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• Supes right to be angry at Do wrist slap

  14-05-2025 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the most bizarre anecdotes from the debate about disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do’s federal plea deal involving a “conspiracy to commit bribery” came from his attorney’s response to supervisors who think he ought to receive a tougher sentence: “Politically-motivated attempts to influence the justice system are reprehensible.”
  Sure, politicians always have political motives, but the real outrage should remain focused on Do and the actions he took th
  
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• The LA Phil announces The Ford 2025 season

  14-05-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The LA Phil has announced its 2025 season at The Ford, running July 18 through October 31.
  Now in its sixth season with the LA Phil at the helm, the historic amphitheater continues to build on its legacy, offering an eclectic mix of performances in one of the region’s most peaceful and picturesque outdoor settings. From orchestral evenings to global music nights, the season reflects the venue’s growing role as a cultural haven tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains.
  This year’s
  
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• Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets

  14-05-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Homelessness policy in California is built around the idea that no one living on the streets will be compelled to accept shelter, treatment or services, not even housing. However, homeless housing providers can be compelled to accept residents who are actively using hard drugs. And taxpayers can be compelled to pay for homeless housing and services whether anyone on the streets chooses to use them or not.
  This is the system Gov. Gavin Newsom described in a recent news conference as “altern
  
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• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross announce first Future Ruins film-TV festival

  14-05-2025 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Award-winning composers, musicians, and longtime collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are putting together a lineup of some of the world’s most influential film and television composers for a one-day concert full of homages for film score lovers.
  The Future Ruins Festival, happening on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, will allow composers including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Questlove and more to reimagine their work for a live audience. The event will feat
  
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• Prosecutor in Trump classified files case takes 5th Amendment in private interview with Congress

  14-05-2025 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key prosecutor on the classified documents case against President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional interview Wednesday, declining to answer questions because of concern about the Trump administration’s willingness to “weaponize the machinery of government” against perceived adversaries, a spokesman said.
  Jay Bratt had been subpoenaed to appear before the Re
  
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• What the EPA’s partial rollback of the ‘forever chemical’ drinking water rule means

  14-05-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press
  On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to weaken limits on some harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water roughly a year after the Biden administration finalized the first-ever national standards.
  The Biden administration said last year the rules could reduce PFAS exposure for millions of people. It was part of a broader push by officials then to address drinking water quality by writing rules to require the removal
  
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• Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump’s bill

  14-05-2025 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cheers broke out early Wednesday as Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a grueling round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump’s package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.
  But there’s still more work to do.
  House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also worked past midnight trying to resolve issues with Trump’s plan. Opposition is m
  
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• Kings hire Ken Holland as new vice president and general manager

  14-05-2025 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings officially named Ken Holland as vice president and general manager, the team announced in a Wednesday news release.
  He will be formally introduced Thursday at the Kings’ practice facility in El Segundo.
  Holland, 69, arrives to a franchise stuck in a first-round rut, having lost four consecutive opening playoff series to the Edmonton Oilers and failing to win a round since 2014. He brings a Hall of Fame résumé and the fifth-most wins of any GM in NHL lore to his new
  
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• Student found with gun, ammo on campus at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley

  14-05-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Three sixth-grade students were detained this week after one of them was found to have a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition in his or her backpack at Vista View Middle School in Fountain Valley, authorities said.
  Officers responded to the school Monday afternoon after receiving a report of a student possibly in possession of a firearm, Fountain Valley police said.
  Officers detained the three students and searched their backpacks, police said.
  Two were arrested and booked in Orange County juven
  
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• In-N-Out Burger announces ketchup upgrade and removes artificial dye from lemonade

  14-05-2025 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger has confirmed it removed artificial coloring from its Signature Pink Lemonade and its strawberry shakes.
  The news broke Tuesday, May 13 in an article from Nation’s Restaurant News, which cited comments on an X fan account as its initial source.
  In-N-Out issued a statement describing the changes as “part of our ongoing commitment to providing our Customers with the highest-quality ingredients.”
  “We’re also in the process of transitioning to an upgrade
  
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• Rights groups say migrant workers are dying on Saudi job sites as kingdom prepares for World Cup

  14-05-2025 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By GABE LEVIN
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Scores of laborers from countries including India, Bangladesh and Nepal have faced preventable deaths from electrocution, road accidents, falling from heights, and more while working in Saudi Arabia, according to a report Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
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• Chinese businesses view tariff pause with caution and uncertainty

  14-05-2025 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By HUIZHONG WU
  BANGKOK (AP) — While U.S. President Donald Trump has talked of victory after reaching a weekend deal with China to reduce the sky-high tariffs levied on each others’ goods, businesses in China are reacting to the temporary deal with caution.
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• Trump marvels at wealth of his Arab hosts while he eyes White House and Air Force One upgrades

