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• Dodgers, MLB still celebrate Jackie Robinson Day without games

  15-04-2020 23:54
  
  The Covid-19 pandemic that shut down Major League Baseball altered, but did not stop, the sport’s annual celebration of Jackie Robinson.
  MLB used its digital platforms to honor Robinson on Wednesday, the anniversary of the day that he integrated the sport with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
  Normally, the event is marked by every player in the majors wearing Robinson’s No. 42 in games. Even without games this year, players for the Dodgers, Angels and other major league teams still had
  
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• Laguna Beach’s oldest home drops its price, again

  15-04-2020 23:48
  
  A view of the newly updated kitchen and the sleeping loft in the historic 1883 cottage at 154 Pearl Street. (Photo by Luxury Home Media)
  The ocean-facing view from the main room of the 1883 cottage. (Photo by Luxury Home Media)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsView from the downstairs terrace of the 1883 cottage. (Photo by Luxury Home Media)
  The newest addition to 154 Pearl Street features an attached three-car garage. (Photo by Luxury Home Media)
  The dining area in the new addition at 154 P
  
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• Orange County’s water importer backs off proposals after widespread opposition

  15-04-2020 23:24
  
  Facing objections from water districts throughout Orange County, the agency that sells imported water to those districts has backed off — at least temporarily — on two proposals that critics said overstepped its mission and the appropriate bounds of its authority.
  The Municipal Water District of Orange County, the county’s wholesaler for water from the northern California and Colorado River, considered items at its board meeting Wednesday, April 15, that addressed the scope of
  
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• Coronavirus: Orange County reports 87 new cases, 3 new deaths on April 15

  15-04-2020 23:21
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 1,376 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Wednesday, April 15.
  Another 328 people had been tested according to the county’s latest update, bringing the total number of tests in the county to 15,305 – that works out to about 47.5 residents per 10,000.
  There were 87 new cases of the virus noted, with 24 of 25 Orange County hospitals reporting in. Tuesday’s update had only 22 of 25 hospitals reporting.
  After a couple of days of no
  
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• OC Fair leaders to discuss whether to cancel, LA County Fair still in the planning

  15-04-2020 23:15
  
  The LA County Fair is still on for September, while OC Fair leaders will discuss April 27 whether to cancel, officials said following Tuesday’s announcement the San Diego County Fair is postponed until 2021 because of coronavirus concerns.
  The OC Fair is currently scheduled to take place July 17-Aug. 16. Its Board of Directors will meet via teleconference to discuss plans.
  The OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa closed all of its facilities to the public last month. It is currently ho
  
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• Little Free Libraries become free pantries to help neighbors affected by coronavirus

  15-04-2020 23:02
  
  Little Free Libraries are meant to bring people together — a goal that may seem to run counter to the social distancing that’s now being enforced throughout California.
  But for some, that problem inspired another solution.
  Carol Wohlk, left, adds a box of tissues to Sami and Mia’s Library, which has been converted to a food pantry during the coronavirus crisis as neighbor Judith Nelson looks on in 11200 block ofYearling Street in Riverside on Saturday, March 28, 2020. (Photo by
  
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• Orange orders birth tourism motel to shut down this month

  15-04-2020 22:52
  
  City officials in Orange ordered a small motel operating as a birth tourism lodge to shut down by the end of the month.
  Council members on Tuesday night revoked the JR Motel’s conditional use permit, saying the owner did not operate the facility for its intended use.
  The JR Motel doesn’t have a sign or take reservations from the general public. Instead, it caters to well-off Chinese women who come to the United States while pregnant with the intention of giving birth to a child who,
  
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• Coronavirus: Students could take SAT at home if schools remain closed

  15-04-2020 22:41
  
  By CAROLYN THOMPSON
  A home version of the SAT college entrance exam is being prepared in case schools remain closed into the fall, College Board officials said Wednesday as they announced the cancellation of June testing.
  Instead of a paper-and-pencil test given under proctors’ supervision, the home version would be digital and rely on “remote proctoring.” That could include using the computer’s camera and microphone to monitor movement or talking, College Board President
  
