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A summer baseball team composed of players from collegiate programs across the country plays its home games at Great Park in Irvine, California, and bills itself as Orange County’s best-kept secret. Relatively few people, indeed, are aware of the Orange County Riptide. With the Angels based in Anaheim, despite what the team’s official name suggests,

A group of 21 hard-line conservative House Republicans has warned that they would vote against spending bills that fail to include satisfactory cuts, in a letter addressed to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday. The lawmakers expressed their concerns about appropriations bills that could lead to increased spending levels, just as Congress is set

United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that Sudan may be close to all-out-civil war after a weekend airstrike killed dozens in the city near the capital of Khartoum. In a written statement, a U.N. spokesperson expressed the secretary general’s fear that the ongoing conflict between warring armed forces has “pushed Sudan to the

EDMONTON—Alberta’s new Minister of Energy and Minerals Brian Jean has received marching orders from Premier Danielle Smith, which instruct him to support further development of the province’s energy resources. The mandate letter released July 10 asks Mr. Jean to develop and implement an “investment incentive program” for technologies including carbon capture, utilization and storage, ammonia,

The Calgary Stampede, the annual event known as The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the most pancakes served in eight hours. The Stampede served 17,182 pancakes on July 9, as verified by an official judge for Guinness World Records, and even with 15 pancakes disqualified, Calgary beat

Officials in Santa Ana, California, are calling on locals to name two new parks coming to the city. The deadline for submissions is July 14. Residents can submit their name ideas online. Submissions will be reviewed at the next Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission July 27. One of the parks being built and in

Ties between Beijing and the Solomon Islands leadership continue to deepen after Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare inked a “comprehensive strategic partnership” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mr. Sogavare met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang during a week-long visit to China, which will conclude as the prime minister opens his country’s

U.S. senators are split on President Joe Biden’s decision to arm Ukraine with cluster munitions, with some members of both parties condemning the move and others supporting it. Mr. Biden announced on July 7 that he had made the “very difficult decision” to arm Ukrainians with cluster munitions, also known as cluster bombs, a controversial

A federal briefing note says more than a quarter of Atlantic businesses that get federal subsidies fail within five years. “The business survival rate for Agency-assisted startups is 73 percent,” said the federal briefing note “Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency” (ACOA). However, it goes on to say the survival rate for businesses that did not get taxpayers’

LOS ANGELES—A West Los Angeles man was sentenced July 10 to 79 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining at least $7.3 million in coronavirus relief funds, some of which he gambled away in Las Vegas. Andrew Marnell, 43, who lives in the Beverly Grove neighborhood, pleaded guilty in 2021 to one count each of