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• Trump commutes the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson

  28-03-2025 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson on Friday, just before he was due to report to prison for a nearly 10-year sentence in a financial conspiracy case.
  Watson was convicted last year in a closely watched case that showcased the implosion of an ambitious startup company.
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• Belly Laughs Comedy & Food Festival will showcase Asian comics and cuisine in July

  28-03-2025 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A comedy festival featuring some of Southern California’s finest Asian cuisine is coming to Los Angeles this summer.
  The Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival, taking place at L.A. Live on July 12 and 13, will showcase more than 30 stand-up Asian comedians, including Hasan Minhaj, Kumail Nanjiani, and Margaret Cho, with additional surprise guests to be announced.
  “I think we could all use a laugh right now,” said Bing Chen, CEO & Co-Founder of GoldHouse, a nonprofit organiz
  
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• Mumford & Sons will headline the Hollywood Bowl in June

  28-03-2025 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Following a series of brief pre-tour appearances to promote their new album, “Rushmere,” Mumford & Sons have officially announced the North American leg of their 2025 tour.
  The tour will travel through the U.S. and Canada, stopping at stadiums, arenas, amphitheaters, and music festivals from June through October. However, Southern California fans will be able to catch them for one show only.
  The British folk-rock band will headline the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Thursday, J
  
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• Ex-Anaheim Mayor Sidhu gets 2 months in prison, $55,000 fine in case of ill-fated sale of Angel Stadium

  28-03-2025 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced Friday, March 28, to two months in prison after prosecutors argued he betrayed the community by obstructing federal investigators carrying out a years-long corruption probe that torpedoed the city’s sale of Angel Stadium.
  He must also pay a $50,000 fine and undergo one year of supervised release.
  “I do believe the defendant did betray the city of Anaheim while serving as mayor,” U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb said. “Ther
  
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• Excerpt from ‘Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend’

  28-03-2025 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Editor’s note: The following excerpt from the book “Don Drysdale: Up and In: The Life of a Dodgers Legend,” by former Orange County Register columnist Mark Whicker, is reprinted with the permission of Triumph Books.
  Joey Amalfitano played Major League Baseball for 10 years, managed in parts of three others, was a major league coach for 31 more, and became a minor league instructor. When most baseball people had either forgotten the fundamentals of the sacrifice bunt or condemne
  
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• Congress reestablished its caucus to address homelessness. Rep. Nanette Barragán, its co-chair, outlines the goals

  28-03-2025 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Continuing to lead discussions about how to solve the nation’s homelessness crisis, Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-San Pedro, recently announced that the Caucus on Homelessness will resume in the current session of Congress.
  The group’s goal is to analyze the complex factors that contribute to homelessness, educate members of Congress about federal programs that serve the homeless, advocate for continued funding for these programs and explore policies related to housing and services
  
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• Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

  28-03-2025 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
  The three-judge panel found the Trump administration is likely to show that DOGE’s involvement doesn’t violate the Constitution.
  The appeals court blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland, who found that DOGE’s actions violated the appointments
  
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• Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon

  28-03-2025 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By TARA COPP, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser, Hegseth’s office confirmed.
  The high-profile job has meant meetings with a UFC fighting champion, a trip to Guantanamo Bay and, right now, traveling on the Pentagon’s 747 aircraft as Hegseth makes his first trip as defense secretary to the Indo-Pacific.
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• LA City Council approves changes to proposed venue plan for 2028 Olympic Games

  28-03-2025 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSE HERRERA
  City News Service
  The Los Angeles City Council on Friday, March 28, approved changes to the proposed venue plan for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games — but not before two members voiced frustration over some events moving out of Los Angeles.
  The City Council voted unanimously in favor of amendments to the proposed venue plan, covering adjustments listed in a joint report from the city administrative office and city legislative analyst. Council members also authorized an
  
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• Galaxy’s Joseph Paintsil available for season debut against Orlando City SC

  28-03-2025 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  After missing the majority of preseason and the start of the season, Joseph Paintsil is finally in line to make his season debut.
  Paintsil, who scored 14 goals and added eight assists last season, has been sidelined due to a quad injury.
  “Joe has been in training all week, he will be available,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “It’s really been nice to have Joe back into the fold.”
  The Galaxy (0-3-2, two points) return home Saturday against Orlando City SC (2-2-1).
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• What is the Smithsonian, and why is President Trump unhappy with it?

