The Nicaraguan government organized rallies and festivities Monday to mark the anniversary of the July 19, 1979, revolution that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza.... But with most opposition leaders jailed, many Nicaraguans say President Daniel Ortega is acting much like Somoza did 42 years ago.... Several of the leading Sandinista revolutionaries who fought alongside Ortega in 1979 have now been jailed by him....

After seven months of a global pandemic spent in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, Jacob Guardado and his roommate decided to make a move. They found a Studio City two-bedroom in October 2020 for$ 1, 975 a month — a few hundred dollars more than what they had been paying.... When the lease ended a year later, Guardado was waiting for his landlord to tell him how much more it was going to cost to stay there.“ I didn’t want to ask, ” said Guardado, 28, who works in the insurance industry. But the

“ Either you keep the customer happy or you lose the customer, ” he said. Skyrocketing inflation is slamming many of California’s 1.6 million small businesses, which employ more than half the state’s workforce.... And small firms are less able to navigate the challenges than larger competitors. Advertisement In October, the 6.2% rise in U.S. consumer prices was the biggest year-over-year jump in 31 years.... Torrid surges in the cost of housing, gasoline, cars and food continue to capture head