NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in New York cast their ballots in the state’s primary (all times Easte Daylight Time):

10:35 a.m.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won’t ask for a recount of his narrow loss to businessman Donald Trump in Missouri’s presidential primary.

Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the campaign won’t request the recount. Cruz had faced an end-of-Tuesday deadline to contest the results of the March 15 primary.

Trump defeated Cruz by 1,965 votes out of more than 939,000 cast in the Republican primary — a margin of about one-fifth of a percentage point.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defeated Vermont Sen. Beie Sanders by 1,574 votes out of more than 629,000 cast in the Democratic primary — a margin of one-quarter of a percentage point.

Sanders had said previously that he wouldn’t request a recount.

10:10 a.m.

Donald Trump is telling the media that selecting a candidate to vote for in the New York primary is an “easy decision” as he casts his ballot.

The billionaire businessman voted in his home state primary Tuesday at a voting station at a synagogue near Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, surrounded by a crush of reporters.

He said it is a “great honor” to be able to vote for himself.

Two of Trump’s children are unable to vote for their father because they failed to register with the Republican Party in time to cast their ballots for their father under the state’s arcane voting rules.

Trump told reporters after voting Tuesday “I think we’ll do really well. It feels good.”

9:35 a.m.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are casting their votes on Tuesday moing in their adopted home town of Chappaqua, New York.

The former president and current Democratic primary front-ruer voted in the Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School gymnasium amid a crush of supporters.

Hillary Clinton says she loves New York and “This has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here.”

She’s encouraging “everybody to go vote.”

The politician-spouses are shaking hands, snapping selfies and greeting well-wishers waiting outside.

8:20 a.m.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for president, but he’s not playing a role in the campaign.

While Giuliani has already made his support for Trump known, he told CNN Tuesday that he hasn’t described it as an endorsement because he’s not playing a role in the campaign and he’s not a surrogate.

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Pressed by CNN, Giuliani said: “I endorse Donald Trump but I’m not part of the campaign.”

New Yorkers will head to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state’s crucial primary. Trump was leading his rivals in New York preference polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

3:00 a.m.

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton hope to emerge victorious from Tuesday’s primaries in New York, contests that offer big delegate hauls and an opportunity for the front-ruers to inch closer to their parties’ nominations.

Even before the New York results are in, Clinton’s campaign is declaring the Democratic race virtually over and waing rival Beie Sanders that he risked damaging the party’s eventual nominee if he keeps up harsh criticism of the former secretary of state.

The lead-up to Tuesday’s voting created surreal scenes in New York, a state that hasn’t seen competitive primaries in decades. Candidates blanketed every coer of the state, from Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs to the working class enclaves in Buffalo and Syracuse.

NEW YORK — Competing on home turf, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton hoped to emerge victorious from Tuesday’s primaries in New York, contests that offer big delegate hauls and an opportunity for the front-ruers to inch closer to their parties’ nominations.

Even before the New York results were in, Clinton’s campaign was declaring the Democratic race virtually over and waing rival Beie Sanders that he risks damaging the party’s eventual nominee if he keeps up harsh criticism of the former secretary of state.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Sanders faces a “close to impossible path to the nomination” and predicted New York would result in Clinton taking “an important step to the nomination.” Sanders needs to win 68 percent of the remaining delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination.

The lead-up to Tuesday’s voting created surreal scenes in New York, a state that hasn’t seen competitive primaries in decades. Candidates blanketed every coer of the state, from Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs to the working class enclaves in Buffalo and Syracuse.

Trump and Clinton were hoping to win in part on the strength of their local ties. Clinton was twice elected senator from New York, while Trump was bo in Queens and lives in a building bearing his name in Manhattan.

“We love this city,” Trump said Monday in brief remarks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. “You look at the other folks that are ruing, they couldn’t care less about New York.”

For Trump, New York is an opportunity to rebound from a trying stretch for his campaign — and with an exclamation point. The biggest question for him heading into Tuesday is whether he captures more than 50 percent of the vote statewide, which would put him in strong position to win all of the state’s 95 GOP delegates.

Trump closed his New York campaigning with an evening rally in Buffalo, where thousands packed the city’s hockey arena to catch a glimpse of the billionaire businessman.

A big win for Trump is crucial if he hopes to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention in July. If the race isn’t settled by then, he faces the very real prospect of losing to Ted Cruz, whose campaign is mastering the complicated process of lining up individual delegates who could shift their support to the Texas senator after the first round of convention balloting.

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Cruz, who infamously paed Trump’s “New York values” earlier in the primary, was bracing for a tough showing in the state. He was already looking ahead on the primary calendar, holding events Tuesday in Pesylvania, which votes next week.

Clinton spent the final hours of campaigning in New York trying to drive up tuout among women and minorities, her most ardent supporters.

On Tuesday moing, Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, cast their votes at a local polling place in their adopted home town of Chappaqua.

“I love New York and this has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here,” Clinton said.

Clinton’s campaign has cast New York as a make-or-break moment for the Democratic race. A loss in her adopted home state would be a devastating political blow. But a big win would bolster her delegate lead over Sanders and put her closer to becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major political party.

Sanders stayed stubboly close to Clinton, rattling off a string of wins in recent primaries and caucuses. But unless he can topple Clinton in a state like New York, he faces increasingly limited opportunities. While polling shows Clinton with a comfortable lead in New York, Sanders held out hope for a closer race.

“This is a campaign on the move,” Sanders shouted to a crowd of thousands gathered along the waterfront in Queens. “This is a movement getting the establishment very, very nervous.”

Among Democrats, Clinton has 1,758 delegates to Sanders’ 1,076. Those totals include both pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, as well as superdelegates, the party insiders who can back the candidate of their choice regardless of how their state votes. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

Trump leads the GOP race with 744 delegates, ahead of Cruz with 545 and Kasich with 144. Securing the GOP nomination requires 1,237 delegates.

AP writers Lisa Lerer, Julie Bykowicz and Steve Peoples contributed to this report.

LONG BEACH — Authorities have identified a young man who was killed in a Central Long Beach shooting that left three others hospitalized Monday.

The victim has been identified as 19-year-old Delhaun Jackson, said Ed Winter, assistant chief at the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:42 p.m.

The shooting in the 1200 block of East 17th Street left three others hospitalized — two in serious condition and one critically wounded, police said.

The shooter remains at large.

“The men were shot on the street,” said Long Beach Lt. Paul Baum this moing. “We don’t know what happened or if it was gang-related at this point.”

A woman who identified herself as Jackson’s grandmother told reporters her grandson was survived by his 1-year-old daughter, according to media reports.

Another of the victims was in very critical condition, and the other two were in serious but stable condition this moing, according to Baum.

Baum also said homicide detectives were at the scene early today. But police did not immediately develop information on a suspect or a motive. However, they were collecting video from around the scene in the hope it will show the attack.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates has aounced plans for a $1 billion Waer Bros. theme park in Abu Dhabi, which will bring to the Middle East the studio’s popular superheroes and cartoon characters ranging from Bugs Buy and Scooby-Doo to Batman and Superman.

The first phase is scheduled to open in 2018 and will include a Waer Bros. branded hotel on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, which is currently home to a Formula 1 race track, Ferrari World amusement park and waterpark. The project’s developer is Abu Dhabi’s Miral Asset Management. The project was joint aounced Tuesday by Waer Bros. and Miral

The UAE, already a major tourist destination, is looking to drive up its tourism revenue with other eye-popping projects. Dubai has plans for a $3 billion theme park with a Six Flags, a Bollywood-themed amusement area and Legoland.

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NEW YORK — Competing on home turf, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton hoped to emerge victorious from Tuesday’s primaries in New York, contests that offer big delegate hauls and an opportunity for the front-ruers to inch closer to their parties’ nominations.

Even before the New York results were in, Clinton’s campaign was declaring the Democratic race virtually over and waing rival Beie Sanders that he risks damaging the party’s eventual nominee if he keeps up harsh criticism of the former secretary of state.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Sanders faces a “close to impossible path to the nomination” and predicted New York would result in Clinton taking “an important step to the nomination.” Sanders needs to win 68 percent of the remaining delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination.

The lead-up to Tuesday’s voting created surreal scenes in New York, a state that hasn’t seen competitive primaries in decades. Candidates blanketed every coer of the state, from Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs to the working class enclaves in Buffalo and Syracuse.

Trump and Clinton were hoping to win in part on the strength of their local ties. Clinton was twice elected senator from New York, while Trump was bo in Queens and lives in a building bearing his name in Manhattan.

“We love this city,” Trump said Monday in brief remarks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. “You look at the other folks that are ruing, they couldn’t care less about New York.”

For Trump, New York is an opportunity to rebound from a trying stretch for his campaign — and with an exclamation point. The biggest question for him heading into Tuesday is whether he captures more than 50 percent of the vote statewide, which would put him in strong position to win all of the state’s 95 GOP delegates.

Trump closed his New York campaigning with an evening rally in Buffalo, where thousands packed the city’s hockey arena to catch a glimpse of the billionaire businessman.

A big win for Trump is crucial if he hopes to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention in July. If the race isn’t settled by then, he faces the very real prospect of losing to Ted Cruz, whose campaign is mastering the complicated process of lining up individual delegates who could shift their support to the Texas senator after the first round of convention balloting.

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Cruz, who infamously paed Trump’s “New York values” earlier in the primary, was bracing for a tough showing in the state. He was already looking ahead on the primary calendar, holding events Tuesday in Pesylvania, which votes next week.

Clinton spent the final hours of campaigning in New York trying to drive up tuout among women and minorities, her most ardent supporters. Since Sunday, she’s danced to Latin music at a Brooklyn block party, vowed to defend abortion rights to female supporters in Manhattan, prayed at a black church in Westchester, drunk a bubble tea at a dumpling shop in Flushing and cheered newly unionized workers in Queens.