  14-05-2025 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Donald Trump is the most powerful and famous person on the planet, at the helm of the biggest economy and the strongest military.
  But on his trip to the Middle East this week, the American president is sounding more than a little envious of his Arab hosts.
  He admired the marble in the Qatari palace as “perfecto” and “very hard to buy.” He praised the “gleaming marvels” of the skyline in Saudi Arabia. A
  
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• Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds

  14-05-2025 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE PEOPLES and LINLEY SANDERS
  NEW YORK (AP) — Six months after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Democrats remain deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, although neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party is viewed favorably by a majority of U.S. adults.
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• A still-unfolding diplomatic road seeking peace in Ukraine has had many twists and turns

  14-05-2025 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATIE MARIE DAVIES
  It was a weekend of diplomatic announcements on the war in Ukraine.
  First, European leaders assembled in Kyiv on Saturday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire. Then, after midnight, the Kremlin leader surfaced in Moscow to unveil a proposal for talks in Istanbul, Turkey.
  If both Putin and Zelenskyy sit down with each other, it would be a first in the 3-year-old war.
  FILE – From left, Vladimir Saldo, Yev
  
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• Travel: Southern California to give berth to its biggest cruise ships ever

  14-05-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Is bigger really better? When it comes to cruise ships, at least, Southern California is about to find out.
  Royal Caribbean International, the cruise line that boasts the seven largest luxury liners in the world — eight come August — is preparing for the news-making arrival of its Ovation of the Seas to the Port of Los Angeles. When the 4,905-passenger, Quantum-class vessel pulls into San Pedro’s World Cruise Center in the early morning of May 31, she will be the biggest ship e
  
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• Newark problems and recent crashes put focus on air traffic controller shortage and aging equipment

  14-05-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK
  The recent chronic delays and cancellations at New Jersey’s largest airport have highlighted the shortage of air traffic controllers and the aging equipment they use, which President Donald Trump’s administration wants to replace.
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• 2-year-old girl separated from parents by US deportation arrives in Venezuela

  14-05-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A 2-year-old girl separated from her parents by deportation arrived Wednesday in Venezuela where her mother was deported from the United States, a move that the South American country has repeatedly denounced as a kidnapping.
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• 2-year-old girl reunites with her mother in Venezuela after US deportation

  14-05-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A 2-year-old girl arrived Wednesday in Caracas to reunite with her mother after she was separated from her parents when they were deported from the U.S. in what Venezuela denounced as a kidnapping.
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• Cambodian Restaurant Week returns to Long Beach with traditional, modern flavors

  14-05-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Long Beach’s Cambodian food scene will be under the spotlight this coming week with the return of Cambodian Restaurant Week.
  More than a dozen restaurants are participating in the third annual event that’s meant to highlight traditional Cambodian cuisine as well as creative mash-ups of dishes that may be surprising to some.
  The event takes place May 18-25 at various locations, including restaurants in the city’s bustling Cambodia Town, a mile-long stretch of street along Anahei
  
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• A pregnant Cuban emigre worries about her baby’s citizenship as Supreme Court weighs a Trump order

  14-05-2025 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara, a Cuban emigre 30 weeks into a high-risk pregnancy, is dealing with the additional stress of not knowing for sure that her baby girl will be an American citizen.
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• The Ecology Center to host organic pop-up market in Dana Point

  14-05-2025 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A little over three miles from its fertile soils and bountiful crops, the Ecology Center, San Juan Capistrano’s regenerative farm, will host a pop-up market along Dana Point’s Street of the Amber Lantern from 4 until 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 15.
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  The open-air event will feature food and music, including organic produce and f
  
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• Surfing Heritage center is buying downtown Laguna Beach building for next chapter

  14-05-2025 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Organizers’ vision for a new home for the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center came with a few critical criteria.
  It had to be near the ocean, preferably in a high-traffic beach town with ample parking where visitors could stumble upon the world’s largest collection of surf memorabilia. The space needed to be big enough to hold hundreds of surfboards and thousands of invaluable relics and artifacts.
  “That’s close to impossible to find along the coast,” said Dick Metz
  
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• Disneyland’s new ‘World of Color’ tugs at your emotional heartstrings

  14-05-2025 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The Disneyland creative team has made a mesmerizing work of wonder and beauty with the new “World of Color” water show that tugs on your heartstrings with the help of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anxiety and other emotions from “Inside Out.”
  The new “World of Color Happiness” water show will debut on Friday, May 16 at Disney California Adventure as part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration.
  Disneyland unveiled the new nighttime spectacular on Tuesday, May
  
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• Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee

  14-05-2025 18:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICOLE WINFIELD
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution.
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• Sony racks up record profit on robust performance for music, movies and games

