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• Horse dies from training injury at Los Alamitos

  17-04-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A 3-year-old filly who won her only two races has died from a training injury at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, state horse racing officials reported.
  Non Compliant “sustained an injury while galloping early this morning,” California Horse Racing Board spokesman Mike Marten told City News Service on Thursday.
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• Pretend City hosts its own music festival: Kidstock

  17-04-2025 23:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Two-year-old Levy Armiger plays the drums with his mom Romy at the Kidstock Music & Arts Festival at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine, CA on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Ameya Desai works the piano at the Kidstock Music & Arts Festival at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine, CA on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Ashton Titus with Backhaus Dance leads a creative mo
  
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• Passengers on Southwest flight evacuated after engine fire forces plane’s return

  17-04-2025 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight had to be evacuated on Thursday after an engine fire forced it to return to a Houston airport.
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• Can the IRS revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status?

  17-04-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA and THALIA BEATY
  For more than a century, the majority of colleges and universities have not paid most taxes. The Revenue Act of 1909 excused nonprofits operating “exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes” in order to continue acting in the public interest.
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, April 18, 2025

  17-04-2025 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, April 18, 2025.
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• Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids’ use of social media as unconstitutional

  17-04-2025 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIE CARR SMYTH
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge permanently struck down an Ohio law on Thursday that would have required children and teens under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.
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• JSerra hires Rachael Ziemann as girls basketball coach

  17-04-2025 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowJSerra has hired former Crean Lutheran co-coach Rachael Ziemann as its girls basketball coach, the Trinity League school announced and Ziemann confirmed.
  Ziemann and her twin sister Bianca guided Crean Lutheran for a five-year stretch that ended after the 2023-24 season.
  “I am honored and blessed to be named the head coach of JSerra Catholic High School girls basketball,” Rachael Ziemann
  
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• Horse racing column: How Umberto Rispoli is preparing for the Kentucky Derby

  17-04-2025 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Sports fans sympathize with an athlete who must wait an extra minute or two for his moment of truth: The field-goal kicker “iced” by a timeout. The no-hit pitcher feeling his limbs tighten and nerves tense in the dugout during a long top of the ninth inning. The golfer stewing over a crucial tee shot late in a major tournament while the group ahead dawdles in the fairway.
  So let’s spare an extra thought for an athlete who must wait weeks for a career-defining moment:
  
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• Angel City FC hires Alexander Straus as new coach

  17-04-2025 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club is off to an unbeaten start through four games of the NWSL season.
  Interim coach Sam Laity has led the team since preseason and, come June 1, will take on a new role as senior assistant coach, with the club announcing Friday that Alexander Straus, currently at FC Bayern Munich, will take over as the new Angel City coach.
  “This is a significant and important step for us in 2025,” Angel City’s sporting director Mark Parsons said. “After a very thoro
  
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• Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says

  17-04-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a scathing order.
  A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge’s decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to dete
  
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• Appeals court calls Trump administration’s defiance over mistakenly deported man ‘shocking’

  17-04-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a scathing ruling in favor of the Maryland man.
  A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge’s decision to order sworn testimony by Trump adminis
  
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• Horse racing notes: Richi can make Santa Anita race a springboard

  17-04-2025 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Final standings for Classic Meet)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Juan Hernandez / 53
  Flavien Prat / 42
  Umberto Rispoli / 38
  Hector Berrios / 37
  Antonio Fresu / 29
  Trainers / Wins
  Mark Glatt / 31
  Bob Baffert / 26
  Michael McCarthy / 24
  Jeff Mullins / 23
  Doug O’Neill / 20
  UPCOMING STAKES
  SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $200,000, Grade II Santa Maria Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 1/16 miles
  Sunday
  • $100,000, Grade III American Stakes, 4 and up, 1 mile on turf
  DOW
  
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• This Dodgers reliever has become a ‘pleasant surprise’

  17-04-2025 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Just because Jack Dreyer does not howl at the joke, sob during the movie or buckle in the high-pressure situation, does not mean the moment has gone unnoticed.
  Cool and collected, the 26-year-old is just now emerging as a key piece of the Dodgers’ bullpen, bursting onto the scene as a rookie this season with poise and maturity as if he has been here before. In a sense he has, as the son of former major-league pitcher Steve Dreyer, who made 15 appearances (nine starts) f
  
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• Former OneRepublic bassist to take on GOP Rep. Ken Calvert in tight Riverside district

