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• John Elway golf cart accident kills friend during Stagecoach after-party

  30-04-2025 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A sports agent and longtime friend of legendary NFL quarterback John Elway was fatally injured in a golf cart accident during an after-party event for the Stagecoach County Musical Festival, officials confirmed Wednesday.
  Jeffrey Sperbeck, 62, of San Clemente suffered a traumatic head injury Saturday night at the Madison Club in La Quinta. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office said that he died just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, reportedly following his removal from life support.
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• A look at dandyism, the Black fashion style powering the Met Gala

  30-04-2025 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEATRICE DUPUY, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion icons like Dapper Dan, Janelle Monáe and the late André Leon Talley are known for their distinctive approaches to sartorial style — bold splashes of color, luxurious fabrics, playful construction, capes — but fashion savants and historians agree that a common thread weaves their tailored looks together: dandyism.
  The history-laden style movement will be front and center as part of the Metropolitan Museum
  
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• Martin Scorsese to produce a documentary made with the late Pope Francis

  30-04-2025 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death.
  “Aldeas — A New Story” will feature conversations between Pope Francis and Scorsese, including what the filmmakers say are the Pope’s final in-depth on-camera interviews for a film. The documentary will detail the work of Schola
  
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• The Senate is voting on whether to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil

  30-04-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are forcing a vote Wednesday evening on whether to block global tariffs announced by Donald Trump earlier this month, a potentially tough vote for some Republicans who have expressed concerns about the policy but are wary of crossing the president.
  Trump announced the far-reaching tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners April 2 and then reversed himself a few days later after a market meltdown, suspending the i
  
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• Arrests up 20 percent at 2025 Stagecoach Music Festival, police say

  30-04-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities on Wednesday reported that there were 151 arrests at this year’s Stagecoach Music Festival, up 20% from last year,
  The Indio Police Department also reported 86 handicap parking citations, up 3% from 2024.
  The annual festival took place from Friday, April 25 to Sunday April, 27, though campers came to the grounds beginning Thursday morning.
  Of the arrests, 54 people were for false identification, police said. Three people were arrested oln suspicion of drug possession and three
  
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• Dodgers’ Ben Casparius open to do whatever is needed

  30-04-2025 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Ben Casparius is asking for no favors, while letting it be known that he is willing to provide as many that are needed.
  The long man in the Dodgers’ bullpen is close to graduating from the role with a spot in the starting rotation, at least temporarily, a distinct possibility.
  Asked for the rotation plans during the Dodgers’ upcoming nine-game road trip to Atlanta, Miami and Arizona, manager Dave Roberts said: “There might be a bullpen game in there.”
  
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• A former Trump official backs World Heritage status for the vast Okefenokee Swamp

  30-04-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By RUSS BYNUM
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former agriculture secretary is urging the administration to support adding a vast, federally protected wildlife refuge in the Okefenokee Swamp to a list of globally treasured natural and cultural sites recognized by the United Nations.
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• Thunderstorms with marble-sized hail in Yosemite Wednesday

  30-04-2025 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A report from the National Weather Service was issued on Wednesday at 1:51 p.m. for strong thunderstorms in effect until 2:30 p.m. for Yosemite.
  The storms are forecast to bring marble-sized hail (0.5 inches).
  “At 1:49 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a strong thunderstorm 9 miles northeast of Yosemite Valley, or 19 miles southwest of Lee Vining, moving southeast at 10 mph,” states the NWS Hanford CA. “Accumulating hail on roadways is possible.”
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• Santa Margarita swimmer Teagan O’Dell buoyed by support for finishing kick

  30-04-2025 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowRANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — Teagan O’Dell powers forward in the pool, one stroke after another pushes her toward a goal. But on a recent afternoon, the Santa Margarita swimmer reflected back on her high school journey and embraced a different type of strength.
  After racing on Senior Night, O’Dell clutched to the friendships she made in her four years at Santa Margarita. She thought about te
  
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• Kings go to Edmonton with another season on the line

  30-04-2025 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  In the final five weeks of their campaign, the Kings were a statistician’s fantasy, conjuring up streaks, surges, upticks and about-faces seemingly at will.
  But now, the only number that matters is four.
  In Thursday’s Game 6 at Edmonton, the Kings face the very real prospects of losing a fourth consecutive contest and being burned to the ground for a fourth straight year by the Oilers.
  The number 11 may also carry weight, not because it’s emblazoned across captain Anže Kop
  
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• Jeff Sperbeck, former agent for John Elway, dies after injury at 62

  30-04-2025 22:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Jeff Sperbeck, a business partner and former agent for NFL Hall of Famer John Elway, died Wednesday after suffering an injury last weekend at a Southern California golf resort community. He was 62.
  No cause of death was released, but the Riverside County coroner’s office said Sperbeck was injured Saturday and the address listed for the incident belongs to The Madison Club in La Quinta.
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• Clippers need James Harden to show up in Game 6

