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• $42M Newport Coast mansion is OC’s most expensive home sale of 2025

  19-05-2025 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  A gated Newport Coast estate in the middle of a down-to-the-studs remodel and expansion set a 2025 record sales price for Orange County last week when it traded hands in an off-market deal.
  The closing price was $42 million.
  That it was mid-construction is “the shocker for everybody” because “the house is basically a shell,” said the seller’s agent, Paul Daftarian of Luxe Real Estate.
  He also represented the buyer on the previous highest-selling home in Orange Count
  
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• Trump administration to pay nearly $5M to settle suit over Ashli Babbitt’s fatal shooting in Capitol

  19-05-2025 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that Ashli Babbitt’s family filed over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, according to a person with knowledge of the settlement. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss with The Associated Press terms of a deal that have not been made public.
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• Trump’s tax push puts ‘free-market’ label to rest

  19-05-2025 23:35 via ocregister.com
  
  If you voted for Donald Trump last November because you believed he’d increase economic freedom, it’s safe to say you were fooled. Following a reckless tariff barrage, the White House and its allies are preparing a new wave of tax-code gimmickry that has more in common with progressive social engineering than pro-growth reform. And don’t forget a fiscal recklessness that mirrors the mistakes of the Left.
  Defend these policies if you like, but let’s be clear: The administr
  
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• Sheriff says ‘defective’ locks were a key factor in Louisiana jailbreak by 10 men

  19-05-2025 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARA CLINE and JACK BROOK
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Just days before 10 men broke out of a New Orleans jail, officials with the sheriff’s office asked for money to fix faulty locks and cell doors deemed a key factor in the escape.
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• Rui Hachimura benefited from Lakers coaches’ belief

  19-05-2025 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — The belief that the Lakers, led by head coach JJ Redick, had in Rui Hachimura and his growth as a player was evident before the 26-year-old forward started his sixth NBA season.
  Despite disappointing performances during the Lakers’ first-round exit to the Denver Nuggets in the 2024 playoffs, Redick named Hachimura as a starter before training camp, believing in the synergy the team found with Hachimura in the first unit to close the 2023-24 season.
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• OC softball Top 25: El Modena returns to No. 1 after big wins in playoffs

  19-05-2025 23:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County high school softball rankings for this week, as of Monday, May 19.
  Notable this week: El Modena returns to the No. 1 spot following a 7-5 victory against previously top-ranked Rosary in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs. The Vanguards opened the postseason with a 9-5 win against Pacifica. El Modena was ranked No. 1 in March. … JSerra climbs one spot to No. 9 after
  
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• State bailouts are not the solution for Los Angeles’ budget woes

  19-05-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles is facing a crushing $1 billion budget deficit, leading to calls for layoffs of as much as 5% of city staff, service cuts and higher fees. S&P Global Ratings has already lowered the city’s bond ratings and the public is frustrated. Mayor Karen Bass—fresh off of her failures in response to the city’s wildfires—is caught flatfooted after Gov. Gavin Newsom wisely rejected her lobbying for a state bailout.
  City officials would like us to believe that those wil
  
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• Trump hosts the Kennedy Center board as he seeks to remake arts and culture in America

  19-05-2025 22:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting the Kennedy Center’s leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he’s devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene.
  The meeting of the center’s board in the State Dining Room comes after Trump fired its previous members and announced in February that
  
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• OC baseball Top 25: No. 1 vs. No. 3 in big CIF-SS playoff game Tuesday

  19-05-2025 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, May 19.
  Notable this week: No. 1 Huntington Beach, which had a bye in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs, will face No. 3 Santa Margarita in the second round Tuesday. … In Division 2 games Tuesday, No. 21 Canyon is at No. 11 Servite and No. 9 Trabuco Hills is at No. 18 Fountain Valley in the second round. … Beckman returns to the Top 25 after a 13-4 win over Temescal Canyon in the Division 3
  
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• Trump, alongside the first lady, signs a bill to make posting ‘revenge porn’ a federal crime

