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• USC adds former NBA vet Quincy Pondexter to men’s basketball staff

  16-05-2024 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — From the minute Eric Musselman took the introductory stage inside USC’s Galen Center in early April, it was clear his hire was the primary vision of athletic director Jen Cohen.
  “Jen, who is fantastic, identified Eric right away,” USC President Carol Folt said then, in opening remarks announcing Musselman as USC’s head men’s basketball coach.
  And Cohen’s influence has only become more apparent in the month and a half since, as USC’s b
  
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• Fryer: Pacifica’s Zach Lewis trying new approach to get to CIF State track and field meet

  16-05-2024 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Zach Lewis has been there before, but he might try a different route to return there.
  Lewis is a Pacifica senior who is the Orange County track and field leader in the shot put and discus. He qualified for the CIF State Championships meet in both events last season.
  He will try to do so again in both events Saturday when he competes in the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet at Moorpark High. The top six finishers in each event Saturday qualify for the CIF State Championships in Clovis on May
  
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• Chargers sign 4th-round pick Justin Eboigbe

  16-05-2024 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers on Thursday signed Justin Eboigbe, a defensive lineman from the University of Alabama who was their fourth-round draft pick last month. He is the seventh of their nine draft picks to sign, leaving only their top two selections – first-round offensive lineman Joe Alt and second-round wide receiver Ladd McConkey – unsigned.
  Eboigbe played in 56 games over five seasons with the Crimson Tide and was a member of the team that went 13-0 and won the national championship in 202
  
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• The champs are back: New mothers April Ross and Alix Klineman reunite on the sand

  16-05-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  April Ross and Alix Klineman talk to the media before practice in Hermosa Beach on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
  (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
  April Ross and Alix Klineman pose for Los Angeles Times photographer Christina House-Skalij before practice in Hermosa Beach on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.
  (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)
  April Ross and Alix Klineman practice for the Huntington Beach Open, the AVP Tour’s Heritage Series opener, in Hermosa Beach on Tuesday
  
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• Alexander: WNBA has progressed, but it can do better

  16-05-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — I have to remind myself every so often that the WNBA is 27 years old. Given all of the failed leagues that have littered the landscape of professional sports in this country, it is already a success. In terms of staying power, it’s just a baby.
  Consider, as this country’s premier women’s basketball league enters its 28th season, where the big brother NBA was in its 28th season in 1973-74. Players still flew commercial, and often in coach. The average salary w
  
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• Swanson: Time for Angels and their fans to lean into the long game

  16-05-2024 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM – The Angels stink this season. And you hate it, right?
  You shouldn’t.
  If you’re a fan of the ball club, you feel hoodwinked. Duped and demoralized.
  But please, don’t.
  C’mon, you say. You heard Perry Minasian, the club’s general manager, say the Angels would be “aggressive” in the offseason and you leaned forward in your seat, eager to see what would come next.
  You made peace with Shohei Ohtani’s departure (what choice did you have?)
  
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• Chapman University and students reach agreement; Gaza Solidarity Encampment to dismantle

  16-05-2024 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Students for Justice in Palestine at Chapman University said Thursday they reached an agreement with campus administration and will shut down their Gaza Solidarity Encampment that formed about two weeks ago, ahead of Friday’s start of commencement weekend.
  The student group will be given time during a September meeting of the university board’s investment committee to present their requests on divesting from interests that support Israel and for transparency in investments.
  They will
  
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• Horse racing: Imagination looks like real thing in Preakness

  16-05-2024 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The second leg of the Triple Crown series is first in the hearts of many people in horse racing, for a list of reasons big enough to wallpaper the Pimlico stakes barn.
  For those on hand for the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, the fun starts with the weeklong buzz around that single barn housing every Preakness horse and horseman, and the old grandstand’s ramshackle charm, and the event’s place in the city’s rich sports history, and the crab dinners.
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• UC and USC grad student workers authorize strike over handling of campus protests

  16-05-2024 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Unionized graduate students who work at University of California campuses and graduate student workers at the University of Southern California are threatening Thursday to walk off their jobs in response to escalating tensions surrounding pro-Palestinian protests at schools.
  The unionized members who work at UC campuses, including UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego, voted to authorize leadership to call a strike on Wednesday. Teaching and research assistants who are also graduate students at the u
  
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• Horse racing notes: Santa Anita Oaks grad Corposo hits the road