  28-03-2025 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE and AARON MORRISON, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian Institution — which has, he contends, “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” Critics have pushed back, saying the order is an attempt to whitewash American history.
  His order is part of a wave of actions against cultural organizations that
  
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• Wisconsin attorney general sues Elon Musk to block $1 million payment offers

  28-03-2025 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided.
  Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court to stop Musk from making the payments, which he said he would make Sunday in Wisconsin. Musk initially said in a
  
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• How Cypress Hill turned a 1996 joke from ‘The Simpsons’ into reality

  28-03-2025 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  In a nearly 30-year-old episode of The Simpsons, Homer & Co. arrive backstage at the Hullabalooza Festival just as a stage manager walks in with a question.
  “Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra?” the stage manager asks in “The Simpsons” episode “Homerpalooza,” which premiered on May 19, 1996.
  “Come on, people,” he continues. “Somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra … possibly while high? Cypress Hill, I’m
  
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• Trump endorses budget fix that would restore Washington, DC, shortfall and urges House to pass it

  28-03-2025 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is pushing the House of Representatives to pass a measure that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the District of Columbia even as he continues to level harsh criticism at the city and its leaders.
  In a Friday morning post on Truth Social, he wrote, “The House should take up the D.C. funding ‘fix’ that the Senate has passed, and get it done IMMEDIATELY.”
  It’s the first dire
  
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• Federal judge blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  28-03-2025 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that was targeted for mass firings before the court’s intervention.
  U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreed to issue a preliminary injunction that maintains the agency’s existence until she rules on the merits of a lawsuit seeking to preserve the agency. The judge said the court &ldquo
  
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• Man convicted in 2024 Long Beach fatal shooting of teen girl in Cambodia Town

  28-03-2025 21:43 via ocregister.com
  
  A 34-year-old man was convicted by jury Friday, March 28, in the fatal, unprovoked shooting of a 17-year-old girl as she walked home from work in Long Beach last year, authorities said.
  After deliberating for more than a day, Long Beach Superior Court jurors found Troy Lamar Fox of Long Beach guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of high school senior Briana Soto and of four counts of attempted murder in a separate shooting more than two weeks later in which four teenagers escaped injury
  
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• Water gun mistaken for firearm, leads to Fullerton high school lockdown

  28-03-2025 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Fullerton Union High School was placed on lockdown Friday morning, March 28, after a water gun was mistaken for a firearm, police said.
  Just before 9 a.m., a school resource officer was notified of a man in a vehicle on the 600 block of North Pomona Avenue, across the street from the campus, who may have been in possession of a gun.
  The high school was placed on lockdown, and officers were sent to the scene.
  An investigation revealed that the man was actually a student, and was not in possession
  
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• Kings come home from shutout loss for a weekend double dip

  28-03-2025 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings weren’t able to transport their home-ice voodoo or recent offensive spike to Colorado on Thursday, but the weekend will bring them home for a back-to-back set against the Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks.
  They’d scored 20 goals over their four-game win streak and 37 across a 10-match stretch that saw them come up with nine victories, seven coming at home. But on Thursday, they struggled to generate chances, much less score in a 4-0 loss to the Avalanche, who have now
  
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• Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies

  28-03-2025 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent agencies handling labor issues from their respective posts in the federal government.
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• From repairs to insurance, Trump’s auto tariffs could make owning a car more expensive

  28-03-2025 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Even if you’re not in the market for a new car, U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could make owning one more expensive.
  The new taxes, which are set to begin April 3 and expand in the following weeks, are estimated to raise the average cost of a car imported from another country by thousands of dollars. But repairs for vehicles that currently use foreign-made parts are also expected to g
  
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• 7th annual Grand Prix of Long Beach 5K returns next weekend

  28-03-2025 20:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Fitness enthusiasts — and fans of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach — will soon have the chance for a unique experience on the racetrack.
  The 7th iteration of the Grand Prix Foundation of Long Beach’s annual 5K run and walk will return on Sunday, April 6.
  Though the actual Grand Prix won’t get underway until the following weekend, April 11 to 13, the annual 5K offers fans an opportunity to experience burn rubber of their own — at least, with their sneakers.
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• Mile Square Park: Everything from a golf course to archery to swan boats

