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• OC Register lawsuit v. OpenAI, Microsoft to proceed after judge turns back motions

  26-03-2025 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A Manhattan judge rejected a majority of motions by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss parts of a lawsuit accusing the tech companies of swiping stories from the Orange County Register, affiliated newspapers in Media News Group and Tribune Publishing, the New York Daily News, the New York Times and other newspapers to train their AI products.
  The Register, its sister newspapers, the Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting have accused OpenAI and Microsoft of stealing millions of copyrighte
  
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• Daily News lawsuit vs. OpenAI, Microsoft to proceed after judge turns back motions

  26-03-2025 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A Manhattan judge rejected a majority of motions by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss parts of a lawsuit accusing the tech companies of swiping stories from the New York Daily News, the New York Times and other newspapers to train their artificial intelligence products.
  The Daily News, its affiliated newspapers in MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, the Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting have accused OpenAI and Microsoft of stealing millions of copyrighted news stories to benefit
  
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• How could Trump’s recent executive order impact California elections?

  26-03-2025 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump‘s recent executive order overhauling U.S. elections has drawn swift opposition from California leaders and advocacy groups who say it threatens how the state conducts elections.
  Signed Tuesday, March 25, the order calls for stricter voting rules, including requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to register, not counting ballots received after Election Day and prohibiting non-U.S. citizens from donating in certain elections. Acceptable documents fo
  
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• Irvine man sentenced for stealing rare violins and robbing a bank

  26-03-2025 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  An Irvine man was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for stealing and selling high-end violins and robbing a bank, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, March 26.
  Between August 2020 and April 2023, Mark Meng, 58, contacted violin shops across the country, posing as a musical instrument collector interested in buying valuable violins, prosecutors said. He requested violins on a trial basis to determine whether or not he wanted to purchase.
  Authorities said that aft
  
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• Vogue World: Glitzy event comes to Hollywood to raise funds for LA wildfire victims

  26-03-2025 23:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Global Chief Content Officer Anna Wintour, of Condé Nast, with Gov. Gavin Newsom announces at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 that Vogue World: Hollywood’s proceeds will help costume designers who were impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  Costume designer Ruth Carter is hugged by costume designers after speaking at the Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 during t
  
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• Lyft, Uber drivers push for $1.3 billion wage settlement

  26-03-2025 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Rideshare driver Steven Glover holds his sign during the rally.Nearly 100 ridesharing drivers with Uber and Lyft from across California gathered in front of L.A. City Hall to demonstrate on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. The demonstration is taking place as State Attorney General Rob Bonta; City Attorneys Hydee Feldstein Soto (LA), David Chiu (San Francisco) and Heather Ferbert (San Diego); and attorneys for drivers, continue settlement talks with Uber and Lyft in a massive wage theft scandal that r
  
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• Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza

  26-03-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMY MAGDY, FATMA KHALED and SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press
  CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians marched between the wreckage of a heavily destroyed town in northern Gaza on Wednesday in the second day of anti-war protests, with many chanting against Hamas in a rare display of public anger against the group.
  The protests, which centered mainly on Gaza’s north, appeared to be aimed generally against the war, with protesters calling for an end to 17 months of deadly fighting with
  
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• South Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions

  26-03-2025 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.
  The landmark report released Wednesday followed a nearly three-year investigation into complaints from 367 adoptees in Europe, the United S
  
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• ‘Like a sound from hell:’ Was an illegal sonic weapon used against peaceful protesters in Serbia?

