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• Moody’s strips U.S. government of top credit rating, citing Washington’s failure to rein in debt

  16-05-2025 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.
  Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1 but said the United States “retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency.”
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• Angel City FC seeks normalcy after ‘challenging week’

  16-05-2025 23:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club will return to action Saturday in its first game since defender Savy King collapsed during last week’s game against the Utah Royals.
  King underwent surgery Tuesday to correct a heart abnormality, the team announced.
  Angel City will visit Bay FC on Saturday, the team that drafted King, a 20-year-old from Agoura High, out of North Carolina in the 2024 NWSL draft.
  “It’s been a really challenging week for everybody,” Angel City interim coach Sam Laity
  
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• DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration roundups, Pentagon reviewing request

  16-05-2025 23:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By TARA COPP and REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press.
  DHS asked for the troops to help carry out President Donald Trump’s “mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” department spoke
  
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• Burglary suspects pretended to be delivery workers to rob homes in Irvine, Inland Empire, police say

  16-05-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  The traffic stop of a fake deliveryman in a suspicious vehicle by an Irvine police officer led to a month-long investigation that culminated with the arrests of five Colombian nationals believed to be part of a transnational burglary crew, police officials announced Friday, May 16.
  In at least one of the burglaries, a woman approached the front door of a home appearing to be a food delivery worker, police said, and a man later arrived wearing an Amazon vest.
  The crew was responsible for a pair o
  
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• 5 burglary crew suspects pretending to be delivery workers robbed homes in Irvine, Inland Empire, police say

  16-05-2025 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  The traffic stop of a fake deliveryman in a suspicious vehicle by an Irvine police officer led to a month-long investigation that culminated with the arrests of five Colombian nationals believed to be part of a transnational burglary crew, police officials announced Friday, May 16.
  In at least one of the burglaries, a woman approached the front door of a home appearing to be a food delivery worker, police said, and a man later arrived wearing an Amazon vest.
  The crew was responsible for a pair o
  
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• Failed audit will leave Huntington Beach without its share of transportation funding for five years

  16-05-2025 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach will not receive its share of local transportation funding toward repaving roads and other improvements for the next five years after the city failed an Orange County Transportation Authority audit — it’s the second city to have failed an audit in the program in the last year.
  An independent audit completed in April said $29,249 of a Huntington Beach city employee’s payroll charges were erroneously set up to come from a street maintenance project funded by Meas
  
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• What is the SALT cap, and how does it impact California taxpayers?

  16-05-2025 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  When campaigning for reelection last year, Rep. Young Kim told voters she was working to fully repeal the cap on SALT.
  Kim wasn’t referring to the top of a shaker for a condiment used to flavor food.
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  Trump seems open to increasing SALT cap, local GOP House member says after meeting
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• One thing OC’s congressional delegation delivered in 2023 and 2024: Renaming post offices

  16-05-2025 23:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County’s House delegation had just four of their bills signed into law between 2023 and 2025.
  All four renamed post offices.
  That means the rate at which bills introduced by the six-member delegation — 201 in total — became law during the 118th Congress was a mere 1.99%.
  But experts say that’s not unusual, and it doesn’t necessarily mean local lawmakers were ineffective.
  That’s because very few bills make it to public law. Only about 1.5 to 3% of the te
  
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• Alexander: Can we talk baseball and tennis with the new pope?

  16-05-2025 23:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  • I’ve just figured out my latest career ambition: Landing an interview opportunity to talk baseball and tennis with Pope Leo XIV. (The chances of that happening, of course, are probably similar to the odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot, but if this column finds the right audience, who knows?) …
  • We have visual evidence, from Instagram, that the new pope signed someone’s baseball when he was greeted by well-wishers the other day
  
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• Corky: Talking of cool surfers, the marshal from ‘Gunsmoke’ was one of them

  16-05-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the coolest dudes that I had the pleasure to hang out with quite a bit was James Arness.
  He was the dude who played Marshal Matt Dillon on the popular television show “Gunsmoke.”  I know a lot of you are not old enough to remember that show, but it ran for 20 years and Jim, as he went by to his friends, was quite a big star.
  Once you got to know him though, it was easy to forget how famous he was due to the fact that he was actually one of the more down-to-earth people yo
  
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• Will Cal Fire get funding for more year-round firefighters in California’s state budget?

