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• Coachella 2025: Everything we saw Day 1, Weekend 2 at the music festival

  18-04-2025 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Gates are open and the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has officially kicked off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio Friday, April 18.
  Campers sunbathe in the campground area of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Friday, April 18, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
  Campers prepare for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio on Friday, April 18, 2025.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer)
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• NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid

  18-04-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.
  It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks. The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were forming; asteroids are the ancient leftov
  
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• Lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students

  18-04-2025 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALIA WONG, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have been stripped of their visas in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation.
  The suit filed by several American Civil Liberties Union affiliates seeks to represent more than 100 students in New England and Puerto Rico.
  “International students are a vital community in ou
  
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• Anaheim Recycling Center up and sorting, even using AI to help

  18-04-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A 2022 fire fueled an overhaul to Republic Services’ Anaheim Recycling Center, which has reopened bigger and better, officials say.
  With a damaged facility closed by fire, the waste and recycling company took the opportunity to rebuild with twice as much capacity. The latest in efficient technology for processing recyclable materials was installed, said General Manager James Castro.
  Benito Perez of Republic Services, center, leads a tour of a sorter during a grand reopening of Republic Ser
  
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• Lakers promote Rob Pelinka, extend contract

  18-04-2025 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The Lakers announced on Friday they had promoted Rob Pelinka to the organization’s president of basketball operations and extended his contract.
  Pelinka joined the Lakers in March 2017 as the general manager, with franchise icon Magic Johnson being hired as president of basketball operations the previous month, a position Johnson stepped down from in April 2019.
  Pelinka continued to serve as general manager after Johnson’s departure before adding the title of vice
  
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• ACLU claims administration is restarting deportations under 18th century wartime law

  18-04-2025 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press
  The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday asked two federal judges to order the Trump administration not to deport any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law, contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s restrictions on how it can use the act.
  The group has already sued to block deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 of two Venezuelans held
  
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• LAFC coach Steve Cherundolo leaving at the end of the season

  18-04-2025 23:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Football Club head coach Steve Cherundolo intends to step down at the end of the season.
  On Friday, as LAFC (4-4-0, 12 points) prepared to visit the Portland Timbers (4-2-2, 14 points) for an MLS regular-season match, Cherundolo informed the coaching staff and players of his decision to return to Germany with his wife and two girls.
  A native of San Diego, Cherundolo became a Bundesliga legend playing for Hannover 96 during the entirety of his career – 415 total matches over 15
  
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• Laguna Woods man arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure

  18-04-2025 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  A Laguna Woods man has been arrested in connection with indecent exposure reports made by Village residents, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
  Investigators were notified in April of multiple incidents of indecent exposure in Laguna Woods, according to an OCSD news release. Residents reported the incidents to Village security personnel, and three victims filed formal reports with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the news release said.
  Robert Mario Perri, 66,
  
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• Are skittish consumers hurting Southern California’s job market?

  18-04-2025 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California shed workers in March as consumer-centric employers trimmed staffing.
  Bosses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties had 7.95 million workers in March – a decrease of 4,500 in a month and 12,600 over 12 months, says new data from the Employment Development Department. The job figures released on Friday, April 18 are not adjusted for seasonal swings.
  A troubling sign was that two big employment niches tied to shopping were cutting workers in March.
  
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• Trump to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers

  18-04-2025 22:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is preparing to make one of the controversial personnel changes laid out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term.
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• Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory

  18-04-2025 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.
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• IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job

  18-04-2025 21:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just days after being promoted to acting IRS commissioner, the whistleblower who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes is out again, according to three people familiar with the decision.
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• Coachella 2025: Big rig overturned on the 10 freeway causes traffic delay

  18-04-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Looks like Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival attendees are in for more traffic delays.
  Some lanes of the westbound 10 are expected to be closed through the early afternoon on Friday after a big rig overturned and caught fire near Washington Street, just west of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, where festivalgoers are flocking for the second weekend of the three-day music festival. According to Caltrans, westbound traffic is reduced to 1 lane from 1.4 mi west to 2.4 mi west of Indio at Varne
  
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• New Pornographers drummer suspected of filming child in Palm Desert restroom, possessing child porn

  18-04-2025 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The drummer for the indie rock band the New Pornographers stands accused of recording a minor in a public restroom in Palm Desert and possessing child pornography and was being held Friday in lieu of $1 million bail.
  Joseph Seiders, 44, of Palm Desert was arrested April 9 and booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio on suspicion of invasion of privacy, attempted invasion of privacy, annoying/molesting a child and possession of child pornography, according to the Riverside County She
  