“We’re not taking anything for granted,” Clinton said Monday after greeting workers at the Hi-Tek Car Wash & Lube in Queens. “Tell your friends and your family, everyone, to please vote tomorrow.”

Clinton’s campaign has cast New York as a make-or-break moment for the Democratic race. A loss in her adopted home state would be a devastating political blow. But a big win would bolster her delegate lead over Sanders and put her closer to becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major political party.

Sanders stayed stubboly close to Clinton, rattling off a string of wins in recent primaries and caucuses. But unless he can topple Clinton in a state like New York, he faces increasingly limited opportunities to change the trajectory of the race.

While polling shows Clinton with a comfortable lead in New York, Sanders held out hope for a closer race.

“This is a campaign on the move,” Sanders shouted to a crowd of thousands gathered along the waterfront in Queens, the Manhattan skyline serving as a dramatic backdrop. “This is a movement getting the establishment very, very nervous.”

Among Democrats, Clinton has 1,758 delegates to Sanders’ 1,076. Those totals include both pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, as well as superdelegates, the party insiders who can back the candidate of their choice regardless of how their state votes. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

Trump leads the GOP race with 744 delegates, ahead of Cruz with 545 and Kasich with 144. Securing the GOP nomination requires 1,237 delegates.

AP writers Lisa Lerer, Julie Bykowicz and Steve Peoples contributed to this report.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 as voters in New York cast their ballots in the state’s primary (all times Easte Daylight Time):

9:35 a.m.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are casting their votes on Tuesday moing in their adopted home town of Chappaqua, New York.

The former president and current Democratic primary front-ruer voted in the Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School gymnasium amid a crush of supporters.

Hillary Clinton says she loves New York and “This has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here.”

She’s encouraging “everybody to go vote.”

The politician-spouses are shaking hands, snapping selfies and greeting well-wishers waiting outside.

8:20 a.m.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says he is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for president, but he’s not playing a role in the campaign.

While Giuliani has already made his support for Trump known, he told CNN Tuesday that he hasn’t described it as an endorsement because he’s not playing a role in the campaign and he’s not a surrogate.

Pressed by CNN, Giuliani said: “I endorse Donald Trump but I’m not part of the campaign.”

New Yorkers will head to the polls Tuesday to vote in the state’s crucial primary. Trump was leading his rivals in New York preference polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

3:00 a.m.

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton hope to emerge victorious from Tuesday’s primaries in New York, contests that offer big delegate hauls and an opportunity for the front-ruers to inch closer to their parties’ nominations.

Even before the New York results are in, Clinton’s campaign is declaring the Democratic race virtually over and waing rival Beie Sanders that he risked damaging the party’s eventual nominee if he keeps up harsh criticism of the former secretary of state.

The lead-up to Tuesday’s voting created surreal scenes in New York, a state that hasn’t seen competitive primaries in decades. Candidates blanketed every coer of the state, from Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs to the working class enclaves in Buffalo and Syracuse.

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LONG BEACH — Three men were hospitalized today -- two in serious condition and one critically wounded -- after a shooting that claimed another man’s life on a street in Long Beach, police said.

The shooting took place in the 1200 block of East 17th Street in Long Beach around 8:40 p.m. Monday, said Long Beach Lt. Paul Baum. The shooter remains at large.

“The men were shot on the street,” Baum said this moing. “We don’t know what happened or if it was gang-related at this point.”

One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, Baum said. His name was withheld pending family notification. Another of the victims was in very critical condition, and the other two were in serious but stable condition this moing.

Baum said homicide detectives were at the scene early today. But police did not immediately develop information on a suspect or a motive.

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ANAHEIM >> Anger, if chaeled correctly, can help a team pull out of a 0-2 playoff series hole.

Rage, if provoked, can cause a team to fall further into that hole, and that’s the paradox the Ducks find themselves in as they head to Nashville for Game 3 of their Stanley Cup playoff series.

The Ducks need to get mad and hope it inspires then to play harder. But they have to gauge their emotions. They got mad Sunday, tued more aggressive and it created uecessary penalties that eventually put them at the two-games-to-none disadvantage.

The Predators scored what tued out to be the decisive goal on a power play in the second period. It was one of six penalties called on the Ducks, while the Predators were whistled for two infractions. Nashville had five power plays to the Ducks’ one.

Corey Perry took two penalties and Ryan Getzlaf had one in the first period. Ryan Garbutt, David Perron and Jakob Silfverberg accounted for the others, and instead of getting even, the Ducks boiled over.

“You would think it’s easily correctable and every player knows what’s at stake because they’ve been working nine, 10 months to get to this thing,” Coach Bruce Boudreau said Monday before the team boarded a plane.

“Sometimes it gets over the line. It’s almost like road rage. You do it (even though) you’re supposed to be in control. You lose control. Obviously, it’s something we have to gain back. We can’t continue to do that because we can’t take five penalties a game and not get our power play on the ice as well.

“It’s something that will be addressed.”

Defenseman Andrew Cogliano said the team is livid over the lack of defensive discipline they’ve shown in the first two games.

“The guys are (ticked) off,” Cogliano said. “Yes, obviously we’ve done this before and been able to come back. But we need to really buckle down now.

“It’s easy to talk about it, saying that we’ve been here before, but this is a completely new series and we need to not so much talk about it, but go and do it. We need a win, simple as that. That’s what it comes down to. We need to win a game.”

The Ducks used that rallying cry during the Christmas break and it worked. They managed to overcome their offensive lapses, become a defensive stalwart and tu their flaws into the Pacific Division title.

They don’t have the luxury of a few months, however. The Ducks need to win at least one of the two games at Bridgestone Arena to send the series back to Honda Center. Game 3 is Tuesday.

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“If they don’t (feel a sense of urgency) we’re in trouble,” Boudreau said. “We know we’re down, 2-0, going into a chaotic ba. If we don’t have a sense of urgency now, we never will.”

The Predators have taken the lead in the series by capitalizing on the Ducks’ ill-timed ire, and strong goaltending by Pekka Rie, who made 27 saves Sunday.

John Gibson has been in goal for both losses and Boudreau wasn’t in any mood Monday to discuss his goalie situation. Gibson has given up six goals in two games, leaving Boudreau to consider going with Frederik Andersen for Game 3.

Boudreau said he’s not eager to make a change just to do it, and that extended to the rest of the team.

“Would it be a change for the sake of change or change to make us a better team?” he said.

Twelve hours didn’t change what Boudreau witnessed Sunday.

“We still lost,” Boudreau said. “It is what I thought it was, nothing more, nothing less. I thought as coaches we made a good assessment of what happened when we discussed it after the game and I don’t think it changed this moing.”

CHICAGO >> C.J. Cron insisted that he didn’t feel as bad as his average looked.

And for proof that quality of at-bat and quality of the result don’t always match, he pointed out that his best contact on Monday was the only time he made an out, a line drive to center field.

Still, he wasn’t about to throw back the other three hits, part of a much-needed outburst – for him and the team – in the Angels’ 7-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

“You have to see results,” Cron said. “It was nice to see some of those fall.”

Cron came into the game batting an even .100, at 4 for 40, in a slump so bad that Manager Mike Scioscia had dropped him to eighth in the order to take some of the pressure off him.

“I’m just happy I’m in the lineup still,” Cron said.

Truth be told, the only way a struggling hitter feels less pressure is when he starts to get hits, and he jumped aboard the Angels runaway offensive train in the first iing on Monday.

Cron’s first-iing opposite field single was the fifth of six Angels hits in a five-run iing against Carlos Rodon, who had allowed a total of two runs in his first two starts. The quick strike no doubt lifted a weight off a team that had been collectively struggling.

Although Cron’s slump was the worst, he was not alone. The Angels came into the game hitting .223 and averaging 3.0 runs. A day earlier, they had endured 27 consecutive hitless at-bats to end a 12-iing loss.

To say they needed a game like this would be an understatement.

“We’re a much better offensive team than we’ve shown the first few weeks of the season,” Scioscia said. “Tonight we got some big hits especially with ruers in scoring position.”

The Angels were 8 for 15 with ruers in scoring position, doubling their previous high for hits in that situation. While they got swept over the weekend in Miesota, the Angels were 4 for 19 (.211).

If the Angels can parlay this game into more consistent offensive production, Scioscia won’t face so many questions about what to do with his lineup.

Before Monday’s game, he faced a situation with two hitters slumping badly – Cron and Johy Giavotella, who had a hit to raise his average to .125. He also had no consistently productive No. 2 hitter, with Daniel Nava on the disabled list.

That opened the door for questions about whether he was better off simply moving Mike Trout and Albert Pujols back up to the Nos. 2 and 3 spots, where they had hit frequently in 2013 and 2014.

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“If we were maybe 40 games into the season you’d consider something like that,” he said. “But right now we have a lot of confidence the groupings we have will be the most productive. It’s tough to evaluate when there are a lot of guys not in their game yet.”

Sure enough, just a few hours later, the outlook on the Angels offense was looking much better.

“Some guys have gotten off to some slow starts for us,” he said, “and tonight they had really good nights for us.”

The 42nd aual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach finished with controversy on the track, as Simon Pagenaud’s pit exit move before eventual victory called into question whether he had violated racing rules by cutting in too early.

Off the track, Grand Prix organizers said Monday there was no controversy over the race’s success, with an early estimate of 182,000 in attendance, which, if the numbers hold true, will eclipse last year’s crowd of 181,000 people, making the event the most well-attended since the IndyCar Series debuted here in 2009.

• Photos: 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

“When you put that many people in a downtown area like we have here, and have a minimal amount of disruption and a maximum amount of pleasure, it’s a statement of how this city has matured in terms of how it conducts special events,” said Jim Michaelian, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach.

