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• Daniel Dunbar resigns as Orange Lutheran boys basketball coach

  07-04-2025 23:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Daniel Dunbar has resigned as boys basketball coach at Orange Lutheran, the school announced Monday.
  He coached the Lancers for six seasons. They qualified for the CIF Southern Section playoffs in four of those seasons.
  Orange Lutheran this past season finished 14-14 overall and went 2-8 in the Trinity League. The Lancers did not qualify for the playoffs.
  In the 2022-23 season, Orange Lutheran advanced to the CIF-SS Division 2AA championship game and to the CIF Southern California Regional Divis
  
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• Coachella 2025: Polo & Pan, Sammy Virji, Sara Landry headline Palm Springs Surf Club series

  07-04-2025 23:47 via ocregister.com
  
  If catching a wave gets you more stoked than camping out in the desert for three days at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, then get ready to hang loose.
  The Goldenvoice-produced Surf Club, held at the Palm Springs Surf Club, returns with its resort-style weekend parties, headlined by top EDM artists, coinciding with the festival just a few miles away.
  Weekend one, April 12-13, will feature performances by Sammy Virji, Chris Lorenzo, Fcukers (DJ set), Atrip, Sandra Landry, Ri
  
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• Jury selection starts in retrial of OC Judge Ferguson, who shot wife to death in their Anaheim Hills home

  07-04-2025 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jury selection began Monday morning, April 7, for the retrial of an Orange County judge accused of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife in 2023.
  Less than a month after a mistrial was declared in the case against Jeffrey Ferguson — with jurors split 11-1 favoring guilt on second-degree murder — attorneys began picking the new panel that will hear his case in Orange County Superior Court.
  The previous jury deliberated for nine days before announcing they were hopeles
  
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• OC nonprofit’s rebranding to Illumination Health + Home gets help from John Stamos, Beach Boys

  07-04-2025 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Since its founding late in 2007, the Illumination Foundation’s role in helping people who experience homelessness has been well-known among those with a keen interest in Orange County social issues. Others, however, might not have had a clear picture of what the nonprofit does.
  On Sunday, the organization announced it has rebranded itself with a name that includes its mission: Illumination Health + Home.
  Mike Love, John Stamos and (possibly Brian Eichenberger ) perform as the Beach Boys pl
  
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• Grand Prix of Long Beach: Hall of Famer Dixon takes his success in stride

  07-04-2025 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Talking to Scott Dixon, one might wonder if he’s the guy who has 58 NTT IndyCar victories, six series championships, an Indianapolis 500 win and a 2024 induction into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.
  He doesn’t sound like a guy who is caught up in all his accomplishments, that’s for sure. Nope. He’s thinking about the next race. Take last year’s Hall of Fame induction. Asked about that during a recent interview, Dixon was almost nonchalant about the details.
  
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• Eggs rule at this breakfast hot spot in Long Beach

  07-04-2025 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Egg prices are high out there, thanks in part to hen houses being decimated by bird flu … and in part to good old-fashioned greed — aka “fluctuations in the market.” Whatever you choose to believe, we’re not about to give up our eggs.
  In my life, I’ve had eggs in one form or another for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’ve had them as a between-meal snack. I’ve packed them for camping trips. I’ve nibbled on hard-boilers driving cross-country.
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• Maine sues the Trump administration over funding freeze after dispute over transgender athletes

  07-04-2025 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By PATRICK WHITTLE
  SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Maine officials sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to try to stop the government from freezing federal money in the wake of a dispute over transgender athletes in sports.
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• Foundation raises more than $20 million for fire recovery, grant funding

  07-04-2025 23:09 via ocregister.com
  
  A nonprofit organization that supports firefighters announced that as of Monday, April 7, three months on from the devastating Southern California wildfires, it had raised more than $20 million to support relief efforts.
  The California Fire Foundation provides emotional and financial assistance to families of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they protect.
  Through the funds raised, the foundation is offering grant opportunities for California-based fire departments, local fir
  
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• 2 die in 60 Freeway crash in Chino; baby found alive, buried in debris

  07-04-2025 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Two adults died when a car crashed on the 60 Freeway in Chino early Monday, April 7, with a baby found alive, buried in debris.
  The crash happened around 2 a.m. in the westbound lanes east of Reservoir Street, said Sgt. Mark Nelson, a California Highway Patrol spokesman.
  When officers arrived, they found the Tesla up an embankment.
  At least one of the persons killed was ejected.
  The driver and the front-seat passenger died, Nelson said. The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office identified
  
