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Checkerboard apparel was everywhere at the Croatian American Hall in San Pedro on Wednesday, June 17. That’s because the hall, on Ninth Street, was packed with soccer fans who gathered there to watch Croatia — whose iconic jerseys are inspired by …

The ghosts of Srebrenica are never far away. They continue to hover over and touch Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 30 years after the madness of July 1995, the summer when Bosnian Serb paramilitaries turned the streets and meadows and …

By GIADA ZAMPANO ROME (AP) — The United Nations’ food agencies warned Wednesday that acute hunger is set to worsen across 13 global hot spots in the coming months, with conflict, funding shortages and climate shocks pushing millions closer to …

By ED WHITE The man who died when a small jet crashed on a Texas highway was an entrepreneur well-known in the state for being at the center of Austin’s turbocharged evolution as a technology hub. Joshua Baer, 50, described …

California’s powers-that-be have steered more than a half-billion dollars of other people’s money to their favorite charities and causes since 2011 — and way more than half of that haul came at the behest of Gov. Gavin Newsom. That includes …

PHOENIX — Sam Aldegheri hopes his performances this month will be enough to keep him in the Angels’ starting rotation for a while, but he put his team in an early hole in an 8-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks …

By PAN PYLAS LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists revealed Thursday that they have discovered a structure near the prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southern England that may have served as a “prototype” for the 5,000-year-old Neolithic monument. A team from …

A former Ducks head coach changed addresses yet again Monday and on Wednesday signs pointed to another one of their current defensemen doing the same this summer. Greg Cronin and former Ducks forward Václav Prospal were announced as additions to …

California officials are taking aim at AT&T’s attempt to get the federal government to override state authorities and allow it to end landline service for many Californians. The utility giant last month filed a federal court complaint against California regulators …

Denying funds to apparent victims of sexual abuse at the hands of public employees, monies already allocated by a generous government body in compensation, could at first glance seem like a gross miscarriage of justice. But in the case of …

By COLLIN BINKLEY and AAMER MADHANI EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought to show there was no daylight between him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, effusively describing Modi as his loyal friend even as …

By MARTHA BELLISLE High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people and destroying at least 15 homes, officials said Wednesday. One person was reported missing by a family member but officials …

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers had Shohei Ohtani’s back this time. Pitching with a knee issue that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts acknowledged is not “completely behind us,” Ohtani followed up his worst start of the season last week with his …

A Texas woman was sentenced Wednesday, June 17 in Los Angeles to one year, nine months behind bars for fraudulently obtaining more than $28,000 in federal disaster-relief money by falsely claiming she was a Pasadena resident living in a property …

By DEVI SHASTRI The Federal Trade Commission and four states sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on Wednesday, in the latest push by President Donald Trump’s administration and others to limit gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The suit …

It hasn’t always been legal in California for just anyone to show up at a stranger’s door and ask them to hand over their vote-by-mail ballot.  In 2001, Gov. Gray Davis vetoed Senate Bill 462, writing in his veto message, …

Members of the “Broadview Six” are asking a federal judge to take the extraordinary step of appointing an independent special counsel to investigate — and possibly prosecute — Justice Department officials in Chicago and Washington D.C. for criminal contempt. The …

Good morning, Chicago. ✶ 🔎 Below: Fending off anti-transgender lawsuits is proving to be costly for some Illinois school districts.  🗞️ Plus: Souther Siders’ concerns about the Obama Presidential Center, what’s in Gov. JB Pritzker’s $55.9 billion state budget and more news …

At a youth baseball game in Maryland, I told another parent I was from Chicago. He’d lived in Lincoln Park after college, and when I said I grew up in Naperville, he replied, “It’s funny how people from suburbs claim …

We are living through a political moment where fear, surveillance and the threat of immigration enforcement have become part of daily life for many immigrant families. Across the country, enforcement actions and the possibility of detention or deportation have reshaped …