It didn’t hurt that the city enjoyed summer in April, with the temperature reaching a record high of 90 degrees at Long Beach Airport, beating the old record of 89 degrees in 1999, according to the National Weather Service.

“The way it tued out, it was spectacular,” Michaelian said. “You couldn’t have asked for three better days. The forecast heading into the weekend was very popular. That helps to get people into a positive mood, so all of that and some strong advance publicity helped us have a very strong weekend.”

And those thousands in a good mood spent time and money last week in Long Beach bars, restaurants and other local hang-outs. Eric Johnson, co-owner of the Auld Dubliner at 71 S. Pine Ave., said Grand Prix fans have made a tradition of visiting his watering hole.

“We see a lot of the same faces from people that are out of town,” Johnson said. “It’s their routine. That’s what makes the Grand Prix such a fun and unique experience.”

Johnson also runs Legends Sports Bar, a popular Belmont Shore bar and restaurant at 5236 E. Second St., as well as the popular waterfront restaurant Boathouse on the Bay, which offered roundtrip Aqualink service from the eatery to the Grand Prix.

“We kind of attack it from all sides and take advantage of the unique experience that the Grand Prix provides,” Johnson said.

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L’Opera Ristorante at 101 Pine Ave. enjoyed a boost in business during the Grand Prix. Owner Terry Antonelli said the restaurant is a “captive audience” over race weekend, and gets booked to capacity.

“Our four-day total was up eight percent,” Antonelli said.

OXNARD >> Robert Qui and Southe Califoia are getting along just fine. Qui attended Kobe Bryant’s final game last week and walked around Rams headquarters Monday, sans shoes and socks.

It’s not all sunshine, beaches and A-list parties for these newly relocated Rams, though. There are houses to purchase, families to acclimate and traffic. Lots of traffic. Sure, the players’ large salaries make things easier, but in essence these remain young men whose lives are in the middle stages of upheaval.

“When you’re not at work, you’re a family man,” Qui said. “You’ve got to keep them separate or you’ll drive yourself crazy. Once I go home, I have to shut off the football and become Daddy again.”

Qui’s double life resumed Monday, when the Rams started optional offseason workouts. They didn’t do much – some weightlifting, ruing and a few meetings – but football stuff will come naturally. It’s more important for the players, many of whom have never lived on the West Coast, to begin to feel at home.

The Rams are mindful of this. They’re providing lodging (at a local hotel) for players who haven’t yet found new homes. They’ve brought in former stars such as Eric Dickerson and Jackie Slater to talk about the positives and trappings of being a pro athlete in the Los Angeles area.

Current players such as coerback Trumaine Johnson, who spent parts of previous offseasons in the area, have become valuable resources for teammates.

“I’m in the Hollywood area,” Johnson said. “Guys are new out here, so of course they’re coming to me for food (advice), clubs. You’ve got to live. We’re young. It’s good. It’s a fun time to be a Ram.”

Not all the conces are alike. Consider Qui, a defensive end and one of the Rams’ five team captains last season. Qui, 25, is married with a 4-year-old son and a 6-month-old daughter.

Nightlife isn’t among Qui’s primary conces. He’s renting while looking for a permanent home, and is attempting to ease the adjustment for his son, Robert Jr., who is old enough to know he’s being uprooted.

“My mom is here and she also brought my niece, who is a year older than him, so they’ve been hanging out,” Qui said. “I don’t think that part of it has been a huge distraction. I think he understands. As long as Daddy is around, I think everything is OK.”

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For the younger, unattached Rams, life is a bit simpler. The Rams eventually will set up headquarters in Thousand Oaks, an upscale area not known for its vibrant nightlife, and players have been advised to live nearby and not attempt to commute from hotspots such as Hollywood or Manhattan Beach.

Johnson, a Stockton native, told teammates that “between 4 and 8 (p.m.), you do not want to go anywhere,” but the Rams have been getting around. Receiver Tavon Austin, a Baltimore native who arrived April 1, said he has received an education on the area this month.

“Kobe Bryant,” Austin said. “That’s the only thing I knew about Los Angeles. I stepped into the city a little bit, but for the most part I’m kind of cool, collected guy, so I’ll stay on the outskirts.”

There’s plenty of time to get adjusted. The Rams will hold workouts, on and off, over the next two months. The plan is for the Rams, in late July, to start training camp in Irvine, and players will be housed there.

Between now and then, there will be plenty of phone calls and discussions, to real estate agents, to local schools and to teammates such as safety T.J. McDonald, who played four seasons at USC.

“Everybody has different questions,” McDonald said. “Some guys are from small towns, wondering if there are going to be movie stars going left and right. I just tell them it’s really regular life. Just be yourself, be humble and show up to work like we do in St. Louis, and you’ll be all right.”

Austin Rivers doesn’t lack for confidence.

The Clippers reserve guard once tweeted he was “straight up better” than a lot of the players competing for a spot on Team U.S.A.

Monday, the bravado was still there.

“I think we’re one of the best benches in the league,” he said.

The confidence in the group, which includes Jamal Crawford, Jeff Green, Wesley Johnson, Paul Pierce and Cole Aldrich, runs in the family,

After saying he’d probably have to trim his rotation for the playoffs before Game 1, Clippers coach Doc Rivers used six players off the bench in the first half of Sunday’s Game 1 win over Portland.

While fans, analysts and critics have hollered for Rivers to stagger his starters, to keep Chris Paul, Blake Griffin or DeAndre Jordan on the court at all times, the Clippers bench formed an identity together.

It started in December, when the Clippers decided to remove Josh Smith from their rotation, pushing Aldrich into regular minutes.

“I definitely think it changed the spirit of that group,” Paul said. “Cole just does whatever needs to be done to win the game.”

He plays without an agenda, without a desire to freelance, and it helped the bench start to forge an identity.

Since they added Aldrich to the rotation, the Clippers’ bench is ninth in overall net rating.

Surrounding Aldrich, the Clippers either have ballhandlers or athletes – sometimes both.

Crawford, as Paul said, is “probably the best bench guy to ever play.” Austin Rivers has found a niche in the NBA as a penetrator and defender. Green is a streaky scorer who can exploit mismatches, and Johnson is a big-time athlete who can get hot from the coers. And, there’s Pierce, who the Clippers still believe in.

“Those guys have been in situations,” Paul said. “ ... Those guys have a confidence about them.”

That confidence came in a close loss to Oklahoma City, where Rivers, Crawford and Aldrich helped the Clippers almost upset a fully-stocked Thunder team. It came in Utah, where the Clippers reserves beat the Jazz in a game they had to win.

And, it carried over to Sunday, where Doc Rivers decided to run his five-man bench lineup onto the court for minutes in the second and fourth quarters.

In both stints, the Clippers didn’t extend leads, but the reserves didn’t squander leads either.

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Crawford scored 13, Austin Rivers scored 11 and Aldrich had two blocks and two steals in less than 15 minutes.

Game 1 proved that if the game will allow it, Doc Rivers will continue to play the all-bench lineup he’s used throughout the season.

“I was good with it last night,” he said. “ … We’ll see how it goes. My guess is there will be nights where you can’t as much, but we’ll find that out night to night.

“But, our bench has been damn good all year. So, why go away from them now?”

Redick’s foot healing

After missing practices in the build-up to Sunday’s playoff opener, Redick was able to play through the bruised left heel he suffered in the regular-season home finale last Tuesday.

Those who knew Giuseppe Parisi say he was living the American dream — raising a family in San Pedro, working at the Port of Los Angeles and buying his first house just six months ago.

The Sicilian native plaed big parties in his backyard, especially for his 40th birthday later this year, and couldn’t wait for his new toy to be delivered this weekend.

“He wanted to put a pizza oven in the back,” his cousin, Roselina DiGirolamo, said Monday. “He was so excited. He had finally accomplished an American dream. We are shocked. We are shattered.”

Parisi died late Thursday, shortly after taking a 9:45 p.m. break from his job as a casual longshoreman at the Port of Los Angeles. Family members said he was headed home for coffee with his wife, Lia, and plaed to retu to work an hour later to complete his shift until 3 a.m.

In an instant, Parisi’s dream ended, a wife lost her husband, and three children lost their father.

According to police, Parisi was headed north on Navy Way in his Toyota Tacoma truck when he collided with another driver in a 2005 Suzuki at Seaside Avenue.

Parisi was ejected into the street and died later at a hospital. The other driver was not seriously hurt.

The crash remains under investigation.

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“Everybody has taken it real hard,” said fellow longshore worker Michelle Meese. “It’s a brotherhood and sisterhood down here, and we all like to look out for each other.”

Parisi’s wife and family, including his parents from Sicily, gathered at his San Pedro home on Monday, waiting for word from the coroner’s office on when they could schedule funeral services.

A fisherman in Terrasini, Palermo, Parisi arrived in the United States at 21 years old, looking for a better life. He went to work for Superior Seafood Co. in San Pedro, driving and selling fish on the site.

After he established himself , he retued to Sicily, married his teenage sweetheart and brought her with him to America. They had three American children — Rosie, 14; Anthony, 5; Jerry, 3.

About 12 years ago, he started taking jobs as a casual longshoreman, DiGirolamo said.

‘Very, very hard worker’

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“He was a very, very hard worker,” DiGirolamo said. “He worked day and night. He was all about the American dream.”

At home, Lia Parisi cared for the children. Together, the couple believed their children had a better future in the United States, DiGirolamo said.

“He absolutely loved longshoring and couldn’t wait for the day that he became full time,” his cousin said. “And him having a family and having to provide for them, he would work one job and then he would work all night.”

Lia Parisi tried to contact her husband when he failed to arrive home Thursday for his break. She figured he got stuck at work. Police officers knocked on her door at 2:45 a.m. with the news.