  19-05-2025 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, alongside his wife, Melania, on Monday signed the Take It Down Act, a measure the first lady helped usher through Congress to set stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery online, or “revenge porn.”
  In March, Melania Trump used her first public appearance since resuming the role of first lady to travel to Capitol Hill to lobby House members to pass the bill followi
  
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• Freed from ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers

  19-05-2025 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi strode across the graduation stage at Columbia University on Monday morning, savoring a moment the Trump administration had fought to make impossible.
  Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph o
  
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• Remove all unnecessary obstacles to housing construction across California

  19-05-2025 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Unease about the cost and availability of housing is palpable in The Golden State. An October Pew Research Center survey shows that 40.6% of California households, including over half (54.1%) of renters, are “cost burdened,” meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing.
  Just 10 years ago, the U.S. had a housing shortage of just over 430,000 units.  Since then, that deficit has grown dramatically. Zillow estimates the shortage to be 4.5 million homes.  Some re
  
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• Jon Coupal: Support the Save Proposition 13 Act of 2026

  19-05-2025 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Starting in 1978 with the passage of Proposition 13, California voters have repeatedly tried to protect their homes and businesses from excessive taxation by imposing limits on property taxes and requiring two-thirds voter approval for other local taxes that disproportionately burden homeowners and businesses. Despite the clear intent of the voters, California courts have sided with the government and its special interest benefactors by creating loopholes that significantly weakened these protec
  
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• Jeanette Vizguerra — held by ICE in Colorado — named a winner of Robert F. Kennedy human rights award

  19-05-2025 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Jeanette Vizguerra, an immigration advocate being held in an Aurora, Colorado, detention facility, has been named a winner of an annual human rights award by a nonprofit set up in the late Robert F. Kennedy’s memory.
  Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced last week that the activist will be a recipient of its 42nd annual Human Rights Award alongside Maine Gov. Janet Mills and former U.S. Department of Justice pardon attorney Elizabeth Oyer.
  However, barring any changes to her U.S. Immigr
  
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• After a political career shaped by cancer, Biden faces his own grim diagnosis

  19-05-2025 21:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In Joe Biden’s family, there’s a saying that the three worst words anyone can hear are “you have cancer.”
  One decade ago, his son Beau died from a brain tumor. Several years later, his wife Jill had two cancerous lesions removed in her own brush with the disease.
  Now it is the former president’s turn. Biden’s office disclosed his prostate cancer diagnosis over the weekend, saying it has already spread
  
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• There’s an American pope, and he’s just like us. At least, we really, really want him to be

  19-05-2025 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By TED ANTHONY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — By the middle of last week, it became clear that something odd was happening. It was about the time that the fake video started circulating about the woman purporting to recount the “situationship” she’d had with Robert Prevost, the new American pope, decades ago when he was just another guy from Chicago.
  We’d already seen Topps, the baseball-card company, issue a new card of Pope Leo XIV that was all over eBay. We&
  
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• Glioblastoma brain cancer research: Study provides glimmer of hope

  19-05-2025 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  A new study by Mass General Brigham researchers provides a glimmer of hope for patients with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly form of brain cancer in adults.
  The researchers found that glioblastoma patients who received a common anti-seizure and pain drug — gabapentin — ended up living longer.
  “This study is an exciting step forward,” said lead author Joshua Bernstock, a clinical fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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• Global shares slide and US futures and dollar drop after Moody’s downgrade of US credit rating

  19-05-2025 13:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIANG JUNZHE, Associated Press
  HONG KONG (AP) — Global shares fell Monday and U.S. futures and the dollar also weakened after Moody’s Ratings downgraded the sovereign credit rating for the United States because of its failure to stem a rising tide of debt.
  The future for the S&P 500 lost 1.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.8%. The U.S. dollar slipped to 144.92 Japanese yen from 145.65 yen. The euro advanced to $1.1254 from $1.1183.
  The yield on the 10-y
  
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• Mark Delgado’s return ends early in LAFC’s El Trafico draw with Galaxy

