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Man faces
weapons charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home.
Taele’s initial appearance in downtown Los Angeles federal court Wednesday was cancelled. He is not yet in federal custody. Authorities say Jeanine John Taele appeared to be monitoring security before the president’s visit there.
Law enforcement officials say they seized guns and ammunition from Taele’s home after he was arrested Sunday at Trump National Golf Club. Trump attended a Republican National Committee fundraiser at the club on Tuesday. Taele faces both state and federal charges.
Spokane
fires ease
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Crews have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washington state’s second-largest city, but hotter, drier and windier days lie ahead.
Officials reported Wednesday that firefighters had established containment lines around the perimeters of all three fires and that they were focused on reinforcing those lines.
Authorities say one of the fires was deliberately set by a man who has been arrested and charged with arson. Together the three have destroyed at least about 850 buildings and forced the evacuation of around 67,000 people since they erupted last weekend.
Stocks hold
near records
NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks held close to their records on Wall Street, while oil prices were relatively steady. The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% Wednesday from the all-time high it set a day earlier.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.8%. SpaceX sank after increasing its spending on artificial intelligence. The Walt Disney Co. rose after reporting results that beat analysts’ forecasts, helped by “Toy Story 5.”
Grande’s video
sets off talk
NEW YORK (AP) -- It’s a hallmark of our increasingly connected world -- there’s seemingly always something to say, an opinion or feeling or critique to express. But just because we can say anything, does that mean we should?
It’s come up most recently in the wake of a new music video from singer Ariana Grande and the release last week of her new album, “Petal.” The video spurred rampant commentary -- and not primarily about the images of a blood-spattered Grande holding a chainsaw, but about her overall extremely thin appearance.
That, in turn, spurred even more commentary.