  16-05-2024 22:16 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Through Thursday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Kyle Frey / 13
  Juan Hernandez / 12
  Hector Berrios / 10
  Umberto Rispoli / 10
  Edwin Maldonado / 10
  Antonio Fresu / 10
  Trainers / Wins
  Mark Glatt / 9
  Jeff Mullins / 6
  Librado Barocio / 6
  Phil D’Amato / 6
  Richard Baltas / 5
  Craig Lewis / 5
  Peter Miller / 5
  John Sadler / 5
  WEEKEND STAKES
  SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $100,000 Mizdirection Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf
  Sunday
  • $100,000 Desert
  
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• Another big lie: Liberals are more ‘caring’ than conservatives

  16-05-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  People often ask, “How do you handle mean, vicious people when out in public?” The truth is I rarely encounter nastiness. It does happen, but thankfully, it is pretty rare.
  In general, when people don’t like me, they possess the maturity to restrain themselves from verbal road rage. I conduct myself the same way when I run into someone whose views I don’t care for. At a restaurant, I said hello to a host of a left-wing cable show, and he politely returned the gesture. Aft
  
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• Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish

  16-05-2024 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Zach Dyer | KFF Health News (TNS)
  Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
  “I didn’t have any teeth to smile with,” the 53-year-old of Independence, Missouri, said.
  Thompson said he dealt with throbbing toothaches and painful swelling in his face from abscesses for years working as a cook at Burger King. He desperately needed to see a dentist but
  
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• UCLA values experience, good and bad, for Women’s College World Series

  16-05-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — There’s a trap that can ensnare teams at this point in the season, when conference play ends and regionals arrive. The teams that fall for the ruse allow the increased stakes to change their identity and their formula for winning softball games.
  UCLA head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez learned to avoid that ambush circa 2010, she says, when winning her first national championship as a coach reshaped her outlook.
  “The trap is thinking that ‘you’ve got to do m
  
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• What’s keeping the US from allowing better sunscreens?

  16-05-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Scaturro | KFF Health News (TNS)
  When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.”
  At issue is not just whether people are using enough sunscreen, but what ingredients are in it.
  The Food and Drug Administration’s ability to a
  
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• Why Anaheim District 3 should recall Natalie Rubalcava

  16-05-2024 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Voters in central Anaheim’s District 3 have received their ballots for a recall election of their Councilwoman Natalie Rubalcava. It’s understandable that the Register editorial board was unimpressed when they spoke with representatives of the union who launched this recall last year.  But this Recall belongs to the people of District 3 now, and over the past year Ms. Rubalcava has given them many more, and better reasons, to replace her.
  Just to start with, her vote last month
  
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, May 17, 2024

  16-05-2024 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, May 17, 2024.
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• Home insurance companies may use aerial images to drop policies

  16-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sarah Schlichter | NerdWallet
  It’s a notice no homeowner wants to get: Your insurance company has decided not to renew your policy, effective in 30 days. The reason? Based on aerial photos of your home, your roof is in poor condition.
  Related ArticlesBusiness | Rent growth outstrips wages in most US metros, new report showsBusiness | Overdue bills are rising with US debt delinquencies, Fed survey showsBusiness | Californians are not paying their bills at the highest level since 2021Busi
  
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• Judge orders Huntington Beach to plan for more housing development

  16-05-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  A San Diego Superior Court judge on Tuesday ruled Huntington Beach violated state law when officials refused to plan for more housing to be built in the city, a major win for the state in its lawsuit filed more than a year ago.
  Judge Katherine Bacal ordered the city to pass a new housing element compliant with state law within 120 days. A compliant housing element from the city would have to adopt zoning changes to allow developers to build at least 13,368 housing units this decade.
  Housing elem
  
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• Fountain Valley police searching for driver who fled after hitting, killing bicyclist

  16-05-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A vehicle drifted into a bicycle lane in Fountain Valley over the weekend, hit a bicyclist and fled, authorities said on Thursday, May 16, with the 52-year-old man later dying.
  Antonio Huerta, a Huntington Beach resident, died at a hospital a day after the Sunday, May 12, collision, Sgt. Brian Mosher said.
  Just past 7:05 a.m. on Sunday, police were called to the area of Salter Avenue and Santa Maria Street and found an injured Huerta on the south sidewalk of Slater, Mosher said.
  Investigators de
  
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• Look inside Tangled land pitched for Disneyland expansion