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• Park Life: Disney delays Avengers Campus and Disneyland considers temperature checks

  15-04-2020 22:33
  
  When will Avengers Campus open at Disney California Adventure? Will Disneyland check visitors’ temperatures before letting them into the park? Will work on the Frontierland gate alter the iconic Disneyland entrance? Find all the latest theme park news in the Park Life newsletter.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here.
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• Despite delayed USC signing ceremony, Boubacar Coulibaly ready to compete

  15-04-2020 21:56
  
  On a typical signing day, any year but 2020, Boubacar Coulibaly would have stood in the San Gabriel Academy gymnasium. His teammates would have stood behind him as the center, decked out in USC gear, would have signed his national letter of intent to play basketball for the Trojans.
  But it is 2020. And with nothing typical about Wednesday’s signing day, Coulibaly opted to delay putting pen to paper to create as much normalcy as possible.
  Coulibaly is still firm in his commitment to USC, Sa
  
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• Coronavirus: Extra $600 unemployment payments will be retroactive

  15-04-2020 21:45
  
  Unemployment pay containing an extra $600 a week in benefits is being sent to a very broad group of jobless workers in California — and the extra payments will be retroactive, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.
  So far, about 2.7 million California residents who have lost their jobs have filed for unemployment in recent weeks, Gov. Newsom estimated on Wednesday at a news briefing to discuss the impact of the coronavirus on California.
  The state Employment Development Department offices to pr
  
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• Tortoises, bunnies and other pets on ‘vacation’ after coronavirus closes CSUF’s Children’s Center

  15-04-2020 21:36
  
  Kikyo Tanaka misses her daily ritual of petting the bunnies goodbye when her parents come to pick her up at the Cal State Fullerton Children’s Center.
  “We were talking the other day about how much she misses Cha Cha the bunny,” said Taka Tanaka, a sociology lecturer at the university, about his 3-year-old daughter. “We were driving around to get some air, and she said she really wanted to go to the Children’s Center to see the animals.”
  It’s not somethin
  
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• Laguna Hills asks judge to block use of hotel for homeless with coronavirus concerns

  15-04-2020 21:18
  
  Laguna Hills has filed a lawsuit to block the county’s plan to use the 76-room Laguna Hills Inn for homeless people with coronavirus, saying it “poses a direct threat to the health and safety of the surrounding community.”
  The city filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, April 14, jointly with the owners of four buildings adjacent to the hotel, according to a city press release. The owner of the hotel is also named.
  “This suit was filed to try to protect our small city from a major
  
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• Titan Voice: When home doesn’t feel like home anymore

  15-04-2020 21:07
  
  By Destiny White
  It’s almost as if I’ve been here before.
  I’ve been through a disaster, here in New Orleans, before. But this time there is no flood, nor a hurricane. This disaster— COVID-19 — has an unknown end date, and so does my time back down in New Orleans.
  I was born and raised in New Orleans and I call this city my home when I’m not at Cal State Fullerton, studying communications.
  In my childhood, I lived through and experienced one of the worst natura
  
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• Warren becomes latest ex-presidential rival to back Biden

  15-04-2020 21:06
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON  — Elizabeth Warren endorsed Joe Biden on Wednesday, the latest of the former vice president’s onetime White House rivals to back him as the Democratic Party moves to project unity against President Donald Trump going into the November election.
  “Joe Biden has spent nearly his entire life in public service. He knows that a government run with integrity, competence, and heart will save lives and save livelihoods,” Warren said in a nearly fo
  
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• California League teams struggle with coronavirus shutdown

  15-04-2020 21:00
  
  Over the winter the the Lake Elsinore Storm embarked on a $2 million project to renovate their minor league ballpark. The upgrades included a shiny, new $400,000 video board. These days Shaun Brock has been pondering some other uses for the screen.
  “Maybe everyone will get a plot of grass six feet apart on the field and we’ll all watch Disney Plus together,” the chief financial officer and co-general manager of the Storm said.
  Opening their stadium — The Diamond — f
  
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• Cal State Fullerton students may be able to opt for credit/no credit grades this semester