  30-04-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  He was there in the first 34 games, keeping his team afloat while his fellow superstar recovered from lingering knee issues.
  He was there in the final stretch of the season, leading the Clippers to an 18-3 record and a No. 5 seed in the Western Conference.
  But when the Clippers needed him in Game 5, James Harden all but disappeared, leaving the Clippers one loss away from elimination after losing 131-115 in Denver. The Clippers trail the Nuggets 3-2 in the best-of-seven Western Conference series
  
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• Australian stands trial for murder of ex-husband’s family using death cap mushrooms

  30-04-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ROD McGUIRK
  MELBOURNE (AP) — The Australian host of a weekend family lunch is on trial charged with murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.
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• New California neighborhood billed as first fire-resistant community in U.S.

  30-04-2025 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  The homes in the half-built subdivision look a lot like all the others nestled up against the parched, shrubby hills of Escondido in north San Diego County.
  But look a little closer. The gutters and vents are enclosed in a thin, wire mesh. Each window is double-paned, the glass tempered to withstand the heat of a wildfire, the stucco around the shutters resistant to flame. The privacy fences, a suburban staple, look like wood, but are actually brown-tinted steel. Every foundation sits behind a m
  
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• Angels’ Taylor Ward to go ‘back to the drawing board’ amid slump

  30-04-2025 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — Taylor Ward had planned a busy afternoon for his “day off.”
  The Angels’ left fielder was not in the lineup for the first time this season Wednesday. He said he planned to spend the bottom of every inning, while the Angels were in the field, in the indoor batting cage trying to figure out what’s gone wrong at the plate lately.
  “Frustrated,” Ward said. “Really just missing pitches right now.”
  Ward was hitting .189 with a .623 OPS. He&
  
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• Visa wants to give artificial intelligence ‘agents’ your credit card

  30-04-2025 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  Artificial intelligence “agents” are supposed to be more than chatbots. The tech industry has spent months pitching AI personal assistants that know what you want and can do real work on your behalf.
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• Rogue rulings are a credibility crisis for our courts

  30-04-2025 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  There is a major malfunction in a critical part of our federal judiciary: Activist judges at the district court level are imposing nationwide injunctions where they do not belong and demonstrating the kind of political partisanship that will deliver lasting damage to the vital credibility of the courts.
  Practically every day, federal judges are contradicting the Constitution and blocking President Donald Trump from exercising his executive authority to deport criminal illegals, reduce wasteful g
  
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• Guitarist John 5 amassed a trove of Kiss memorabilia. A lucky few can take the tour

  30-04-2025 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  In a Sears department store during the summer of 1977, rock guitarist John 5 first saw the album cover that would change his life.
  “My first one was ‘Love Gun,’” he says of the Kiss record display that stopped him on that shopping trip when he was 7. “I saw that – and because I loved monsters and I loved guitar – went, ‘Oh my God, what is this?’
  “My mom bought me the record and that’s where it all happened,” says John 5, who
  
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• 50 years later, Kiss legend Gene Simmons reflects on ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’

  30-04-2025 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  As Gene Simmons sat in his dressing room at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 2, 2023, the final night of the End of the Road Tour, the singer-bassist of Kiss cleaned off his Demon makeup for the last time.
  “I thought, ‘You know, I’m not going to get on stage for a while,’” Simmons says on a call from his Malibu home. “Just relax.”
  Only one problem. “I can’t, you know,” he says. “It’s, you can’t stay away from it. It&
  
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• Feds charge alleged white supremacist over 2019 arson at Tennessee school that trained Rosa Parks

  30-04-2025 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By TRAVIS LOLLER and AARON MORRISON
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center.
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• Kuwait frees 10 more Americans in the second release in as many months

  30-04-2025 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kuwait has released an additional 10 American detainees, bringing to nearly two dozen the total number freed by the country in the past two months, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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• Trump officials must report efforts, if any, to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, judge rules

  30-04-2025 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FINLEY
  A federal judge on Wednesday again directed the Trump administration to provide information about its efforts so far, if any, to comply with her order to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.
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• RFK Jr. exaggerates share of autistic population with severe limitations

  30-04-2025 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact, KFF Health News
  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists about for years.
  Kennedy held an April 16 press conference pegged to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found the prevalence of autism rising to 1 in 31 among 8-year-olds, the latest in a series of increases in recent
  
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• The home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX could become an official Texas city called Starbase

  30-04-2025 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Elon Musk has for years made Texas a business home and playground, launching rockets, building cars, and dreaming about creating a utopian enclave for his workers on the rural outskirts of the state capital.
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• Orange County boys and girls track and field leaderboard, April 30

