wednesday and then met on the field with the media. Twelve of those future pros wore NFL-issued gray sweats. USC quarterback Caleb Williams, the likely No. 1 overall pick who marches to his own drumbeat, broke ranks and wore blue. “This one actually has a little more fur on the inside,” Williams said, turning his neckline to show the inside of his sweatshirt. “You prepare for the moment.” Good that he’s prepared for the cold. Williams almost certainly is heading for the Chicago Bears. And the chilly breeze on an overcast April day in Detroit is nothing compared to the historical headwinds of playing quarterback in Chicago — and the icy blowback if things don’t go as planned. “The fans here in town are gun-shy when it comes to quarterbacks because we’ve been wandering in the quarterback desert for centuries, or let’s say decades,” said Tom Waddle, the former Bears receiver turned ESPN radio host in Chicago. “There’s a certain percentage of folks who believe they’re still

WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Trump’s claim that he is entirely immune from prosecution for all of his “official acts” during his time in the White House, including his effort to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Trump’s claim of absolute immunity has been derided by legal experts and rejected by a federal trial judge and the U.S. appeals court in Washington. But the former president and his lawyers have been winning delays with their losing arguments. Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for conspiring to subvert the results of the 2020 election, and the judge originally scheduled the trial for March. The Supreme Court’s intervention upset that timetable and raised doubts a jury will consider the charges before this November’s election. Why did the Supreme Court intervene? One possibility is that the justices, at least several of them, believe a former president is shielded from later prosecution for his truly “official acts” as the nation’s chief executive, even if he can be prosecuted for a private scheme to overturn his election defeat. In the lower courts, the immunity

April 25, 2024 3 AM PT 1 Since he first arrived in Los Angeles, the conversation around Caleb Williams has failed in many respects to capture the quarterback’s true nature. Every aspect of his identity — from his painted nails to his name, image and likeness portfolio to his propensity for crying after losses — has been picked apart by an endless stream of analysts and anonymous scouts. The takes surrounding the quarterback have veered off track, creating a polarizing loop as he prepared for the NFL draft. During two years of highs and lows at USC, Williams offered glimpses of who he is as a quarterback, with the weight of a proud program on his shoulders. There were stunning displays of near-supernatural talent as well as growing pains. Williams likely did enough to help convince the Chicago Bears to draft him with the No. 1 pick on Thursday night. The Times looked back at some of the most telling moments of Williams’ Trojan tenure to clear up who Williams is and could he possibly be as an NFL quarterback. 2 Sept. 10, 2022: USC

Jennifer Castellon shook, tapped and blew on a box to shoo out more than 1,000 mosquitoes in a quiet, upscale Inland Empire neighborhood. The insects had a job to do, and the pest scientist wanted every last one out. Aggressive and impactful reporting on climate change, the environment, health and science. Their task? Find lady mosquitoes and mate. But these were no ordinary mosquitoes. Technicians had zapped the insects, all males, with radiation in a nearby lab to make them sterile. If they achieve their amorous quest, there will be fewer baby mosquitoes than there would be if nature ran its course. That means fewer mouths to feed — mouths that thirst for human blood. “I believe, fingers crossed, that we can drop the population size,” said Solomon Birhanie, scientific director for the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, which released the mosquitoes in several San Bernardino County neighborhoods this month. Sterilized male Aedes mosquitoes are released from a box in Rancho Cucamonga. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Controlling mosquitoes with mosquitoes Mosquito control agencies in Southern California are desperate to tamp

By Melissa Quinn, Robert Legare April 25, 2024 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News Washington —The Supreme Court will convene Thursday to consider whether former President Donald Trump is entitled to broad immunity from federal prosecution, jumping into a blockbuster dispute that will be critical to the fate of his 2020 election case in Washington, D.C. At issue in the case known as Trump v. United States is whether the former president can face criminal charges for allegedly official acts while he was in the White House. The dispute, which arose from the federal prosecution by special counsel Jack Smith, is the second to come before the justices in their current term with significant consequences for Trump’s political future . The Supreme Court has never before addressed whether a former president is immune from criminal prosecution, and the outcome of the legal battle will determine whether Smith’s case heads to trial. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and Trump appointed three of its members. If Trump prevails, it would bring his federal prosecution in Washington to an end. But if the Supreme Court

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to continue testifying Thursday in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial , his third day on the stand. Court is set to reconvene at 9:30 a.m. to resume proceedings and will overlap with another significant legal development for the former president. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether Trump should be immune from federal prosecution in the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. The judge overseeing the trial denied Trump’s request to attend the arguments in the capital. In his testimony on Tuesday , the most recent day of the trial, Pecker described his efforts to use the National Enquirer to bury negative stories about Trump and attack his rivals during the 2016 presidential campaign. Pecker was the chief executive of the Enquirer’s parent company, a role he held until 2020. Pecker testified that he agreed to be Trump’s “eyes and ears” in 2015 and alert Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, to damaging stories that might hurt the campaign. Cohen is now an ardent critic of Trump, and is expected to be prosecutors’ key