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• 2 new malaria treatments announced as drug resistance grows

  12-11-2025 23:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs.
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• In ‘The American Revolution,’ Ken Burns’ filmmakers go back to the beginning

  12-11-2025 23:38 via ocregister.com
  
  When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago.
  “Ken always says these films take 10 years,” says Sarah Botstein, who co-directed the series with David Schmidt and Burns. “From the second he goes, ‘We’re going to make “The American Revolution”‘ to when it broadcasts is 10 years.”
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• Chinese scientist pleads guilty in US smuggling case and will be quickly deported

  12-11-2025 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By ED WHITE
  DETROIT (AP) — A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty Wednesday but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody.
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• 2 Federal Reserve officials oppose an interest rate cut in December

  12-11-2025 23:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Federal Reserve officials expressed opposition Wednesday to another interest rate cut at the central bank’s next meeting in December, further muddying the outlook for the Fed’s next steps.
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• Review: ‘Shucked’ serves up bushels full of laughs at Segerstrom Center

  12-11-2025 22:55 via ocregister.com
  
  From “Oklahoma!” we learned that corn stalks reach as high as an elephant’s eye, but in the feel-real-good, maize-centric musical “Shucked,” now at Segerstrom Hall, quirky jokiness stacks up way higher than that.
  Skeptical? Here are a few of its countrified non sequiturs.
  “When we were kids we would make sand castles with grandma … ’til grandpa started hiding the urn.”
  “But like the fast food cashier said, change is never easy.”
  
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• Volunteers fabric quilts out of gratitude for veterans’ service

  12-11-2025 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Five veterans from the Reata Glen Retirement Community in Mission Viejo, including two who served during World War II, were blanketed with an extra layer of warmth and comfort as a gesture of gratitude for their service to their country.
  Dozens of Reata Glen residents filled the community’s meeting hall as “quilts of valor” were wrapped around the shoulders of the five honorees, the highlight of the retirement community’s annual Veterans Day ceremony.
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• Queens of the Stone Age reinvent themselves brilliantly at the Dolby Theatre

  12-11-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Late in Queens of the Stone Age‘s strange and wonderful night in Hollywood on Tuesday, singer Josh Homme paused to state the obvious.
  “I know it’s all a bit strange and unusual, and a little terrifying,” Homme said of a performance that deconstructed the band’s catalog to reinvent them in unprecedented new arrangements. “Hasn’t been an easy time.
  “Well, tough (bleep), Larry, life is scary,” he continued to laughter from the sold-out Dolby The
  
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• South Carolina lawmakers not only lose raise but also $1,000 a month in pay after court ruling

  12-11-2025 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFFREY COLLINS
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers improperly gave themselves a $1,500 monthly raise, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a unanimous decision that will end up cutting legislators’ pay by thousands of dollars.
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• Newsom plays climate warrior, compromiser and coy candidate

  12-11-2025 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom still insists he hasn’t decided to run for president in 2028. But after persuading California’s voters to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to grab more Democratic seats, he embarked on a flurry of appearances that had the distinct aroma of a political campaign.
  He did an interview on CNN, jetted off to Texas to crow about California’s passage of the Proposition 50 gerrymander at a rally of Democrats — some chanted about a 2028 candid
  
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• Fall Signing Day 2025: Brody Schumaker among Santa Margarita’s signees

  12-11-2025 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita’s signing day ceremony included two-time All-Orange County baseball infielder Brody Schmaker.
  Schumaker signed with Texas Christian University.
  His father, Skip Schumaker, was an All-Orange County player at Aliso Niguel and last month was named manager of the Texas Rangers.
  Brody Schumaker was among seven Eagles baseball players to sign Wednesday. Another was catcher Warren Gavely IV, All-County fourth team last season, who signed with Notre Dame.
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• Empowering home cooks and micro-entrepreneurs here in Orange County