  16-05-2024 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  The world’s first Tangled-themed land set to debut at the Tokyo Disneyland resort offers a glimpse of what the future could hold for the Disneyland resort over the next few decades under a reimagined long-term vision for the Anaheim theme park resort district.
  A Tangled-themed land has been pitched as a possible project for the DisneylandForward theme park expansion plan recently approved by the city of Anaheim.
  The new Rapunzel’s Forest land officially debuts on June 6 at Tokyo Disn
  
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• Anaheim Hills briefs: Teen volunteers needed for summer library fun

  16-05-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Canyon Hills Library is recruiting teen volunteers to help in the library this summer.
  Volunteers are needed June through August and can be in grades nine through 12. This is also an opportunity to earn school volunteer hours.
  Those interested should swing by the library to submit a volunteer application and should also plan to attend the mandatory volunteer orientation meeting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on May 31. Call the library information desk at 714-765-6444 for more information.
  Also, those
  
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• Putin and Xi vow to step up fight to counter US ‘containment’

  16-05-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By Bloomberg News
  Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin pledged to intensify cooperation against U.S. “containment” of their countries, as they warned of growing nuclear tensions between rival powers.
  Putin and Xi accused the U.S. of planning to station missile systems around the world that “pose a direct threat to the security of Russia and China,” in a joint declaration after more than two hours of talks in Beijing on Thursday. They agreed to ti
  
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• USC’s Lincoln Riley was 4th-highest paid college football coach in 2022

  16-05-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Upon Lincoln Riley’s arrival at USC in November 2021, the trumpets of the student band welcoming him to a terrace overlooking the Coliseum, one of the football coach’s first statements of this new era was to note the unity of the group of constituents who had brought him there.
  “They were completely in sync,” Riley said then, speaking of USC President Carol Folt, the Board of Trustees and more, “about what they felt what USC football could be, wh
  
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• Slovak authorities charge ‘lone wolf’ with assassination attempt on the prime minister

  16-05-2024 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By BELA SZANDELSZKY, PETR DAVID JOSEK and PHILIPP JENNE
  BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying he acted alone in a politically motivated attack. Fico’s pro-Russia views have contributed to deep divisions in the small European country that borders Ukraine.
  Fico, 59, was in serious but stable condition a day after being shot multiple times, a hospital official said. President-elect Peter Pe
  
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• First commercial hydrogen fueling station in the nation for big rigs set to open in California

  16-05-2024 19:26 via ocregister.com
  
  OAKLAND, California — The first commercial truck hydrogen fueling station in the nation, set to open this summer in West Oakland, has the potential over the next six years to stop nearly 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from fouling the air and harming nearby residents, the equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions from nearly 28,000 cars, environmental experts say.
  The station’s arrival comes just a year after California air regulators approved first-in-the-nation rules to ban the
  
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• Columbia University faculty pass vote of no confidence in President Shafik after pro-Palestinian protests

  16-05-2024 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By CAYLA BAMBERGER | [email protected] | New York Daily News
  Arts and sciences faculty at Columbia University passed a vote of no confidence in embattled college president Minouche Shafik, whose congressional testimony and handling of pro-Palestinian protests created a bitter divide on campus, according to results announced Thursday.
  Ballots were open for a week to close to 900 faculty from the main part of the university on a highly critical reso
  
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• Secondary cockpit barriers likely coming to all commercial planes: ‘Prevent 9/11 from ever happening again’

  16-05-2024 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly 23 years after 9/11, the feds are finally expected to make all commercial planes have secondary cockpit barriers to prevent planes from being hijacked.
  Congress on Wednesday passed a bill that would require secondary cockpit barriers on all commercial aircraft. The installation of secondary cockpit barriers on all commercial passenger flights is the only 9/11 Commission recommendation that has not been implemented.
  The House of Representatives’ 387-26 vote on Wednesday comes ab
  
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• Dunn: A coach for all seasons, Evan Chalmers served as a coach for more than three decades

  16-05-2024 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The 2023-24 school year is winding down and Evan Chalmers, a coach for all seasons, no longer needs to replenish a roster, fill non-league game dates for an upcoming schedule or provide sometimes difficult player evaluations as summer approaches for his athletes.
  Chalmers, two years away from retiring as a Newport Harbor High social science teacher and department co-chair, enjoyed an extraordinary coaching career before retiring after the 2021 baseball season, enabling him to watch his kids play
  
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• California’s weather was made for demagogues