  14-05-2025 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Business Writer
  TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony logged an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy results at its music and video-game operations.
  Its chief executive, Hiroki Totoki, outlined the company’s strategy for growth Wednesday, stressing that collaboration among Sony Corp.’s various segments, like animation and music, were crucial to deliver the “kando,” or emotional e
  
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• Democratic congressman pushes articles of impeachment against Trump, but colleagues criticize it

  14-05-2025 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, MATT BROWN and LEAH ASKARINAM
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic lawmaker is launching a renegade effort to impeach President Donald Trump, pushing past party leaders on Wednesday with an attempt to force a procedural vote in the U.S. House that is expected to fail.
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• Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 70 people, including 22 children, health officials say

  14-05-2025 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes pounded northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children, according to local hospitals and health officials, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was “no way” he would halt Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory before Hamas is defeated.
  At least 50 people, including 22 children, were killed in
  
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• Why a prank proved ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ hadn’t been done to Death

  14-05-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein sat in front of a blazing fireplace in Stein’s Los Angeles apartment several years ago, logged onto Zoom and launched into their pitch to direct “Final Destination Bloodlines,” the latest film in the popular horror franchise.
  Producer Craig Perry, who has worked on all six Final Destination movies since the first in 2000, noticed the strangeness of a fireplace in Los Angeles in August immediately, Lipovsky says.
  “We knew someone was going to a
  
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• How to maintain a garden that works for both dogs and plants

  14-05-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jessica Damiano | The Associated Press
  If you’ve ever had a dog, you know they don’t exactly tiptoe through the tulips. I’m fortunate that none of mine ever had a penchant for digging holes, but my late pit bull, Maddie, used to run through my perennial beds like a weed whacker, leaving horizontal coneflowers and black-eyes Susans in her destructive path.
  Her bathroom breaks would also imprint an ever-expanding array of canine crop circles on the lawn.
  Fortunately, my little
  
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• Funds from migrants sent back home help fuel some towns’ economies. A GOP plan targets that

  14-05-2025 17:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MEGAN JANETSKY
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel Vail’s entire life in the small western Guatemalan town of Cajolá is built off the money that his three children send home from the United States.
  The money from their construction jobs paid for the two-story white home where Vail now lives — and where his children, who are in the U.S. illegally, would also reside if they ever get deported. Vail, 53, invested some of the money in opening a local food shop, whi
  
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• Tariffs ‘bite’ – so do Newsom’s policies

  14-05-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Last weekend nationally on Fox News, Gov. Gavin Newsom ran a 30-second ad attacking President Trump’s tariffs. “California now is the fourth largest economy in the world,” said as he often has lately. “Innovation, manufacturing, agriculture. And we’ve done it by reducing trade barriers and delivering for American consumers. But the Trump administration is putting all of that at risk.”
  The screen showed a CNBC quote about shipping volume plummeting 35% as &ldqu
  
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• Isaac Bryan’s war on private firefighters

  14-05-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Culver City, isn’t content with the fact that the private firefighters hired by businessman Rick Caruso did such a great job in protecting property during the Palisades Fire.
  Clearly, the excellent work of the private firefighters bothered the state firefighter union, which works hard to maintain the fiction that highly-paid firefighters with lucrative pensions and benefits are the only ones who can put out fires.
  Accordingly, Bryan, who according to CalMatters h
  
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• Santa Ana City Council looked at more frequent inspections of supportive housing units, has questions

  14-05-2025 16:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Santa Ana City Council has asked city staffers to take a look at the cost and feasibility of requiring more city inspections of permanent supportive housing units.
  Councilmember Phil Bacerra’s request to his council colleagues to consider requiring more frequent inspections was prompted by a police investigation in February that uncovered the sale of narcotics out of a permanent supportive housing unit, he said. The city currently conducts annual inspections of the properties.
  “T
  
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• EPA announces rollback for some Biden-era limits on so-called forever chemicals in drinking water

  14-05-2025 16:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press
  The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some so-called forever chemicals in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones.
  The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight
  
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• Southern California raises beat inflation for 8th straight quarter

  14-05-2025 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California pay raises started 2025 by outpacing inflation, a winning streak that now runs two years long.
  That’s what my trusty spreadsheet found when examining the federal Employment Cost Index, which tracks what employers pay for wages and salaries in 15 major U.S. job markets. That pay benchmark was compared with the U.S. Consumer Price Index.
  The statistics show pay in an area comprising Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties rose at a 4.4% annual
  
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• US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

  14-05-2025 16:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
  There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.
  An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023.
  The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018
  
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• US overdose deaths fell 27% last year but remain above prepandemic levels

  14-05-2025 16:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
  There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.
  An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023.
  The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, accordin
  
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• American Eagle tumbles after pulling financial guidance for 2025