  12-11-2025 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County prides itself on being a hub of innovation and opportunity. From the small business corridors of Anaheim to the bustling restaurant scene in Santa Ana and Irvine, we know the power of entrepreneurship to fuel local economies. But when it comes to one of the most promising and low-cost pathways to economic mobility, Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO), Orange County is lagging behind.The MEHKO program, already successfully implemented in Los Angeles County and several ot
  
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• FIVB suspends Ally Batenhorst after positive drug test

  12-11-2025 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Rising beach volleyball star Ally Batenhorst, the partner of world champion Sara Hughes, has been suspended by the sport’s international governing body after testing positive for a banned substance, the Southern California News Group has learned.
  Batenhorst is appealing the decision, her agent Thomas P. McCarthy confirmed to SCNG.
  Batenhorst, 23, tested positive for what McCarthy described as a prescription medication after a match at the Elite 16 tournament, a Beach Pro Tour stop in Newpo
  
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• Clippers lose Bradley Beal for the season with a fractured hip

  12-11-2025 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers guard Bradley Beal will undergo season-ending surgery for a fractured left hip, the latest setback in his 13-year career, the Clippers announced Wednesday.
  Beal, 32, suffered the injury during a recent game against the Phoenix Suns when he took a charge. He played the next two games and matched a season-high 12 points but was ruled out indefinitely Monday before the Clippers faced the Atlanta Hawks and was scheduled for further testing.
  Beal was looking forward to a fresh start with the
  
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• At ‘Make America Healthy Again’ summit, Vance praises RFK Jr.

  12-11-2025 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s willingness to question established science and embrace nontraditional voices in the health care space, saying that often throughout history, “all the experts were wrong.”
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• More than 80 nonprofits receive $250M for global women’s health from Melinda French Gates

  12-11-2025 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By THALIA BEATY
  More than 80 organizations that provide health care for women all over the world received grants Wednesday totaling $250 million from Melinda French Gates after a year-long application process.
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• LA 2028 Olympics schedule dashes Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s double-gold dreams

  12-11-2025 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  LA28 released the competition schedule for the 2028 Olympic Games that will likely draw worldwide criticism for failing to maximize the exposure and competitive opportunities for arguably the Games’ biggest star.
  The Games’ track and field schedule makes it all but impossible for American sprinter/hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the two-time Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion and reigning world champion in the 400 meters, to attempt an unprecedented sweep of the 400 and 400 hurdle
  
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• Mentally ill people are stuck in jail because they can’t get treatment. Here’s what’s to know

  12-11-2025 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAFIYAH RIDDLE, Associated Press/Report For America
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station.
  He died while waiting for the treatment that never arrived, found unresponsive in his jail cell.
  Clark was just one of hundreds of people across Alabama awaiting a spot in the state’s increa
  
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• Rafael Perez: Trump and Hegseth’s deadly contempt for human life

  12-11-2025 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The American military on Sunday once again blew up alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, killing 6. The death toll is now 76 or more. The United Kingdom, our closest ally, has reportedly limited intelligence sharing with the U.S. for fear that they would be complicit in the illegal killings – the UK shares intelligence with the U.S. about drug trafficking in the Caribbean. 
  The United Nations Human Rights Council has also determined that the strikes amount to extrajudicial murder accor
  
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• What to know as the US Mint in Philadelphia presses its final penny

  12-11-2025 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press
  The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday pressed its last penny, marking the latest step in the 1-cent coin’s demise.
  President Donald Trump ordered the cancelation of the penny earlier this year, noting that the cost of making them had became more than their value.
  Here’s what you should know about the penny’s long history in the U.S.
  When was the first penny minted?
  The penny was one of the first coins made by the U.S. Mint after its es
  
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• These are the 37 donors helping pay for Trump’s $300 million White House ballroom

  12-11-2025 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his $300 million White House ballroom will be paid for “100% by me and some friends of mine.”
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• By the numbers: The government shutdown’s toll on air travel in the US