  28-03-2025 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A double Surrey bicycle provides fun for four adults and two small children and is one of several different kinds of bikes to rent at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley. Boats are also available. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Editor’s Note: This is a monthly feature on notable regional parks in Orange County, which is rich with places to get outside and have fun with the family and explore nature.
  Look at a 1940s aerial photo of what is now called Mile Square Regio
  
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• Woman shot by Orange County deputy after allegedly approaching with a knife

  28-03-2025 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  A woman who was screaming in a Dana Point apartment was shot and wounded by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy after she allegedly walked toward them with a kitchen knife Friday morning, March 28, authorities said.
  Deputies were called to the area of Camino del Avion and Corniche Drive, a gated community called Ritz Pointe with single-family homes and condos, to conduct a welfare check after receiving a call around 4:10 a.m. that the woman could be heard screaming, Lt. Matt Timmins said.
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• Disneyland nurse leaps into action as life-saving Disney Hero

  28-03-2025 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Mild-mannered Disneyland nurse Angela Gallegos-Macias is a life-saving Disney Hero who wears a white lab coat to work rather than a super suit like Elastigirl, Black Widow or Captain Marvel.
  Gallegos-Macias doesn’t have to hide her superhero alter ego at the Disneyland Cast Health Services clinic where she has worked for 23 years — because her co-workers nominated her for the prestigious honor.
  She won the Disney Heroes Award for her heroic life-saving efforts immediately following a
  
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• Fran Ursini, high school sports official and Newport Rib Company proprietor, dies

  28-03-2025 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Fran Ursini, known for many endeavors including starting and running the Newport Rib Company in Costa Mesa, died earlier this month. He was 86.
  Ursini also was known in the Orange County high school sports community as a veteran football official. He worked county games for more than 50 years.
  He owned and part-owned many dining establishments, but is best known for the Newport Rib Company in Costa Mesa. That has been so successful that the Naples Rib Co. followed in Long Beach with equival
  
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• Letter: Rep. Min welcomes all constituents to join town halls

  28-03-2025 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Re “Rep. Dave Min’s next town hall should invite everybody” (March 26):
  As the district director for Representative Dave Min, I am sorry that Councilmember Erik Weigand did not receive notice of our March 21st town hall in Newport Beach. Being mindful of our office’s taxpayer-funded budget, we did not pay to advertise this town hall, but it was heavily announced through our Congressional newsletter list (reaching tens of thousands of constituents) and on our social media
  
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• What to do if you can’t pay the taxes you owe

  28-03-2025 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — If you know or suspect you can’t pay the taxes you owe this tax season, you should still file a return with that information or file for an extension. That’s the top piece of advice that tax professionals want you to know.
  “The IRS wants to work with you,” said Tom O’Saben, director of tax content and government relations at the National Association of Tax Professionals. “But if you’re asking the IRS
  
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• Anaheim police say street takeovers have fallen, new state laws will help get vehicles impounded

  28-03-2025 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim police officials say illegal street takeovers have declined in the city, but the department’s enforcement efforts will continue to ramp up and new state laws that take effect this summer will allow officers to more easily impound vehicles.
  “Obviously this is an ongoing challenge,” said Anaheim Police Chief Rick Armendariz. “Although we are seeing a reduction in the number of events, it’s still a priority for us.”
  Department officials updated the City C
  
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• Utah becomes first state to ban LGBTQ+ pride flags in government buildings and schools

  28-03-2025 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah became the first state to prohibit flying LGBTQ+ pride flags at schools and all government buildings after the Republican governor announced he was allowing a ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature.
  Gov. Spencer Cox, who made the announcement late Thursday night, said he continues to have serious concerns with the policy but chose not to reject it because his veto would likely be overridden by the Repu
  
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• President Donald Trump’s national security team has looked like a pack of amateurs

  28-03-2025 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s national security team has looked like a pack of amateurs.
  On Monday, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he somehow got plugged into a group text among President Donald Trump’s national security top guns as they went over plans to bomb the Houthi militia in Yemen over the weekend.
  The shared texts were a blunder. As Goldberg reported, the group discussed “precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing&
  