  17-04-2025 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
  In the fight for the U.S. House, Democrats are hoping pop rock star power will help oust a long-serving Republican in Riverside County as the party looks to regain control of the chamber and slow President Donald Trump’s agenda.
  Tim Myers, a Grammy-nominated former bassist for international hitmakers OneRepublic, announced Thursday he will challenge Rep. Ken Calvert in the battleground 41st District in Riverside County that stretches from Norco and Corona east to the re
  
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• Former OneRepublic bassist to take on GOP Rep. Ken Calvert in tight Riverside County district

  17-04-2025 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
  In the fight for the U.S. House, Democrats are hoping pop rock star power will help oust a long-serving Republican in Riverside County as the party looks to regain control of the chamber and slow President Donald Trump’s agenda.
  Tim Myers, a Grammy-nominated former bassist for international hitmakers OneRepublic, announced Thursday, April 17, he will challenge Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, in the battleground 41st District in Riverside County that stretches from Corona an
  
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• Rural hospitals and patients are disconnected from modern care

  17-04-2025 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News, Holly K. Hacker, Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV, KFF Health News
  EUTAW, Ala. — Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County’s two working ambulances.
  Nurses checked his heart activity with a portable electrocardiogram machine, took X-rays, and tucked him into Room 122 with an IV pump pushing magnesium into his arm.
  “I feel better,
  
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• How ‘buy online, pick up in store’ supercharges credit card rewards

  17-04-2025 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Online-first shopping strategies, many of them popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to gain traction among shoppers. One such notable practice is “buy online, pick up in store” (BOPIS). This shopping method — also sometimes referred to in the retail industry as “click and collect” — is exactly what it sounds like: Consumers make purchases online and then pick up their items later at a physical brick-and-mortar store.
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• Lilly shares soar on new weight-loss pill that looks to pass Ozempic

  17-04-2025 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Madison Muller | Bloomberg
  Eli Lilly & Co. shares surged after its experimental pill helped patients shed weight and control blood sugar about as well as Ozempic, an advance that could turbocharge what’s already one of the fastest growing markets in medicine.
  The triumph of Ozempic, the blockbuster diabetes shot from Novo Nordisk A/S, and related drugs including Zepbound and Mounjaro from Lilly, has set off an all-out push to develop a pill that’s easier to take and less expen
  
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• Wedge surfers chased out of water by sea lion, the latest in a string of aggressive behavior at beaches

  17-04-2025 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The situation at first seemed comical – a cute little sea lion ruling the line up at the wild Wedge in Newport Beach, where wave riders showed up earlier this week to take on beefy waves from the first south swell of the season.
  At times, the sea lion would join in on the fun, bodysurfing a few waves and playing in the surf like the others in the water. It’s not an unusual scene, the marine mammals are known for their playfulness while hanging out near surfers.
  But there was somethin
  
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• Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments

  17-04-2025 20:16 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday kept on hold President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but agreed to hear arguments on the issue in May.
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• Light rain begins moving into Southern California

  17-04-2025 20:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Light rain and windy conditions are rolling through parts of Southern California Thursday, but the weather system is expected to move out by Saturday.
  There will be periods of strong and gusty winds in the mountain communities and Coachella Valley. Winds from 45 to 55 mph are expected in the mountains, and up to 70 mph in the northern Coachella Valley and San Gorgonio Pass Thursday and Friday.
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• A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel talks band’s 25th anniversary and more ahead Palm Desert show

  17-04-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Most concerts have an opening act or two before the headliner takes the stage, but the Sessanta tour is an anomaly.
  Primus, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle will join forces to continue iconic Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s Sessanta celebration. All three acts perform on the same stage simultaneously, with each group performing its distinctive sets, while the musicians continually rotate throughout the night.
  The Sessanta tour continues Keenan’s 60th birthday celebration, where h
  
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• Nate Bargatze will host the 2025 Emmy Awards

  17-04-2025 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze will host the 77th Emmy Awards, CBS announced Wednesday.
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• Slave descendants fight to protect their threatened island community at Georgia’s highest court

  17-04-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By RUSS BYNUM
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court waded Wednesday into a fight between Black landowners and local officials who have weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves.
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• As demand for AI rises, so do power thirsty data centers

  17-04-2025 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By Paige Gross, Stateline.org
  The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, traveling hundreds, possibly thousands of miles, before it makes its way back to you in just a second or two.
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• What does stagflation mean for the housing industry?

