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• First US utility seeks permit for a small nuclear reactor

  20-05-2025 15:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press
  For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor.
  The nation’s largest public power company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced Tuesday it submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a small, modular nuclear reactor. It wants to develop next-generation nuclear power in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at its Clinch River site.
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• Is the Trump administration’s plan to tax all Chinese-built ships a good idea?

  20-05-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Trump administration recently announced a plan for steep port fees on Chinese-built vessels, which dominate global trade and are frequently in San Diego Bay.
  The idea is to limit China’s dominance in the seas by making it more expensive to use their vessels and, in theory, push the nation’s importers into the arms of the comparatively small U.S. shipbuilding industry.
  The new Chinese levies, which wouldn’t take effect until mid-October, could cost an importer roughly $150 a
  
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• Races for Philly district attorney and Pittsburgh mayor take center stage in Pennsylvania’s primary

  20-05-2025 14:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY, Associated Press
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Voters on Tuesday will choose new candidates to run for some of the top jobs in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with the winners of the Democratic primaries all but assured of victory in November in the two heavily Democratic cities.
  In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner is seeking a third term as district attorney of the nation’s sixth-most populous city.
  The longtime civil rights lawyer has, at times, come under heavy criticism as a prose
  
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• Trump is heading to Capitol Hill to persuade divided GOP to unify around his ‘big, beautiful’ bill

  20-05-2025 14:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and LEAH ASKARINAM, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill early Tuesday to seal the deal on his “big, beautiful bill,” using the power of political persuasion to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing ahead of planned votes this week.
  Trump has implored GOP holdouts to “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE.” But negotiations are slogging
  
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• Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff

  20-05-2025 13:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME, Associated Press
  BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House this week, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy roamed a memorial to farm attacks in their country’s agricultural heartland, some touching the names of the dead — both Black and white.
  Here in Bothaville, where thousands of farmers gathered for a lively agricultural fair
  
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• While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance

  20-05-2025 13:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE BATES, Associated Press
  TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado destroyed his home, Brian Lowery still looks through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band.
  “I still have hope,” Lowery said.
  Lowery considers himself lucky. He, his wife and 13-year-old son made it to safety before the tornado ripped apart their trailer home of 15 years. Despite his positive outlook, Lowery admits he
  
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• Iran’s supreme leader rejects US stance on uranium enrichment

  20-05-2025 13:19 via ocregister.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday pushed back against U.S. criticism of the country’s nuclear program, saying that Tehran won’t seek permission from anyone to enrich uranium and calling American statements “nonsense.”
  “They say, ‘We won’t allow Iran to enrich uranium.’ That’s way out of line,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a memorial for late President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash las
  
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• To keep communities safe, fund the work that prevents violence

  20-05-2025 10:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Last month, I was invited to a meeting with public safety experts strategizing how to deescalate a neighborhood conflict already showing signs of violence. At the meeting, a seasoned LAPD officer told me that if anyone was going to put this out, it would be the local CVI organization.
  This wasn’t a symbolic nod, it was a 30-year law enforcement veteran recognizing that community-based violence intervention (CVI) is what prevents shootings. That kind of trust speaks volumes &mdash
  
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• Let the kids speak: AB 802 brings accountability to juvenile halls

  20-05-2025 09:56 via ocregister.com
  
  <p><span style="font-weight: 400">In some of California’s juvenile halls, food hasn’t just been scarce – it’s been weaponized as a form of child abuse.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400">For years in Los Angeles County’s facilities, guards used the lack of quality meals to manipulate the children in their custody, offering fast food as a reward for violence. Guards would refer to a child they wanted beaten by telling othe
  
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• Santa Margarita girls and Northwood boys claim CIF State swimming titles

  20-05-2025 08:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowSanta Margarita’s girls extended their title reign and Northwood’s boys returned to the top at the CIF State swimming and diving championships Saturday at Clovis West High in Fresno.
  The Eagles followed the lead of standout Teagan O’Dell to a sixth consecutive title while the Timberwolves employed their depth to claim their first crown since 2018.
  After a one-year absence at the meet, O&
  
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• Dodgers’ pitching struggles continue in loss to Diamondbacks as losing streak reaches 4

  20-05-2025 07:38 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — This is not what they paid for.
  The Dodgers committed over $740 million to seven free agent pitchers over the past two offseasons. Only two of them – Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tanner Scott – are currently on the active roster. Fourteen pitchers in all are on the Injured List, an egalitarian group that features the old (Kirby Yates) and the young (Roki Sasaki), the homegrown and the imported.
  Stitching together a pitching staff from the available parts has been &ldquo
  