  26-03-2025 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ivana Ilic Sunderic had never heard anything quite so alarming and disturbing at a protest as the sound that broke a commemorative silence during a huge anti-government rally in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.
  “It was quiet and peaceful and then we heard something we could not see … like a sound rolling toward us, a whiz,” Ilic Sunderic said about the March 15 incident. “People started r
  
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• LA Metro’s free Dodger Stadium Express service to kick off at Thursday’s home opener

  26-03-2025 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Metro’s Dodger Stadium Express service for fans with tickets to home games is set to kick off this week.
  The free service will start Thursday for the home opener against the Detroit Tigers, according to the transit agency.
  The agency is also extending pre-game service by one hour for the 2025 season to encourage earlier trips and more evenly distribute passengers. Express buses will now begin taking fans to Dodger Stadium 2 1/2 hours before the games.
  Fans can board the Dodger Stadium Expr
  
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• All-County girls soccer: Santa Margarita’s Cora Fry is the OC player of the year

  26-03-2025 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALL-COUNTY GIRLS SOCCER TEAM 2024-25
  PLAYER OF THE YEAR
  Cora Fry, Santa Margarita, Junior
  Santa Margarita forward Cora Fry struck the ball for a goal, leaped into the arms of teammate Felicity Nguyen and ran to the corner of the pitch. Fellow forward Jastel David then knelt on one knee and pretended to shine Fry’s cleat as the Eagles rejoiced.
  On the surface, it appeared to be another reenactment of
  
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• How to get free tickets to Universal Studios Hollywood

  26-03-2025 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  A new buy-a-day/get-a-day discount offer will let Universal Studios Hollywood visitors double their fun when they purchase a one-day ticket that includes a free return visit later this year to the movie theme park.
  The Universal ticket deal starts on Thursday, March 27 and the offer continues through Aug. 13.
  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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• New fire maps put nearly 4 million Californians in hazardous zones

  26-03-2025 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps on Monday, March 24, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much that computationally-modeled danger zone has grown since the state issued its last round of local hazard maps more than a decade ago.
  Territory deemed “high” or “very high” hazard exploded across the state, increasing 168% since 2011.
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• Appeals court won’t halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

  26-03-2025 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.
  A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
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• Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could ‘respond’ if attacked by Russia.

  26-03-2025 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one.
  Macron spoke in the evening after talks with Ukraine’s president and ahead of a summit in Paris of some 30 nations on Thursday that will discuss the proposed force for Ukraine.“If there was again a gener
  
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• Trump’s executive order on elections is far-reaching. But will it actually stick?

  26-03-2025 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S. is vast in scope and holds the potential to reorder the voting landscape across the country, even as it faces almost certain litigation.
  He wants to require voters to show proof that they are U.S. citizens before they can register for federal elections, count only mail or absentee ballots received by Election Day, set new rules for voting equipment and prohibit non-U.S. citizens from being a
  
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• Dodgers expect ‘good things’ from Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Year 2

  26-03-2025 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  From his first bullpen session this spring, there seemed to be something different about Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
  “I think he’s just comfortable,” Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior said this spring, putting his finger squarely on it. “It’s a similar situation that we all go through – new environment, language barrier at times. I think 12 months, having the experience of last year – winning a World Series doesn’t hurt.
  “But he’s just comforta
  
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• The ‘state secrets privilege’ sounds mysterious. Here’s what it is and how it works

  26-03-2025 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States.
  The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about flights that carried the migran
  
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• Episcopal bishop criticized by President Trump has a 2-book deal with young readers publisher

  26-03-2025 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Episcopal bishop who in January angered President Donald Trump has a deal for two books for young people. Both are based on the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s best-selling “How We Learn to Be Brave.”
  Penguin Young Readers announced Wednesday that it will release a young adult edition, adapted by novelist Bryan Bliss and titled “We Can Be Brave,” on Oct. 25. The picture book “I Can Learn to Be Brave
  
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• 7 best things to eat and drink at Disneyland’s Star Wars festival

  26-03-2025 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland chefs have once again created an intergalactic menu of Star Wars eats, treats and drinks for the upcoming Season of the Force festival celebrating the epic space opera at the Anaheim theme park.
  The new Star Wars menu items will be available in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Tomorrowland and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel during the seasonal event running Friday, March 28 through May 11.
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• This new molecule could point the way to safe disposal of nuclear waste

  26-03-2025 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab in California. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of nearly 20 researchers focused intently on creating a brand-new molecule.
  Using a chemical glove box, a polycarbonate glass box with protruding gloves that shields substances from oxygen and moisture, scientists combined the berkelium metal with an organic molecule containing
  