Although her husband’s parents and her parents live in Sicily, Lia Parisi said she plans to stay in America.

“He was the love of my life,” she said in Italian through a translator.

Fund established

Longshore workers are collecting money at the port to support Parisi’s family. A GoFundMe.com site was established online.

“Giuseppe’s family and friends are devastated by his passing,” the site said. “His smile, thick Italian accent and happy spirit will be missed by many.”

To donate, go to https://www.gofundme.com/8vznkcns.

SAN BERNARDINO >> Two dozen protesters organized by a Claremont-based group had a concise message Monday for the Supreme Court as it considers President Barack Obama’s immigration programs: No amnesty.

It’s not that they’re not compassionate, several of them volunteered — in fact, it’s the opposite.

“I’m an immigrant myself, but I did it the right way,” said Sabine Durden, 58, a German immigrant living in Moreno Valley. She wore a shirt declaring her son was “hit and killed by an unlicensed illegal alien on 7-12-2012.”

“My son was a 911 dispatcher who helped everyone, and after he was killed, I couldn’t get anything — because the person who killed him was gone,” Durden said.

Juan Zacarias Tzun pleaded guilty in 2013 to vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 180 more in a work-release program for the crash that killed Dominic Durden, who was a 30-year-old Riverside County Sheriff’s dispatcher. Tzun was deported to his native Guatemala in 2014.

The rally in front of San Beardino City Hall came as the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments over Obama’s immigration policies and as more than 20 activists in Riverside said Obama’s initiatives are crucial for local undocumented families who want a better quality of life.

For Blanca Olivares, 39, of San Beardino, having that initiative move forward could mean better paying jobs for her and her husband. Olivares, who works in fast food, has two children who are U.S. citizens. She envisions buying a home and opening a party supply business.

Olivares, who attended the downtown Riverside rally on Monday, said she’s applied for other jobs, but it’s been tough without a Social Security number.

“It’s hard being denied work,” she said. “You can’t have the job you want.”

Meanwhile, in San Beardino, protesters alleged that they were unable to get jobs because people illegally in the country filled them instead.

“Blacks are losing jobs to illegals, which is discrimination,” said Chanell Temple, an African American woman who held a sign decrying the ‘media blackout’ of that aspect of the immigration debate. “The 14th Amendment was created for black slaves, not illegals.”

The 14th Amendment makes anyone bo in the United States a citizen, and is not part of the case the Supreme Court is considering.

Texas is leading 26 states dominated by Republicans in challenging the immigration programs that Obama aounced in 2014 and that have been put on hold by lower courts.

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The administration’s best hope for a favorable ruling after 90 minutes of arguments at the high court appeared to rest with Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts asked questions suggesting he could side with the administration if there were a small change in the proposed programs.

The administration is asking the justices to allow two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the U.S.

The programs would apply to parents whose children are citizens or are living in the country legally. Eligibility also would be expanded for the president’s 2012 effort that applies to people who were brought here illegally as children. More than 700,000 people have taken advantage of that earlier program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

The new program for parents, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, and the expanded program for children could reach as many as 4 million people, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

That includes 79,000 in San Beardino County and 91,000 in Riverside County, according to the institute.

Protesters organized by We The People Rising from Claremont held signs and chanted in front of San Beardino City Hall for about two hours. They then delivered a letter to the Mexican Consulate across the street.

That took them across the path of people waiting in line at the IRS, who for the most part were not supportive.

“That’s bulls---, and you’re racists,” said Brandon Rugley. “Supposedly the great thing about America is you can come and build a life in America, but you don’t get that, do you?”

The high court is expected to decide by late June whether the efforts can move forward in the waning months of Obama’s presidency, amid a presidential campaign that has been marked by harsh Republican rhetoric over immigration.

If the court is split ideologically, the case could end in a 4-4 tie following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February. That would leave the programs in limbo, almost certainly through the end of Obama’s presidency.

Both sides acknowledge that the outcome of the presidential election could determine the programs’ fates, even if the high court rules for the administration. Republican candidates have pledged to roll back Obama’s actions, and Republican candidate Donald Trump has proposed deporting roughly 11 million people who are living in the U.S. illegally.

Local members of Congress also weighed in.

Officials including Rep. Norma Torres, D-Chino, and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Beardino, met Monday with immigration activists and Califoia residents who would be eligible under the programs, he said in a news release.

“I urge the Supreme Court to do the right thing and keep Latino and other immigrant families together instead of tearing them apart,” Aguilar said. “We’re talking about mothers, fathers, sons and daughters — this is about shielding families from the devastating possibility of being ripped from their homes and families.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was edited to correct the spelling of the man convicted of vehicular manslaughter, killing Dominic Durden.

INDIO >> A Highland woman attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the first time was struck and killed Friday night as she crossed the street near the festival grounds, officials said.

Michala Freeland, 18, had applied to work as a security guard at the festival, family members told local television station, KMIR. She was killed Friday night when she was struck by a Jeep near Avenue 52, east of Monroe Street, outside the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, according to Indio Police.

Freeland was crossing the roadway east of the intersection from the north side of the street, according to a police statement. The driver of the Jeep remained at the scene and has fully cooperated with the investigation.

The cause of the accident is under investigation. Anyone with any additional information is asked to contact the Indio Police Department at 760-391-4057, or the Coachella Valley Crime Stoppers 760-341-STOP (7867).

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The 42nd aual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach finished with controversy on the track, as Simon Pagenaud’s pit exit move before eventual victory called into question whether he had violated racing rules by cutting in too early.

Off the track, Grand Prix organizers said Monday there was no controversy over the race’s success, with an early estimate of 182,000 in attendance, which, if the numbers hold true, will eclipse last year’s crowd of 181,000 people, making the event the most well-attended since the IndyCar Series debuted here in 2009.

“When you put that many people in a downtown area like we have here, and have a minimal amount of disruption and a maximum amount of pleasure, it’s a statement of how this city has matured in terms of how it conducts special events,” said Jim Michaelian, president and CEO of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach.

It didn’t hurt that the city enjoyed summer in April, with the temperature reaching a record high of 90 degrees at Long Beach Airport, beating the old record of 89 degrees in 1999, according to the National Weather Service.

“The way it tued out, it was spectacular,” Michaelian said. “You couldn’t have asked for three better days. The forecast heading into the weekend was very popular. That helps to get people into a positive mood, so all of that and some strong advance publicity helped us have a very strong weekend.”

And those thousands in a good mood spent time and money last week in Long Beach bars, restaurants and other local hang-outs. Eric Johnson, co-owner of the Auld Dubliner at 71 S. Pine Ave., said Grand Prix fans have made a tradition of visiting his watering hole.

“We see a lot of the same faces from people that are out of town,” Johnson said. “It’s their routine. That’s what makes the Grand Prix such a fun and unique experience.”

Johnson also runs Legends Sports Bar, a popular Belmont Shore bar and restaurant at 5236 E. Second St., as well as the popular waterfront restaurant Boathouse on the Bay, which offered roundtrip Aqualink service from the eatery to the Grand Prix.

“We kind of attack it from all sides and take advantage of the unique experience that the Grand Prix provides,” Johnson said.

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L’Opera Ristorante at 101 Pine Ave. enjoyed a boost in business during the Grand Prix. Owner Terry Antonelli said the restaurant is a “captive audience” over race weekend, and gets booked to capacity.

“Our four-day total was up eight percent,” Antonelli said.

A family spokeswoman says that “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Doris Roberts has died. She was 90.

Spokeswoman Janet Daily said Monday that Roberts died oveight in her sleep in Los Angeles. Daily was told of the death by Roberts’ son, Michael Caata.

Daily didn’t know the cause of Roberts’ death but said the veteran actress had been healthy and active.

Roberts played the meddlesome mother to Ray Romano’s character on the long-ruing CBS sitcom.

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INDIO >> At Coachella, some find happiness in the roar of the crowd, at the drop of a beat or in the embrace of a festival fling.

Others find it at the bottom of a glass and in the chemical release of a pill.

In years past, Erik N. used heroin to try to keep his moments of bliss from slipping away, he said.

But this year, it was different. He did Coachella sober.

“I remember all of it,” he said.

As Coachella’s party picked up around him, he sat with a group of about 10 under a shaded awning.

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“Erik: addict,” he said as he introduced himself, out of breath from ruing across the festival grounds to make it to the meeting.

They’re at Soberchella, an unofficial meet-up within the music festival that follows the same tenets as an Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meeting.

Every day at noon on both weekends, they gather to talk about their struggles, their triumphs and sometimes about finding pure — and sober — moments of bliss.

It’s open to anyone to attend without judgment. The whole group coects through Tumblr, emails and group text messages to organize meetings and activities during Coachella.

Like AA or NA, the founders and members of the group spoke on the condition of anonymity. Some worried their struggles with addiction could hurt their careers. Others feared damaging the group’s reputation if they published their names and then slipped back into using.

How the group started

Soberchella’s founders, who go by the pseudonyms of Bob Johnson and Jane Smith, started the meet-up in 2009 because they didn’t want to go to the music festival without support. The couple from New Orleans usually looks for meetings when they travel, but they couldn’t find anything at Coachella.

So they created their own with another attendee who posted on a message board looking for sober allies.

“We just kind of went with it and it picked up steam real quick,” Johnson said. “This was needed, we just happened to be the ones who did it.”

Johnson started 12-step programs as a 17-years-old. He went in and out of meetings for both drugs and alcohol.

He’s now been sober since 2001.

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Part of the draw of Soberchella is including music in his recovery.

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“It was necessary,” he said. “It wasn’t something I wanted; it had to be there.”

Now Soberchella has evolved beyond its founders. They run the noon meetings during the first weekend, but other volunteers have taken to hosting night meetings and during the second weekend. They just leaed there is even a Facebook group that they didn’t set up that shares information about their meetings.