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• Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

  18-04-2025 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE R. SMITH
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met him and praised him as an “extraordinary” healer.
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• Swanson: For Luka, LeBron and the Lakers, no time like the present

  18-04-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Here’s what they’re not going to do.
  The JJ Redick-coached Lakers are not going to treat the 2025 playoffs like just a first take.
  The LeBron James-led Lakers are not going to put off till next year what they can accomplish this year.
  The Luka Doncic-led Lakers are not going to let a suddenly long, bright runway soften the blunt-force appeal of the moment.
  The third-seeded Lakers are not going to step on the court for Game 1 of their first-round Western Conference
  
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• Maryland senator is returning to US after pushing for Abrego Garcia’s release and meeting with him

  18-04-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen was flying home from El Salvador on Friday after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported there by the Trump administration. It’s unclear what will happen next in the case.
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• Appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency request to stay lower court order in Venezuelans lawsuit

  18-04-2025 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By JANIE HAR
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday left in place a lower court’s order blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.
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• Galaxy’s Marco Reus nearing return from knee injury

  18-04-2025 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Marco Reus’ 2025 season has been slowed due to injury, but he has recently made significant strides toward returning to action.
  Reus, who has been sidelined since March 9, has played in just four games this season, three in MLS.
  “It was a long time ago since I was able to train,” the German midfielder said Wednesday. “It was a hard time the last four, five weeks, but I guess I made. I’ve trained the last two, three days. I feel good.”
  “It (the knee) has
  
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• Judges warn Congress that more money is needed for security at a time of escalating threats

  18-04-2025 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judiciary is warning that Congress is not providing enough money for judges’ security, at a time of escalating threats and chilling efforts at intimidation.
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• Airlines are adding new routes. Here’s how you can save

  18-04-2025 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By Benjamin Din, NerdWallet
  Airlines are gearing up for their busy summer schedules, flying to new destinations and increasing frequencies to popular cities. They’re even starting to announce new fall routes.
  For airfare deal hunters, that means new opportunities to travel somewhere for cheap. New flights are worth tracking, especially when airlines offer attractive deals to market their route announcements.
  “This is really an opportunity where the airlines can make a grand entrance
  
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• Thousands of pilgrims trek through New Mexico desert to historic adobe church for Good Friday

  18-04-2025 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By MORGAN LEE
  CHIMAYÓ, N.M. (AP) — A unique Holy Week tradition is drawing thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands to reach a spiritual wellspring.
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• Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims

  18-04-2025 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press
  Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or LSD to try to reduce anxiety, stress and depression. Some claim the practice gives them access to joy, creativity and connection they can’t get otherwise.
  This isn’t a full-blown acid trip — or even close. If you see visions, it’s not a microdose. People who microdose don’t do it ever
  
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• The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more

  18-04-2025 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, AP Business Writer
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices.
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• Haley Joel Osment charged with cocaine possession and being drunk in public

  18-04-2025 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. (AP) — Oscar-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment has been charged with public intoxication and cocaine possession after his arrest earlier this month at a Northern California ski resort.
  The Mono County District Attorney’s office announced the misdemeanor charges Thursday against the 37-year-old actor, who starred as a child in movies “The Sixth Sense” and “A.I.”
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• Harvey Weinstein can stay in hospital during #MeToo retrial, judge rules

  18-04-2025 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s request to stay there rather than in jail when he’s not in court for his #MeToo retrial.
  Judge Paul Goetz late Thursday ordered that Weinstein be immediately relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex to the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan so he can receive necessary medical t
  
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• Manhunt underway for South LA escapee who allegedly killed ‘Gringo Hunter’ cop in Mexican shootout

  18-04-2025 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  An international manhunt is underway for an escaped killer from South Los Angeles who has been on the run since he escaped from correctional officers in December and then allegedly gunned down a Tijuana police commander last week.
  Authorities said Cesar Moises Hernandez, 35, was barricaded inside a home in Tijuana’s Barcelona neighborhood when he allegedly fatally shot Cmdr. Abigail Esparza Reyes as officers closed in on him just after 1 p.m. on April 9.
  Convicted killer Cesar Moises Herna
  
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• Manhunt underway for escaped killer from LA who allegedly gunned down ‘Gringo Hunter’ in Mexico