  16-05-2025 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Following the January wildfires that tore through Los Angeles County, there was renewed interest in making sure California is adequately staffed with firefighters to prevent such disastrous events, or to combat them at any given moment, in the future.
  State legislators rushed to introduce bills, including ones to make seasonal Cal Fire firefighters year-round employees and to increase pay for incarcerated firefighters.
  But as officials brace for tough financial times ahead, the harsh realities o
  
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• Case of brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support in Georgia raises tricky questions

  16-05-2025 22:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE BRUMBACK, SUDHIN THANAWALA and GEOFF MULVIHILL
  ATLANTA (AP) — The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been kept on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about fetal personhood and abortion laws.
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• What Southern California’s legislators got done in 118th Congress

  16-05-2025 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Campaign advertisements tell Americans a version of the job their members of Congress are doing on their behalf.
  But it’s an incomplete report card, at best. A more complete picture of what lawmakers are doing in Washington, D.C., is possible — by digging into the data.
  So, as the Southern California News Group has done in the past, here’s a more in-depth look at how legislators representing Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties performed in the 118th Congr
  
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• House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill

  16-05-2025 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT BROWN and MATT O’BRIEN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “ big, beautiful ” tax bill that would ban states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade.
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• FDA OKs first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease

  16-05-2025 22:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and identify patients who may benefit from drugs that can modestly slow the memory-destroying disease.
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• Federal judge strikes down workplace protections for transgender workers

  16-05-2025 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By CLAIRE SAVAGE
  A federal judge in Texas struck down guidance from a government agency specifying protections against workplace harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century law

  16-05-2025 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th century wartime law.
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• Trump cuts at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac may slow housing, report says

  16-05-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Scott Carpenter | Bloomberg
  The Trump administration’s cuts to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage giants, may put a damper on the housing market as it becomes harder to obtain some types of home loans, according to a report from Bloomberg Intelligence.
  Credit availability for Fannie and Freddie mortgages has reached a record low this year, according to an index for credit availability from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
  That long-term trend could be exacerb
  
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• Police investigate disappearance of Melania Trump’s statue in her native Slovenia

  16-05-2025 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.
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• Student loans have been confusing lately. Here’s a guide to know where you stand

  16-05-2025 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADRIANA MORGA, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Between collections resuming, courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs at the Education Department, borrowers might be confused about the status of their student loans.
  Recently, the Education Department announced it would start involuntary collections on defaulted loans, meaning the roughly 5.3 million borrowers who are in default could have their wages garnished by the federal government.
  At the center of the turmoil are the gov
  
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• Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza and strikes ports in Yemen as Trump wraps up trip to region

  16-05-2025 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and BASSEM MROUE
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across northern and southern Gaza on Friday, killing more than 93 people and wounding hundreds — attacks that Israeli officials described as a prelude to a larger military campaign in the territory aimed at pressuring Hamas to release hostages.
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• With the spread of ‘Dena Strong’, Altadena, Pasadena get a little closer after the Eaton fire

  16-05-2025 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Welcome to the Denaverse.
  This shorthand introduces viewers to madeindena.com, showcasing T-shirts, caps and backpacks emblazoned with “Dena” — “where Pasadena and Altadena’s spirit is poured into every thread of our creations.”
  Another Pasadena T-shirt designer has created a best-selling design with the words “DENA Forever,” featuring praying hands over a red rose and mountains, the first a symbol of Pasadena and the latter, of Altadena.
  But hold
  
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• Trump says Iran has a proposal from the US on its rapidly advancing nuclear program

  16-05-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By ZEKE MILLER and JON GAMBRELL
  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has an American proposal over its rapidly advancing nuclear program as negotiations between the two countries go on.
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• Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman, unborn has inherent dignity

  16-05-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s creatures, articulating clear Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion at the start of his pontificate.
  Leo, the first American pope, also called for reviving multilateral diplomacy and promoting dialogue between religions in the search for peace, in his fi
  
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• Gravity to launch 8 ultra-fast EV charging stations across Greater L.A.

  16-05-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Electric vehicle infrastructure startup Gravity has announced plans to install eight new charging stations across the Greater Los Angeles area. The sites, expected to open by the end of 2025, will feature ultra-fast 500 kW chargers designed to significantly reduce charging times for EV drivers.
  The stations will be located in East Pasadena, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, North Hills and Thousand Oaks, the company said in a news release. These locatio
  
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• California man who used underwater scooter to evade arrest pleads guilty to investment fraud

  16-05-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — A California man who tried to evade arrest by jumping into a lake with an underwater scooter pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud, money laundering and witness tampering in connection with a $35 million investment fraud scheme, federal prosecutors announced.
  Prosecutors say that between 2015 and 2020, Matthew Piercey, 48, of Shasta County solicited investor funds and used the money for various personal and business expenses, including the purchase of two residential properties.
  He
  
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• US cable giants Charter and Cox, under assault by streaming services, pursue $34.5 billion merger

  16-05-2025 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
  Charter Communications has offered to acquire Cox Communications, a $34.5 billion merger that would combine two of the top three cable companies in the U.S.
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• US consumer sentiment slides to 3-year lows as trade war raises inflation anxiety

