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• US births rose last year, but experts don’t see it as a trend

  18-03-2025 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births rose slightly last year, but experts don’t see it as evidence of reversing a long-term decline.
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• Chargers sign former Raiders center Andre James

  18-03-2025 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chargers on Tuesday added to their offensive-line depth by signing center Andre James, formerly of the Las Vegas Raiders.
  James started 61 of 80 games over six years with the Raiders, including the playoffs. He assumed the starting center position going into the 2021 season.
  It’s expected that James, 27, will battle for the starter’s role with the Chargers, who re-signed center Bradley Bozeman, their starter in the 2024 season, last week to a two-year contract worth up to $6.5 mi
  
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• Gal Gadot honored with Walk of Fame star as protests disrupt ceremony in Hollywood

  18-03-2025 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Israeli actress Gal Gadot was honored Tuesday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but the ceremony was disrupted by dueling protests from pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators.
  Several dozen protesters arrived just before the ceremony began, with pro-Palestinian demonstrators holding signs that read “Heroes Fight Like Palestinians” and “Viva Viva Palestina,” Variety reported.
  The area on Hollywood Boulevard was tented off and completely blocked from street
  
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• Angels’ José Soriano is sharp, but hitters come up empty in shutout loss to Reds

  18-03-2025 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  THE GAME: The Angels got solid work from three pitchers, but the hitters came up empty in a 1-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds in a Cactus League game on Tuesday in Goodyear, Arizona.
  PITCHING REPORT: Right-hander José Soriano gave up one run in 5⅓ innings, the longest outing for an Angels pitcher this spring. Soriano struck out six and did not walk any. He needed just 68 pitches to get 16 outs. “He didn’t even break a sweat,” Manager Ron Washington said. “That&
  
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• Kim Kardashian renews her calls for greater pay for inmate firefighters

  18-03-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Reality star Kim Kardashian is once again using her social influence and platform to call on California state legislators to increase pay for incarcerated firefighters, many of whom helped put out blazes during the January wildfires in Los Angeles County.
  “The world watched California’s incarcerated firefighters working 24 hour shifts and saving homes, lives and communities during the Los Angeles fires, the Park Fire in Northern California and hundreds of other fires this fire season
  
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• Tributes made to San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy killed in crash; no bail for pursuit suspect

  18-03-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A man of faith who embraced his roots. A mentor, a football player and coach. And a friend to children and the enemy of gang members.
  That is how those who knew Hector Cuevas Jr., 36, are remembering the San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy who died in a traffic collision during a pursuit of a reported stolen car in Victorville on Monday, March 17.
  The man they were chasing, Ryan Dwayne Turner Jr., 22, was being held Tuesday without the possibility of bail at High Desert Detention Center
  
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• Blue Ghost lander captures stunning sunset shots on the moon before falling silent

  18-03-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.Firefly Aerospace and NASA released the stunning photos Tuesday, taken before the Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend. One shot included Venus in the distance.
  Firefly’s Blue Ghost landed on the moon on March 2, the first private spacecraft to touch down upright and perform its entire mission. It kept taking pictures and collecting science
  
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• Through the lens: Little moments at the park

  18-03-2025 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Roslyn Lauterbach of Laguna Niguel comes face-to-face with her 7-month-old Newfypoo, a cross between a Newfoundland and a poodle, named Scrappy at Heisler Park in Laguna Beach on Monday, March 17, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Los Angeles based photographer Erika Aoki takes photos of newlyweds Anna and Yudai at Divers Cove beneath Heisler Park in Laguna Beach on Monday, March 17, 2025. Anna and Yudai were married on Nov. 2, 2024. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange Coun
  
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• Orange County baseball Top 25: Three undefeated teams in Top 10, March 18

  18-03-2025 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings.
  Notable this week: No. 1 Huntington Beach opened Sunset League play with a 3-2 win over Fountain Valley. … The Oilers and two other teams in the Top 10 – Santa Margarita and Mater Dei — are undefeated. … El Dorado climbs to No. 8 after an impressive win over Cypress. … Fullerton rises to No. 10 after a 3-2 win over Villa Park.
  ORANGE COUNTY BASEBALL TOP 25
  (Records through Monday, March 17)
  1. Hunting
  
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• Appeals court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

  18-03-2025 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIE CARR SMYTH
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports.
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• Another raw pet food recall is tied to illness and death in cats

  18-03-2025 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA
  A California pet food maker has recalled its raw chicken products after they were linked to bird flu infections in two cats and suspected in a third in New York City.
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• Gavin Newsom and Steve Bannon held a competition to see who can articulate less