  18-04-2025 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  An international manhunt is underway for an escaped killer from South Los Angeles who has been on the run since he escaped from correctional officers in December and then allegedly gunned down a Tijuana police commander last week.
  Authorities said Cesar Moises Hernandez, 35, was barricaded inside a home in Tijuana’s Barcelona neighborhood when he allegedly fatally shot Cmdr. Abigail Esparza Reyes as officers closed in on him just after 1 p.m. on April 9.
  Convicted killer Cesar Moises Herna
  
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• How Elaine Pagels explores the historical Jesus in ‘Miracles and Wonder’

  18-04-2025 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  On a Zoom call from her neat, book-lined home office in Princeton, New Jersey, Elaine Pagels explains how her latest book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” differs from her previous works of scholarly nonfiction.
  “First of all, the others were much more specific. They were either about the Gnostic Gospels or Christian antisemitism or sex and politics. This one came after I was teaching about how Christianity began for a long time, and I wanted to make it
  
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• Medi-Cal under threat: Who’s covered and what could be cut?

  18-04-2025 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Don Thompson | KFF Health News
  Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as many people as New York and more than three times as many as Texas — the two states with the largest number of Medicaid participants after California.
  Enrollment is high because California goes beyond federal eligibility requirements, opening Medi-Cal to more low-incom
  
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• Marijuana legalization hits roadblocks after years of expansion

  18-04-2025 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
  As every state surrounding Idaho legalized marijuana, state Rep. Bruce Skaug started to view it as inevitable that the Gem State would follow suit.
  Not anymore.
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• ‘Able to happen again’: Local Japanese American historians warn of Trump’s use of 1798 wartime law

  18-04-2025 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of their Japanese heritage.
  “That was three years of pure hell,” said Ochi, a third-generation Japanese American, or Sansei, who is president of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego.
  Kay Ochi, president of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego, holds severa
  
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• Inland Empire lawmaker wants to expand ‘blue envelope’ law for police stops

  18-04-2025 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Debra Brennan | CalMatters
  Almost everyone gets nervous during a traffic stop, but people with disabilities also worry about whether an officer understands their condition or could misinterpret their symptoms.
  An Inland Empire lawmaker wants to make it easier for Californians with disabilities to deal with police traffic stops, by enabling drivers to present law enforcement with special blue envelopes containing information about their vehicle and disability accommodations.
  San Diego introduc
  
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• Career diplomat becomes the face of Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda at the UN

  18-04-2025 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARNOUSH AMIRI
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The highest-ranking U.S. representative now at the United Nations told Congress two years ago that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked” and “unjustified,” urging U.N. members to condemn Moscow’s aggression and demand an end to the war.
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• Drake complains about Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Super Bowl performance in new defamation claims

  18-04-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
  Hip hop superstar Drake is now complaining about rival rapper Kendrick Lamar’s performance of “Not Like Us” at this year’s Super Bowl, adding it to his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the diss track and its allegations of pedophilia against Drake.
  “The Recording was performed during the 2025 Super Bowl and broadcast to the largest audience for a Super Bowl halftime show ever, over 133 million people, including
  
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• Can tax credits save California’s film and TV industry? Here’s what legislators have proposed

  18-04-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles has seen its dominance as the film and television capital of the world start to chip away as companies leave California for other states and countries with lower production costs.
  But it’s not just Hollywood’s pride that’s at stake.
  Those worried about the mass exodus of production companies say that when film crews and others in the industry leave, it has a negative ripple effect on the local and state economies.
  When workers relocate out of L.A., for example, they
  
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• Hoping to install solar? You may have a harder time due to Trump tariffs

  18-04-2025 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEXA ST. JOHN
  Mike Summers was eager to install solar at his home in Ohio for years, and after he finally replaced his aging roof this year, his solar contractor swung into action. His system — including 19 panels and a battery backup — went up this week, and Summers considers himself lucky.
  “I’m glad to have done it when I did,” said Summers, a former mayor in his city of Lakewood just west of Cleveland. He’ll get about $10,000 in tax credits on his $39,0
  
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• Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador

  18-04-2025 18:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 25 people on Friday including children, hospital workers said, as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem.
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• UCLA student detained at U.S.-Mexico border

  18-04-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A UCLA student is in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Friday, and protesters gathered on campus demanding the student’s release.
  The UCLA international graduate student was detained while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to reports from the university.
  Protesters gathered on campus Thursday demanding the student’s release and drawing attention to the detainment.
  In a statement released Thursday, UCLA vice chancellor for strategic communications Mary
  
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• Ducks season review: Young and improved, but not enough