“We’re at the point where we’re no longer needed,” he said with a laugh. “How beautiful is that?”

Soberchella isn’t affiliated with Goldenvoice, Coachella’s promoter, but it has become somewhat of the go-to for people looking for a meeting during the festival. Several members described finding it initially while searching for AA meetings nearby.

Being OK with not being OK

Under the food court awning on Sunday, some shared their successes and discussed how sobriety changed Coachella for them. Others talked about their worries, or the temptations they avoided.

One member from the Palm Desert described how he could never have come to Coachella when he was still drinking. He would have isolated himself in the coer of a bar until he drank enough to leave the festival. The three-year veteran skips noon sets so he can make it to the meetings, he said. It helps ground him.

“It’s just getting me back to normal,” he said of 12-step program.

It’s Andrew I.’s first year at Soberchella. The Los Angeles resident hit bottom at a different festival, where he said he had suicidal thoughts.

This year, he’s doing Coachella sober, something he hasn’t done before.

“I wanted it to be a completely different experience,” he said. “My life depends on it.”

Even though they were strangers before Friday, he now has people he can count on, he said. He said he isn’t interested in going back to his old life, where he felt plagued by despair. Since getting sober and staying there, those feelings have gone away, he said.

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For Erik, his drug use was a similar rollercoaster. Exaltation followed by darkness.

“I want to feel steady,” Erik said of his one month of sobriety.

With Soberchella, he found support within the festival and motivation to arrive early each day.

“It gets me up first thing and out of the house,” he said. “It’s incredible.”

He met a girl on the first day. They coected without Erik needing to drink or use drugs. He said he’s not sure he could have experienced that moment the same way in years past.

“It wouldn’t have been that pure happiness,” he said.

When the pair couldn’t coect on Saturday because of Coachella’s spotty reception, Erik said he would have tued to heroin or cocaine in years past, to bottle up those feelings as long as possible.

But now, he’s found other outlets, photography being one. He said he’s leaing to be OK with those moments he can’t control.

This weekend, when his friends partied, he snapped photos instead of imbibing, he said.

His father and his sponsor worried that Coachella would be a bad choice for someone so early in his recovery. But Erik saw it as a challenge he could overcome, and if he can overcome the temptations of Coachella, he can overcome anything, he said.

He’s taking it one day at a time, he’s living in the moment instead of being dragged down what could be and what could have been, he said.

“I did it, and I can do it again,” he said.

INDIO >> The opening weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio may have set a new record for the number of guest stars.

• Photos: Best of Coachella 2016 Weekend One

If you watched the festival online from the couch or have plans to go to next week’s sold-out encore, here’s what went down, from Calvin Harris’ dance party to Sufjan Stevens’ weird stage decorations.

1. Best dance party: Calvin Harris

With Coachella’s wild wrap-around screens on the main stage, Harris’ incredibly packed Sunday night headlining set tued the field into an open-air Sahara Tent. Then he got some help from superstar singer Rihaa and hip-hop star Big Sean.

See photos from Calvin Harris’ set.

2. Biggest shock: Guns N’ Roses’ start time

A rock band notorious for being hours late, the Saturday night headliner took the stage 7 minutes after its scheduled start time of 10:30 p.m. The second biggest surprise from the band came in the form of a guest spot from AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, clad in a schoolboy outfit, joining the band for “Whole Lotta Rosie.”

See photos of Guns N’ Roses.

3. Biggest no-show: Dr. Dre

Everyone expected Ice Cube to get N.W.A. back together on the heels of the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but while MC Ren and DJ Yella joined Cube for a number of the group’s tracks, Dr. Dre was conspicuously absent.

And speaking of Cube, who knew that the flower crown-wearing upper middle class white millenials in the audience related to N.W.A.’s most infamous song about law enforcement?

Another no show was Justin Bieber, who missed Friday night’s Jack U set.

See photos of Ice Cube.

4. Biggest trend: Guest stars

Even without Dr. Dre, everybody seemed to have a guest star at opening weekend of Coachella. Some of the highlights included Kesha at Zedd; Lorde and Sam Smith at Disclosure; Common and Snoop Dogg at Ice Cube; classic rock guitarists Joe Walsh and Gle Schwartz at The Arcs; Sean Paul at Major Lazer; Brendon Urie at Halsey; Seal at Gallant. Need we go on?

See photos of all the musical performances at Coachella.

5. Best cover: LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem, the dance-rock band from New York City, played a powerful set on Friday that had smiling fans dancing beneath the glittering shards of light reflected off the massive mirror ball that hung over the stage. They added a cover of the late David Bowie’s “Heroes” that was transcendent both for the powerfully emotional performance and the grief many fans still feel for the loss of Bowie in January.

See photos of LCD Soundsystem.

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6. Most highbrow performance: Sia

Sia’s Sunday night set featured the singer’s striking, visual style and many, many clones. The result was a piece of mode dance expertly choreographed to contemporary music with Sia’s pitch-perfect vocals. Oh, and actors Kristen Wiig and Paul Dano were involved, too.

See photos of Sia.

7. Weirdest stage props: Sufjan Stevens

The sensitive songwriter discarded the sadness for joyful dances and neon costumes throughout his band. However, the strangest part of the whole set was the use of those inflatables you see at car dealerships.

See photos of Sufjan Stevens.

8. Best place to send Grandma a postcard: Coachella post office

The on-site intermediary between festival-goers and the real post office will let you write a drunken letter to Grandma, but just don’t try to mail your taxes there.

Find out more about Camp Coachella.

9. The Coachella fashion that won’t die: Flower crowns

After Coachella 2015, we read somewhere that the sorority outfit might be in its death throes, but the look has retained a loyal following in the desert.

See photos of fashion at Coachella.

10. Most coveted Record Store Day find at Coachella: Justin Bieber picture disc

There were fewer than 10 copies of the $22 item and they sold out on the first day.

11. Best amateur photographer: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

At one point lead singer Alex Ebert took a GoPro from a fan and snapped photos of the crowd during the band’s Sunday night Outdoor Theatre set. He then jumped down and walked along the rails.

See photos of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

12: Worst time management: A$AP Rocky

On Friday night, the rapper started his set about 15 minutes late. After bringing out Kanye West for a song, Rocky called the Chicago performer a “legend” and as Rocky attempted to perform his next song, organizers cut the sound because he reached his allotted time.

Rocky ended up angrily throwing his microphone over the DJ stand and walking off stage as fans chanted his name, as well as West’s.

First-timers Bob Moses also leaed the hard way about Coachella’s strict time limits after their late afteoon set went two minutes over and had the plug pulled during their last song, “Touch and Go.”

See photos of A$AP Rocky.

13. Missed reunion: Lush

The English four-piece, best-known for its hit “Ladykillers,” recently reunited after nearly 20 years apart but were forced to cancel their first weekend Coachella performance and reschedule some other U.S. dates due to a visa snafu. The group plans to perform for next weekend’s crowd.

14. Most political: Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels hit the main stage Saturday afteoon -- introduced via video by Democratic presidential candidate Beie Sanders, a pal of RTJ rapper Killer Mike. A surge of energy flowed through the crowd, which grew larger and larger as Run The Jewels brought out one guest performer after another: DJ Shadow, rapper Nas, blues guitarist and singer Gary Clark Jr. among them.

See photos of Run the Jewels.

15. Best Instagram fodder: “Besame Mucho”

There may not have been a “Helix Poeticus” (a.k.a Coachella Snail) this year, but the art was more political, if not as whimsical. Either way, the wall of 100,000 silk flowers seems to be the go-to “I was at Coachella 2016” image.

See photos of all of the art at Coachella 2016.

Staff Writers Jason Henry, Peter Larsen, Liset Marquez, Patrick O’Neill and Wes Woods contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON >> Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama’s immigration efforts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the country illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court.

As hundreds of pro-immigration demonstrators and a smaller number of opponents filled the sidewalk outside the court, the justices appeared to split along ideological and partisan lines over a case that pits Republican goveors and members of Congress against the Democratic administration.

President Barack Obama’s administration is asking the justices to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States.

Texas is leading 26 states led by Republicans in challenging the programs that Obama aounced in 2014 and that have been put on hold by lower courts. Those states say the administration usurped power that belongs to Congress, and Justice Anthony Keedy indicated some support for that view.

“It’s as if ... the president is setting the policy and the Congress is executing it. That’s just upside down,” Keedy said.

Chief Justice John Roberts also aggressively questioned Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., suggesting there are few limits to the president’s power under the administration’s view of immigration law.

“Under your argument, could the president grant deferred removal to every ... unlawfully present alien in the United States right now?” Roberts asked.

“Definitely not,” Verrilli said. But it was not clear Roberts was satisfied with the answer and subsequent explanation.

The programs would apply to parents of children who are citizens or are living in the country legally. Eligibility also would be expanded for the president’s 2012 effort that applies to people who were brought here illegally as children. More than 700,000 people have taken advantage of that earlier program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The new program for parents, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, and the expanded program for children could reach as many as 4 million people, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

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If the court is split ideologically, the case could end in a 4-4 tie following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February. That would leave the programs in limbo, almost certainly through the end of Obama’s presidency.

Both sides acknowledge that the outcome of the presidential election ultimately could determine the programs’ fates, even if the Supreme Court rules for the administration. Republican candidates have pledged to roll back Obama’s actions, and Republican candidate Donald Trump has proposed deporting the roughly 11 million people who are living in the U.S. illegally.

Several justices remarked how Congress provides enough money to deport only about 400,000 people aually.

The bulk of immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally “are here whether we want them or not,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.

The high court is expected to decide by late June whether the efforts can move forward in the waning months of Obama’s presidency.

