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Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tuel entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final. Such audacity would have been laughable from any other sprinter. Then again there never has been any other sprinter like Bolt. Besides, the result Thursday night was never in doubt, even the most remote of chances for an upset vanquished before the race even hit the homestretch. Bolt once again reduced the rest the field at a major championships to spectators, racing to a 19.78 victory in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Ten of 25 laps into the Olympic Games 10,000-meter final and a night when Great Britain’s Mo Farah was chasing the likes of Zatopek, Viren and Gebrselassie through history, the unthinkable happened. Farah, the reigning Olympic and World 10,000 and 5,000 champion, crashed to the track after getting entangled with Nike Oregon Project teammate Galen Rupp of the U.S. Farah’s immediate thought was the same as most at the Olympic Stadium Saturday night. “Is the race over? Is the race?” Farah recalled asking himself. “I just kept telling myself ‘No! No! No!’” Rupp dropped back to check on his friend. “You alright?” Rupp asked. Farah answered with a resounding victory, blowi...

Doa Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services director at a Turlock nursing home. But when she developed Alzheimer’s disease and needed that kind of care herself, she and her husband couldn’t afford it: A bed at a nearby home cost several thousand dollars a month. “I’m not a wealthy man,” said Nickerson’s husband, Mel, a retired Califoia State University, Stanislaus professor. “There’s no way I could pay for that.” Experts estimate that about half of all people tuing 65 today will need daily help as they age, either at home or in nursing homes. Such long-term care will cost an average of about $91,000 for men and double that for women, because they live longe...

Doa Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services director at a Turlock, Calif., nursing home. But when she developed Alzheimer’s disease and needed that kind of care herself, she and her husband couldn’t afford it: A bed at a nearby home cost several thousand dollars a month. “I’m not a wealthy man,” said Nickerson’s husband Mel, a retired Califoia State University-Stanislaus professor. “There’s no way I could pay for that.” Experts estimate that about half of all people tuing 65 today will need daily help as they age, either at home or in nursing homes. Such long-term care will cost an average of about $91,000 for men and double that for women, because they liv...

LONDON — In a carefully orchestrated political ballet, David Cameron left his job and his home at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, resigning as prime minister soon afterward at Buckingham Palace. Theresa May then became Britain’s new leader, accepting an invitation to gove from Queen Elizabeth II. The palace confirmed in a brief, formal statement that “the Right Honorable David Cameron MP had an Audience of The Queen this evening and tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, which Her Majesty was graciously pleased to accept.” Soon afterward the palace released a photo of May curtseying to the monarch at the palace. In the traditional change of govement cerem...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Califoia is accusing the federal govement of failing to ensure veterans are granted citizenship after serving in the military. ACLU tracked 84 foreign-bo veterans who’d been deported or are facing deportation because he or she committed crimes that sparked their expulsion. Those veterans should have been considered for citizenship, which would have allowed them to stay in the country after their release from prison or jail, according to the ACLU. In some cases, the U.S. govement lost, misplaced or failed to file the applications of veterans who applied for naturalization, the ACLU’s 60-page report found. Many veterans mistakenly believed they became U.S...

On the day Cheryl Lawson Walker graduated from college, she hadn’t thought much about the future, and the obstacles she might face as a woman. The place was Wellesley; the year was 1969, and the women’s movement was just emerging as a force in America. But that day, for the first time, a student had been selected to address the commencement at the women’s school: Hillary Rodham. The two women lived in the same dorm and had chatted over meals. Rodham’s speech sent a jolt through the class. “We were just thrilled that she felt empowered enough and articulate enough” to speak so boldly, rebutting the remarks of the U.S. senator who spoke before her, which many classmates had found condescending...

Chris Froome realizes he’s on the cusp of greatness. The British rider already has two Tour de France victories and a third win in cycling’s biggest event — which starts Saturday — would make him the most dominant rider of his generation. Another yellow jersey would also put Froome into an elite club of just seven riders who have won the Tour at least three times. “Every rider obviously starts every new Tour equal and what has gone before counts for nothing,” Froome said. “This year I am hungrier than ever for success.” Froome’s top challengers will likely be two-time ruer-up Nairo Quintana of Colombia and Alberto Contador, the Spaniard who has won the Tour twice but took his last victory i...