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• Servite 4×100 relay does it again, sets county record in Trabuco Hills meet

  07-04-2025 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  The Servite 4×100 relay team did it again.
  The Friars foursome broke their own Orange County record in the event Saturday with a time of 40.56 seconds in the Trabuco Hills Invitational and Distance Carnival at Trabuco Hills High.
  The team is made up of sophomores and freshmen. The sophomores are Robert Gardner and Benjamin Harris. Kamil Pelovello and Jorden Wells are the freshmen.
  The time of 40.56 is the fastest in California this high school season and the 11th fastest in the nation.
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• Wall Street could be headed for a bear market. Here’s what that means

  07-04-2025 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street could soon be in the claws of another bear market as the Trump administration’s tariff blitz fuels fears that the added taxes on imported goods from around the world will sink the global economy.
  The last bear market happened in 2022, but this decline feels more like the sudden, turbulent bear market of 2020, when the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbled 34% in a one-month period, the shortest bear market ever.
  
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• Google AI search shift leaves website makers feeling ‘betrayed’

  07-04-2025 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By Davey Alba and Julia Love | Bloomberg
  In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.
  But by the time the ad ran about a month later, traffic from Google had fallen more than 70%, McBride said. Charleston Crafted, which features guides on do-it-yourself home improvement projects, had weathered algorithm changes and updates in the past; this time, i
  
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• Appeals court restores DOGE access to sensitive information at US agencies

  07-04-2025 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By LEA SKENE, Associated Press
  BALTIMORE (AP) — An appeals court on Monday cleared the way for billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to once again access people’s private data at three federal agencies, a win for the Trump administration as the underlying lawsuit plays out.
  In a split ruling, the three-judge panel blocked a lower court decision that halted DOGE access at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Manageme
  
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• Tesla shares plunge below commerce secretary’s ‘never this cheap’ level

  07-04-2025 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By Esha Dey
  Tesla Inc.’s stock extended losses Monday, dropping below a price at which Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicted they’d never fall to again.
  The shares plunged as much as 9.2% to $217.41 as of 9:41 a.m. in New York, amid a broader selloff in global equity markets. Lutnick said during a Fox News interview on March 19 — when Tesla closed at $235.86 — that viewers should buy the stock, saying “it’ll never be this cheap again.” Chief Execut
  
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• Rock and Brews closes Tustin location after five years

  07-04-2025 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Rock and Brews, the rock-music restaurant chain co-created by Kiss members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, has closed its Tustin location after five years in business. The restaurant served its final meal on Sunday, April 6.
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  “After much consideration, we have decided to close our Rock and Brews Tustin location,” said Rock a
  
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• Judge rejects state’s effort to overturn Huntington Beach’s voter ID law

  07-04-2025 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County judge on Monday, April 7, denied the state attorney general’s efforts to overturn Huntington Beach’s voter ID law, saying he disagreed with arguments the city’s effort would confuse and disenfranchise voters in future elections.
  “There is no showing that a voter identification requirement compromises the integrity of a municipal election,” Orange County Superior Court Judge Nico Dourbetas wrote in his ruling.
  The ruling is a win for the city, but li
  
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• Immigration crackdowns disrupt the caregiving industry. Families pay the price

  07-04-2025 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By Vanessa G. Sánchez and Daniel Chang, KFF Health News
  Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something hurts.
  Josephine, 16, has been diagnosed with tetrasomy 8p mosaicism, severe autism, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, among other conditions, which will require constant assi
  
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• 5 high school or younger students among those in deadly Santa Ana crash

  07-04-2025 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Four high school students and an intermediate school student were among those involved in a fatal solo-vehicle crash in Santa Ana that killed four over the weekend, authorities said Monday, April 7.
  Among those killed were three Valley High School students – including the driver who had recently turned 18 – and a 20-year-old woman, Officer Natalie Garcia said. Their identities had not yet been made public by police.
  Another passenger, a girl who attends Carr Intermediate School, was
  
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• Trump tariffs make Easter bittersweet for Swiss chocolatiers