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• ‘He is my lifeline’: Man in limbo after brother from Venezuela is detained by ICE while trying to donate kidney

  28-03-2025 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  CHICAGO — For the past year, three days a week for four hours, Alfredo Pacheco, 37, has been undergoing dialysis. Most days, even if he feels ill, he pushes himself to work after the procedure, thinking of his three young children who wait to see him again one day back in Venezuela.
  As time passes, however, he feels weaker and a bit more tired every day, he said.
  Pacheco was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease not long after arriving in Chicago seeking asylum. It was then that doctors t
  
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• King Charles III’s brief hospital stay reminds UK that monarch is still a cancer patient

  28-03-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
  LONDON (AP) — King Charles III waved to well-wishers in central London on Friday as he headed for his country estate in western England a day after he was briefly hospitalized because of side effects from a scheduled cancer treatment.
  Charles canceled planned engagements on Thursday afternoon and Friday on the advice of his doctors, Buckingham Palace said, without providing details about the “temporary side effects” that he experienced.
  But the
  
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• Trump’s school choice push adds to momentum in statehouses

  28-03-2025 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By Robbie Sequeira, Stateline.org
  More than a dozen states in the past two years have launched or expanded programs that allow families to use taxpayer dollars to send their students to private schools. Now, President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress want to supercharge those efforts.
  Trump in January issued an executive order directing several federal agencies to allow states, tribes and military families to tap into federal money for so-called school choice opportunities. Those can com
  
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• Boy shoots himself inside Irvine home after finding unsecured gun, man arrested on suspicion of child endangerment

  28-03-2025 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A 56-year-old man was arrested by Irvine police after a 15-year-old boy shot and killed himself at the man’s Irvine home on Thursday, March 27, authorities said.
  Whether the boy shot himself intentionally or accidentally was not yet known, Irvine police spokesman Kyle Oldoerp said.
  Irvine police were called to the area of Heathergreen and Weepingwood shortly before 2:45 p.m. regarding a juvenile suffering from a gunshot wound, found the boy in a bedroom and began medical help but he died a
  
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• Efforts underway to restore crumbling site where Abraham Lincoln began his political rise

  28-03-2025 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking.
  Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to New Orleans. As the story goes, Offutt was so impressed by Lincoln’s quick thinking to rescue the boat and save the cargo that he offered him a job at a shop he planned to open in New Salem. Lincoln returned from the cargo trip and decided to stay in New Salem, about 20 miles northwest of S
  
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• Hegseth tells Philippines the Trump administration will ramp up deterrence against China threat

  28-03-2025 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM GOMEZ
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration would work with allies to ramp up deterrence against threats across the world, including China’s aggression in the South China Sea.
  Hegseth, who was visiting the Philippines, blamed the previous Biden administration for insufficient actions that emboldened aggressors like China over the years. He said the U.S. military was being rebuilt under President Donald Trump an
  
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• Putin suggests putting Ukraine under UN-sponsored external governance

  28-03-2025 18:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed Friday to temporarily put Ukraine under external governance as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement, in remarks that reflected the Kremlin leader’s determination to achieve his war goals.
  In televised remarks broadcast early Friday, Putin reaffirmed his claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term expired last year, lacks the legitimacy to sign a peace deal. Under Ukraine’s constitution it is illegal for the countr
  
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• Federal judge to consider releasing immigration activist who took refuge in churches

  28-03-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLEEN SLEVIN
  DENVER (AP) — A federal judge in Denver is set to hear arguments Friday over whether an immigration and labor activist who took refuge in Colorado churches to avoid deportation during the first Trump administration should be freed from detention.
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• IRS crime fighting arm announces modernization program as financial crimes use more tech

  28-03-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the nature of financial crime changes, with technology and AI increasingly used to perpetrate illegal acts, the IRS’ crime fighting arm —IRS Criminal Investigation— is announcing a new program intended to improve how it interacts with financial institutions.
  Called Feedback in Response to Strategic Threat —or CI-FIRST— the program unveiled Friday is intended to speed up subpoena requests, give banks bett
  
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• Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers appear in New Jersey court over jurisdiction of Columbia activist’s case

  28-03-2025 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, urged a federal judge on Friday to move their client’s case out of Louisiana, describing his imprisonment there as a “Kafkaesque” ploy to chill free speech.
  “The longer we wait, the more chill there is,” defense attorney Baher Azmy said. “Everyone knows about this case and is
  
