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Biden team isn’t waiting for impeachment to go on the offensive

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

WASHINGTON — Just before 8 p.m. Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video of herself at a town hall in her Georgia district declaring that she “will not vote to fund the government” unless the House holds a vote to open an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.It took just 68 minutes for the White House to fire back with a blistering statement that such a vote would mean that House Republicans had “caved to the hard-core fringe of their party in prioritizing a baseless impeachment stunt over high-stakes needs Americans care about deeply” like drug enforcement and disaster relief.The White House, as it turns out, is not waiting for a formal inquiry to wage war against impeachment. With a team of two dozen attorneys, legislative liaisons, communications specialists and others, the president has begun moving to counter any effort to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors with a best-defense-is-a-good-offense campaign aimed at dividing Republicans and ta...

Rapids vs. Real Salt Lake Takeaways: Disappointment at highest levels after 2-0 loss

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

It was the final nail in the coffin for the Colorado Rapids’ 2023 campaign.A 2-0 loss to Real Salt Lake Saturday night on the road meant the neighbors from the Wasatch Range took the Rocky Mountain Cup in 2023 for a third consecutive season. The players have declared the team’s slide a new low for their time at the club, but it doesn’t mean they won’t be putting in a shift with eight games remaining.Now, they have to prove to the fanbase that they can still play for the badge and their pro soccer careers, no matter how far things have fallen this season. Colorado (3-13-10, 19 points) has been without a win in 17 of its 18 games, and 14 of 15 in MLS play as its historically bad season rages on.Here are two takeaways from the game.At a loss for wordsLittleton native Cole Bassett was authentically himself at the postgame news conference, going through a wide range of emotions from outright anger to wholly crestfallen about what’s happened to his hometown c...

Small plane crashes in Compton 

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

A small plane crashed in Compton on Sunday afternoon. According to an Instagram post by Compton Firefighters, first responders have launched an investigation in the area of South Oleander Avenue and West Reeve Street. A small plane crashed in Compton on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. (Citizen App)Video posted to the Citizen app shows the plane, which had crash landed on top of a ledge near a wash. It is unclear whether the pilot or anyone on the ground was injured in the crash. This is a developing story. Stay with KTLA for updates.Luis Zuniga contributed to this report.

2 dead, 1 critically injured in multi-vehicle crash in West Los Angeles

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

Two people were killed, and another was sent to a hospital in critical condition following a multi-vehicle collision in West Los Angeles. According to a Los Angeles Police Department release, the crash occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday night at the intersection of Sepulveda Boulevard and Ohio Avenue. A Honda Civic was traveling northbound on Sepulveda when it collided with a BMW i4. Three victims were in the two vehicles; the driver and the passenger of the BMW were rushed to a nearby hospital by LAFD paramedics, but they both later died due to their injuries. The driver of the Honda Civic was transported to a hospital in critical condition, authorities said. It remains unclear if drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.  Man killed after being pinned between his own car, out of control driver’s car The investigation is ongoing, and the identities of the deceased victims are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. “Drivers are remind...

Zelenskyy says Ukraine is getting a new defense minister

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that defense minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced this week with Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker.Zelenskyy made the announcement on his official Telegram account, writing that new leadership was needed after Umerov “has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war.”Later in his nightly address, Zelenskyy said he believes “that the Ministry needs new approaches and different formats of interaction both with the military and with society.”“The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is well acquainted with this person, and Umerov does not require additional introductions. I expect support for this candidacy from parliament,” the president told the nation.Umerov, 41, a politician with the opposition Holos party, has served as head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine since September 2022. He was involved in the exchange of prisoners of war, political prisoners, children and ...

Lake Tahoe dips to near-freezing temperatures on Labor Day weekend

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

Unseasonably rainy weather pelted Lake Tahoe over Labor Day weekend during one of the region’s most popular times for tourists, and forecasters predicted a significant dip in temperatures at the beginning of the week.Near-freezing temperatures were in the forecast for Monday morning, which Mark Deutschendorf, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Reno station, said “has happened [before], but it’s still well below average.”Tourists who were planning to soak up the sun one last time before summer ends were set to wake up to temperatures near the 30s and 40s Monday morning.Nearly an inch of rain fell in Tahoe on Friday and Saturday, and the cool, cloudy weather continued on Sunday, with showers and potentially a thunderstorm expected through the night. The weather came from a low-pressure system originating in British Columbia that made its way down to the region.This weekend is the polar opposite to last year’s heat wave at Lake Tahoe, Deutschendorf said. In 2022, t...

SF firefighters return home from volunteering in Maui

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

(KRON) -- A group of San Francisco firefighters is back home in the Bay Area after a week on Maui helping communities devastated by wildfires. To share more about the experience are some of the crew, including Stan Lee and Paul Chin with the Asian Firefighters Association.Watch the interview in the video player above.

Thousands turn out for 14th annual Giant Race in San Francisco

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Around 6,000 people showed up for the 14th annual Giant Race at Oracle Park on Sunday for the 5K and 10K races. Organizers gave participants the option of forming groups or their starting line-ups.KRON4 spoke with the Alaska All-Stars, an all-female olympian group. Watch more on the race in the video player above.

Kylian Mbappé scores 2 goals as PSG routs Lyon 4-1 in French league

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Kylian Mbappé’s two goals put him top of the French league’s scoring charts as Paris Saint-Germain won 4-1 at struggling Lyon on Sunday for its biggest success of the season under new coach Luis Enrique.The glossy-looking result should not disguise the poor quality of defending champion PSG’s opponent. PSG’s first goal was a carelessly conceded penalty, two were counterattacks and the other was a goalmouth scramble.All of PSG’s goals came in the first half against a dismal Lyon side. Captain Corentin Tolisso had complained about his team’s performance last weekend, but failed to control a pass from his own goalkeeper and then clumsily hacked down PSG’s Manuel Ugarte for a clear penalty. Mbappé struck it cleanly down the middle past Portugal goalkeeper Anthony Lopes in the fourth minute, even though Lopes got a leg to it. After right back Achraf Hakimi bundled in a cross that Lyon’s defense failed to deal with in the 20th, attack...

Coco Gauff tells coach Brad Gilbert to stop talking during her US Open win over Caroline Wozniacki

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:54:32 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff became the first American teenager since Serena Williams more than two decades ago to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in consecutive years, getting that far this time by beating Caroline Wozniacki 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 on Sunday.Gauff asked one of her coaches, Brad Gilbert, to stop talking to her as the second set slipped away. But she wound up winning the last six games.Gauff is 19. Wozniacki, the 2018 Australian Open champion and twice the runner-up at Flushing Meadows, is a 33-year-old mother of two and was playing in just her third tournament since coming out of retirement last month.It was the hottest day of the event so far, with the temperature reaching 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius).Gauff kept missing the mark in the second set, to the tune of 22 unforced errors, but she cleaned that up considerably down the stretch, with just eight miscues in the last set.Gauff, whose best showing at a major was reaching the final at the 2022 French Open, has now wo...