  07-04-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOURAD EL-TOUNI, Associated Press
  GENEVA (AP) — With the normally brisk Easter season around the corner, the mood in Switzerland’s chocolate business is bittersweet, thanks to high cacao prices and — now — the newly added U.S. tariffs on imports.
  Many Swiss, from the government to chocolatiers to watchmakers and other businesses, are sensing “shock” over the tougher American position on trade, but many are also taking a wait-and-see stance.
  At the Festichoc
  
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• Bogus report on tariff pause briefly lifted markets before White House denied it

  07-04-2025 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A bogus rumor that President Donald Trump was considering a pause in tariffs briefly lifted markets Monday before the White House shot down the unfounded reports.
  The confusion — which was amplified on social media and by some traditional media outlets — lasted less than a half hour but reflected a jittery mood on Wall Street as stocks plunged over worries that Trump’s tariffs could torpedo the global economy.
  The origin of the false report was unclear but
  
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• Disneyland pauses all Magic Key sales again — this time with a twist

  07-04-2025 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The on-again, off-again availability of Disneyland annual passes has once again been paused as the Anaheim theme park has halted all Magic Key sales indefinitely — this time with a new twist.
  Disneyland has halted sales of the Enchant Key after previously pausing sales of Inspire, Believe and Imagine Keys — making all four tiers of the Magic Key program officially sold out and only available for renewal.
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• The busiest days to fly around Memorial Day in 2025

  07-04-2025 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sally French, NerdWallet
  Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer in the U.S., but the days leading up to it tend to bring the biggest airport crowds. Some days around the long weekend are significantly busier than others, and if you can afford to be flexible when flying during Memorial Day weekend, you’ll save money and avoid the chaos at the airport.
  The best and worst days to fly Memorial Day weekend
  NerdWallet analyzed the past three years (2022, 2023 and 2024) of Trans
  
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• Dodgers honored for their ‘legendary season’ with White House visit

  07-04-2025 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  President Donald Trump greets manager Dave Roberts during a ceremony to honor the Major League Baseball 2024 World Series Champion Dodgers in the East Room of the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
  President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to honor the Major League Baseball 2024 World Series Champion Dodgers in the East Room of the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
  President Donald Trump speaks durin
  
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• Less heart disease, more breast cancer: 5 takeaways from a new report on moderate drinking

  07-04-2025 20:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A new report on the health effects of moderate drinking paints a mixed picture, with both positive and negative health effects — plus plenty of unknowns.
  The studies included in the report, which will help shape the 2025 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, defined moderate alcohol consumption as no more than one drink per day for women and two per day for men. (A standard drink is 12 ounces of beer containing 5% alcohol, 5 ounces of wine, or 1½ ounces of hard liquor.)
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• Canadians pull back on travel to California because of Donald Trump: ‘I will miss the desert’

  07-04-2025 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  California tourism could lose billions of dollars because of President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, immigration and gender identity, as well as his talk of annexing Canada.
  Visit California, a nonprofit organization that promotes tourism in the Golden State, recently revised its overall visitor spending forecast for this year from $166 billion to $160 billion, saying international travel into California is already beginning to slow. Canada, the second-largest source of international
  
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• Meet the Mexican soldier trying to revamp a musical genre accused of glorifying cartels

  07-04-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEGAN JANETSKY, Associated Press
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrón picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a band of a dozen camouflage-clad soldiers.
  The rhythmic style — known as a corrido — is recognizable to just about every soul in the Latin American nation of 130 million. But Barrón’s lyrics diverge sharply from those blari
  
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• Shake Shack is serving a Dubai Chocolate Shake; find out where

  07-04-2025 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Shake Shack is serving its take on the TikTok sensation Dubai chocolate at 10 locations in and around Los Angeles.
  It’s called the Chocolate Pistachio Dubai Shake, and it will be available through April 28 at select restaurants in New York City and Miami as well, according to a news release.
  The shake features the same flavors as the original chocolate bar’s filling: pistachio and shredded phyllo pastry. Chocolate bars are commanding as much as $39.75 on Amazon.
  The shake is made wit
  
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• Irma Thomas makes her comeback at 84: ‘I’m not getting any younger.’