  18-04-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Although they barely squeaked across the 80-point threshold this season, the Ducks were the West’s most-improved team, vaulting themselves from a disappointing 59-point campaign with a franchise-record 50 regulation losses to an 80-point effort with 13 fewer regulation defeats.
  It was the second season behind the bench for Greg Cronin and the first as captain for Radko Gudas, who filled the role for the first time since Ryan Getzlaf’s 2022 retirement. He led a group that skewed young
  
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• US lawmakers’ bipartisan Taiwan visit signals support despite harsh words and tariffs from Trump

  18-04-2025 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SIMINA MISTREANU
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers made their first trip to Taiwan under the new Trump administration a bipartisan one, aiming to show both Taiwan and China that U.S. support for Taiwan’s defense remains broad, despite the harsh words and heightened tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed for the Taiwanese.
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• A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

  18-04-2025 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By GISELA SALOMON
  MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges. The man was released after his case received widespread coverage.
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• Venice expands its day-tripper tax program in bid to combat overtourism

  18-04-2025 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press
  VENICE, Italy (AP) — Venice is charging day-trippers to the famed canal city an arrivals tax for the second year starting Friday, a measure aimed at combating the kind of overtourism that put the city’s UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status at risk.
  A UNESCO body decided against putting Venice on its list of cultural heritage sites deemed in danger after the tax was announced. But opponents of the day-tripper fee say it has done nothing to discourag
  
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• Judge pauses Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  18-04-2025 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.
  U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is “deeply concerned” that Trump administration officials aren’t complying with her earlier order that maintains the bureau’s exis
  
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• Iran-US talks over Tehran’s nuclear program hinge on a billionaire and a seasoned diplomat

  18-04-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR VAHDAT
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As far as biographies go, the two men in charge of the delicate negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program couldn’t be more different.
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• Motorcyclist shot and killed during Newport Beach traffic stop

  18-04-2025 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A motorcyclist was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in Newport Beach on Thursday night, April 17, police said.
  At around 9:15 p.m., officers pulled over a motorcycle near Pacific Coast Highway, between Superior Avenue and Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach police said.
  Police said the man became uncooperative during the stop, and an officer-involved shooting occurred. What prompted the shooting was not disclosed.
  He was taken to the hospital, where he was declared dead.
  Guillermo Tagalogon
  
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• Idaho police release body camera video of nonverbal and autistic teen’s fatal shooting

  18-04-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By GENE JOHNSON
  Police in Idaho released body-worn and security camera recordings Thursday showing officers fatally shooting a knife-wielding, intellectually disabled teenage boy from the other side of a chain link fence, confirming that they made no effort to de-escalate the situation before opening fire.
  Victor Perez was autistic and nonverbal and had cerebral palsy, though there is no indication the responding officers were aware of that. The 17-year old was removed from life support and died
  
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• Disneyland closes 10 attractions before 70th anniversary celebration

  18-04-2025 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland will close 10 attractions for seasonal refurbishments as the Anaheim theme park resort prepares for the kickoff of the 70th anniversary celebration in May.
  Matterhorn Bobsleds, Soarin’ Around the World, Enchanted Tiki Room, Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Mad Tea Party, King Arthur Carrousel, Chip ‘n Dale’s Gadget Coaster, Sorcerer’s Workshop, Anna & Elsa’s Royal Welcome and “Fantasmic” will temporarily close in April or May as part of the stan
  
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• The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have

  18-04-2025 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For Democrats, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is about fundamental American ideals — due process, following court orders, preventing government overreach. For the Trump administration and Republicans, it’s about foreigners and gang threats and danger in American towns and cities.
  And that argument is precisely the one that Donald Trump wants to have.
  This dichotomy is playing out as Democrats double down on their defens
  
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• Lakers vs. Timberwolves: First-round scouting report, prediction

  18-04-2025 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  SERIES SCHEDULE
  (Best-of-seven, all times PT)
  Game 1: Saturday, at L.A., 5:30 p.m. (ABC/Ch. 7)
  Game 2: Tuesday, at L.A., 7 p.m. (TNT/SSN)
  Game 3: Fri., April 25, at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN/SSN)
  Game 4: Sun., April 27 at Minnesota, 12:30 p.m. (ABC/Ch. 7)
  *Game 5: Wed., April 30, at L.A., time TBD (TV TBD)
  *Game 6: Fri., May 2 at Minnesota, time TBD (TV TBD)
  *Game 7: Sun., May 4 at L.A., time TBD (TV TBD)
  * – If necessary
  HEAD-TO-HEAD
  Tied regular-season series, 2-2
  Oct. 22: Lakers 110, T
  
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