  30-04-2025 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  The top outdoors times (wind-legal) and marks for Orange County track and field through April 26.
  Compiled by Don Chadez/Flash Results West.
  Send corrections to [email protected].
  GIRLS 
  (All race distances in meters; + converted to meters)
  100: 1. Justine Wilson, Rosary, Jr., 11.82; 2. Maliya Collins, Rosary, Fr., 11.93; 3. Eden Murray, Mater Dei, Jr., 12.09; 4. Saige Acosta, Mater Dei, Sr., 12.15; 5. Estheleen Charalabidis, Corona del Mar, Jr., 12.18.
  200: 1. Justine Wilson, Rosary, Jr., 23
  
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• Families have to find their own livers because of organ donor shortfall

  30-04-2025 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Stetson Gibson, then 8 months old, is shown in his family’s home in Gilbert, Arizona, on Feb. 25, 2025. He has two uncommon liver conditions and relies on a feeding tube while waiting for a liver transplant. His parents, Joseph and Christine Gibson, are hoping someone in Colorado will donate part of their liver, because Children’s Hospital Colorado performs living donor transplants for young patients. (Photo courtesy of Christine Gibson)
  Christine and Joey Gibson are trying everythin
  
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• Eataly will offer Italian cooking classes through June

  30-04-2025 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  While Italy is beautiful, full of culture, art and food, you don’t need to trek to Europe to learn how to incorporate more authentic Italian flavors into your cooking.
  Eataly, the large-scale Italian marketplace and food hall that combines retail, dining, and educational spaces to spotlight Italian culinary tradition, is launching a series of cooking classes in La Pizza & La Pasta and Eataly Ristorante in Los Angeles.
  From now through June 28, aspiring cooks of all levels can sign up f
  
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• Student loan default collections resume: what to know

  30-04-2025 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By Eliza Haverstock, NerdWallet
  After a five-year suspension that began in March 2020, the Trump administration is turning the student loan default collections machine back on. Millions of borrowers with defaulted loans are poised to face severe consequences starting on Monday, May 5.
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• Weinstein accuser testifies about alleged 2006 sex assault: ‘The unthinkable was happening’

  30-04-2025 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former TV production assistant told a jury Wednesday that Harvey Weinstein held her down on a bed and forced oral sex on her after she told him: “No, no — it’s not going to happen.”
  Dabbing her eyes, Miriam Haley recalled what ran through her mind during the alleged July 2006 assault: “The unthinkable was happening, I just thought any unthinkable thing could happen. I just didn’t know where it ended.”
  Weinstein,
  
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• ‘The unthinkable was happening,’ Weinstein accuser says of alleged 2006 sex assault

  30-04-2025 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former TV production assistant told a jury Wednesday that Harvey Weinstein held her down on a bed and forced oral sex on her after she told him: “No, no — it’s not going to happen.”
  Dabbing her eyes, Miriam Haley recalled what ran through her mind during the alleged July 2006 assault: “The unthinkable was happening, I just thought any unthinkable thing could happen. I just didn’t know where it ended.”
  W
  
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• US maternal death rate rose slightly last year, health officials say

  30-04-2025 19:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline, according to provisional data posted Wednesday.
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• Six Flags Magic Mountain improves its pizza, burgers and fried chicken

  30-04-2025 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Six Flags Magic Mountain has stepped up its culinary game with a new executive chef who has improved the traditional amusement park offerings and plans to add more items to the menu in hopes of persuading foodies to give the park another look.
  “We want to make sure that people come down for rides, but they also stay for food and enjoy the entire experience,” Magic Mountain Executive Chef Robert Velasco said.
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• A town refuses to give up the school’s Native American mascot — and gets Trump’s support

  30-04-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By PHILIP MARCELO
  MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — As a high school hockey player, Adam Drexler wore his Massapequa Chiefs jersey with pride.
  But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school’s mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.
  Now his Long Island hometown has become the latest flashpoint in the enduring debate over the place of Indigenous imagery in American sports: The Tru
  
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• Runaway kangaroo named Sheila shuts down Alabama interstate

  30-04-2025 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — A runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday before state troopers and the animal’s owner wrangled the wayward marsupial.
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• Tariff turmoil prompts cloudy forecasts from companies for the year ahead

  30-04-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial results and forecasts for companies both big and small as they try to navigate a global trade system severely shaken by a shift in U.S. policy.
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• Formula 1: How to watch the Miami Grand Prix on TV and what to know

  30-04-2025 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Here’s a guide that tells you what you need to know about Sunday’s Miami F1 Grand Prix. It’s the sixth round of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
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• Trump administration cuts $1 billion in school mental health grants, citing conflict of priorities

