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• OC Department of Education invites public to review new ethnic studies course

  23-04-2025 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Department of Education has invited the public to review the ethnic studies curriculum developed for its ACCESS program, which it is offering to share with other school districts.
  In 2021, a new state mandate required ethnic studies to be offered in all California high schools by 2025 and made it a graduation requirement by 2030. The state provided a framework for the courses, leaving school districts responsible for creating the curriculum.
  Last September, the O.C. Board of Ed
  
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• Here’s what we know about Pope Francis’ funeral

  23-04-2025 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Pope Francis died on Monday at age 88, capping a 12-year pontificate characterized by his concern for the poor and message of inclusion, but also some criticism from conservatives who sometimes felt alienated by his progressive bent.
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• Dog seen in viral video getting thrown in Long Beach is rescued, man arrested, police say

  23-04-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abusing a dog in Long Beach earlier this week — an attack that was captured on video and went viral after it was shared on social media, authorities said.
  Long Beach police on Tuesday night, April 22, arrested the suspect in the 800 block of Pine Avenue. The tan dog with floppy ears was rescued and taken to Long Beach Animal Care Services.
  Police said they plan to share updates on the dog’s condition “when appropriate, as the inves
  
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• Clippers want Norman Powell to stay aggressive for Game 3 versus Nuggets

  23-04-2025 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — Clippers guard Norman Powell isn’t worried about his shooting. He isn’t concerned that he has yet to find a steady rhythm in the first two games of the team’s first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets.
  Powell is shooting 10 for 26 from the field through eight quarters of play, his most productive stint coming in the fourth quarter Monday when he went 3 for 4 late in the Clippers’ 105-102 victory that evened the best-of-seven series at one gam
  
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• A dozen states sue the Trump administration to stop tariff policy

  23-04-2025 23:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy.
  The lawsuit said the policy put in place by President Donald Trump has left the national trade policy subject to Trump’s “whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority.”
  It challenged Trump’s claim
  
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• Public workers to get more pension benefits under new bill

  23-04-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  There was nary a peep of dissent when a bill that would let cities offer more pension benefits to public workers sailed through a committee hearing Wednesday.
  “Local governments need to be able to offer benefits workers value,” said Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco. “It’s an option, not an obligation.”
  We hate to spoil the party, but we’ve seen how responsibly local officials have exercised such “options” before: In their big-heart
  
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• Bill allowing local governments to negotiate supplemental retirement benefits garners no opposition

  23-04-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  There was nary a peep of dissent when a bill that would let cities offer more pension benefits to public workers sailed through a committee hearing Wednesday.
  “Local governments need to be able to offer benefits workers value,” said Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco. “It’s an option, not an obligation.”
  We hate to spoil the party, but we’ve seen how responsibly local officials have exercised such “options” before: In their big-heart
  
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• Trump is putting his ‘touches’ on the White House with flagpoles, art and an Oval Office overhaul

  23-04-2025 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is putting his “touches” on the White House with new flagpoles, new artwork, a complete redecoration of the Oval Office and possibly covering up the lawn in the Rose Garden.
  Trump, a former real estate developer and hotelier, said Wednesday that he’s adding two “beautiful” flagpoles to the grounds to fly the American flag “in about a week or so.”
  The Republican president recently hung n
  
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• Reading instruction must follow science over subjectiveness

  23-04-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  There is a vocal minority of English learner advocates in California who have chosen to argue — without credible evidence — that structured literacy is ineffective for multilingual learners. They sometimes cite “philosophical differences” as their reasoning behind this claim. I have been an educator for 37 years, and I choose to use data-informed decision-making for my students’ instruction rather than subjective beliefs.
  Every child I have taught to learn to read &
  
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• Horse racing column: Professor Gordon Jones taught the rewards of racing

  23-04-2025 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Nobody who knew Gordon Jones was surprised he made it big. But many were amazed at how he made it big.
  I think of the words of admiration I heard once from Allan Malamud, who’d been a student of Gordon’s at USC and then a colleague of his on a legendary sports staff at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
  “He’s really smart. He’s a tremendous speaker. He’s got a great personality. He’s good-looking,” Allan said of his old friend. “He co
  
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• Wildfire in New Jersey Pine Barrens expected to grow before it’s contained, officials say

  23-04-2025 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI
  CHATSWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens has not resulted in any injuries, officials said, though it’s expected to grow before forecast rain later this week.
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• Mason Graham and Tetairoa McMillan found ‘another level’ at Servite on climb to NFL Draft