  15-04-2020 20:59
  
  A proposed change that would allow students who are unhappy with their grades in online classes to request credit/no credit grades this semester is one of the latest ways Cal State Fullerton officials are coping with disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic.
  Officials also announced that Summer Session courses would be virtual this year and that Welcome to CSUF Day will be online Saturday on Zoom.
  The CSUF Academic Senate voted unanimously April 9 to recommend a deadline extension to give stude
  
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• Chargers member tests positive for coronavirus, two others showing symptoms

  15-04-2020 20:38
  
  One member of the Chargers’ organization has tested positive for coronavirus and two others have shown symptoms, according to a team spokesperson.
  Team owner Dean Spanos, general manager Tom Telesco and head coach Anthony Lynn were not among the group, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Wednesday.
  “Everyone is doing well and is on the road to recovery,” Chargers team spokesperson Josh Rupprecht told ESPN.
  This story will be updated.
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• Manzano: Chargers trade up to snag QB in NFL mock draft 1.0

  15-04-2020 20:35
  
  Here’s the first of two Southern California News Group mock drafts as we approach next week’s stay-at-home 2020 NFL Draft. Expect to be shocked with five trades in this first round, and don’t hesitate to send an email at [email protected] to tell me at I’m wrong in all caps. Enjoy:
  1. CINCINNATI BENGALS: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU
  A team like the Miami Dolphins could entice the Bengals to trade the top pick for multiple first-round selections, but in the end the Bengals went wit
  
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• Laguna Woods Village co-op board expands services for handyman program

  15-04-2020 20:27
  
  The United Mutual board on Tuesday, April 14, approved a resolution to initiate Phase 2 of the mutual’s handyman program.
  In its second phase, the program’s list of nonemergency maintenance chargeable services provided by in-house staff has been revised.
  The list adds a number of chores not previously included such as installing a dishwasher, replacing ceiling fans or repairing sliding glass doors, according to a Village Management Services staff report.
  Service charges remain at a f
  
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• Explaining the USWNT gender discrimination lawsuit before June trial

  15-04-2020 20:10
  
  The Southern California News Group is partnering with Just Women’s Sports for a weekly stories. Sign up for the JWS newsletter here.With sports still on hiatus, the biggest upcoming showdown is between the U.S. women’s national team and their own federation.
  On June 16th, the USWNT’s gender discrimination lawsuit will finally head to trial in what promises to be one of the defining moments in women’s sports history (yes, it’s that big of a deal). But while the laws
  
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• Ask Brad: What does a restaurant critic cook during a pandemic?

  15-04-2020 20:02
  
  Q: Hey Brad, what does a food critic cook while sheltering in place? 
  A: While I still get most of my food from restaurants, I am currently cooking more than usual. I’ve been focusing on things that I can repurpose or freeze and eat again next week — and of course things that don’t require a lot of grocery shopping. So the first thing I made last week was a caesar salad and my famous meatloaf. 
   
  Restaurant critic Brad A. Johnson’s meatloaf is inspired by t
  
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• U.S. relief checks begin arriving as economic damage piles up

  15-04-2020 19:58
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, PAUL WISEMAN and MIKE CORDER
  WASHINGTON — Government relief checks began arriving in Americans’ bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from the coronavirus piled up Wednesday and sluggish sales at reopened stores in Europe and China made it clear that business won’t necessarily bounce right back when the crisis eases.
  With lockdowns and other restrictions bringing factories to a shuddering halt, American industrial output shriveled in March, re
  
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• Photos: Orange County athletes take part in spring’s ‘Signing Day’

  15-04-2020 19:25
  
  Take a look at our reader-submitted photos of the Orange County athletes who signed a National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, April 15 to play college sports.
  Athletes, coaches and parents can email their photos to [email protected]. The Orange County signing list is here.
  Huntington Beach swimmer Taylor Bartlett signed with Milligan University in Tennessee.(Photo courtesy of Bartlett family)
  Cypress softball player Sammy Diaz signed a letter of intent with the University of Iowa on Wedn
  
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• Coronavirus forecast: California tax collections to plummet by 20%