  17-04-2025 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  What exactly is stagflation and how does it affect housing and mortgage rates?
  Stagflation is a combination of high inflation (inflation is a general increase in prices creating reduced purchasing power), rising unemployment and slow economic growth, no economic growth or negative economic growth.
  As an aside, stagflation is different from a recession. The definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative Gross Domestic Product.
  How can we find ourselves in stagflation?
  In a word
  
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• Disneyland’s Club 33 dress code prohibits Mickey hats and Minnie ears

  17-04-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Club 33 will turn you away at the door for dress code violations if you show up for your dinner reservation dressed like you’re going to Disneyland in an Avengers t-shirt, Darth Vader hoodie or Mickey Mouse ears.
  Disneyland’s secret and exclusive club won’t let you wear t-shirts, shorts, hooded sweatshirts, Mickey hats or Minnie ears if you want to eat in the main dining room above New Orleans Square.
  The Disneyland website was updated recently with Club 33 dress code informati
  
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• Suspect in custody in Florida State shooting, source tells AP

  17-04-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE PAYNE and DAVID FISCHER
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A suspect has been taken into police custody and multiple victims were reported in a shooting Thursday at Florida State University, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
  The extent of the victims’ injuries was not immediately known and there were no additional details about the person who was in custody.
  The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to Th
  
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• Long Beach Taco Week makes its debut in the city this month

  17-04-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Long Beach is going to be a taco lover’s paradise this month thanks to the debut of the city’s first Taco Week.
  The citywide Long Beach Taco Week takes place from April 20-27 when dozens of restaurants, taquerias, food trucks, pop-ups and other taco makers offer deals and even create special taco dishes to mark the eight-day event.
  “Everybody loves tacos and we have a lot of restaurants here in Long Beach that make great tacos,” said Leysla Rubino, co-organizer of the eve
  
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• Active shooter reported on Florida State campus in Tallahassee

  17-04-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE PAYNE and DAVID FISCHER
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An active shooter was reported Thursday on the Florida State University campus in Tallahassee, according to the school’s alert system.
  A nearby hospital says it is treating people affected by the shooting. Sarah Cannon, a spokesperson with Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, said the hospital cannot yet confirm the number of people in care, and said the details are still unfolding.
  Police were on scene at the university or on the
  
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• Rams to conduct NFL draft from LA Fire Department Air Operations

  17-04-2025 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rams announced Thursday that their headquarters for the 2025 NFL draft will be hosted by the Los Angeles Fire Department Air Operations.
  A room within the Van Nuys fire station will serve as general manager Les Snead’s base of operations during the three-day draft next week, while an adjacent hangar will host team personnel and media during the event.
  Rams personnel were among the many Los Angeles residents affected by the January wildfires. Players and coaches evacuated their homes du
  
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• Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills

  17-04-2025 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alex Brown, Stateline.org
  For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity.
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• Anaheim Hills brief: Ebell Club spreads its philanthropy around the area

  17-04-2025 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Members of the Ebell Club of Canyon Hills recently presented checks to the representatives of this year’s philanthropic recipients during the group’s April general meeting.
  First Vice President and Philanthropy Co-Chair Joy Lais called on the members who nominated each of the recipients to assist with the presentation.
  Heather Terjung introduced Shannon King-Ginter, representing Meals on Wheels, who shared an overview of some of the services the Meals on Wheels organization provides
  
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• Irvine’s Monaco Italian Kitchen reveals menu, grand opening date

  17-04-2025 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  More than one year after its announcement, Monaco Italian Kitchen, from chef-restaurateur Tony Monaco, has revealed its opening date. While the Irvine restaurant had its soft opening (i.e., the window of time in which restaurants get their sea legs) on Tuesday, April 15, its grand opening will take place on Friday, April 25.
  Founder of such spaces as the Blind Pig and Blind Coyote Cantina, Monaco, an Italian-American, wanted to do an Italian spot honing in on pastas and Neapolitan pizzas. &ldquo
  
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• Federal judge will hear arguments as groups try to block Trump’s executive order on elections

  17-04-2025 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON
  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday will hear arguments in three cases from national Democrats and voting rights groups that are challenging President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on elections, which, among other changes, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
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• Ukraine’s future is at the center of talks in Paris with Rubio, Witkoff and top European officials

  17-04-2025 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS and ANGELA CHARLTON, The Associated Press
  PARIS (AP) — France hosted high-level talks Thursday about Ukraine and its security, marking the first time top American, Ukrainian and European officials are known to have met together to discuss an end to the war since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January.
  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff joined other top Ukrainian and European officials for hours of separate meetings at th
  
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• Trump says he’s in ‘no rush’ to end tariffs as he holds talks with Italy’s Meloni