LONDON >> A tsunami of uncertainty has engulfed Aa Woydyla, a Polish restaurant worker in London, since Britain voted to leave European Union. Would her two teenage children, who grew up in the United Kingdom, still qualify for loans to study at British universities? Would she and her husband, after 11 years of working here, have to sell the home they just bought? Leave their jobs? Leave their new country? Try to apply for citizenship? The 41-year-old is among hundreds of thousands for European Union workers in Britain who are fearful and confused over what happens next as their adoptive country begins the long process of unwinding its many ties to continental Europe. “If it were just...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and the European Union haven’t even begun divorce talks yet but were already bickering Saturday as the political and economic shockwaves from the British vote to leave the bloc reverberated around the world. Senior EU politicians, rattled by a result that few saw coming, told Britain on Saturday to hurry up and trigger the formal exit process — something the U.K. insists won’t happen for several months. “There is a certain urgency ... so that we don’t have a period of uncertainty, with financial consequences, political consequences,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said at a meeting in Berlin of the EU’s six founding nations. Britons voted 52-to 48 percent Th...

NEW YORK >> Stocks are plunging in the U.S. and worldwide Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union. The result stued investors, who reacted by rushing to the safety of gold and U.S. govement bonds as they wondered what will come next for Britain, Europe and the global economy. U.S. stocks gave up all their gains from earlier in the year and are on track for their biggest losses since August. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 627 points, or 3.5 percent, to 17,383 as of 3:25 p.m. The S&P 500 dropped 78 points, or 3.7 percent, to 2,035. The Nasdaq composite was set for its biggest loss since mid-2011, down 206 points, or 4.2 percent, to 4,703. Indexes in Europe a...

NEW YORK >> Stocks are plunging in the U.S. and worldwide Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union. The result stued investors, who reacted by rushing to the safety of gold and U.S. govement bonds as they wondered what will come next for Britain, Europe and the global economy. U.S. stocks took far smaller losses than markets in Europe and Asia, but were still sharply lower in moing trading. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 408 points, or 2.2 percent, to 17,608 as of 10:20 a.m. It was down as much as 538 points earlier The S&P 500 is on pace for its biggest loss since January, down 50 points, or 2.4 percent, to 2,064. The Nasdaq composite dropped 134 points, ...

LONDON >> Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, according to tallies of official results Friday, sending global markets plunging, casting British politics into disarray and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. The decision launches a yearslong process to renegotiate trade, business and political links between the United Kingdom and what will become a 27-nation bloc, an unprecedented divorce that could take decades to complete. “The dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom,” said Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party. “Let June 23 go down...

Los Angeles, San Feando Valley and Santa Monica area Events National Eat at a Food Truck Day: Roaming Hunger, a food truck tracker, is promoting a day for special deals with participating food trucks in the Los Angeles area on June 24. Check the website or download the app for participating trucks. www.neaftd.com Tave: “Low Country Boil,” a traditional seafood dish from the Carolinas, 5-9 p.m. June 26. Cost $65 plus tax and tip. Ticketed event; reservations required; credit card required. Check website for the menu. 11648 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles. 310-806-6464. www.tavela.com Il Foaio: Italian regional specialties on a rotating monthly menu: Food and wine from Campania through June 30...

Federal auto safety authorities are cautioning drivers of select Fiat Chrysler vehicles following the death of actor Anton Yelchin, who was crushed after his 2015u2009Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled down a driveway at his Studio City home over the weekend. Yelchin’s SUV was one of 1.1u2009million vehicles recalled in April by Fiat Chrysler after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigated complaints from hundreds of drivers who said they had difficulty telling if their vehicle was in park or neutral, causing their cars to unexpectedly roll away, the NHTSA said Monday. “Until all of these recalled vehicles are fixed, owners should take extra care to make sure their car is in p...

Richard Simmons ‘feeling great’ following hospital stay Richard Simmons told USA Today on June 5, 2016, that he was “feeling great” after being hospitalized for dehydration. (2006 file photo by Tina Fineberg/Associated Press) By Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Richard Simmons says dehydration is the reason for his recent hospital stay. USA Today reports the 67-year-old fitness guru said in a statement through his publicist Sunday that he was “dehydrated and needed some fluids” and that he’s now “feeling great!” TMZ had reported Friday that Simmons had been hospitalized. The New York Daily News reported in March that friends of Simmons told the newspaper that they feared he w...