  15-04-2020 19:10
  
  One big California enterprise that is getting economically hammered by coronavirus is the state government itself.
  Like peers around the globe, California’s government is spending furiously to battle the pandemic. At the same time, the resulting business shutdowns used to slow the spread of the virus is slashing tax collections.
  Fitch Ratings, a major Wall Street credit grader, has come out with its first-glance look at how the state budget will fare in the stay-at-home/social distancing e
  
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• After losing wife in helicopter crash, Tijuana Dogs’ Matt Mauser celebrates her life with music

  15-04-2020 19:07
  
  At a time when the world is sheltering at home and isolating from one another, Matt Mauser felt the need for connection now more than ever. In January, his wife Christina Mauser, a 38-year-old girl’s youth basketball assistant coach, died in the helicopter crash in Calabasas that also took the lives of eight others including former NBA star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
  Now, like the rest of Southern California, Mauser finds himself social distancing and taking on the r
  
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• How to garden indoors with these easy-to-grow plants

  15-04-2020 18:59
  
  With people across the country staying at home amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, many people have taken up gardening, filling plots with tomatoes, beans, peas and other staples that they’ve secured from seed companies and nurseries, but outdoor gardening isn’t a feasible prospect for everyone, especially those who live in tighter smaller, spaces without a backyard.
  Garden specialists in Southern California say it is possible to grow produce indoors if you have the right light and
  
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• Photos: Face masks have turned into fashion statements

  15-04-2020 18:30
  
  Kittens sticking out their tongues offer a splash of fun across the face.
  The red, white and blue of the American flag can be a proud show of patriotism.
  Face coverings are doubling as fashion statements as more people wear them while venturing out during this coronavirus outbreak.
  Maria Arenas wears “Billy the G.O.A.T.”, one of the masks BOA is making in Brea, CA on Monday, April 13, 2020. BOA, normally an athletic apparel company, is making masks with fun designs. (Photo by Paul Be
  
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• Coronavirus lockdown shields abused kids from watchful eyes

  15-04-2020 18:22
  
  When kids come to school with swollen lips or black eyes — or fail to come to school at all — teachers are required to report suspected child abuse or neglect to authorities.
  When doctors observe kids with broken bones, hidden bruises and inconsistent explanations, they’re required to do the same.
  But in a global pandemic and its attendant lockdown, mandated reporters like teachers and doctors can’t keep watchful eyes on kids who may be suffering abuse or neglect at home
  
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• How ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ director Jeff Fowler turned a looming disaster into a Hollywood happy ending

  15-04-2020 18:10
  
  Director Jeff Fowler worked on “Sonic the Hedgehog,” his feature film debut, for more than four years, but mention just one specific date — April 30,2019 — and he laughs, knowing exactly what happened that day and the question that’s about to come.
  “A day which will live in infamy,” Fowler says, happy he can joke around after the huge commercial success “Sonic the Hedgehog” scored when it finally arrived in theaters on Valentine’s Day t
  
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• An epic tale of family and Vietnamese history, ‘The Mountains Sing’ explores life during wartime

  15-04-2020 17:51
  
  When she was a child, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai ached for the kind of family connection others might take for granted.
  “Growing up,” Nguyễn says on a recent call from Jakarta, where she now lives. “I was really jealous of my friends who had grandmothers to tell them stories.”
  So she decided that one day she would write a book with a grandmother telling stories to the granddaughter. That goal coincided with another: She wanted to write an epic that moves throug
  
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• How your Zoom meeting can avoid ‘Zoom-bombs’ of porn and profanity

  15-04-2020 17:39
  
  As Californians have stayed home to avoid spreading the coronavirus, many have stayed connected to their campuses, workplaces or government meetings through videoconferencing.
  But trouble has followed.
  Loopholes in the most popular videoconferencing software, Zoom, have allowed trolls to insert pornographic videos into city council meetings, profanity and racism into high school classes and more.
  A screen grab from a video shows a March 31, 2020, Laguna Beach City Council meeting. Security flaws
  
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• Spring Signing Day: Orange County athletes who signed and where they are going