  17-04-2025 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLEEN BARRY and JOSH BOAK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is in “no rush” to reach any trade deals because of the revenues his tariffs are generating, but suggested while meeting with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni that it would be easy to find an agreement with the European Union and others.
  His administration has indicated that offers are coming from other countries and it is possible to do 90 deals during the 90-day tariff pause,
  
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• How war, money and the quest for discovery entwined the US government and universities

  17-04-2025 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures. But in the battle of the moment, it’s easy to lose sight of a decades-long alliance between the U.S. government and the nation’s most prominent universities, forged to fight a world war.
  For more than 80 years, that interdependence has been prized by academic leaders and politicians of both parties
  
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• Russia strikes Dnipro as Ukrainian officials seek security pledges in Paris

  17-04-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing three people including a child and wounding dozens, officials said Thursday.
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• 2-day Menendez brothers re-sentencing hearing slated to begin

  17-04-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  A re-sentencing hearing is set to begin Thursday morning in Van Nuys for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shotgun killings of their parents at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion more than three decades ago.
  The hearing — which is expected to continue Friday — comes just under a week after Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic denied a request by the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office to wi
  
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• Colorful tees highlight messages to empower victims of sexual assault

  17-04-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Dozens of colored T-shirts with hand-written messages hung from clotheslines, fluttering lightly in the breeze.
  Orange. Magenta. Sky blue. Red.
  From a distance, they seemed to cheer the Cal State Fullerton campus on Wednesday, April 16. But up close, the messages were halting, not whimsical.
  “A child can’t consent.” “You raped me, but it does not define me.”  “You broke me, but I repaired myself.” “I forgive you.”
  Lissandra Tong, 20
  
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• Daxon: Two neighboring housing projects heading toward approval in Brea

  17-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Brea City Council’s April 1 meeting included a public hearing for two large housing projects.
  It didn’t end until nearly midnight. Both projects were approved 4-0.
  Councilmember Steven Vargas had to recuse himself from the public hearing and the vote for both projects because his home is 653-feet from the proposed location. According to the rules, if one’s residence is within 500 to 1,000 feet of a proposed project they must sit out the discussion.
  There’s been a lot
  
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• A recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment

  17-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICOLE WINFIELD
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis visited Rome’s central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate, even as he continues recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.
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• Google’s digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box

  17-04-2025 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion.
  The ruling issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia comes on the heels of a separate decision in August that concluded Google’s na
  
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• Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage climbs to 6.83%, highest level since late February

  17-04-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
  The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. climbed to its highest level in eight weeks, a setback for home shoppers in the midst of the spring homebuying season.
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• Swanson: Nico Iamaleava to UCLA – cautionary tale or fairy tale?

  17-04-2025 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  So it looks like UCLA got its Iamaleava, after all. And with him, college football’s attention.
  Quarterback Nico Iamaleava, a rising redshirt sophomore, is expected to transfer to UCLA after leaving Tennessee over a contract dispute, per multiple reports Wednesday.
  He’ll slot in where his younger brother, Madden, was supposed to before abruptly changing his commitment last year to sign with Arkansas.
  Fast forward and it’s Nico Iamaleava changing course, charting a path to Westw
  
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• Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs

  17-04-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials are circulating a draft budget proposal that would make dramatic additional cuts to federal health programs and serve as a roadmap for more mass firings.
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• Taco Bell will bring back Crispy Chicken Nuggets on April 24

  17-04-2025 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Taco Bell is bringing back Crispy Chicken Nuggets, one of last year’s most popular limited-time items.
  The snack will be back for another brief run on Thursday, April 24, but the Irvine-based chain plans to make them a permanent menu item by 2026
  They made their debut in December and sold out nationwide in less than a week, according to a news release from the Irvine-based fast food giant.
  Taco Bell is also bringing back three dipping sauces: Hidden Valley Fire Ranch, Jalapeño Honey
  
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• Jon Coupal: Proposition 13 protects home equity

  17-04-2025 17:43 via ocregister.com
  
  A recent article in the Wall Street Journal should dispel all doubts as to why Prop. 13 is so important to California homeowners. The article, entitled, “Americans have amassed $35 trillion of wealth in their homes, yet many feel less well off because of it,” presents a sobering view of what is happening in most other states.
  The extensive piece, written by Veronica Dagher and Anne Tergesen, addresses how home ownership can be a two-edged sword. First, the good news. Home equity, nat
  
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• Why Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven’t heard of

  17-04-2025 17:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By BYRON TAU, JOSHUA GOODMAN, GARANCE BURKE and BRIAN SLODYSKO
  WASHINGTON (AP) — On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently discovered something strange: a rectangular device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof, over the ledge and into the administrator’s window one floor below.
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