  12-11-2025 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By RIO YAMAT, Associated Press
  America’s aviation system is straining under the weight of the longest government shutdown on record: thousands of flight cancellations, long delays at major airports and frustrated travelers nationwide.
  In an unprecedented move, the Federal Aviation Administration last week ordered airlines to scale back domestic flight schedules, saying the cuts are meant to ease pressure on an overstretched system and help manage air traffic control staffing.
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• Judge denies Rose Bowl temporary restraining order keeping UCLA from deal with SoFi Stadium

  12-11-2025 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The City of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl Operating Company’s request for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against UCLA, in an effort to attempt to halt its attempt to move home football games from the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena to SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, has been denied due to the plaintiffs’ showing a lack of emergency on the issue, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday morning.
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• Fannie Mae ethics team gutted as they investigated FHFA head Pulte

  12-11-2025 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  AP Photo/John ClarkNew York Attorney General Letitia James, speaks to the media after pleading not guilty outside the United States District Courtin Norfolk, Va. on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/John Clark)
  By Theresa Braine | New York Daily News
  Anti-DEI measures cited to justify laying off 62 Fannie Mae employees last month may have been a foil for firing ethics investigators looking into whether director Bill Pulte improperly obtained mortgage records for New York Attorney General Letitia
  
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• 6 novels set in the American West featuring cowboys and complexity

  12-11-2025 21:02 via ocregister.com
  
  I love a Western.Maybe it’s because my dad had old movies playing on the TV throughout my childhood, or maybe it’s because I grew up in rural California, where it was easy to imagine cowboys and campfires.Nowadays, I gravitate toward what I would call “modern literary Westerns,” with their strong sense of place and complex look at the issues and ethics in how this side of America was built. Plus, they’re usually good yarns. 
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• SeaWorld San Diego rolls out 2 new shows for Christmas holidays

  12-11-2025 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  SeaWorld San Diego will transform sunny Southern California into a dazzling winter wonderland during the holidays with two new shows, faux snowfall, real reindeer, singing elves and San Diego’s largest Christmas tree.
  SeaWorld San Diego’s Christmas Celebration will run on select dates from Friday, Nov. 14 through Jan. 4.
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• Prosecutors turn over 130,000 pages of evidence in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker

  12-11-2025 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys in the case of a man charged with killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband said Wednesday that prosecutors have turned over a massive amount of evidence to the defense, and that his lawyers need more time to review it.
  Federal prosecutor Harry Jacobs told the court that investigators have provided substantially all of the evidence they have collected against Vance Boelter. He’s pleaded not guilty to
  
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• Disneyland reopens 6 attractions before busy Christmas holiday season

  12-11-2025 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland will reopen a handful of popular attractions following seasonal refurbishments to help absorb holiday crowds as the Anaheim theme park resort lifts the curtain on the Christmas season that has become the busiest time of the year.
  It’s a Small World, Storybook Land Canal Boats, Casey Jr. Circus Train and Redwood Creek Challenge Trail will return on Friday, Nov. 14 — the kickoff date for the winter holiday season at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
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• John Park’s Rise Bagels brings the perfect chew to Irvine

  12-11-2025 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Promising airy yet crisp bagels with a signature bouncy chew — the hallmarks of a great bagel — chef-owner John Park has just opened Rise Bagels, his first dedicated bagel joint, in Irvine.
  “Our goal with Rise is to re-imagine what a bagel can be — airy and crisp with a good chew, topped or sandwiched with flavors that celebrate both seasonality and what we love to eat here in SoCal with the diverse produce and cuisine available to us,” said Park in a written statem
  
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• Fall Signing Day 2025: Mater Dei’s Luke Barnett, Kaeli Wynn sign

  12-11-2025 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Two All-Orange County senior basketball players for Mater Dei signed with their college choices Wednesday.
  Luke Barnett signed with Kansas and Kaeli Wynn signed with South Carolina.
  Wynn was All-County first team last season when she averaged 17 points, seven rebounds and three assists a game. Her mother, Jody Wynn, who was an Orange County player of the year at Brea Olinda High, is the Mater Dei girls basketball coach.
  Kaeli Wynn plays girls basketball at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, CA.
  