Roberts and his colleagues might have an incentive to avoid a tie vote that would not set a nationwide precedent and also point to the short-handed court’s difficulty in getting its work done. If that’s the case, the fate of the programs could hang on a two-word phrase the administration used to describe the status of immigrants under the programs— lawful presence. Texas and congressional Republicans who back the state say the phrase is important because it gives the immigrants more rights than federal law allows.

Verrilli told the justices that they could get rid of the phrase and essentially leave the programs unchanged.

“If the court thinks it’s a problem and wants to put a red pencil through it, it’s totally fine,” he said.

Roberts sounded interested in that idea, asking lawyer Erin Murphy if the court could, in fact, just “cross out the phrase.”

Murphy, representing House Republicans, said it wasn’t that simple.

In fact, it was not clear from the arguments whether such an outcome would affect immigrants’ ability to work or receive other benefits, including Social Security.

One way for the court to avoid dipping into the complex details of immigration law would be to adopt the administration’s argument that Texas has no right to challenge the programs in federal court.

But Roberts did not seem interested in that idea, noting that a ruling on the technical issue of standing would put Texas in a “Catch-22.”

Republican goveors and members of Congress have argued that Obama doesn’t have the power to effectively change immigration law. When he aounced the measures 17 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system. The Senate had passed legislation on a bipartisan vote, but House Republicans refused to put the matter to a vote.

The administration and immigration advocates say Obama’s orders are neither unprecedented nor even unusual. Rather, they say, the programs build on past efforts by Democratic and Republican administrations to use discretion in deciding whom to deport.

The protection from deportation is “discretionary, temporary and revocable relief from the daily fear that they will be separated from their families,” Thomas Saenz, arguing on behalf of three mothers of U.S. citizen children, told the court.

Southe Califoia’s home buying season got off to its typical start in March with sales making a big gain from February and a modest increase from a year earlier, a market tracker said Monday

Prices also increased from the year-ago level, Irvine-based CoreLogic said.

Last month, sales on new and previously owned houses and housed and condominiums in the six-county region rose 34.5 percent from February to 20,370 transactions, the company said.

That is close to the average monthly increase of 35 percent dating back to 1988, when record keeping began.

Sales rose 2 percent from a year earlier.

“Last month, the housing market experienced a normal, seasonal spike from February in the number of recorded transactions, which reflects more buyers and sellers entering the market as the holidays and winter faded,” CoreLogic research analyst Andrew LePage said.

During March, the region’s median price rose 6 percent from a year ago to $449,000. That price also marks a 4 percent increase from February.

The report said that:

• In Los Angeles County, sales fell 1 percent from a year ago to 6,610 and increased 33 percent from February. The median price rose 6 percent from a year ago to $506,000, which is also up 4 percent from February.

• In Orange County, sales rose 0.8 percent from a year ago to 3,181, and they soared 37 percent from February. The median price increased 7 percent from a year earlier to $625,000 and gained 2.5 percent from February.

• Orange County’s median price is now just 3 percent under the record high of $645,000 hit in June of 2007, CoreLogic said. It is the closest of any of the counties to a pre-recession price level.

• In Riverside County sales increased 5 percent from a year earlier to 3,583 and increased 32 percent from February. The county’s median price rose 8 percent from a year ago to $330,000, up 5 percent from February.

• San Beardino’s sales increased 8 percent from a year ago to 2,528 and were up 33.5 percent from February. The median price rose 5 percent from a year earlier to $272,000 and fell 1.1 percent from February.

LePage said that scant inventory and decreasing affordability might hold back sales in the coming months.

“Prices have come a long way in the last three years, and credit is still moderately tight,” he said.

The median sale price has risen year over year for 48 consecutive months, and the increases have been in single digits for the last 22 consecutive months. CoreLogic said.

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The March median was 11 percent below the peak median of $505,000 reached in March, April, May and July of 2007 CoreLogic said.

Cash buyers accounted for 23 percent of March sales, down from 25 percent from February and also down from 25 percent a year ago. The cash sales share peaked in February 2013 at 37.5 percent.

“Over the next few months, we’ll find out whether or not several years of rising home prices will trigger a more significant run-up in inventory than we’ve seen during the spring-summer season over the past couple of years,” LePage said. “In recent months, the new-home market has registered a stronger heartbeat, contributing more to the overall inventory.”

LOS ANGELES — A Carson man was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for trying to run over a deputy U.S. marshal who was attempting to arrest him for failing to abide by the terms of his release in a narcotics case.

Keith Leon Smith, 47, pleaded with the judge for “leniency,” asking to be allowed to go home and “be a father” to his teenage children.

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner told Smith -- a self-described lifelong drug addict -- that both he and the deputy could have been killed.

“You’re really lucky on two grounds -- that there’s not a police officer out there dead and you could’ve been dead,” the judge said.

Smith was found guilty in January of one felony count of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon.

According to evidence presented at trial, deputy U.S. marshals went to a home on East 220th Street in Carson on March 11, 2015, to arrest Smith on a two-year-old bench warrant.

Smith was wanted because he had violated the terms of his supervised release after serving more than seven years in prison for being convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine.

While conducting surveillance, the deputies saw Smith leaving the home, get into a minivan and drive away. The officers, in several vehicles, followed Smith and executed a traffic stop.

As the officers approached the minivan and identified themselves as law enforcement officers, Smith reversed his vehicle toward some of the marshals’ cars. Smith then suddenly accelerated his vehicle toward one of the deputy marshals, who was in front of the minivan. The officer fired his weapon at the windshield and fell backward.

Smith briefly stopped the vehicle as the shots hit the windshield, and then accelerated toward the deputy on the ground. The officer was able to jump out of the way of the minivan and fire several shots at the vehicle.

According to court documents, the marshal “believes that he would be dead if he had not stumbled out of the way of defendant’s oncoming vehicle.”

Smith sped away as the officers gave chase and was able to elude capture that day. However, deputies with the Los Angeles sheriff’s department located Smith’s minivan the next day and took him into custody.

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During a subsequent interview with sheriff’s deputies, Smith said he did not stop for the marshals because he did not want to go back to prison, according to the evidence presented at trial.

Smith told the court today that he has “struggled with drug addiction my entire life.”

In arguing for a prison sentence of less than five years, defense attoey Armilla Staley-Ngomo told the judge that her client’s meth addiction led to his legal problems.

“A long prison sentence ... isn’t going to curb his addiction,” she said.

Assistant U.S. Attoey Anil Antony recommended a nine-year prison term, based on the “bodily injury” -- including and sprains and abrasions -- suffered by the deputy U.S. marshal who had been trying to arrest Smith, noting the lawman “could’ve been seriously injured or killed.”

After imposing sentence, which includes residential drug treatment following release from prison, Klausner offered some final words to the defendant.

“It’s going to be a hard battle and, hopefully, you’ll make it,” the judge said.

INDIO >> The opening weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio may have set a new record for the number of guest stars.

• Photos: Best of Coachella 2016 Weekend One

If you watched the festival online from the couch or have plans to go to next week’s sold-out encore, here’s what went down, from Calvin Harris’ dance party to Sufjan Stevens’ weird stage decorations.

1. Best dance party: Calvin Harris

With Coachella’s wild wrap-around screens on the main stage, Harris’ incredibly packed Sunday night headlining set tued the field into an open-air Sahara Tent. Then he got some help from superstar singer Rihaa and hip-hop star Big Sean.

See photos from Calvin Harris’ set.

2. Biggest shock: Guns N’ Roses’ start time

A rock band notorious for being hours late, the Saturday night headliner took the stage 7 minutes after its scheduled start time of 10:30 p.m. The second biggest surprise from the band came in the form of a guest spot from AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, clad in a schoolboy outfit, joining the band for “Whole Lotta Rosie.”

See photos of Guns N’ Roses.

3. Biggest no-show: Dr. Dre

Everyone expected Ice Cube to get N.W.A. back together on the heels of the group’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but while MC Ren and DJ Yella joined Cube for a number of the group’s tracks, Dr. Dre was conspicuously absent.

And speaking of Cube, who knew that the flower crown-wearing upper middle class white millenials in the audience related to N.W.A.’s most infamous song about law enforcement?

Another no show was Justin Bieber, who missed Friday night’s Jack U set.

See photos of Ice Cube.

4. Biggest trend: Guest stars

Even without Dr. Dre, everybody seemed to have a guest star at opening weekend of Coachella. Some of the highlights included Kesha at Zedd; Lorde and Sam Smith at Disclosure; Common and Snoop Dogg at Ice Cube; classic rock guitarists Joe Walsh and Gle Schwartz at The Arcs; Sean Paul at Major Lazer; Brendon Urie at Halsey; Seal at Gallant. Need we go on?

See photos of all the musical performances at Coachella.

5. Best cover: LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem, the dance-rock band from New York City, played a powerful set on Friday that had smiling fans dancing beneath the glittering shards of light reflected off the massive mirror ball that hung over the stage. They added a cover of the late David Bowie’s “Heroes” that was transcendent both for the powerfully emotional performance and the grief many fans still feel for the loss of Bowie in January.

See photos of LCD Soundsystem.

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6. Most highbrow performance: Sia

Sia’s Sunday night set featured the singer’s striking, visual style and many, many clones. The result was a piece of mode dance expertly choreographed to contemporary music with Sia’s pitch-perfect vocals. Oh, and actors Kristen Wiig and Paul Dano were involved, too.

See photos of Sia.

7. Weirdest stage props: Sufjan Stevens

The sensitive songwriter discarded the sadness for joyful dances and neon costumes throughout his band. However, the strangest part of the whole set was the use of those inflatables you see at car dealerships.

See photos of Sufjan Stevens.

8. Best place to send Grandma a postcard: Coachella post office

The on-site intermediary between festival-goers and the real post office will let you write a drunken letter to Grandma, but just don’t try to mail your taxes there.

