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• Venice Summer Festival celebrates the Westside community this weekend

  17-06-2025 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A street party in celebration of the Westside is returning to Mar Vista this weekend with thousands of people expected to attend the free annual Venice Summer Fest.
  The festival will take place from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21 at 12257 Venice Blvd. and will include music on four stages, plus vendors, food trucks and a bunch of free stuff.
  “It’s basically like going to a free music festival all day,” said Sarah Fisk, founder of Venice Summer Festival.
  The day will start
  
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• US spies said Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment

  17-06-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.
  The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.
  But President Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Was
  
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• Recipes: Cherries are in season; use them to make this relish for grilled meat

  17-06-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  A couple of years ago I bought a fancy cherry pitter at Sur La Table. For decades I’d been using the two I’d inherited from my mother. I loved those one-at-a-time pitters, but they disappeared. Most likely I left them behind at a cooking class. The new pitter works on 6 cherries at a time, pushing out the pits and leaving the cherries in pristine condition.
  Now that they are in season, I love to showcase those irresistible pitted orbs in a relish used to spoon over grilled pork tende
  
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• Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court

  17-06-2025 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By CEDAR ATTANASIO
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday as he was trying to accompany a person out of a courtroom.
  A reporter with The Associated Press witnessed Lander’s arrest at a federal building in Manhattan. The person Lander was walking out of the courtroom was also arrested.
  Lander had spent the morning observing immigration court hearings and told an AP reporter t
  
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• Taco Bell introduces Crispy Chicken Strips in tacos and burritos

  17-06-2025 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Taco Bell will introduce Crispy Chicken Strips in three new items, plus two new sauces, on Tuesday, June 17.
  The Irvine-based chain will be serving a Crispy Chicken Taco for about $2.79. It will feature one chicken strip, purple cabbage, lettuce, pico de gallo and shredded cheddar cheese. It will be accompanied by the new sauces, Spicy Ranchero and Avocado Ranch.
  A Crispy Chicken Burrito made with two chicken strips and the same ingredients will go for about $5.49.
  Crispy Chicken Strips by thems
  
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• What if health insurance denies payment for my treatment? Ask the Lawyer

  17-06-2025 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I was out of state when I had an emergency situation and was hospitalized. As part of the care, a specialist was brought in because it was necessary. The good news is I am recovering, but my health insurance says the specialist was out of network, so it won’t pay for his charges. This was a life-and-death situation! Can I get the health insurance to pay?
  R.C., Seal Beach
  Ron Sokol
  A: Glad to hear you are recuperating. With regard to the denial by your health insurer, there are steps tha
  
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• Butterflies are disappearing. Here’s how community scientists are working to save them.

  17-06-2025 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  A butterfly flits past the window at the Castlewood Canyon Visitor Center, where dozens of volunteers have gathered to learn about Colorado’s declining butterfly population and how they can do their part to save it.
  Shiran Hershcovich, a lepidopterist at the Westminster-based Butterfly Pavilion who’s leading the Saturday morning training, ushers the group outside to watch the mourning cloak butterfly as it settles on a blooming tree.
  It lightly beats its wings until someone shuffles
  
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• NAACP files intent to sue Elon Musk’s xAI company over supercomputer air pollution

  17-06-2025 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADRIAN SAINZ
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The NAACP filed an intent to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI on Tuesday over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer near predominantly Black communities in Memphis.
  The xAI data center began operating last year, powered by pollution-emitting gas turbines, without first applying for a permit. Officials have said an exemption allowed them to operate for up to 364 days without a permit, but Southern Environment
  
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• JetBlue steps up cost cuts on weaker-than-expected travel demand

  17-06-2025 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Mary Schlangenstein
  (Bloomberg) — JetBlue Airways Corp. plans to hasten cost cuts by eliminating some flights, ending service to a number of cities and restructuring its leadership ranks as economic uncertainty feeds weaker-than-expected demand for travel, the company said in an internal memo.
  The carrier will eliminate underperforming routes and plans to announce network changes in coming weeks, according to the memo from Chief Executive Officer Joanna Geraghty seen by Bloomberg on Tuesda
  
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• 40 hours of violence and fear as gunman stalks Minnesota politicians

  17-06-2025 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM SULLIVAN and STEVE KARNOWSKI
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violence and fear swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis for more than 40 hours over the weekend as a man seemingly intent on sowing political devastation killed one Minnesota state lawmaker and left another bleeding from nine bullet wounds.
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