  07-04-2025 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By the time Irma Thomas was 19, she’d been married twice, had four young children and a hit on the Billboard R&B chart with “Don’t Mess with My Man.”
  Now 84, she’s on her third marriage, which has lasted half a century, and nearly all her children are drawing Social Security. So what she’s doing now? 
  She’s making a comeback with her first album in 17 years, “Audience with the Queen,” which is out April 11.
  Ron Wood, left, Mick Jagge
  
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• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies see prices fall amid global market turmoil

  07-04-2025 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALAN SUDERMAN, AP Business Writer
  After holding relatively stable during last week’s global market turmoil, cryptocurrencies have joined the sell-off.
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• American YouTuber who left a Diet Coke can for a reclusive tribe on an island is arrested in India

  07-04-2025 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By RAJESH ROY
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.
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• The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution

  07-04-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN HAIGH and MARC LEVY, Associated Press
  States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out from under the budgetary squeeze that took them by surprise.
  One solution some policymakers may try is restricting the number of people on Medicaid who can use the pricey diabetes drugs for weight-loss purposes.
  Pennsylvania’s Medicaid coverage of the drugs is expected to cost $1.3 billion in 2025 &
  
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• Storms tore up two of America’s most iconic trails. Federal cuts have disrupted repairs

  07-04-2025 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIE WATSON
  CAMPO, Calif. (AP) — Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail is a challenge, especially for adventurers making the entire run from Southern California to Canada, and Eric Kipperman’s job is to greet them at the start and lay bare the difficulties ahead.
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• Republic Airways to take over troubled Mesa in stock deal

  07-04-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Richard Clough and Mary Schlangenstein
  (Bloomberg) — Regional airlines Republic Airways Holdings Inc. and Mesa Air Group Inc. agreed to combine in an all-stock deal that will bolster their operations in the face of sudden demand challenges across the air travel industry.
  Closely held Republic will own 88% of the merged company following the close, which is expected in the late third or early fourth quarter, according to a statement Monday. Mesa shareholders will own 6% to 12% depending on
  
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• Will Trump’s tariff gamble pay off?

  07-04-2025 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of widespread tariffs makes one thing abundantly clear: Trump is gambling that he can completely restructure a global economy that he believes is taking advantage of American workers.
  This much was evident during his Rose Garden speech on Wednesday. 
  In announcing tariffs between 10% and 50% on virtually every country in the world, Trump framed it as reciprocating against countries “ripping off America” and that i
  
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• Should we cancel Peeps? Easter’s most controversial treat

  07-04-2025 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jessica Haggard, Food Drink Life
  Few Easter candies divide people quite like Peeps – 25% of Americans polled by Finance Buzz claim there’s no treat they love more. But 16% say they’d rather eat anything but the colorful, sugar-coated marshmallowy Easter staple, then there’s the Red Dye No. 3 controversy. Whether you’re a fan or a critic, there’s no denying that Peeps have become one of the most talked-about treats of the season.
  Some love their sugary, mars
  
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• Recipe: Meatloaf has become cool; here’s how to make a swanky version

  07-04-2025 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Growing up, meatloaf was considered a practical weeknight dish, often used to clear out leftover vegetables and bread. Maybe a few carrots, an onion, some celery and mushroom caps would be liberated from the back of the crisper drawer and finely diced and quickly sauteed. Breadcrumbs were made with leftover heels of bread; an egg or two were added to bind the ground beef, sauteed vegetables and breadcrumbs.
  Decades ago, I couldn’t imagine that meatloaf would turn into a party dish or be li
  
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• No state has axed its income tax on wages in 45 years. Now 2 Southern states are on a path to do so

  07-04-2025 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press
  About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions in Mississippi and Kentucky, two states now are on a path to do so, if their economies keep growing.
  The push to zero out the income tax is perhaps the most aggressive example of a tax-cutting trend that swept across states as they rebounded from the COVID-19 pandemic with surging revenues and historic surpluses.
  But it comes during a time
  
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• Yemen’s Houthis say US strikes kill 6 as Trump’s bombing video suggests higher overall death toll

  07-04-2025 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected U.S. airstrikes over the weekend targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least six people, the group said Sunday, while a bombing video posted by U.S. President Donald Trump suggested casualties in the overall campaign may be higher than the rebels acknowledge.
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• First Black Republican woman in Congress honored in Utah after brain cancer death

  07-04-2025 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49.
  The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had undergone treatment for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma and received immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial. She died March 2
  