  19-05-2025 07:23 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON — Mark Delgado wanted to win so bad, he thinks that’s the reason he cramped up Sunday at Dignity Health Sports Park.
  In the 69th minute of the 25th edition of El Trafico, Delgado, 30, was forced to do the last thing he would have wanted in his return to the building where he won the MLS Cup last November with the Galaxy.
  Not play.
  “It was disappointing, man,” Delgado said following the 2-2 draw. “I was so fired up, so angry to come off with cramps. It came ou
  
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• UCLA softball cruises into NCAA Super Regional with win over UC Santa Barbara

  19-05-2025 06:47 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The quest for championship No. 13 continues.
  Jordan Woolery and Megan Grant hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning to highlight the UCLA softball team’s 12-1 rout of UC Santa Barbara in a game that ended via a five-inning mercy rule on Sunday at Easton Stadium in the Los Angeles Regional Final.
  The No. 9-seeded Bruins, who improved to 52-10 overall, advance to the Super Regional round starting May 22 for a best-of-three series at No. 8 South Carolina. The winne
  
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• Late goal helps Galaxy earn draw against rival LAFC in El Trafico

  19-05-2025 06:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Galaxy forward Marco Reus, right, high fives Galaxy defender Mauricio Cuevas after Reus scores a goal against the LAFC during the second half of an MLS soccer match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, May 18, 2025.The match ended in a draw 2-2.(Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)
  LAFC forward Nathan Ordaz, front, its upended by Galaxy midfielder Edwin Cerrillo during the first half of an MLS soccer match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on S
  
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• Swanson: Sparks going in right direction but growing pains are inevitable

  19-05-2025 05:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Sparks are figuring it out, they’re growing, they’re learning and, oh yeah, they’re banged up already so they’re short-handed too.
  It is what it is.
  And it’s fine, I guess. Actually, it’s kind of a drag that this is where L.A.’s WNBA team is.
  That one of the league’s original teams – and its original glamour team – is playing catchup while women’s basketball takes
  
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• Five degrees of wacky after Clown College

  19-05-2025 02:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Their driver’s licenses may identify them as Leonard Quan, Veronica Champion, Chaim Silverstein Fisher, Sandy Sopher and Hash Helmi.
  But after graduating from the Laguna Woods Senior Clown Alley Clown College, this diverse group morphed into Roli Poli, Patty Cake, Cheesecake, Twinkles and Speedee, respectively.
  Some members of the Laguna Woods Senior Clown Alley join recent graduates of the Clown College. The Clown Alley has around 40 members.
  (Courtesy of Margo Bender)
  Four of the five gr
  
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• Short-handed Sparks fall to Lynx in home opener

  19-05-2025 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Guard Kelsey Plum #10 of the Sparks reacts after fouling out in the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Sparks at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Photo by Libby Cline-Birmingham, Contributing Photographer)
  Guard Kelsey Plum #10 of the Sparks talks to the official after receiving her fifth personal foul in the second half of a WNBA basketball game at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Photo by Libby Cline-Birmingham, Contr
  
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• Long Beach Pride Parade celebrates power of local LGBTQ community

  19-05-2025 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Pride flags, rainbows, music and more were on display during the annual Long Beach Pride Parade, which welcomed thousands of people to the city’s downtown waterfront area on Sunday, May 18.
  The parade began with the group “Dykes on Bikes” rolling down Ocean Boulevard on their motorcyles and Chappell Roan’s song “Hot to Go,” playing from the Port of Long Beach float  right behind them — which got people cheering and dancing.
  As the Pride Parade does
  
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• Angels complete Freeway Series sweep of Dodgers

  19-05-2025 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Angels’ Travis d’Arnaud gestures after hitting a solo home run during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Dodgers, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Dodgers starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Angels, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
  Angels starting pitcher Yusei Kikuchi throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against
  
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• PGA Championship: Scottie Scheffler pulls away to win 3rd major title

  19-05-2025 01:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Adam Scott, of Australia, hits from the fairway on the third hole during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt York)
  Scottie Scheffler waves after making a putt on the second hole during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at the Quail Hollow Club, Sunday, May 18, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
  Alex Noren, of Sweden, hits from the bunker on the second hole
  
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