  15-04-2020 17:30
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOCVarsity is compiling a list of Orange County athletes who signed a National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, April 15.
  The list includes athletes who received commitment letters from Ivy League schools and military service academies, which don’t offer athletic scholarships or use the NLI system.
  Please email athlete signing info to [email protected] so that we can include it on our list.
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• 16% of U.S. apartment tenants failed to pay their April rent by Sunday

  15-04-2020 17:17
  
  Sixteen percent of apartment tenants across the nation failed to pay any of their rent by Sunday, April 12, down from 31% a week earlier, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council’s rent payment tracker.
  That compares with 9% who failed to pay their rent by March 12 and 10% in arrears by April 12, 2019.
  The apartment council’s president said he was pleased late the rate of late payments is relatively low given widespread shelter-in-place orders across the country in respo
  
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• Spring wrap-up: Q&A with Beckman baseball coach Kevin Lavalle

  15-04-2020 17:05
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEditor’s note: The Orange County Register is having the area’s spring sports coaches take part in a Q&A about the 2020 season that was cut short by the coronavirus crisis.
  Kevin Lavalle, Beckman baseball
  Q: How are you adapting to being home every day during the spring?
  A: It’s awful. The “distance learning” that we are doing keeps me busy, but it’s not the same. I miss
  
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• China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days

  15-04-2020 17:04
  
  In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations.
  President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtaine
  
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• Mission Viejo quarterback Ryan Costelli commits to Utah

  15-04-2020 17:00
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowMission Viejo quarterback Peter Costelli recently committed to Utah.
  Costelli, who will be a senior this fall, selected Utah from a group of finalists that included Arkansas, Louisville, Michigan State, Nebraska and Northwestern.
  “It’s the perfect fit for me there, football-wise and school-wise,” Costelli said of Utah. “I know I can be comfortable there for four years.”
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• Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Sorry, this column is not about the coronavirus

  15-04-2020 16:06
  
  I hate to break it to you, but this column has nothing to do with the coronavirus. Despite the fact that there’s a terrible shortage of news about our little friend, COVID-19, I’m going to talk to you about something else: my personal travels.
  None of us with a brain can go anywhere right now, so my Facebook friends have requested more stories about my trips. (Are you on my Facebook page? Why not?)
  We’ve been amusing ourselves on my page telling stories of embarrassing travel i
  
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• U.S. retail sales plunge by record 8.7% in March amid shutdown

  15-04-2020 15:21
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
  WASHINGTON — U.S. retail sales plummeted 8.7% in March, an unprecedented decline, as the viral outbreak forces an almost complete lock down of commerce nationwide.
  The deterioration of sales far outpaces the previous record decline of 3.9% that took place during the depths of the Great Recession in November 2008.
  Auto sales dropped 25.6%, while clothing store sales collapsed, sliding 50.5%. Restaurants and bars reported a nearly 27% fall i
  
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• Maverick public health officials proceed with coronavirus blood tests, while others wait

  15-04-2020 15:00
  
  As hundreds of Californians die of COVID-19, some officials are working fast to launch blood testing that could bolster public health and help determine when it’s safe to resume normal life.
  In recent days, Santa Clara County teamed up with researchers at Stanford University to test the blood of thousands of county residents for antibodies to the coronavirus, with a positive test indicating they’ve already been infected and recovered.Sharon Portman with her Black Sex Link hen named P
  
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• Sanders says loyalists who oppose Biden are ‘irresponsible’

  15-04-2020 14:30
  
  By STEVE PEOPLES
  Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that it would be “irresponsible” for his loyalists not to support Joe Biden, warning that progressives who “sit on their hands” in the months ahead would simply enable President Donald Trump’s reelection.
  And lest there be any question, the 78-year-old Vermont senator confirmed that “it’s probably a very fair assumption” that he would not run for president again. He added, with a laugh: “One can&rs
  
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• EU blasts Trump’s WHO funding cut, fears it worsens pandemic

  15-04-2020 14:20
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG
  GENEVA  — Nations around the world reacted with alarm Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a halt to the sizable funding the United States sends to the World Health Organization. Health experts warned the move could jeopardize global efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
  At a briefing in Washington, Trump said he was instructing his administration to halt funding for WHO pending a review of its role “in severely mismanaging and cov
  