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• California’s Democratic politicians never hold each other accountable

  07-04-2025 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The more California Democratic politicians get caught acting unethically, the more obvious it becomes that the Democratic-run Legislature has zero interest in oversight and accountability.
  For example, Democratic Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara drew heat from reporters last month when he skipped a hearing on the insurance crisis that he has largely avoided addressing for most of the past six years, only for news to leak that he was at a conference in Bermuda instead.
  When he agreed to attend
  
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• Japanese emperor visits Iwo Jima to honor the dead in one of WWII’s fiercest battles

  07-04-2025 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAYUKO ONO and MARI YAMAGUCHI
  IWO-TO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles.
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• An Israeli strike on a media tent outside a Gaza hospital kills and wounds journalists

  07-04-2025 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck a media tent outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip early Monday, killing two people, including a local reporter, and wounding six other journalists, medics said. The Israeli military said the strike targeted a man whom it identified as a Hamas fighter posing as a journalist.
  Thirty-two other people were killed in multiple strikes around Gaza, including 19 women and children and an emergency room doctor, acco
  
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• It’s time to end California’s green regulatory grip on American consumers

  07-04-2025 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  When the average driver in St. Louis, Orlando, or Des Moines goes to buy a new car, they would be forgiven for thinking they have a wide range of choices for their next automobile.
  Whether they know it or not, the cars on local dealership lots had to pass several layers of fuel economy regulations, emissions testing, and safety rules designed and codified in Sacramento, rather than their own state capital.
  Because of a peculiar provision of the Clean Air Act of 1970, known as Section 209(b), the
  
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• Idaho mom who killed 2 of her kids goes on trial over death of her husband

  07-04-2025 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press
  PHOENIX (AP) — Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother with doomsday religious beliefs who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.
  The case has drawn public attention in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has doomsday-focused religious beliefs. She isn’t a lawyer but has chosen to represent
  
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• Tennis legend and feminist LGBTQ icon Billie Jean King to receive Walk of Fame star

  07-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Tennis pioneer Billie Jean King will add another first to her list of accomplishments Monday when she becomes the first woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the sports entertainment category.
  The category was announced in 2021 by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which administers the Walk of Fame. It honors individuals, not teams or sports affiliated groups, who have made significant contributions to the world of entertainment and demonstrated “longevity of excellence
  
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• Here’s what to know about nations considering the 1st global tax on emissions for shipping

  07-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT
  Nations are trying to reach an agreement to charge commercial vessels a fee for their emissions in what would effectively be the world’s first global carbon tax.
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• Higher gas prices and fewer options: Unintended consequences of Sen. Wiener’s climate lawsuit bill

  07-04-2025 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  California is no stranger to bold legislative proposals, but Senator Scott Wiener’s latest bill, targeting fossil fuel companies through a series of private lawsuits, raises serious concerns about its unintended consequences. While the bill may aim to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate-related damage, in reality, it will do little to mitigate climate change and a lot to harm California consumers and businesses.
  The bill has three main components: granting individuals the ri
  
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• Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted

  07-04-2025 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By VALERIE GONZALEZ, Associated Press
  LOS FRESNOS, Texas (AP) — Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
  When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents of Los Fresnos were shocked.
  Local supporters line up outsi
  
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• More homes for sale and easing rates favor homebuyers this spring, but affordability hurdles remain

  07-04-2025 18:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — This spring homebuying season is shaping up to be more favorable for home shoppers than it’s been in recent years — as long as they can afford to buy.
  Home prices are rising more slowly. Mortgage rates remain elevated, but have been mostly easing and could be headed lower if the U.S. economic outlook continues to darken over the Trump administration’s widespread tariffs, which have rattled financial markets and stoked fea
  
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• Disneyland’s 70th will market memories, CSUF chronicler says

  07-04-2025 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  This summer marks Disneyland’s 70th anniversary, and “the Happiest Place on Earth” is gearing up for a yearlong tribute to dreams, imagination and magic. Beginning May 16, and continuing through summer 2026, the Disneyland Resort 70th Celebration will commemorate seven decades of Walt Disney’s vision brought to life.
  It was July 17, 1955, when Disney first welcomed guests through the gates of Disneyland and onto Main Street U.S.A. While the genius behind the Magic Kingdom
  
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