  16-05-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s weather was made for demagogues.
  For as long as records have been kept, the state has typically experienced a series of dry years followed by a series of wet years. The weather lines up conveniently with election cycles. A few years of drought will prompt an excitable politician to declare that projections clearly show the end of the world is upon us unless California takes immediate action. Depending on the circumstances, that action can be the election of that politician to
  
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• Daxon: Breans gather for Rise Against Hunger

  16-05-2024 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  On May 4, food-packaging assembly lines of 65 volunteers were in high gear at the Brea-Yorba Linda-Placentia Boy & Girls Club in Brea.
  We were packaging dry ingredients for Rise Against Hunger food packs that will be go by cargo ship to hungry people in Southeast Asia. Our goal was to fill 10,000 packages from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. We packed 10,200 in two hours.
  The event was sponsored and organized by the Brea Rotary, who sponsored it for five years prior to 2016. Along with Rotarians, there we
  
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• UC official says system has $32 billion in holdings targeted by students protesting Gaza war

  16-05-2024 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE AUSTIN | Associated Press/Report for America
  SACRAMENTO — Investments in weapons manufacturers and a wide array of other companies by the University of California targeted by students protesting the Israel-Hamas war represent $32 billion – or nearly one-fifth – of the system’s overall assets, the system’s chief investment officer says.
  UC Chief Investment Officer Jagdeep Singh Bachher unveiled the estimate Tuesday at the first public Board of Regents meeti
  
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• Biden’s upcoming graduation speech roils Morehouse College, a center of Black politics and culture

  16-05-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN (Associated Press)
  ATLANTA (AP) — When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a center of Black politics and culture.
  Morehouse is located in Atlanta, the largest city in the swing state of Georgia, which Biden flipped from former President Donald Trump four years ago. Biden’s speech Sunday will come as he tries to ma
  
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• The Commission on Presidential Debates faces an uncertain future after Biden and Trump bypassed it

  16-05-2024 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press)
  PHOENIX (AP) — The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has planned presidential faceoffs in every election since 1988, has an uncertain future after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump struck an agreement to meet on their own.
  The Biden and Trump campaigns announced a deal Wednesday to meet for debates in June on CNN and September on ABC. Just a day earlier, Frank Fahrenkopf, chair of the Commission on Presidentia
  
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• Now armed with AI, America’s adversaries will try to influence election, security officials warn

  16-05-2024 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections, top security officials warned members of the Senate Wednesday, harnessing the latest innovations in artificial intelligence to spread online disinformation, mislead voters and undermine trust in democracy.
  But the U.S. has greatly improved its ability to safeguard election security and identify and combat foreign disinformation
  
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• Moorpark College professor to stand trial in death of pro-Israel protester in Thousand Oaks incident

  16-05-2024 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  VENTURA — A judge decided Wednesday that a Moorpark College professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations in Thousand Oaks over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
  Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright judge declared after a two-day preliminary hearing that there’s enough evidence to try Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
  RELATED: Why no hate crime cha
  
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• Taste of Japan food and drink festival returns to Anaheim

  16-05-2024 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Taste of Japan, a three-day festival at STC Anaheim GardenWalk, returns this year to offer guests the chance to taste Japanese fare from more than a dozen Southern California food vendors and eateries.
  From ramen and takoyaki to mochi and kakigōri (sweetened shaved ice), attendees can look forward to sweet and savory bites from AJAJ Cafe, Amamiya Baby Castella, Daikokuya, Kashiwa Ramen, Kuramoto ICE, Mochi Midoh Japanese Kitchen, Mochill Mochi Crepe, Mymen Ramen, Otafuku, Shake Ra
  
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• Teen who ate spicy chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says

  16-05-2024 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  BOSTON  — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
  Harris Wolobah, a 10th grader from the city of Worcester, died on Sept. 1, 2023, after eating the chip manufactured by Paqui. The cause of death was listed as cardiopulmonary arrest “in the setting of recent ingestion of
  
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• From the swap meet to Amazon: How Anaheim-based Nature’s Select keeps its pet food concept fresh, 30 years in

  16-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh and their daughter, Megan Sanchez, at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavan
  
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• From swap meets to Amazon: How Anaheim-based Nature’s Select keeps its pet food concept fresh

  16-05-2024 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
   
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavanaugh and their daughter, Megan Sanchez, at Nature’s Select headquarters in Anaheim, CA, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The Cavanaughs started their pet food business 30 years ago. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Paul and Diana Cavan
  
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• Analysis: The Angels hoped for the best, and this is what they got