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• Fog, rain and clouds move into Southern California

  26-03-2025 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Fog and drizzly conditions rolled into parts of Southern California on Wednesday, and coastal areas are expected to remain overcast throughout the day, the National Weather Service said.
  The marine layer brought light rain to the beach communities in Los Angeles and Orange counties Wednesday. Occasionally breezy conditions are expected for the rest of the week.
  Most areas of Southern California reported no rainfall, with others reporting a trace amount or 0.01 to 0.03 inches of precipitation.
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• Alexander: It says here the Dodgers will reign again

  26-03-2025 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m wondering if Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes, in the course of a mad offseason shopping spree, didn’t set themselves up.
  You want the classic example of failure not being an option? We’re watching it, continuing Thursday afternoon when the 2-0 Dodgers play their home opener against Detroit after raising the 2024 World Series championship pennant. The expectation – excitedly here in SoCal, far less so in other locales – is that they’ll finish with more ch
  
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• NTSB chairwoman says reviewing the data after midair crash may prevent the next aviation accident

  26-03-2025 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  Someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital before the fatal midair collision that killed 67 people in January, and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes, according to the head of the agency investigating the crash.
  National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy emphasized to Congress Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration had data going back to 2011 showing
  
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• Supreme Court seems likely to OK $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural, low-income areas

  26-03-2025 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to preserve the $8 billion a year the government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.
  The justices heard nearly three hours of arguments in a new test of federal regulatory power, reviewing an appellate ruling that struck down as unconstitutional the Universal Service Fund, the tax that has been added to phone bills for nearly 30 years.
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• Amazon looking like a bargain with cheaper shares than Apple, Walmart

  26-03-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ryan Vlastelica | Bloomberg
  Amazon.com Inc. shares are starting to look like a bargain, a word that has rarely been used to describe the stock.
  The recent drop in the company’s share price — coupled with expectations for durable long-term earnings growth — have brought its valuation to levels rarely seen since the company went public in 1997. This could limit additional downside in the event of further weakness in the broader market.
  “You’d be hard pressed to loo
  
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• Rubio visits the Caribbean, where energy and migration will top his agenda this week

  26-03-2025 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Diplomatic Writer
  KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Weaning Caribbean countries from their dependence on Venezuelan oil and combating illegal immigration will top U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s tour of three Caribbean nations this week as the Trump administration increasingly focuses its attention on the Western Hemisphere.
  The State Department said Rubio, who arrived in Jamaica on Wednesday, will push for the region to diversify its energy supplies. Ru
  
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• Musk’s X poised for ad sales gain on effort to curry Trump favor

  26-03-2025 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg
  Elon Musk’s X is on pace for its first year of advertising revenue growth since the billionaire acquired the company in 2022, according to research firm Emarketer — in part because advertisers are reacting to Musk’s power in the Donald Trump administration.
  The social network, formerly Twitter, is projected to generate $1.31 billion in US advertising sales in 2025, an increase of 17.5%, according to Emarketer. Globally, X’s ad sales are est
  
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• Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push

  26-03-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training.
  A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the cuts, finding they were already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage. An appeals court turned away a plea from the administration to allow them to resume.
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• 30 years after music icon Selena’s murder, Yolanda Saldívar is up for parole. Here’s what to know

  26-03-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARIA SHERMAN, Associated Press
  Thirty years ago, music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar. For the last three decades, Saldívar has served her life sentence in Texas.
  Now 64, Saldívar has a petition for parole under review, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice online records. On Sunday, she is up for parole for the very first time.
  According to a spokeswoman for the Texas Board of Pardons and
  
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• Trump will announce auto tariffs at a White House news conference

  26-03-2025 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday will announce tariffs on auto imports, a move that the White Houses claims would foster domestic manufacturing that could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
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• Role models. Peer pressure. Rewards. What really gets people to act more sustainably?