Find out more about Camp Coachella.

9. The Coachella fashion that won’t die: Flower crowns

After Coachella 2015, we read somewhere that the sorority outfit might be in its death throes, but the look has retained a loyal following in the desert.

See photos of fashion at Coachella.

10. Most coveted Record Store Day find at Coachella: Justin Bieber picture disc

There were fewer than 10 copies of the $22 item and they sold out on the first day.

11. Best amateur photographer: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

At one point lead singer Alex Ebert took a GoPro from a fan and snapped photos of the crowd during the band’s Sunday night Outdoor Theatre set. He then jumped down and walked along the rails.

See photos of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

12: Worst time management: A$AP Rocky

On Friday night, the rapper started his set about 15 minutes late. After bringing out Kanye West for a song, Rocky called the Chicago performer a “legend” and as Rocky attempted to perform his next song, organizers cut the sound because he reached his allotted time.

Rocky ended up angrily throwing his microphone over the DJ stand and walking off stage as fans chanted his name, as well as West’s.

First-timers Bob Moses also leaed the hard way about Coachella’s strict time limits after their late afteoon set went two minutes over and had the plug pulled during their last song, “Touch and Go.”

See photos of A$AP Rocky.

13. Missed reunion: Lush

The English four-piece, best-known for its hit “Ladykillers,” recently reunited after nearly 20 years apart but were forced to cancel their first weekend Coachella performance and reschedule some other U.S. dates due to a visa snafu. The group plans to perform for next weekend’s crowd.

14. Most political: Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels hit the main stage Saturday afteoon -- introduced via video by Democratic presidential candidate Beie Sanders, a pal of RTJ rapper Killer Mike. A surge of energy flowed through the crowd, which grew larger and larger as Run The Jewels brought out one guest performer after another: DJ Shadow, rapper Nas, blues guitarist and singer Gary Clark Jr. among them.

See photos of Run the Jewels.

15. Best Instagram fodder: “Besame Mucho”

There may not have been a “Helix Poeticus” (a.k.a Coachella Snail) this year, but the art was more political, if not as whimsical. Either way, the wall of 100,000 silk flowers seems to be the go-to “I was at Coachella 2016” image.

See photos of all of the art at Coachella 2016.

Staff Writers Jason Henry, Peter Larsen, Liset Marquez, Patrick O’Neill and Wes Woods contributed to this report.

A Carson man was sentenced Monday to spend eight years in federal prison for trying to run over a U.S. deputy marshal who had to shoot at him and jump out of the way of his minivan to avoid being killed.

Kevin Leon Smith, 47, leaed his fate in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for the March 11, 2015 confrontation that resulted in an officer-involved shooting in the 300 block of East 220th Street in Carson.

A federal jury in January convicted Smith of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon.

The crime occurred when six deputy U.S. marshals went looking for Smith at a residence on East 220th Street in Carson. Smith had served seven years in federal prison for manufacturing methamphetamine.

Violated terms

According to prosecutors’ sentencing memorandum, Smith was sought for arrest since 2013 for violating the terms of his supervised release from custody, including testing positive for methamphetamine and missing drug tests and substance abuse treatment appointments.

The marshals were watching as Smith got into a Toyota Siea and pulled out of a driveway. They followed him in several cars, pulling in front of him to block his path. Smith tried to accelerate in reverse, but stopped abruptly.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Bradley Beeler got out and yelled at Smith to stop.

Smith, prosecutors said, suddenly sped toward Beelever, revving his engine and causing his tires to screech.

“When Deputy Beeler realized that the van was moving quickly in his direction, he instinctively moved backward and fired four shots directly at directly at (Smith’s) windshield. In the process, Deputy Beeler tripped backward and fell to the ground.”

Raced toward marshal

Smith stopped briefly when shots hit the windshield, but then raced toward Beeler. Beeler jumped to his feet and fired three or four shots as he lunged out of the way.

Smith sped off. He was arrested the next day, telling deputies he did not want to go back to prison.

The U.S. Attoey’s Office sought a sentence of at least nine years. The defense sought a sentence of less than five.

Judge Gary Klausner imposed the sentence.

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LOS ANGELES — Southland temperatures will remain above normal today, helping to create wildfire conditions, but a shift from offshore to onshore winds this afteoon will usher in a cooling trend, forecasters said.

Despite the expected cooldown, a National Weather Service statement said mid-moing that an elevated danger of fire will persist through Wednesday as a result of gusty onshore winds and warm, dry conditions, with humidity levels expected to fall to between 10 and 20 percent in many areas.

Temperatures were 15-18 degrees above normal Sunday, and that should remain the case much of today, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie, adding that offshore winds have been sweeping in high heat from Nevada and the Four Coers area.

The onset of onshore winds should cause temperatures to dip and begin to revert to the 60s and 70s starting Tuesday, forecasters said.

Today’s highs are forecast to be 65 in Big Bear; 79 on Mount Wilson; 81 in Torrance; 82 at LAX; 83 in Palmdale; 84 in Lancaster and San Pedro; 85 in Avalon; 86 in Long Beach; 87 in North Hollywood; 88 in San Gabriel, Burbank and Redlands; 89 in Whittier, San Beardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Saugus and Pasadena; 90 in Van Nuys and Ontario; 91 in West Covina and Northridge; and 92 in Woodland Hills.

While some areas will be back in the 70s starting Tuesday, especially near the coast, others -- including Woodland Hills -- will fall back to the 70s only on Friday, when showers are expected in parts of the region.

BOSTON (AP) — Ethiopians nearly swept the Kenyans off the podium at the Boston Marathon on Monday, wiing both the men’s and women’s races for the first time in history and taking five of the six spots on the victory stand.

Lemi Berhanu Hayle won the men’s race in 2 hours, 12 minutes, 45 seconds, pulling away from defending champion Lelisa Desisa as they crossed over the Massachusetts Tupike heading into Kenmore Square. Hayle won by 47 seconds, with Yemane Adhane Tsegay an additional 30 seconds back to round out an all-Ethiopian top three.

Atsede Baysa won the women’s race, coming from 37 seconds behind with less than five miles to go. The two-time Chicago Marathon champion finished in 2:29:19 hours, 44 seconds ahead of fellow Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye.

Joyce Chepkirui was third in the women’s race, the lone Kenyan to medal in a race that had been dominated by her countrymen for decades. The results come as the World Anti-Doping Agency put Kenya on probation after more than 40 athletes tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs since the 2012 Olympics nearly one a month.

Most of the top Americans, including 2014 wier Meb Keflezighi, skipped the race after ruing in the U.S. Olympic trials in February. Other countries pick their teams for the Summer Games by committee, and the performances in Boston could help Desisa and Hayle ea a ticket to Rio de Janeiro.

Zachary Hine of Dallas was the top U.S. man, finishing 10th. Neely Spence Gracey, of Superior, Colorado, was the first American woman to finish, coming in ninth.

On a clear and windless day, cool temperatures at the start warmed to 62 degrees by the time the wiers reached the Back Bay. It was supposed to reach the mid-70s later in the afteoon an added challenge for the rest of the 30,000-ruer field that left Hopkinton in four waves Monday moing.

Fifty years after Bobbi Gibb sneaked onto the course and became the first woman to finish the race, more than 14,000 women left Hopkinton for the 26.2-mile trek to Boston’s Copley Square, where a commemorative logo greeted them at the finish. Gibb served as the grand marshal this year, riding down Boylston Street in a sports car before breaking a ceremonial finish-line tape.

Defending women’s champion Caroline Rotich was among the first to fall out, dropping away from the leaders at a water station about 5 miles in and walking to the side of the road. No reason for her withdrawal was immediately available.

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Baysa, 29, also fell out of the lead but never stopped ruing.

She was out of the picture as the women’s leaders passed the 35-kilometer mark, but soon after they left Heartbreak Hill the TV cameras picked up a bobbing yellow figure ruing along the side of the road. As she gained, it was clear that Baysa had saved enough energy for the wiing kick.

She caught Chepkiui on Beacon Street in Brookline with about 2.5 miles remaining, then sped past Tsegaye on the run toward Kenmore Square. The gap grew larger over the final mile and Baysa tued onto Boylston Street all alone.

Hayle, 21, eaed his first major marathon victory. He has run four smaller marathons since 2014, wiing three and finishing second in Dubai in January.

Marcel Hug of Switzerland won his second straight wheelchair race in a three-man sprint to the finish. Ten-time champion Est Van Dyk was second by 1 second and he held off third-place finisher Kurt Fealey in a photo finish, wiing by the width of a tire.

Tatyana McFadden, of Clarksville, Maryland, won the women’s wheelchair race for the fourth year in a row.

A small plane crashed short of the runway at Catalina Airport today, injuring two people.

The plane was a Cessna 172 that crashed about 4:30 p.m. short of the runway at what’s also known as the Airport in the Sky, according to Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Gregor reported that three people were aboard but a deputy at the sheriff’s Avalon Station said there were only two.

Firefighters worked to free a person trapped in the wreckage and tended to another victim that was ejected from the aircraft, according to Ed Pickett of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who said two helicopters were deployed to assist in the rescue.

Both victims were flown to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, but their conditions were not available, another county fire department dispatcher said.

The single-engine plane had departed from Long Beach, Gregor said.

According to the N number he provided, its registration was pending and listed an address of 5890 E. Belice St. in Long Beach.

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You might recognize Milana Vayntrub as Lily, the bubbly sales rep in AT&T commercials, but not long ago she decided to take the camera into her own hands.

Vayntrub and her father recently went on vacation to Greece, and she says she had a revelation there. It’s something that makes sense when you lea her own story.

“I very quickly realized how ridiculous that is, [to vacation in Greece],” she says in a documentary she made. “It’s an insane time to be on vacation here, because the country is experiencing not only financial turmoil, but also a giant influx of refugees that they can’t support.”