  16-05-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  For as much as the Angels talked during spring training about how their expectations were higher than those of the rest of the baseball world, reality has hit them hard in the first quarter of the season.
  The Angels are 16-28. It equals the second-worst start in franchise history, better only than their 14-30 record in 1969.
  While it has been disappointing for the Angels and their fans, it should not be a surprise to anyone.
  The Angels are here because of decisions they made, starting with owner
  
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• The national debt still matters

  16-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Interest payments on the national debt have now surpassed, individually, military, Medicare and Medicaid spending, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. That’s based on the initial seven months of data for the current fiscal year.
  With the national debt now topping $34 trillion and high interest rates, greater and greater proportions of federal spending is now going toward interest on borrowed money.
  Politicians will no doubt hope Americans attribute this
  
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• California teachers union kills science of reading support for teachers

  16-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  How can teachers teach kids to read if teachers don’t have the training they need to teach reading the right way? 
  What sounds like some sort of academic tongue twister is actually a huge challenge right now for many states, including California.  
  With the nation’s literacy crisis front and center, lawmakers from coast to coast are passing policies to ensure kids are learning to read from educators who are using proven methods—based on the science of reading&mda
  
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• Dow crosses 40,000 for the first time

  16-05-2024 16:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Nicole Goodkind | CNN
  New York — The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke past the 40,000 threshold Thursday morning for the first time ever, fueled by an encouraging inflation report.
  The blue-chip index was up about 114 points, or 0.3%, and trading around 40,022 mid-morning.
  Markets had rallied to new record highs Wednesday after the latest Consumer Price Index showed a cooldown for the first time in months, stoking hopes that the Federal Reserve could start cutting interest rates as so
  
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• UCI Chancellor responds to campus encampment crackdown: ‘I’m brokenhearted”

  16-05-2024 16:52 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman called Wednesday a “sad day for our university” after police took multiple people into custody and cleared a Gaza Solidarity Encampment that had been on the campus for more than two weeks.
  “I’m brokenhearted,” Gillman said in a late night message sent out to the campus community.
  He added that although the encampment had violated university policies since its inception in late April, those violations did not rise to the level requ
  
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• Supreme Court sides with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spurning a conservative attack

  16-05-2024 16:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
  The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the agency is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court. The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance.
  The case was brought by payday lenders who object to a CFPB rule.
  The CFPB
  
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• Southern Californians need to make $200,800 to buy a home

  16-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern Californians need twice the annual income of a U.S. homebuyer to qualify for a typical house.
  A $200,800 income is required to buy the region’s $785,000 median-priced, existing single-family home in the first quarter, according to affordability stats from the California Association of Realtors.
  My trusty spreadsheet found this mortgage-qualifying standard has grown by $54,800, or 38%, since 2022’s first quarter. That’s when the Federal Reserve started its war on inflat
  
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• California houses: Only millionaires need apply

  16-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Turning 69 next month, I try not to look back. Can’t change the past. But one thing I wish I had done was buy a house when I came to Orange County in 1987. Even if it meant taking a second job flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
  Jonathan Lansner headlined a story May 11, “It takes $349,200 income to buy an Orange County home, 3.5 times the U.S. salary.” I’m wondering how much that will affect my rent, currently $2,500 a month for a matchbox-sized studio in Irvine. 
  
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• A Nanny State Idiocracy: A tale of too many laws and too little freedom

  16-05-2024 15:50 via ocregister.com
  
  We are caught in a vicious cycle of too many laws, too many cops, and too little freedom.
  It’s hard to say whether we’re dealing with a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and thieves that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has little regard for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State Idiocracy.
  Whatever the label, this overbearing despotism is what happens when government
  
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• The ‘heart’ of Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is misdirection

  16-05-2024 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Porn star Stormy Daniels says she had sex with former President Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe hotel in July 2006. To keep her from telling that story, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen says, “the boss” instructed him to pay Daniels $130,000 shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that nondisclosure agreement was a serious crime that undermined democracy by concealing information from voters. Of these three accounts, Bragg’s is t
  
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• The city of Orange is facing a $19 million deficit. Now what?

  16-05-2024 15:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Orange faces an annual deficit of $19.1 million that officials say could deplete the city’s reserve funding in less than two years.
  City leaders are calling this moment a crisis and are debating how to bridge the wide gap between revenue and spending with just over a month to go before the start of the next fiscal year.
  On Tuesday, the City Council reviewed a slate of cost-cutting ideas from a budget ad hoc committee that could save Orange $12.9 million next year, but would cut
  
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