SANTA ANA, Calif.—Newport Beach attorney Michael Avenatti, who was already convicted in New York of bilking funds from former client and adult film actress Stormy Daniels, pleaded guilty Thursday in an Orange County federal courtroom to multiple fraud charges.
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Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer warned residents about the use of illegal fireworks for personal use as preparations for Independence Day are underway. Amid concerns of increased risk of a fire hazard due to the ongoing drought, Feuer...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a Friday speech those blaming him for surging inflation don’t “know how to read or write,” directly mocking President Joe Biden, who’s pinned much of the cause of four-decade high inflation on “Putin’s...
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President Joe Biden acknowledged that two years of the pandemic and high inflation have battered the national mood, during an interview with the Associated Press in which he expressed optimism about the economy and said the U.S. was in...
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Phil Mickelson finished his first two rounds of play in this week’s U.S. Open in 144th place out of the 156-golfer field, mightily underwhelming expectations in his first tournament in the United States following his decision to defect from...
What just happened? A free update released this week added ray tracing and 3D audio to three recent Resident Evil games on consoles and PC. However, the patch had some drawbacks for some PC users, so Capcom now lets...
In brief: Apple's "Batterygate" problem from 2017 isn't going away. A consumer rights activist in the UK is launching a new class action lawsuit against the company for throttling processor performance on iPhones with aging batteries. If successful, up...
It seems that small-business owners who took out disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration cut quite the deal as the Federal Reserve deploys historic measures to tame spiraling inflation.
The SBA announced on Thursday that its Covid Economic...
In brief: The European smartphone market in the first three months of this year registered the lowest Q1 shipment total since 2013 according to a new report from Counterpoint Research. Shipments of phones in the region slid 12 percent...