  23-04-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowIn the fall of 2021, high school football in Southern California emerged from the pandemic and returned to its customary spot under the stadium lights on Friday nights. But not everything was the same at Servite.
  The Friars had their best team in about a decade, and advanced to play at St. John Bosco in the CIF-SS Division 1 semifinals. The result sent shockwaves through the region.
  Servite won 40-21 to j
  
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• Instagram co-founder claims app could have thrived without Meta

  23-04-2025 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  (Bloomberg / Kurt Wagner) — Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that his fledgling photo-sharing app could have succeeded without being acquired by Meta Platforms Inc., and that eventually Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg treated Instagram’s growth as a “threat” and starved it of resources.
  The claims could bolster the US government’s monopoly case against the social networking giant as it argues to unwind the 2012 acquisition.
  In testimony Tuesday d
  
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• Uvalde leaders approve $2M for Robb Elementary families in first settlement over 2022 attack

  23-04-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — City leaders in Uvalde, Texas, approved a $2 million settlement for families of the victims of the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, marking the first time one of the myriad lawsuits has led to financial compensation.
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• NFL draft: Rams could provide glimpse into Sean McVay’s offensive vision

  23-04-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  As head coach Sean McVay was previewing his plans for the Rams’ offense in 2025 to quarterback Matthew Stafford, he talked about his desire to have a more versatile attack in this coming season. One that could sustain injuries and continue to hum.
  But the deep dive into exactly what McVay has envisioned would have to wait.
  “You have to see what that’s going to look like based on what happens this weekend,” Stafford said Monday.
  This weekend will be the NFL draft, starting
  
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• NFL draft: Chargers’ scouting department ready for its Super Bowl

  23-04-2025 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  As they spoke during a news conference last week, Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz and assistant GM Chad Alexander smiled and smiled and smiled some more. The NFL draft was a week away and, clearly, they couldn’t wait, counting the hours and days until they could make their picks.
  How the draft might unfold Thursday, Friday and Saturday is anybody’s guess. Hortiz and Alexander could guess, of course, but even they couldn’t be certain. Plus, they could trade up or down, swapp
  
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• Who is Paula Xinis, the federal judge overseeing the Abrego Garcia case?

  23-04-2025 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEG KINNARD
  U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis is the latest judge at odds with the Trump administration.
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• 34-acre ranch in Pioneertown lists for under $1.7 million

  23-04-2025 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The 34-acre Pioneertown ranch is on the market for $1.7 million. From right to left, the property includes a main house, guest house and chicken coop. (Photo by Desert Views)
  The sale includes the 20-acre and two 7-acre parcels. (Photo by Desert Views)
  The main house. (Photo by Desert Views)
  A wood-burning fireplace in the living room. (Photo by Desert Views)
  The kitchen in the main house. (Photo by Desert Views)
  The newly remodeled bathroom. (Photo by Desert Views)
  The guest house. (Photo by De
  
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• Veterans Affairs asks employees to report ‘anti-Christian bias’ for investigation by new task force

  23-04-2025 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a task force to investigate employee reports of alleged anti-Christian bias among their colleagues, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to infuse its agenda with religious purpose and champion the rights of Christians.
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• In Riverside County jails, a rash of homicide and negligence

  23-04-2025 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Damien
  Christopher Damien reported about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship.
  As two cellmates were fighting in a Riverside County jail, an inexperienced guard remotely opened the cell door, a violation of safety protocols. One of the men immediately pulled out the other, hoisted him over his shoulder and threw him over a catwalk railing. He fell 15 feet before smashing i
  
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• Iowa town hall attendees turn on each other as Sen. Grassley faces heated questions

  23-04-2025 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK VANCLEAVE and HANNAH FINGERHUT
  NORTHWOOD, Iowa (AP) — Iowans attending a forum Wednesday hosted by Sen. Chuck Grassley started to turn on each other as the lawmaker faced heated questions about President Donald Trump ‘s first months in office.
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• States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind

  23-04-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
  As Republicans in Congress consider cutting the federal share of Medicaid funding, states are weighing numerous options to scale back their programs. But voters in three states have significantly limited those options by enshrining Medicaid expansion in their constitutions — creating a potential budget disaster and a political challenge for the GOP.
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• Bessent assails IMF and World Bank and says there’s an ‘opportunity for a big deal’ with China

  23-04-2025 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leveled harsh criticism at the operations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday even as he tried to reassure nervous investors that the United States would maintain its global leadership role.
  “America first does not mean America alone,” he said in a speech to the Institute of International Finance. “To the contrary, it is a call for deeper collaboration an
  
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• Tariff turmoil: How Tesla and other companies are dealing with the uncertainty of the trade war

  23-04-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty over tariffs and an unpredictable trade war is weighing heavily on companies as they report their latest financial results and try to give investors financial forecasts.
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• What is listeria? Things to know about the bacteria and how to prevent infection.