  16-05-2025 18:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment fell slightly in May for the fifth straight month, surprising economists, as Americans increasingly worry that President Donald Trump’s trade war will worsen inflation.
  Related Articles After 20 years of HOA Homefront, here are 21 tips for healthier communities Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’ CEO of Novo Nordisk, maker of weight
  
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• San Jose mayor calls for reforms after latest animal shelter death

  16-05-2025 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  As she walked to the break room at the San Jose animal shelter earlier this week, a strange beeping noise from an IV pump in the shelter’s medical area drew Courtney Ferro’s attention.
  That’s when the animal care attendant, who was working a Monday night shift in the San Jose Animal Care and Services Center’s kitten hut Monday, witnessed what she described as the alarming and traumatic distress of a dog named Lola. Her rump was pressed up against the grate of her kennel,
  
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• Fortnite says its now offline on Apple’s iOS around the world

  16-05-2025 18:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fortnite says it’s now unavailable on Apple’s iOS globally because the tech giant blocked a bid to release the popular video game for iPhone users in the U.S. and Europe.
  “Apple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the U.S. App Store or to the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union,” Epic Games-owned Fortnite wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twit
  
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• Summit baseball team beaten by Laguna Beach in Division 1 playoff opener

  16-05-2025 17:59 via ocregister.com
  
  FONTANA — Lucien Reed went 2 for 4, scored two runs and drove in the game-winning run with a triple as the Laguna Beach baseball team defeated Summit 7-5 in a CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoff opener Thursday afternoon.
  The Breakers (25-3) will host Norco in the second round Tuesday afternoon. Summit (25-4) saw its 22-game winning streak snapped with the loss.
  Laguna Beach’s offense exploded for five runs in the second inning. Thomas Gonzales stepped to the plate with the bases
  
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• Trump administration must resume $11 billion in funding for public health departments, judge rules

  16-05-2025 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEVNA BOSE, Associated Press Health Writer
  President Donald Trump’s administration must put the brakes on slashing billions in federal money for public health departments, a federal judge said Friday.
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• Watching Trump from afar, Israel fears being left out of a new Middle East it helped create

  16-05-2025 17:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH KRAUSS, Associated Press
  As U.S. President Donald Trump jetted from one sprawling palace to another, embracing Arab leaders and heralding a new Middle East this week, many in Israel worried that the best partner they’ve ever had in the White House had lost interest.
  For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington. From the Camp David Treaty with Egypt to the Abraham Accords brokered by Trump in his first ter
  
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• Cassie told Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘I’m not a rag doll’ after 2016 hotel assault

  16-05-2025 17:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — R&B singer Cassie delved into text messages with her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs as she resumed testifying in his sex trafficking trial Friday, saying she told him “I’m not a rag doll. I’m somebody’s child” after he beat her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
  Cassie was back on the witness stand for a second day of cross-examination by Combs’ lawyers, after having
  
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• The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie on stage has been sentenced to 25 years in prison

  16-05-2025 17:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
  MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.
  A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.
  Rushdie did not return to court to the western New York courtroom for his assailant’s sentencing but submitted a victim impact statement. During the trial, the 77-ye
  
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• Disneyland kicks off yearlong 70th anniversary party

  16-05-2025 17:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland unwrapped a bunch of birthday presents in celebration of the Anaheim theme park’s 70th anniversary that included a new World of Color water show along with a returning Pixar daytime parade, nighttime electrical parade and fan-favorite fireworks extravaganza.
  The 70th anniversary celebration of the original Disney theme park kicks off today, May 16, and will run through summer 2026 at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
  ALSO SEE: Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebr
  
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• Newsom has self to blame on budget

  16-05-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The California state budget has grown significantly under Gov. Gavin Newsom. In 2018-19, the state general fund budget spent $143 billion. Now, the governor is calling for over $226 billion in general fund spending even in the face of anticipated economic challenges.
  The governor’s May Revise anticipates an economic slowdown in the coming year, including reduced growth in the national Gross Domestic Product, greater unemployment and a downgrading of wage and salary growth.
  “Washingto
  
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• After 20 years of HOA Homefront, here are 21 tips for healthier communities

  16-05-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In 2005, Harold Medina, then a real estate newspaper special section editor, asked for articles on HOA law issues. The name “HOA Homefront” also was his idea, so thanks to him for creating and naming this column.
  After more than 750 columns and as the column enters its 21st year, here are 21 suggestions on HOAs becoming more positive communities. How many does your community already follow?
  1. Adopt a code of conduct for directors, committee members, and homeowners.
  2. Use educationa
  
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• Irvine council open to review of 3,100 homes to replace Oak Creek Golf Club