  30-04-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying they reflect the priorities of the previous administration.
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• Europe saw stronger growth at start of year, but Trump’s tariffs have darkened outlook

  30-04-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID McHUGH
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economy grew more strongly in the first three months of the year, only to see hopes for an ongoing recovery quickly squelched by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
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• European universities strain for neutrality amid political chaos

  30-04-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laura Alviž and Paula Doenecke, Bloomberg News
  Universities on both sides of the Atlantic were under intense pressure to deal with campus conflict over political issues long before the Trump administration started cracking down on higher education.
  In the past three years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war on Gaza, prompted by a Hamas attack, have led to student protests around the world and put university administrators in the uncomfortable position of having to
  
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• Nigel Farage wants to transform British politics. He faces a key test this week

  30-04-2025 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL LAWLESS
  SCUNTHORPE, England (AP) — Tucking into tea and cake in the spring sunshine, Nigel Farage glows with anticipation and big ambitions.
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• Iran’s foreign minister says next round of talks with US over nuclear program will be held in Rome

  30-04-2025 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Wednesday the next round of negotiations over its rapidly advancing nuclear program it will have with the United States will be in Rome on Saturday.
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• A woodpecker has invaded a Massachusetts neighborhood. Residents are taking it in stride

  30-04-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOLLY RAMER and RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press
  ROCKPORT, Mass. (AP) — Rockport residents have a history of fighting off invaders, but not this time.
  During the War of 1812, townsfolk in the tiny fishing village hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings. Now, they’re slinging trash bags and towels over the side mirrors of their cars to protect them from a destructive and determined pileated woodpecker.
  Over the last few weeks, the bird has broken more than
  
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• What makes a Kentucky Derby champion? Big hearts, immense lungs and powerful legs

  30-04-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By LAURA UNGAR and CHRISTINA LARSON, Associated Press
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — On a crisp, clear morning, a chestnut thoroughbred thundered down the dirt strip at Churchill Downs, his exercise rider leaning forward above the saddle. Other horse-and-rider pairs followed.
  Dr. Will Farmer looked down from a viewing point, admiring the speed and agility of the 1,000-pound animals.
  The whole world will have the chance to see horses in action here Saturday, when the Kentucky Derby shines a global
  
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• Vietnam celebrates 50 years since war’s end with focus on peace and unity

  30-04-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
  HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Wednesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation with a military parade and a focus on a peaceful future.
  The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a Vietnam divided into the communist North and U.S.-allied South, and the country’s top official told crowds the past decades had led to ever increasing unity.
  “All the Vietnamese
  
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• UK military launches airstrikes with US targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels

  30-04-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British military launched airstrikes with the United States targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said early Wednesday, their first attack in Washington’s new intense campaign targeting the Iran-backed group.
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• Mother’s Day 2025: What restaurants are offering, from strawberries to steak

  30-04-2025 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  From take-home brunches to full sit-down meals, restaurants will be trying to offer mom something a little special on Mother’s Day.
  It falls on Sunday, May 11, this year but many restaurant chains have specials all weekend or even longer.
  Some full service restaurants take reservations, and it might be good to get one for the holiday.
  Here are what some chains have announced on their websites, in social media or in news releases. Prices and participation may vary by location.
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• Who are the contenders to be pope? They include a theologian, a diplomat and a simple street priest

  30-04-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Wanted: A holy man.
  Job description: Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church.
  Location: Vatican City.
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• Weak GDP report tied to tariffs has Trump trying to blame Biden on the state of the economy

  30-04-2025 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH BOAK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump got worrisome news on Wednesday about how the U.S. economy is battening down for potential fallout from his tariffs — and he was quick to try to pin the blame on his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
  The government reported that the U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.3% during the first three months of the year. Behind the decline was a surge in imports as companies tried to front-run the sweeping tariffs on autos, steel,
  
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• Kids will have their own version of Coachella with the Great Big Family Play Day festival

  30-04-2025 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Families with young kids will be getting their own version of Coachella this weekend when the Great Big Family Play Day festival comes to the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park May 3-4.
  The festival includes performances from more than a dozen kid-focused musical acts throughout the weekend as well as activities that include arts and crafts, ball pits, a bike track, rides, a slime booth and more.
  And just like Coachella is headlined by the biggest acts in music, this event will b
  
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• Lakers-Timberwolves: 3 things to watch for in Game 5

  30-04-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — To keep their season alive, the Lakers will need to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
  And then again on Friday night at Target Center in Minneapolis.
  And then one more time on Sunday at Crypto.com Arena.
  Those are the circumstances the Lakers face after falling behind the Timberwolves, 3-1, in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series, which continues with a win-or-go-home Game 5 on Wednesday.
  “We definitely should treat it like Game
  
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