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• Sotheby’s says a diamond brooch lost by Napoleon as his forces fled Waterloo sells for $4.4 million

  12-11-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early 19th century sold for more than 3.5 million Swiss francs (about $4.4 million) at a Geneva auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said.
  The brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, features an oval diamond weighing over 13 carats surrounded by smaller cut diamonds. The sale price vastly outstripped the high end of the pre-sale estimate of 200,000 francs.
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• The best bakeries in Orange County right now

  12-11-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Baking is a higher purpose. Ask any bleary-eyed baker who wakes up at 3 a.m. to tend to proofed loaves, laminated dough and tender sponges. Such passion and dedication is evident in dozens of bakeries around Orange County. With the holidays fast approaching, this guide details some of the best-of-the-best to help you plan your Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts accordingly. This list features a range of specialties, from European-style boulangerie (breads), viennoiserie (croissants/pastries) to a
  
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• Fall Signing Day 2025: Mater Dei’s Layli Ostovar says USC ‘felt like home’

  12-11-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei senior volleyball player Layli Ostovar had committed to USC long ago.
  Making that decision removed the pressure that top high school athletes often feel when they are choosing from a variety of scholarship offers.
  Then comes the signing of the financial aid agreement, which formerly was known as the “letter of intent,” which makes it official.
  When Ostovar announced her USC decision well before her senior season began, she had no second thoughts.
  On Wednesday, Ostovar signe
  
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• ‘A day without fear’: Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid immigration crackdown

  12-11-2025 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press
  CHICAGO (AP) — The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands and candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need.
  Since the start of a federal immigration crackdown that has led to more than 3,200 arrests in the Chicago metropolitan area, s
  
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• Solution goes on auction for CIA HQ’s ‘Kryptos’ sculpture that has stumped code breakers for decades

  12-11-2025 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL CASEY
  BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes.
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• Travel: The islands of Indonesia offer unforgettable experiences

  12-11-2025 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Good thing the Abui tribe no longer headhunts. Although on Indonesia’s remote Alor island, a village elder menacingly pointed a rustic bow and arrow at me, his time-etched face stoic and his white hair capped by a candelabra-like ornament of feathers. A sharpened machete protruded from a sheath belted to his one-shouldered ancestral sarong.
  Turns out, accompanied by beating drums, clanging gongs, and shrill unnerving shrieks, this was part of an Abui welcoming rite. After that hello, I soo
  
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• Zelenskyy seeks dismissal of justice and energy ministers in Ukrainian corruption probe

  12-11-2025 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMYA KULLAB
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday called for the removal of Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers amid a wide-reaching corruption scandal involving the state nuclear power company.
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• With their government contracts in limbo, small businesses await a historic shutdown’s end

  12-11-2025 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — The end of the longest U.S. government shutdown in history would be a relief for small businesses that depend on federal contracts or funding. For seven weeks, they’ve been reducing spending, weighing layoffs and looking for stable work while trying to reach shuttered government offices, according to several contractors.
  House lawmakers are returning to Washington on Wednesday to vote on compromise legislation that would fund the go
  
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• UK’s Starmer refuses to say whether he will urge Trump to drop his $1 billion BBC threat

  12-11-2025 18:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAN PYLAS
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to say Wednesday whether he would urge U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for a billion dollars over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election.
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• Russia makes gains in southern Ukraine as it expands front-line attacks

  12-11-2025 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ILLIA NOVIKOV
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian army overran three settlements in the southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Kyiv’s top military commander said Wednesday, as Moscow’s forces expand their efforts to capture more Ukrainian territory.
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• Alabama promised to improve psychiatric care for men charged with crimes. They still wait years

  12-11-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station.
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• Sweetgreen opening first ‘Infinite Kitchen’ drive-thru in Orange County