  26-03-2025 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press Lifestyles Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Click founded a nonprofit a few years ago offering free composting education to schools around the country. Today, 112 schools participate, yet she can’t get her boyfriend to properly separate his trash at home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
  “Adults have more set behaviors than young kids. I try to model a behavior and hopefully he does it,” said Click, executive director of her Let’s Go Compost or
  
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• IONNA charging network aims to improve access for EV owners

  26-03-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  IONNA, a new electric vehicle (EV) charging network backed by several major automakers, has begun its national expansion, with 100 sites under contract and 1,000-plus charging bays expected to go online this year, the company recently announced.
  The move is a major milestone for IONNA, which launched its beta phase in February 2024 as a partnership between Kia, Hyundai, BMW Group, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Stellantis and Honda. Toyota later joined the initiative.
  IONNA’s goal is to ma
  
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• Researchers in limbo as Columbia bows to Trump’s demands in bid to restore $400M federal funding

  26-03-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school’s campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19’s impact on children.
  The urgency of salvaging ongoing research projects at the university’s labs and world-renowned
  
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• America’s allies alarmed by a leaked group chat about attack plans

  26-03-2025 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL LAWLESS, EMMA BURROWS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press
  LONDON (AP) — As wake-up calls go, the alarms don’t get much louder.
  Allies of the United States see the group chat between top U.S. officials about a planned attack in Yemen that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach which casts doubt on intelligence-sharing with Washington and the security of joint military operations.
  A Yemeni inspects the damage of a destroyed building following U
  
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• Travel: There’s nothing like being pampered in a spa while visiting historic Greece

  26-03-2025 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen them as future fierce warriors. Spartan mothers, not the most cuddly, sent sons to battle with a brutal warning — be victorious or die fighting but dare not come home a loser.
  This oddly got me to thinking — besides their worship of goddess Athena, combat-weary Spartans probably coul
  
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• 3D printed and factory-built homes could help tackle housing crisis

  26-03-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press/Report for America
  DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — yes, the marijuana cousin — to make building blocks for walls.
  It’s a response to the country’s shortfall of millions of homes that has led to skyrocketing prices, plunging millions into poverty.
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• Meet the inspirational James Beard-nominated chef behind Everytable’s new gumbo dish

  26-03-2025 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Using a modern version of his grandmother’s gumbo recipe, Watts native and James Beard nominated chef Keith Corbin, whose journey to the kitchen began after years in prison, is putting his soul dish on more tables than ever thanks to a new partnership with the Everytable restaurant chain.
  “It has depth of flavor, sweetness from the peppers, this freshness from the herbs, a little heat but not spicy. It’s rich, it’s flavorful, it’s absolutely delicious,” said t
  
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• How a simple misstep sparked a lighting innovation

  26-03-2025 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
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  It started with a single misstep. Ron Pritchett was heading down a set of stairs one night, flashlight in hand, when something in his peripheral vision caught his attention. As he turned to look, the steps ahead of him disappeared into darkness. At that moment, he nearly lost his footing and had a realization that would change everything.
  “Why do I have to wave my flashlight back and forth just to see where I’m going?&rd
  
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• Get ready for a partial solar eclipse across Europe and parts of North America and Africa

  26-03-2025 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun this weekend during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere — but make sure to protect your eyes.
  The eclipse will be visible Saturday across Europe, western Africa, eastern North America and northern Asia. The sun will shrink the most for the northeastern United States, Greenland and eastern Canada.
  During a partial solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and
  
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• Founders of Black-owned brands adapt their hopes and business plans for a post-DEI era

  26-03-2025 17:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The co-founders of a company that makes lip products for darker skin tones no longer hope to get their line into Target. A brother and sister who make jigsaw puzzles celebrating Black subjects wonder if they need to offer “neutral” images like landscapes to keep growing.
  Pound Cake and Puzzles of Color are among the small businesses whose owners are rethinking their plans as major U.S. companies weaken their diversity
  
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• New food coming to Angel Stadium for the 2025 season

  26-03-2025 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel Stadium is sauntering up to the plate with new menu items this season, offering fans a range of new concession and premium suite dining options. Culinary highlights will include s’mores waffles and sundaes, esquites cups with crushed chili-lime chips, char siu mac and cheese, and a hot dog creation topped with fries.
  “It’s definitely a collaboration between Legends [the stadium’s hospitality management] and the Angels,” said Dennis Radcliffe, executive chef fo
  