  23-04-2025 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety concerns.
  Listeria is a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause serious, sometimes fatal infections, particularly in pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
  This month, a Baltimore County woman filed a lawsuit against a Pikesville supermarket and out-of-state ice cream manufacturers that sh
  
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• Novavax says its COVID-19 shot is on track for full FDA approval after delay

  23-04-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Novavax’s closely watched COVID-19 vaccine is on track for full approval after additional discussions with the Food and Drug Administration, the company said Wednesday.
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• Home buyers may face surprise credit hit from student loans

  23-04-2025 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Spring and summer are traditionally hot months for homebuying, but some would-be buyers with student loan debt could encounter unexpected trouble.
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• A little-known federal agency is at the center of Trump’s executive order to overhaul US elections

  23-04-2025 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
  ATLANTA (AP) — Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.
  The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has operated in relative anonymity since, but is now central to President Donald Trump’sexecutive order seeking to overhaul elections. One of the commission’s boards will mee
  
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• The world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates

  23-04-2025 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates as part of an effort to make it easier for people and governments to hold companies financially accountable, like the tobacco giants have been.
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• Stagecoach 2025: Get ready to be bowled over by barbecue

  23-04-2025 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  People at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival know what they like, smoked meat, and Adrian Garcia plans to deliver it this weekend in Indio.
  “No matter where you’re at, I’ve got barbecue everywhere,” said Garcia, culinary director and food and beverage director at Goldenvoice Festivals, which puts on the show.
  It will take place Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27 at the Empire Polo Club with headliners Luke Combs, Jelly Roll and Zach Bryan.
  All three days are sol
  
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• A set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction

  23-04-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ($6 million) at auction next month.
  Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on Wednesday, Shakespeare’s 461st birthday. It said the May 23 sale will be the first time since 1989 that a set of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios has been offered at auction as a single lot.
  This photo issued by Sotheby’s on Wednesday April
  
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• Antisemitic incidents slow worldwide from post-Oct. 7 spike, but remain higher than before Gaza war

  23-04-2025 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Antisemitic attacks have increased dramatically since the war in Gaza began, though the numbers declined slightly last year from a peak reached immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, according to an annual report about global antisemitism from Tel Aviv University.
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• Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

  23-04-2025 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, conversation inevitably turned to current events and the Trump administration.
  “It seemed obvious that we needed to look back to the country’s core documents,” Ward said. “And that we wanted to get them out quickly.”
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• $50 million prize funded by Musk foundation goes to carbon-removal company that helps Indian farmers

  23-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press
  A company that spreads crushed rock on farmers’ fields to help draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been awarded a $50 million grand prize in a global competition funded by Elon Musk’s foundation.
  Mati Carbon was among more than 1,300 teams from 88 countries that participated in the four-year XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, launched in 2021 to encourage deployment of carbon-removal technologies. Many scientists believe remov
  
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• Tennessee board recommends that governor pardon country star Jelly Roll

  23-04-2025 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN MATTISE and TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Board of Parole on Tuesday recommended a pardon for country music star Jelly Roll, a Nashville native who has spoken openly about his criminal record and what it has taken to overcome it. The board’s action leaves the final decision on a pardon up to Gov. Bill Lee.
  The rapper-turned-country singer wants to be able to travel internationally to perform and share his message of redemption, afte
  
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• Israeli strike in Gaza kills 23 as Arab mediators seek long-term truce

  23-04-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab mediators worked on a proposal to end the war with Hamas that would include a five-to-seven-year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, officials said Wednesday.
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• Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order

  23-04-2025 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By PETER SMITH
  As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles (69 kilometers) to Washington.
  He arrived by evening on April 16 outside the White House, carrying a sign that called for for “Reparations Now.”
  This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath
  
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• EVs, tariffs in the spotlight as Chinese automakers take leading role at Shanghai auto show

  23-04-2025 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELAINE KURTENBACH
  SHANGHAI (AP) — Leading automakers are showcasing their latest designed-for-China and the world models at the Shanghai auto show this week, fighting not to be edged aside in the world’s largest car market while watching for U.S. President Donald Trump’s next steps in his trade war.
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• Chargers to face Lions in Hall of Fame preseason game on July 31

  23-04-2025 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Antonio Gates is headed to Canton, Ohio, this summer for his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the Chargers will be traveling right along with him when they play in the annual Hall of Fame exhibition game against the Detroit Lions, the Hall announced on Wednesday.
  Enshrinement week is set for July 31 to Aug. 3.
  The Chargers’ preseason game against the Lions is scheduled for July 31 at 5 p.m. (PDT).
  Fans can buy tickets starting Monday at 7 a.m. (PDT) at https://www.profoot
  