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• Angels hang on against A’s for 4th straight win

  20-05-2025 07:21 via ocregister.com
  
  WEST SACRAMENTO — The setting could not have been more different, but the result was the same.
  After the Angels swept a three-game series over the weekend at raucous Dodger Stadium, they headed north to play in the Triple-A park that is the temporary home of the Athletics.
  The change of scenery notwithstanding, the Angels ran their winning streak to four with a 4-3 victory over the A’s on Monday night.
  “I think we’re scoring more runs earlier on the game,” said Nola
  
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• New CHP vehicles aim to blend into traffic to target ‘video game’ style drivers

  20-05-2025 05:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Drivers weaving in and out of lanes, speeding and road raging may see themselves pulled over by a nontraditional law enforcement vehicle as the California Highway Patrol adds low-profile vehicles in a bid to target reckless drivers.
  Describing the level of recklessness seen on highways and roads as “video game-styled,” the CHP’s addition of 100 Dodge Durangos that resemble the vehicle of a garden-variety commuter rather than a law enforcement officer is meant to curb dangerous
  
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• Bright futures ahead: CSUF starts four days of commencement ceremonies

  20-05-2025 04:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton commencement ceremonies kicked off Monday, with more than 11,000 Titans eligible to receive diplomas.
  Some 9,500 undergrads will receive a bachelor’s degree, 1,693 of the graduates are master’s candidates and 99 are doctoral candidates.
  Tens of thousands of family members and friends are expected to gather on campus to celebrate at 12 ceremonies planned over four days.
  This academic year was Ronald Rochon’s first as president, having come to Fullerton after
  
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• Dodgers’ outfield depth grows with returns of Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman

  20-05-2025 04:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — As the Dodgers wait for any of their many injured pitchers to return, there is one area of the team that is back to full strength – the outfield.
  Teoscar Hernandez was activated from the Injured List on Monday after missing two weeks with a strained adductor muscle in his left leg. Tommy Edman returned on Sunday and started in center field.
  Dodgers manager Dave Roberts now has six options to sort through for three positions – Hernandez, Edman, Andy Pages, Michael
  
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• Angels’ Matthew Lugo gets big league career off to hot start

  20-05-2025 03:16 via ocregister.com
  
  WEST SACRAMENTO — Matthew Lugo is doing what Kyren Paris did back in April.
  The Angels are hoping the next chapter of the story is different.
  Manager Ron Washington gave ample warnings to pump the brakes on the hype for Paris after his sensational opening two weeks, and he’s doing the same now that Lugo has gotten his big league career off to a hot start.
  “You guys hype it up because of what you’re seeing, and that’s OK, but the game of baseball is about how consist
  
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• Body of UC Santa Barbara student who went missing in Big Bear Lake found

  20-05-2025 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The body of a 22-year-old UC Santa Barbara student who went missing from Big Bear Lake over the weekend was found in water near a marina on Monday, May 19.
  The search for Tanner Prentiss, who went missing early Saturday, began after he did not return to his rental cabin following a night out. Officials said he had visited Big Bear Lake with some friends and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. on the 4000 block of Village Drive and walked northbound toward Big Bear Boulevard.
  Around 10:23 a.m. on Mon
  
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• Family of LA County sheriff’s deputy who died after fire at training facility files wrongful death suit

  20-05-2025 02:06 via ocregister.com
  
  The family of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who died months after he was burned in a fire at a training facility in October 2023 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county, the department and the manufacturer of the mobile shooting range where the deputy was taking a firearms assessment.
  In the complaint, attorneys representing the family of Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores say that the buildup of dangerous amounts of unburned gunpowder residue, lead, propellen
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, May 19

  20-05-2025 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, May 19
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  MONDAY’S SCORES
  SOFTBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Round 2
  DIVISION 3
  Kennedy 11, Royal 2
  Ken: Torrez 4-5, 2B, 2R, 2RBI. Flores HR. Cheng 3-5, 2B, 3RBI (W, 7IP 2H 2R
  
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• US sends 68 migrants back to Honduras and Colombia in first voluntary deportation

  20-05-2025 01:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By CLAUDIO ESCALÓN and MARLON GONZÁLEZ
  SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The United States on Monday sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries, the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations.
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• Richard Bausch considers ‘The Fate of Others’ in new story collection

  20-05-2025 01:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The Chicago Tribune once called Richard Bausch a writer’s kind of writer, “the kind passed around and treasured by other writers as models of approach and perception.”
  In his expansive career, the 80-year-old Bausch, a writing professor at Chapman University in Orange, has penned 13 novels and 10 short story collections. His work has earned almost too many laurels to count, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wall
  