  18-03-2025 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Gavin Newsom’s strategy was to say as little as possible. Steve Bannon’s strategy was to flood the zone with excrement as he is disposed to do. Is there an odder couple than Newsom and Bannon linking up for a podcast? Two people who, individually, no one ever, under any circumstances wants to hear speak. Together, they gave us nothing of value in an hour-long discussion on the governor’s podcast, “This is Gavin Newsom.” 
  Bannon is apparently positioning himself
  
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• Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights

  18-03-2025 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN and GISELA SALOMON
  MIAMI (AP) — Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea where he was going.
  Twenty-four hours later, Caraballo’s name disappeared from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s online detainee locator.
  This undated
  
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• Watch: NASA astronauts splashdown after riding back to Earth on SpaceX capsule

  18-03-2025 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have splashed down off the coast of Florida after being stuck in space for more than nine months. Wilmore and Williams left the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule early Tuesday with two others.
  Watch their return to Earth below:
  
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• Watch live: NASA astronauts return to Earth on SpaceX crew capsule

  18-03-2025 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, are finally on their way back home to Houston. Wilmore and Williams left the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule early Tuesday with two others and are due to splash down in the evening off the Florida coast, weather permitting.
  Watch their return to Earth below:
  
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• Rams agree with LB Nate Landman on 1-year deal

  18-03-2025 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rams have agreed to terms on a one-year deal with linebacker Nate Landman, the team announced on Tuesday.
  Landman, 26, spent the first three years of his career with the Atlanta Falcons. He had 81 tackles last season, which was spent under head coach Raheem Morris, the Rams’ former defensive coordinator, which should give him some familiarity with the Rams’ defense.
  The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Landman has made some impacts in run defense over the past two seasons. In 2024, he had a m
  
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• Wedding rings, memories and more are recovered from LA County fire ashes

  18-03-2025 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Gittelsohn | Bloomberg
  Wedding rings, children’s school artwork, and even urns with cremated remains of loved ones.
  The wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles area this year reduced more than 16,000 structures to rubble and ash, causing as much as $131 billion in lost property and capital. But each day, a handful of small but priceless treasures are being salvaged.
  Since shortly after the flames erupted in January, volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian reli
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Ben Brown, Corona del Mar

  18-03-2025 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Ben Brown
  School: Corona del Mar
  Sport: Volleyball
  Year: Junior
  Noteworthy: He had 13 kills on 24 attempts as the Sea Kings swept rival Newport Harbor in a Sunset League match, 25-20, 25-15, 25-20. Brown had 15 kills on 36 attempts in a victory over Mater Dei, 25-19, 26-28, 25-18, 25-22, in a nonleague match. Brown, a 6-foot-4 outside hitter, moved from the Chicago area before this school year.
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• U.S. Department of Justice backs Christian church suing Santa Ana

  18-03-2025 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice has contacted a federal district court in support of a Christian church suing Santa Ana with allegations the city violated religious land use rights when a zoning application to use space in the city’s professional district as a house of worship was denied.
  In 2022, the Chinese-American church Anchor Stone purchased the Santa Ana property near the 55 Freeway and Dyer Road intending to use it as its worship space. Because the property is located in a district
  
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• Costco expands weekday pump hours at its gas stations

  18-03-2025 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Ever approach a Costco gas station, see the long lines and glumly pull away?
  The big-box club in recent weeks finally did what members have sought for years: It expanded the time to pump gas.
  Pumps are now open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. On the weekends, the pump times are 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday and 7:30 p.m. on Sundays. Previously, pumps closed at 8:30 p.m. on weekdays.
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• How Angels reliever Ryan Zeferjahn got over his 100-mph fastball

  18-03-2025 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — Ryan Zeferjahn is living proof of the adage that a radar gun can get you into pro ball, but it can’t get you to the major leagues.
  An Angels right-handed reliever, Zeferjahn was a third-round pick in 2019, largely because of a 101-mph fastball, but his career had stalled in the minors until he finally discovered how effective his other pitches could be.
  “I was trying to throw 101, and it was leading to walks,” Zeferjahn said. “Hitters are geared up fo
  
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• Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

  18-03-2025 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts.
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• Laguna Beach police asks bars throughout OC to help prevent DUIs in town

  18-03-2025 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Drunken drivers in Laguna Beach aren’t the only ones getting a wake-up call at DUI stops. Police are now alerting bars and restaurants when people who drank at their venues are arrested.
  And they’re reaching far beyond Laguna Beach.
  The public unveiling of the program — in which bars and restaurants throughout Orange County and beyond are being notified – has brought renewed attention to the struggle to combat drunk driving in Laguna Beach, whose roughly  23,000 resi
  
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• Is it legal to drive in California with a dog on your lap?