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• ‘I didn’t think it would be this bad’: Veterans worry VA cuts will hurt their care

  26-03-2025 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  On days when the emphysema and the side effects of his traumatic brain injury are not flaring out of control, David Cochran sometimes leaves his house in Vista, California.
  But simple things like traffic can set off his post-traumatic stress, and the U.S. Army veteran quickly returns home, where he doesn’t feel so vulnerable to the possibility of hurting himself — or others.
  “I can’t be in crowds,” Cochran said. “I have trouble driving because of the road rage
  
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• Rivian spins out startup focused on ‘micromobility’ EVs

  26-03-2025 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kara Carlson | Bloomberg
  Rivian Automotive in Irvine is spinning out a business that will develop small electric vehicles designed for short trips.
  The new “micromobility” company, known as Also, is launching with $105 million in funding from Rivian and venture capital firm Eclipse. Rivian, which makes consumer EV trucks and SUVs, will have a minority stake in Also.
  Chris Yu, a Rivian executive who will lead the new company as president, said in an interview that current options a
  
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• In their own words: Trump officials shrugging off Signal leak once decried Clinton’s server

  26-03-2025 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The attempts by President Donald Trump and top leaders of his administration to downplay a security breach that revealed military strike plans in a Signal group chat including a journalist stand in stark contrast to their reaction to Hillary Clinton’s use of a home server as secretary of state.
  This time, they’ve largely focused their ire not on sweeping potential security lapses, or punishments as a result, but on the journa
  
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• A heart-shaped note was found in socks bound for Luigi Mangione, prosecutors say

  26-03-2025 16:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Someone tucked a heart-shaped note of encouragement into socks packed for Luigi Mangione to wear to court recently in the case surrounding the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, prosecutors said in a court document released on Wednesday.
  A court officer intercepted the note, which urged the accused killer to “know there are thousands of people wishing you luck,” Manhattan prosecutors wrote in respond
  
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• After reckless spending spree, Mayor Karen Bass asks for a state bailout

  26-03-2025 16:41 via ocregister.com
  
  In December, Los Angeles City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo issued a 99-page report on the current-year budget of the city, the reserve fund and “revenue trends for 2024-25.”
  It revealed that Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council have run Los Angeles into the ground through overspending, liability and policies that have caused a decline in revenue from hotel, sales and business taxes.
  The report was issued before the catastrophic fires in January. This was the cheerful Merry Chri
  
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• Canadian Prime Minister Carney says trade war is hurting Americans, noting consumer confidence

  26-03-2025 16:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low.
  Carney also said the kinship that exists between U.S. and Canada is under more strain than at any point in the two countries storied histories.
  “His trade war is hurting American consumers and workers and it will hurt more. I see that American consumer con
  
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• Billy Zane is dying to catch some killers in the modern Western ‘Day of Reckoning’

  26-03-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  As Butch Hayden, a U.S. marshal on the trail of a bank-robbing couple in “Day of Reckoning,” Billy Zane plays a classic Western movie anti-hero, the lawman who’ll break the law to serve justice as he sees it, in a modern-day setting.
  Hayden seemingly doesn’t have long to live as the new crime movie “Day of Reckoning” begins. But before he goes, he’s determined to finish off Emily and Kyle Rusk, played by Cara Jade Myers and Scott Adkins, whose gang has k
  
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• 8 concerts and comedy acts coming to Southern California casinos in April

  26-03-2025 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Spring is in the air, and April is blooming with entertainment acts at Southern California casinos. Visitors can catch stand-up comedians, a country music icon, a mix of reggae and ska and more.
  Be sure to check each casino’s official website for the most up-to-date event information.
  Ice Cube (pictured at SiriusXM Studios on Nov. 20, 2024, in Los Angeles) will perform at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio on Saturday, April 5. (Photo by Leon Bennett, Getty Images)
  Carlos Santana (pict
  
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