  14-05-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press Business Writer
  Shares of American Eagle Outfitters are tumbling before Wednesday’s opening bell after the retailer withdrew its financial outlook for the year citing “macro uncertainty” and said it would write down $75 million in spring and summer merchandise.
  American Eagle said late Tuesday that it expects first-quarter revenue to slide 5%, or more than $1 billion. Same-store sales, a key gauge of a retailer’s health, are projected
  
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• SCNG wins three National Headliner Awards

  14-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California News Group photographer Mindy Schauer won first-place honors in the National Headliner Awards that were announced last month.
  In addition, photographer Mark Rightmire and reporter Scott M. Reid took third-place honors.
  The National Headliner Awards, founded in 1937 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, recognized top journalistic work from throughout the United States that was published in 2024.
  Schauer took the top honor in the category feature photography with a photo showing
  
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• Powerful film on addiction treatment horrors asks us to stop the shuffle

  14-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The chalkboard doodle of a little boy comes to life. Filmmaker Benjamin Flaherty confesses that he always felt an unfillable hole deep inside him — the doodle boy’s belly turns white with emptiness — and then he found alcohol.
  Two booze bottles pop into the doodle boy’s hands. His eyes light up. He cracks a wide, toothy grin.
  Soon, though, a grown doodle man sprawls helplessly on the ground. It’s decades later, after many years of drinking. Flaherty tells us how, th
  
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• Is a 2025 recession a myth or reality in this age of uncertainty?

  14-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Manfred Keil and Mark Schniepp | Inland Empire Economic Partnership
  A host of important economic statistics recently became available to give us insights into the current state of the U.S. economy.
  There was negative (annualized) quarterly growth of real GDP, with output shrinking by 0.3%. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.2% but job numbers showed a better than expected increase of 177,000. Finally the yearly inflation rate fell slightly toward the Fed’s target judging
  
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• Frumpy Mom: I’m late. I’m late. For a very important date.

  14-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I was late driving to pick my friends up for a concert a few nights ago, and it led to a life-changing epiphany. See, I’m the sort of person who usually arrives on time to things, in fact when it’s a work event, I always strive to arrive early.
  As in, “If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re early, you’re on time.”
  But I’m not perfect,  and this particular night, I didn’t even have an excuse to be late, because I started getting
  
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• Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region

  14-05-2025 15:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destination on his first major foreign trip, heading to Saudi Arabia because the kingdom was ready to make big investments in U.S. companies.
  It’s not even that the Trump family has fast-growing business ties in the Middle East that run de
  
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• Trump administration rescinds curbs on AI chip exports to foreign markets

  14-05-2025 15:27 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After a week of promises to alter the policy, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval.
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• Wall Street wobbles ahead of new retail sales data and public appearances by Fed officials

  14-05-2025 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT, Associated Press Business Writers
  Wall Street bounced between small gains and losses in meek trading early Wednesday ahead of the new retail sales numbers this week and any hints from Federal Reserve officials about the U.S. central bank’s future interest rate decisions.
  Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat. Futures for the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 0.4%.
  There’s still some reli
  
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• Stocks are wavering on Wall Street and holding on to gains they made earlier in the week

  14-05-2025 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAMIAN J. TROISE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are wavering on Wall Street and holding on to gains they made earlier in the week after the U.S. and China declared a temporary cease-fire in their trade war.
  The S&P 500 bobbed between small gains and losses and was little changed after the first hour of trading Wednesday.
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 52 points, or 0.1% as of 10:02 a.m. Eastern. The Nasdaq rose 0.5%.Technology stocks rose. Super Micr
  
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• Cassie is due back for a second day of testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial

  14-05-2025 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER
  NEW YORK (AP) — The R&B singer Cassie returns to the witness stand Wednesday after a day spent recounting grotesque and humiliating details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs.
  During her first day of testimony Tuesday at Combs’ sex trafficking trial, Cassie described being pressured into degrading sexual encounters with paid sex workers. She also recounted being beaten numerous times by Combs when she did things
  
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• What to expect at RFK Jr.’s first Senate hearing as health secretary

  14-05-2025 14:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wanted an assurance from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he would vote to put him in charge of the nation’s $1.7 trillion health department.
  Kennedy’s history of promoting conspiracy theories or misspeaking about vaccines alarmed Cassidy, he said during a confirmation hearing earlier this year.
  FILE – Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., votes aye at the final moment as the Senate Finance Committee holds a
  
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• House works into the night as Republicans push ahead on Trump’s big bill

  14-05-2025 14:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion — but also sizable reductions in Medicaid health care, food stamps and green energy strategies to fight climate change — faced sharp debate as House lawmakers slogged through marathon overnight hearings on Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill.”
  Tensions rose and emotions flared as the hours dragged on into early Wednesday morning. House Republicans are
  
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