  18-03-2025 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Stephanie Fujiwara of Upland asked if it is legal for motorists to hold a dog on their lap while driving and allow the dog to hang its head out the window. “It seems so dangerous and a distraction for the drivers. I thought dogs were supposed to be restrained,” she said.
  A: In California, it’s legal to drive with your dog on your lap or unrestrained in your vehicle, head hanging out the window and all, as there is nothing specifically in the California Vehicle Code
  
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• White House says Trump will eliminate Chuckwalla National Monument, then deletes announcement

  18-03-2025 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The fate of two newly named national monuments in California that stretch across roughly 850,000 acres of scenic lands — an area 28 times larger than of the city of San Francisco — remained unclear Monday after President Trump issued a statement saying he was rescinding their protections, but then deleted it the next day.
  At issue are the Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California, south of Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm has been home to 4 generations of this family

  18-03-2025 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm has been around for more than a century and during most of that time somebody named Palovik has been on the payroll.
  Allen Palovik has worked at Knott’s for 51 years and is just one of more than a dozen Paloviks who have been employed at the Buena Park theme park over the last 75 years.
  “It is home to me,” said Palovik, 67, of Anaheim. “It’s been a part of my life my whole life.”
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• Angels send down Chase Silseth after rough spring

  18-03-2025 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — The Angels on Tuesday optioned right-hander Chase Silseth, which is no surprise considering he’d allowed 15 earned runs in 13 innings this spring.
  That officially leaves just right-hander Jack Kochanowicz and left-hander Reid Detmers in the race for the No. 5 starter job. Both have looked good this spring, so it’s possible the Angels keep one of them in the bullpen, as they did with José Soriano to start the season last year.
  “Until we make that deci
  
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• Report highlights how communities hardest hit by climate change can build resilient water systems

  18-03-2025 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By DORANY PINEDA, Associated Press
  Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. An elderly woman was filling milk jugs with water at the back of a gas station in the Native American reservation, where about 30% of people live without running water.
  “How can we be living in the United States of America … one of the most powerful countries in the world, and people are living like this here?” asked Tome, a
  
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• Orange County softball Top 25: El Modena holds No. 1 ranking as Crestview League begins, March 18

  18-03-2025 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County high school softball rankings for this week.
  Notable this week: El Modena remains No. 1 heading into the Crestview League, which begins the first of three rounds this week. The Vanguards play host to No. 13  Cypress on Tuesday and travel to No. 3 Canyon on Thursday. … Aliso Niguel jumps six spots to No. 6 after defeating Pacifica and JSerra last week. … Huntington Beac
  
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• They worked to prevent violence and terrorism at the agency created after 9/11. Then they got fired

  18-03-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal program designed to prevent targeted violence and terrorism in the United States has lost 20% of its staff after layoffs hit its probationary staffers.
  The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships was a redefined version of programs created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a way to identify people who could pose new terrorism threats or carry out violence and prevent tragedies by getting them help. It has a mission
  
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• California pet food maker recalls raw chicken meals that might carry bird flu

  18-03-2025 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  El Cajon-based Savage Pet Food is recalling boxes of raw chicken food that possibly contain the “highly pathogenic” H5N1, also known as the bird flu virus.
  The company on March 15 said it was pulling 66 large chicken boxes (84 ounces each) and 74 small chicken boxes (21 ounces each) with the lot code/best by date of 11152026.
  The cat food, which is kept frozen until meal time, was sold at retailers in California, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.
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• Woman who had sought protection from deportation in Colorado churches is detained, advocates say

  18-03-2025 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press
  DENVER (AP) — A woman who gained prominence after she took refuge in churches in Colorado to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration has been detained, immigration advocates said Tuesday.
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether Jeanette Vizguerra had been taken into custody.
  Vizguerra, a mother of four, was arrested at a Denver-area Tar
  
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• CSUF conference teaches faculty how to adapt to artificial intelligence

  18-03-2025 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Artificial intelligence has become a prevailing force in every aspect of life, and that certainly includes higher education.
  In many cases, students are more proficient than their professors in integrating this emerging technology into their lives on and off campus.
  For this and other reasons, Leslie Bruce, a full-time lecturer in the English Department at Cal State Fullerton, and colleague Alison Marzocchi, professor in the Mathematics Department, organized the AI conference held Feb. 21 in the
  
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• Patient dies following muscular dystrophy gene therapy, Sarepta reports

  18-03-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting in morning trading.
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• The most likely Medicaid cuts would hit rural areas the hardest

  18-03-2025 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By Scott S. Greenberger, Stateline.org
  Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be covered by Medicaid than their counterparts in cities, creating a dilemma for Republicans looking to make deep cuts to the health care program.
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• 4 ways to make learning about money a blast

  18-03-2025 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer, NerdWallet
  Forget about workbooks and flash cards. Financial-themed videos, grocery store games and even escape rooms can be a better way to teach kids about money, according to the latest thinking from financial literacy experts.
  “A lot of traditional curriculums were about the numbers,” says Noel Wilkinson, a program coordinator for the Take Charge America Institute within the Norton School of Human Ecology at the University of Arizona.
  That can be a turn-off fo
  