  16-05-2025 16:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Irvine will move forward with its review of plans to build 3,100 homes on and around the site of the Oak Creek Golf Club, but nothing will be set in stone for quite some time.
  The City Council unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, this week with the Irvine Company to continue a city analysis of the developer’s proposal to eliminate the golf course and a nearby office complex to build what City Manager Oliver Chi said could be Irvine’s last traditiona
  
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• US wants to withhold details in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. Judge will hear arguments

  16-05-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FINLEY and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
  A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments Friday over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
  U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador in April and has since directed the administration to provide documents and testimony showing what it has done, if anything, to comply.
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• Elon Musk’s AI company says Grok chatbot focus on South Africa’s racial politics was ‘unauthorized’

  16-05-2025 16:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press Technology Writer
  Much like its creator, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution and “genocide” of white people.
  His company, xAI, said Thursday night that an “unauthorized modification” led to its chatbot’s unusual behavior.
  That means someone — the company didn’t say who &m
  
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• Huntington Beach lifeguard, 17, takes second place at world bodysurfing finals

  16-05-2025 16:28 via ocregister.com
  
  A Huntington Beach teenage lifeguard has proven to be one of the best bodysurfers in the world.
  Michelle Urkov, 17, recently returned from Australia, where she took second place in the International Bodysurfing Association World Tour finals May 8, an event that drew the best 48 men and 24 women bodysurfers from around the world to compete.
  Ukrov entered the event in the trials, meaning she had to earn her spot into the main competition. She had two mid-range results in the qualifying events lead
  
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• European leaders agree with Trump that Russia’s position on ceasefire talks is unacceptable

  16-05-2025 16:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By LLAZAR SEMINI and LORNE COOK, Associated Press
  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — European leaders have agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump that Russia’s position in ceasefire talks is unacceptable and they intend to coordinate a response, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday.
  “We just had a meeting with President Zelensky and then a phone call with President Trump to discuss the developments in the negotiations today, and the Russian position is clearly unacceptable,&rdq
  
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• Freeing farm markets is better than tariffs and welfare

  16-05-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO—If you want to, say, make juice from an orange, the typical way is to mash the orange on a simple squeezer. But the early-to-mid 20th-century cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, had an even better way. His “simple” juice-making contraption involved pulling a string, which releases a guillotine blade, which cuts a cord that engages a battering ram that then enrages a sleeping octopus, which attacks the dangling orange and squeezes out its juice.
  Goldberg’s bizarre cartoo
  
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• CEO of Novo Nordisk, maker of weight loss drug Wegovy, to step down in wake of share price drop

  16-05-2025 15:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID McHUGH, Associated Press Business Writer
  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S, maker of blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy, said Friday its CEO was stepping down by “mutual agreement” with the company’s board of directors, citing “recent market challenges” and a steep decline in the company’s share price.
  Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen’s departure comes a week after the company downgraded its sales and profi
  
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• John Wayne Airport on track for more than $700M in improvements

  16-05-2025 15:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Officials are on track to spend about $700 million to give John Wayne Airport a facelift by 2031, touching nearly every corner of the more than 510-acre facility.
  Key projects include modernizing restrooms, resurfacing taxiways, installing new elevators and escalators and upgrading the baggage handling system. JWA’s more than 11 million annual travelers will also soon have even more expanded food and retail options to choose from, airport officials said.
  John Wayne Airport Director, Charle
  
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• US stocks drift as Wall Street heads for the finish of a big winning week

  16-05-2025 15:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is heading toward the finish of a strong, potentially perfect week as U.S. stocks on Friday drift close to the all-time high they set just a few months earlier, though it may feel like an economic era ago.
  The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in early trading and potentially on track for a fifth straight gain. It’s heading for a 4.6% rise for the week, which would be its third big winning week in the last four, as hope
  
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• Taking a shortcut through a weigh station isn’t a good idea

  16-05-2025 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: My son and I were recently traveling on the eastbound 91 Freeway through Anaheim Hills and noticed a passenger vehicle driving through the weigh station to bypass traffic. What is the penalty for non-commercial vehicles that use those lanes as a shortcut?
  –  David Cordero, Anaheim
  A: Honk tried to connect with the California Highway Patrol at that weigh station David, but couldn’t.
  But, as you know, he is one smart cookie.
  So he turned his gaze southward and called one of the
  
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• Gene editing helped a desperately ill baby thrive. Scientists say it could someday treat millions

  16-05-2025 15:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By LAURA UNGAR
  A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him.
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• Strike by New Jersey Transit train engineers leaves some 350,000 commuters in the lurch

  16-05-2025 15:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press
  New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike, leaving train terminals quiet for Friday’s rush hour and an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home.
  Groups of picketers gathered in front of transit headquarters in Newark and at the Hoboken Terminal, carrying signs that said “Locomotive Engineers on Strike” and “NJ Transit: Millions for Pent
  
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