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• Protectionism won’t bring back the past or revive old manufacturing jobs

  28-03-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  If you believe the political rhetoric, you probably think America’s industrial base has been hollowed out, gutted or “shipped overseas.” Across the ideological spectrum, people say U.S. manufacturing is in decline. They argue mostly about who’s to blame and how many tariffs we need to fix the problem.
  This widely told tale is wrong.
  For one thing, for all the talk of job losses and economic decline, it’s worth remembering that the unemployment rate is a very low 4.1
  
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• Man declared dead by Social Security still fighting to restart payments: ‘I’m at my wit’s end’

  28-03-2025 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  A Colorado man fighting to reverse the Social Security Administration’s mistake that declared him dead said he has no idea where to turn as the ordeal stretches into a third month.
  Alex Vukovich’s Social Security check disappeared from his bank account in late January after the federal agency mistakenly placed him on its list of deceased recipients. His February check never came, and despite assurances earlier this month that Social Security had finally fixed the problem, he hasn&rsq
  
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• Memphis Grizzlies surprisingly part ways with coach Taylor Jenkins, franchise’s winningest coach

  28-03-2025 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Grizzlies have parted ways with their winningest coach, Taylor Jenkins, with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason.
  The franchise announced the decision Friday. Jenkins was in his sixth season as Memphis’ coach as the Grizzlies struggled on a West Coast road trip.
  Memphis lost four of five games on the trip, including losses to Sacramento, Portland, the Clippers and Western Conference-leading Ok
  
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• The fate of addiction treatment hangs in the balance with Kennedy’s HHS overhaul

  28-03-2025 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press
  A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, naloxone distribution and addiction treatment may be weakened and possibly eliminated in the proposed overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  In Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan, the $8 billion Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, would be absorbed into a new office,
  
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• Fewer Americans now see Canada as a close US ally as Trump strains a longtime partnership

  28-03-2025 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL COLVIN and LINLEY SANDERS
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were two years ago, the latest indication that President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and talk of taking over a neighboring ally are souring a critical economic and military relationship.
  The U.S. shift in viewpoint comes primarily from Democrats, though Republicans are less likely to see Canada as America’s ally now too, according to a new poll fr
  
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• Angels expect veteran catcher Travis d’Arnaud to boost pitching staff

  28-03-2025 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  CHICAGO — The first time Kyle Hendricks worked with catcher Travis d’Arnaud in spring training, he knew quickly that this was going to be a good relationship.
  D’Arnaud kept calling for the right-hander to throw his curveball, which he’s generally used sparingly. At one point in Hendricks’ two-inning Cactus League outing, d’Arnaud called for three in a row.
  “I don’t think I’ve ever tripled up on a curve before,” Hendricks said that day.
  
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• A look at who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters

  28-03-2025 17:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Supporters of Palestinian causes with ties to American universities have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
  President Donald Trump and other officials have accused protesters and others of being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Many protesters have said they were speaking out against Israel’s actions in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
  More than half a dozen people are known to h
  
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• Trump administration probes California Education Department over transgender law

  28-03-2025 17:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Federal officials Thursday started an investigation into the California Department of Education over a controversial gender notification law the state passed last summer, asserting that it encouraged schools to conceal information from parents about their children’s sexuality and warning that California could lose billions of dollars in federal funding.
  The U.S. Department of Education accused California of violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed A
  
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• 9 Easter feasts in Orange County that are worth the splurge

  28-03-2025 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Tired of Easter looking like a sad, beige buffet of store-bought ham and candy? This year, ditch the fluted paper plates and cloying Cadbury Eggs in favor ceramic dishes and expertly made fare. These spots will not only give you the chance to don your finest springtime threads, but also taste some of the best seasonal food in town.
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• Noted economist honored by Trump warns his 25% tariffs could add $4,711 to the cost of a vehicle

  28-03-2025 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Noted economist Arthur Laffer warns in a new analysis that President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could add $4,711 to the cost of a vehicle and says the proposed taxes could weaken the ability of U.S. automakers to compete with their foreign counterparts.
  In the 21-page analysis obtained by The Associated Press, Laffer, whom Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 for his contributions to economics, says t
  
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