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• Pentagon aims to cut up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations

  18-03-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation plan are leaving in the coming months, a senior defense official told reporters Tuesday.
  To reach the goal of a 5% to 8% cut in a civilian workforce of more than 900,000, the official said the department aims to slash about 6,000 positions a month by simply not replacing workers who routinely lea
  
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• Do you need a reservation to get into Yosemite this summer? The Trump administration isn’t saying

  18-03-2025 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Waterfalls are raging. The views are magnificent. Bears will soon come out of hibernation. Spring is just around the corner in Yosemite National Park.
  But one thing is different this year: Uncertainty. Lots of it. With only two months until the peak visitor season begins at one of America’s most popular national parks, the Trump administration has not announced whether visitors will be required to have reservations to enter, creating confusion.
  Last year, in an attempt to cut down on traff
  
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• MI6 has never had a woman as spy chief. That could be about to change

  18-03-2025 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL LAWLESS
  LONDON (AP) — Real-life spies say their world is nothing like that of James Bond, but in one way truth may soon follow fiction: MI6 could be about to get its first woman leader.
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• California’s soaring pension debt rears its head

  18-03-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  In a 2023 article, Psychology Today looked at the reasons why most people avoid talking about the proverbial “elephant in the room.” There’s often a taboo about mentioning some large, obvious problem. But the magazine failed to mention an explanation that’s relevant for today’s topic: the political cost is too high to mention it, so everyone treats the large beast like a potted plant.
  We’re referring to a giant obstacle to California budgets that lawmakers hav
  
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• EPA plans to eliminate scientific research team, could fire more than 1,000 employees

  18-03-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.
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• LA Mayor Karen Bass needs to go. But who’s the right person for the job?

  18-03-2025 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  At this point, it’s obvious to anyone paying attention that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bungled the response to the devastating wildfires that wiped out much of the Pacific Palisades, about as badly as any politician could screw up any natural disaster that happened on their watch.
  If Los Angeles is our ship of state, Karen Bass is Captain of the Titanic.
  The good news is, the new president of Ghana loved the inaugural gift Mayor Bass bestowed unto him, while the mayor’s own city wa
  
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• Indonesia’s cocoa farmers work with businesses to fight the bitter impact of climate change

  18-03-2025 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By VICTORIA MILKO and DITA ALANGKARA
  TANJUNG REJO, Indonesia (AP) — The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed pods. With one slow stroke, a severed knobby branch hits the ground.
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• SpaceX cybersecurity engineer tapped for Fannie Mae board amid shakeup

  18-03-2025 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laura Davison and Lydia Beyoud | Bloomberg
  Mortgage giant Fannie Mae has added Christopher Stanley, a cybersecurity engineer at SpaceX and social media platform X — who is also involved with the Department of Government Efficiency — to its board of directors, the latest sign of how Elon Musk’s allies are embedding into the federal government.
  Also see: House Dems seek DOGE details under Freedom of Information Act
  The appointment, detailed in a regulatory filing on Monday, li
  
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• French bulldog is still top US breed, but is another gaining momentum? Of corso

  18-03-2025 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. still has a major case of French bulldog fever, but a very different breed is staunchly chasing dog lovers’ hearts, according to American Kennel Club statistics released Wednesday.
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• As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back

  18-03-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE
  The next time you’re due for a medical exam you may get a call from someone like Ana: a friendly voice that can help you prepare for your appointment and answer any pressing questions you might have.
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• IRS agents who investigated Hunter Biden given promotions at the Treasury Department

  18-03-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two IRS whistleblowers who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes have been promoted to new roles as senior advisers at the Treasury Department.
  Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, two IRS employees who testified to Congress as Republicans reviewed the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, say they were retaliated against for cooperating in the investigations.
  Shapley and Ziegler say they were removed from the Hunter B
  
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• Arizona Supreme Court taps AI avatars to make the judicial system more publicly accessible

  18-03-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEJAL GOVINDARAO
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s highest court has created a pair of AI-generated avatars to deliver news of every ruling issued by the justices, marking what is believed to be the first example in the U.S. of a state court system tapping artificial intelligence to build more human-like characters to connect with the public.
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• Gabbard says Trump is committed to ensuring peace and security through ‘realism and pragmatism’

  18-03-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By SHEIKH SAALIQ
  NEW DELHI (AP) — U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump is committed to ensuring peace and security through “realism and pragmatism,” in remarks Tuesday before the U.S. leader speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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• FBI applauds Mexico’s arrest and handover of ’10 Most Wanted’ gang figure

  18-03-2025 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel applauded Mexican authorities Tuesday for the arrest and handover of one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” suspects, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador.
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