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• Texas lawmakers OK former Uvalde mayor’s effort to fix police failures in Robb Elementary attack

  20-05-2025 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM VERTUNO
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers on Monday passed a plan sponsored by Uvalde’s former mayor to fix police failures laid bare by the hesitant law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022, sending the bill to the governor days ahead of the third anniversary of the massacre.
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• Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival returns to Dodgers Stadium in November

  20-05-2025 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is headed back to Los Angeles for its eleventh installment.
  Although the lineup has yet to be announced for the Los Angeles-based music festival produced in collaboration with Goldenvoice, it will certainly return on Nov. 15 and 16 to the Dodger Stadium grounds. The festival has become a hot commodity, selling out on the day of advance sale for the past two years.
  If you’re not looking to miss out this year, you’ll want to snag a pas
  
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• Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival returns to Dodger Stadium in November

  20-05-2025 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is headed back to Los Angeles for its eleventh installment.
  Although the lineup has yet to be announced for the Los Angeles-based music festival produced in collaboration with Goldenvoice, it will certainly return on Nov. 15 and 16 to the Dodger Stadium grounds. The festival has become a hot commodity, selling out on the day of advance sale for the past two years.
  If you’re not looking to miss out this year, you’ll want to snag a pas
  
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• China’s terracotta warriors arrive in OC: Bowers Museum to host ancient army

  20-05-2025 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Monday felt like Christmas morning at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
  But, instead of unwrapping gifts under the tree, museum curators unboxed something historic: 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors from China.
  When the Bowers’ “World of the Terracotta Warriors” exhibit opens on Saturday, May 24, it will mark the first time in seven years that any of the famous 8,000 statues from Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum in Xi’an, China, have been displayed in the U.S., muse
  
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• Ancient army arrives in OC: Bowers Museum to host China’s terracotta warriors

  20-05-2025 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Monday felt like Christmas morning at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
  But, instead of unwrapping gifts under the tree, museum curators unboxed something historic: 2,200-year-old terracotta warriors from China.
  When the Bowers’ “World of the Terracotta Warriors” exhibit opens on Saturday, May 24, it will mark the first time in seven years that any of the famous 8,000 statues from Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum in Xi’an, China, have been displayed in the U.S., muse
  
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• Nebraska to ban soda and energy drinks from SNAP under first USDA waiver

  20-05-2025 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA
  Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps.
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• Orange County DA ‘knew his office was in trouble,’ lawyer for ex-prosecutor says

  20-05-2025 01:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer forced out a high-level prosecutor who was trying to protect lower-level colleagues who had suffered serial sexual harassment by another supervisor with close ties to Spitzer, an attorney for the former prosecutor told jurors on Monday, May 19, at the outset of a high-profile civil trial.
  Former Senior Assistant District Attorney Tracy Miller is also accusing Spitzer of misconduct in a pair of high-profile capital murder cases, as part of a lawsuit ag
  
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• Shipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter

  20-05-2025 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By MINGSON LAU
  CAMDEN, Delaware (AP) — A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service truck for three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered.
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• OC boys volleyball teams to compete for first CIF State championships

  20-05-2025 01:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The quest for the first CIF State boys volleyball championships begins Tuesday.
  This is the first season for CIF State boys volleyball finals. Southern California Regional playoffs started in 2009. The California high school boys volleyball season ended with regional finals.
  The first CIF State boys volleyball finals are at Fresno City College on May 31. Girls volleyball has had CIF State championships since 2003.
  With six teams from CIF Southern Section Division 1 participating in the eight-tea
  
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• Federal prosecutors in LA work to ‘neutralize California’s sanctuary state policy’

  20-05-2025 00:56 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles on Monday announced the launch of a program to file complaints and arrest warrants to allow federal law enforcement to take defendants into federal custody from state jails.
  The program, called Operation Guardian Angel, seeks “to neutralize California’s sanctuary state policy and protect Americans from criminal illegal aliens incarcerated in county jails by issuing federal arrest warrants for them,” according to the U.S. At
  
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• Swanson: Pay attention Lakers, Clippers – the NBA has entered its Depth Era

  20-05-2025 00:08 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s really not that deep.
  In this Anybody’s Ballgame Era of the NBA, a team needs enough dependable bodies to push it up to the mountaintop. A team needs depth.
  Even more than it needs superstars, it needs to be a real squad.
  That’s what the Lakers and Clippers ought to take from these NBA Playoffs, which have been whittled down to the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder vs. No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference finals, starting Tuesday; and the No. 3 New York Kn
  
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