• VIDEO: See Milana Vayntrub’s ‘Can’t Do Nothing’ documentary

She decided to cancel her trip back home to the US — something she didn’t tell her father, because she knew he would worry about her safety.

She flew to Lesbos, where she and a friend started volunteering, helping refugees who were coming ashore. She made a short documentary about the experience, and co-founded Can’t Do Nothing, an organization that aims to coect people with causes they care about and assist refugees around the world.

Vayntrub was bo in Uzbekistan in 1987. When she was 2, her parents fled the Soviet Union after suffering through years of religious persecution and limited options for work.

“When the opportunity to leave was available, we took it,” she says. “It was a long immigration and refugee process. It took us about a year and two months to go from Uzbekistan to Viea to Italy and eventually to the United States.”

They settled in Califoia, where Vayntrub lives today.

She says the process of making the documentary was eye-opening.

“There’s no way to prepare yourself for seeing someone touch safe land for the first time in who knows how long — weeks, months,” she says. “That’s definitely a shift in perspective when you see someone who’s grateful to be alive and you think about how lucky we are to take being alive for granted.”

“We were only one stop on their very long jouey to wherever will accept them, wherever they can find a home.”

Shortly before releasing the documentary, she sent a copy to her father and apologized for not telling him earlier.

“He said he was really proud of my sneaky heart,” she says with a laugh. “All in all, he likes my sense of doing the right thing, or adventure. Maybe he’s just proud that I got away with a lie.”

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared divided between its liberal and conservative justices Monday over President Barack Obama’s immigration programs that could affect millions of people who are in the country illegally.

The administration’s best hope for a favorable ruling after 90 minutes of arguments at the high court appeared to rest with Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts asked questions suggesting he could side with the administration if there were a small change in the proposed programs.

The administration is asking the justices to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States.

Texas is leading 26 states dominated by Republicans in challenging the programs that Obama aounced in 2014 and that have been put on hold by lower courts.

The programs would apply to parents whose children are citizens or are living in the country legally. Eligibility also would be expanded for the president’s 2012 effort that applies to people who were brought here illegally as children. More than 700,000 people have taken advantage of that earlier program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The new program for parents, known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, and the expanded program for children could reach as many as 4 million people, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

The fate of the programs could hang on a two-word phrase the administration used to describe the status of immigrants under the programs— lawful presence. Texas and congressional Republicans who back the state say the phrase is important because it gives the immigrants more rights than federal law allows.

Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. told the justices that they could get rid of that phrase and essentially leave the programs unchanged. “If the court wants to put a red pencil through it, that’s totally fine,” Verrilli said.

Later in the arguments, Roberts sounded interested in that idea, asking lawyer Erin Murphy if the court could, in fact, just “cross it out.”

Murphy, representing House Republicans, said it wasn’t that simple.

If the court is split ideologically, the case could end in a 4-4 tie following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February. That would leave the programs in limbo, almost certainly through the end of Obama’s presidency.

Both sides acknowledge that the outcome of the presidential election could determine the programs’ fates, even if the Supreme Court rules for the administration. Republican candidates have pledged to roll back Obama’s actions, and Republican candidate Donald Trump has proposed deporting the roughly 11 million people who are living in the U.S. illegally.

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As arguments began, hundreds of pro-immigration demonstrators filled the sidewalk in front of the court and spilled into the street, leading police to close the road to traffic. Demonstrators held signs that read “Keep Families Together” and chanted “Si se puede,” which is Spanish for “Yes we can.”

“We are here to tell them this is our home and we are not going anywhere,” said Cristina Jimenez, director of United We Dream, a group that advocates for immigrant families.

A small group of demonstrators opposing Obama’s action held signs saying the president had overstepped his authority.

The high court is expected to decide by late June whether the efforts can move forward in the waning months of Obama’s presidency, amid a presidential campaign that has been marked by harsh Republican rhetoric over immigration.

Republican goveors and members of Congress have argued that Obama doesn’t have the power to effectively change immigration law. When he aounced the measures 17 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system. The Senate had passed legislation on a bipartisan vote, but House Republicans refused to put the matter to a vote.

The administration and immigration advocates say the immigration orders are neither unprecedented nor even unusual. Rather, they say, Obama’s programs build on past efforts by Democratic and Republican administrations to use discretion in deciding whom to deport.

The administration and its supporters said the challenged programs do not offer blanket protection, but depend on case-by-case reviews. The protection from deportation also would be temporary, for three years.

Another 16 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia said they would reap billions of dollars in additional taxes and would see other benefits, including increasing trust between immigrant communities and police, if the programs are allowed to take effect.

PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador — It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative’s start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when a collapsing building crushed 17-year-old Sayira Quinde, her mother, father and toddler brother in their rusting Chevy Blazer.

A grief-stricken aunt, Johana Estupinan, now is making the longest jouey of her life in a funeral hearse to the town of Esmeraldas, where she will bury her loved ones and break the news of the loss to her sister’s three now-orphaned children.

As Ecuador digs out from its strongest earthquake in decades, tales of devastating loss are everywhere amid the rubble. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake left a trail of ruin along Ecuador’s normally placid Pacific Ocean coast, buckling highways, knocking down an air traffic control tower and flattening homes and buildings. At least 272 people died, including two Canadians, and thousands are homeless.

President Rafael Correa said early Monday that the death toll would “surely rise, and in a considerable way.”

“The Ecuadorean spirit knows how to move forward, and will know how to overcome these very difficult moments,” Correa said.

Portoviejo, a provincial capital of nearly 300,000, was among the hardest hit, with the town’s mayor reporting at least 100 deaths. The Quinde family drove there from their home hours north up the coast to drop off Sayira at Estupinan’s house a week before she was to start classes at a public university on a scholarship to study medicine.

“She was my favorite niece,” Estupinan said, emotionally to apart after waiting at the city’s morgue for hours. “I thought I was getting a daughter for the six years it was going to take her to ea a degree.”

“I never thought my life would be destroyed in a minute,” she added.

Estupinan watched as her loved ones were loaded onto a truck-sized hearse for the nighttime drive, the three older ones in dark mahogany coffins and 8-month-old Matias in a casket painted white. “It was supposed to be a short moment of family happiness but it converted into a tragedy,” she said.

She hoped to bury her relatives in Esmeraldas on Monday, but devastation there is also severe and she worried about whether the hearse could make it along roads ripped apart by the quake.

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The Saturday night quake knocked out power in many parts along the coast and some who fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami had no home to retu to, or feared structures still standing might collapse. The country’s Geophysics Institute said it recorded 230 aftershocks, some strong, as of Sunday night.

With makeshift shelters in short supply, many hunkered down to spend a second straight night outdoors huddled among neighbors.

Correa cut short a trip to the Vatican and flew directly to the city of Manta to oversee relief efforts. Even before touching Ecuadorean soil he signed a decree declaring a national emergency. Speaking from Portoviejo late Sunday he said the earthquake was the worst natural disaster to hit Ecuador since a 1949 earthquake in the Andean city of Ambato, which took over 5,000 lives.

“Our grief is very large, the tragedy is very large, but we’ll find the way to move forward,” Correa said. “If our pain is immense, still larger is the spirt of our people.”

As rescuers scrambled through the ruins near the epicenter, in some cases digging with their hands to look for survivors, humanitarian aid began trickling in. More than 3,000 packages of food and nearly 8,000 sleeping kits were being delivered Sunday. Correa’s ally, Venezuela, and neighboring Colombia, where the quake was also felt, organized airlifts. Mexico and Chile sent teams of rescuers.

Spain’s Red Cross said as many as 5,000 people may need temporary housing after the quake flattened homes, and 100,000 may need some sort of aid.

“For God’s sake help me find my family,” pleaded Manuel Quijije, 27, standing next to a wrecked building in Portoviejo. He said his older brother, Junior, was trapped under a pile of twisted steel and concrete with two relatives.

“We managed to see his arms and legs. They’re his, they’re buried, but the police kicked us out because they say there’s a risk the rest of the building will collapse,” Quijije said angrily as he looked on the ruins cordoned off by police. “We’re not afraid. We’re desperate. We want to pull out our family.”

On social media, Ecuadoreans celebrated a video of a baby girl being pulled from beneath a collapsed home in Manta.

But fear was also spreading of another night of looting after 180 prisoners from a jail near Portoviejo escaped amid the tumult. Authorities said some 20 inmates were recaptured and some others retued voluntarily.

Seeking security from any unrest, about 400 residents of Portoviejo gathered Sunday night on the tarmac of the city’s former airport, where authorities handed out water, mattresses and food. The airport was closed in 2011 and flights diverted to a larger facility in nearby Manta after Correa kicked out a U.S. drug interdiction operation stationed there.

Shantytowns and cheaply constructed brick and concrete homes were reduced to rubble along the quake’s path. In the coastal town of Chamanga, authorities estimated than 90 percent of homes had damage, while in Guayaquil a shopping center’s roof fell in and a collapsed highway overpass crushed a car, killing the driver.

The govement said it would draw on $600 million in emergency funding from multilateral banks to rebuild.

But in the meantime, the digging and hoping against the odds continued.

In downtown Portoviejo, a few blocks from where a four-story hotel fell onto the Quinde family’s car, the six-story social security building was a pile of debris. Downed power cables were strewn across the street.

“The situation is heart-rending,” Jaime Ugalde, editor of El Diario, the city’s most-important newspaper, said as he surveyed the damage. “I’m going to retu home and hug my wife and two kids. We’re the lucky ones. We’re alive.”

Associated Press writers Joshua Goodman and Jacobo Garcia in Bogota, Colombia; Dolores Ochoa in Pedeales, Ecuador; and Gonzalo Solano in Quito, Ecuador, contributed to this report.