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• What Universal Studios Great Britain could look like

  23-04-2025 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Detailed concept art and published reports about coming attractions for a new Universal Studios theme park in the United Kingdom offer plenty of tantalizing clues about the potential rides, shows and lands planned for the multibillion-dollar park.
  Universal Studios has announced plans to open its first European theme park in 2031 in Bedford, located about an hour north of London by train. Universal plans to begin construction in 2026.
  Universal Studios Great Britain will include themed lands bas
  
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• US Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says he won’t run for sixth term

  23-04-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dick Durbin, whose tenure as one of Illinois’ longest serving U.S. senators has also been a testament to the power of seniority in the chamber, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term next year, setting up a scramble among potential successors vying for a politically coveted six-year term.
  “The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy. I truly love the job of being a United States Senator. But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch. So, I
  
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• 84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

  23-04-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA O’MALLEY
  Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced Wednesday.
  It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non-governmental organizations and others. And it’s not clear
  
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• Los Angeles Archbishop will celebrate memorial Mass for Pope Francis

  23-04-2025 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Southland Catholics will get a chance to honor the late Pope Francis on Friday during a memorial Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
  The Mass, at 12:10 p.m. Friday, will come ahead of Francis’ funeral in Rome, L.A. Archbishop José H. Gomez announced Tuesday.
  The L.A. Mass will be “in thanksgiving for the life and ministry of Pope Francis,” Gomez said in a statement.
  Gomez will lead the Mass and be joined by auxiliary bishops and other
  
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• Alexander: If it’s a rock fight, the Lakers can sling ’em, too

  23-04-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — This one wouldn’t ever hang in the Louvre, especially the fourth quarter.
  But what’s the old line? They don’t ask how, but how many. And the Lakers, who were embarrassed by the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series on Saturday, atoned for that atrocity Tuesday night – atoned enough, anyway, to send the series to Minneapolis tied, 1-1.
  The Lakers’ 94-85 Game 2 victory featured a fourth quarter in which both teams staggered
  
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• Trump administration is still resisting the judge’s orders in Abrego Garcia deportation case

  23-04-2025 17:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FINLEY
  The Trump administration on Wednesday continued to resist a federal judge’s orders to produce information about the steps it has taken, if any, to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
  Drew Ensign, a deputy assistant attorney general, filed a sealed motion asking for a stay of the judge’s order to provide sworn testimony and documents about the U.S. government’s efforts to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
  The request comes
  
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• IRS turmoil: Leadership churn, worker exodus and threats to groups’ tax-exempt status roil agency

  23-04-2025 17:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The height of tax season was the height of turmoil at the IRS.
  The agency shuffled through three acting directors over the course of a week. It’s preparing to lose tens of thousands of workers to layoffs and voluntary retirements. And President Donald Trump is weighing in on which nonprofits should lose their tax-exempt status, an incursion into the agency’s typically apolitical stance that threatens to further erode trust i
  
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• Huntington Beach’s nonprofit power grab

  23-04-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  On a normal city council, the idea of requiring nonprofits to sign contracts addressing their responsibilities and liability issues when they provide public services would seem noncontroversial, depending of course on the details of those agreements. But Huntington Beach’s City Council is far from normal, so its plan has ignited understandable pushback.
  A recent staff report explains that for several years “certain ‘nonprofits’ and other organizations and individuals have
  
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• Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker

  23-04-2025 16:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press Technology Writer
  Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business.
  They’re concerned about what happens if the ChatGPT maker fulfills its ambition to build AI that outperforms humans, but is no longer accountable to its public mission to safeguard that technology from c
  
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• Trump is crushing America’s AI leadership. We still have time to fix it.

  23-04-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Earlier this month, a House Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing to delve into innovation and competition in the AI sector.  While Subcommittee Members agreed on a need for guardrails with AI, disagreement over the real threats to and from America’s AI sector, including how much and what kind of regulation is appropriate to allow the industry to grow remain.
  At the hearing, I made clear that the greatest threats to America’s AI industry come from this Administration’s pol
  
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• Californians aren’t buying the EV mandate

  23-04-2025 16:16 via ocregister.com
  
  When California approved a phased ban on gas-powered cars, the state appeared to be riding the crest of an electric vehicle revolution. It was the height of the pandemic. Gas prices were climbing, long commutes had vanished, and from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, affluent progressives were snapping up Teslas in what looked like a stampede toward a zero-emission future.
  Five years later, the momentum has stalled. After years of exponential sales growth for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), registrati
  
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