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• Toilet paper short, food abundant

  15-04-2020 10:25
  
  The first few days of the coronavirus crisis revealed that the veneer of civilization may be thinner than we assumed.
  Americans quickly stripped supermarket shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and other household commodities. The panicky, almost riotous, invasion of shoppers even moved one Sacramento grocery chain to hire an off-duty policeman to stand by and keep order.
  Several weeks later, toilet paper is still in short supply, but stores still have adequate, if not overly abundant, stocks o
  
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• Common sense shouldn’t be a casualty of the coronavirus

  15-04-2020 10:16
  
  We understand the seriousness of coronavirus and the need for people to mostly stay at home, but we’re seeing what happens whenever civil liberties are suspended – and when we must rely on the judgment of those who enforce vaguely written laws.
  Americans have been cooped up for weeks, yet most parks and trails are shuttered even though there’s little danger from hiking alone in the woods. In a rational world, people would be encouraged to retreat to nature provided they keep a
  
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• Racketeering charges dropped against men tied to Vagos biker gang, including 4 Californians

  15-04-2020 10:04
  
  LAS VEGAS — A long and troubled federal prosecution in Nevada of current and former Vagos biker gang members from California and other states accused of running an international criminal enterprise and killing a rival Hells Angels leader in a 2011 casino shootout is over.
  U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas approved a government request Monday to dismiss all charges against 11 remaining defendants, closing the federal racketeering case filed in September 2016 after a state cour
  
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• China’s tech totalitarianism

  15-04-2020 10:03
  
  The media tell us China “beat coronavirus.”
  I don’t believe it. The Chinese government lies. The American Enterprise Institute’s Derek Scissors argues that they’ve underreported the number of COVID-19 cases by millions.
  Still, it’s possible that China has the virus under control.
  But at what cost?
  Most of us in America now practice “social distancing.” I’ve barely left my house in a month. I do that voluntarily.
  Forty-two states do have some
  
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• Pilot pulls off emergency landing in San Gabriel riverbed in Long Beach

  15-04-2020 06:51
  
  The pilot of a single-engine plane experienced a technical malfunction in the skies over Long Beach on Tuesday, April 14, and had to make an emergency landing in a concrete bed of the San Gabriel River.
  The man operating a single-engine Avions R2160 reported engine trouble, and managed to land the aircraft shortly before 7:40 p.m., in a portion of the channel just north of Wardlow Road, Long Beach Police Lt. Megan Zabel said. The stretch of concrete riverbed that served as a makeshift airstrip w
  
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• Coronavirus: Southern California airports hit by decline in business receive FAA funding

  15-04-2020 06:08
  
  LOS ANGELES — Southern California airports will share in hundreds of millions of dollars in government aid to help respond to plunging demand created by the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday.
  The airport receiving the most funding in the state is Los Angeles International Airport with $323.6 million; John Wayne Airport-Orange County will receive $44.9 million; Hollywood Burbank Airport will receive nearly $21.1 million; and Long Beach A
  
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• Beware of new, never-ending coronavirus bureaucracies

  15-04-2020 03:19
  
  If a hurricane was headed toward the coast of the United States, no one would expect the government to stop the storm from moving. Some things are beyond the power of government.
  That’s why it’s a good idea for the power of governments to be restrained, even in an emergency. Otherwise they tend to overreach, and then when the storm is over, there’s no clear way to put things back the way they were.
  On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news briefing to explain to the public what
  
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• Orange County gets more than 10,000 face masks from Asian American nonprofits

  15-04-2020 03:01
  
  Scouring through vendors and people they knew, three Asian American nonprofits found and donated more than 10,000 face masks, 29,000 surgical gloves and other protective equipment to the County of Orange.
   
  “Helping those in need is not charity, it’s humanity,” said Judith Jing, one of the founding members of the Irvine-based Elegant Culture & Tradition Center. “This is the minimum we can contribute as members of the community.”
  The equipment will go to the
  
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