  12-11-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Salad stans, start your engines.
  Sweetgreen, the noted purveyor of salads and protein bowls, has, quite fittingly, chosen the fertile vehicular environs of Orange County for its first drive-thru location with an automated kitchen.
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  Branded by the Los Angeles-based company as a “sweetlane,” the new Sweetgreen drive-thru will
  
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• 2028 Los Angeles Olympics competition schedule announced, including a ‘Super Saturday’

  12-11-2025 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The majority of the competition schedule for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics was announced Wednesday by its organizing committee, LA28.
  The 2028 Games will be the largest in history with 51 sports. The opening ceremony is scheduled for July 14, 2028, with the closing ceremony set for Day 16, July 30, 2028.
  The first medal event will be the triathlon, which will be held in Venice on Day 1, July 15.
  However, as is custom, several team sports will begin preliminary competition before the opening cere
  
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• In-N-Out Burger launches a foundation to fight homelessness

  12-11-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger’s has launched a new nonprofit called the His Eyes Foundation to combat homelessness in the nine states where the chain currently does business.
  His Eyes is holding its inaugural fundraising campaign this month in In-N-Out restaurants, where customers are invited to round up their purchases for the cause. In-N-Out will match contributions three-to-one up to $300,000.
  November is National Homelessness Awareness Month.
  The foundation was formed by In-N-Out owner and president
  
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• Why Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde says the group is more popular than ever

  12-11-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Simon Raymonde had for years refused to write a memoir about his life in Cocteau Twins, the dreamy British post-punk group he’d been in with Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie from 1983 to 1997.
  He’d never cared much for rock musician memoirs, finding most shallow and uninspired. And since Cocteau Twins ended, he’d been focused on his day-to-day life running the English record label Bella Union, which has released music by acts including Father John Misty, Patti Smith, Fleet Fo
  
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• Fall Signing Day 2025: Orange County athletes who are signing, Nov. 12

  12-11-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity is compiling a list of the Orange County high school athletes who will be signing official agreements with a college this week or in the coming weeks.
  The NCAA no longer uses the NLI (National Letter of Intent); athletes now sign “financial aid agreements” to make their signing official.
  Athletes from all sports except football, and who are seniors (Class of 2026), are eligible to sign beginning Wednesday, Nov. 12.
  Our list includes athletes who received a commitment letter
  
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• Climate change is in the news during COP30. We’ve got tips to tackle your climate anxiety

  12-11-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By CALEIGH WELLS, Associated Press
  Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal.
  Some of the information coming out of the COP30 conference is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, vic
  
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• UN watchdog hasn’t been able to verify Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium in months

  12-11-2025 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, Associated Press
  VIENNA (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency has not been able to verify the status of Iran’s near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel and the United States struck the country’s nuclear sites during the 12-day war in June, according to a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog circulated to member states and seen Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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• Global tuberculosis diagnoses rise to a record, but deaths fall, WHO reports

  12-11-2025 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.
  About 8.3 million people across the globe were reported as newly diagnosed with TB in 2024. Not all infections are diagnosed and the new numbers represent 78% of the estimated number of people who actually fell ill last year, the WHO noted.
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• What Americans think about Trump’s management of the government, according to a new poll

  12-11-2025 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL COLVIN and LINLEY SANDERS, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with much of the rising discontent coming from fellow Republicans.
  The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was conducted after Democrats’ recent victories in off-year elections but before Congress took major steps to try to en
  
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• Winter Olympics sports resist push to add cyclocross and cross-country running to their program

  12-11-2025 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Organizers of traditional snow and ice sports said Wednesday they do not want events from summer federations added to their Winter Olympics program.
  Cyclocross and cross-country running — even indoors sports — have been suggested as additions to the Winter Games for the 2030 Olympics hosted in the French Alps and Nice.
  Those would be unwelcome “piecemeal proposals,” the Winter Olympic Federations group of governing bodies said in a state
  
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