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• Hegseth announces operation to ‘eliminate’ Islamic State fighters in Syria after deaths of Americans

  19-12-2025 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, BEN FINLEY and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the start of an operation to “eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites” in Syria following the deaths of three U.S. citizens.
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• What’s inside the released files on Jeffrey Epstein

  19-12-2025 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  <p>The Department of Justice has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/release-epstein-files-justice-department-trump-f919d9dc9c3957cb2bd2c9c1a14b533c">begun releasing its files</a> on <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/jeffrey-epstein">Jeffrey Epstein</a>. The convicted sex offender and wealthy financier was known for his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people, including President Donald Trump, who had long tried to keep the files s
  
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• Winter storm watch for Yosemite from Saturday to Friday – wind gusts up to 50 mph

  19-12-2025 22:42 via ocregister.com
  
  On Friday at 1:40 p.m. a winter storm watch was issued by the National Weather Service valid from Saturday 4 p.m. until Friday Dec. 26, at 4 p.m. for Yosemite.
  According to the NWS Hanford CA, “Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 8 feet. Winds could gust as high as 50 mph.”
  “Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely become slick and hazardous. Travel could be very difficult to impossible. The hazardous conditions could impact the Monday morning
  
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• Flood watch issued for 5 Freeway through Grapevine from Tuesday to Friday triggered by persistent downpours

  19-12-2025 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine is under a flood watch which was issued by the National Weather Service on Friday at 1:29 p.m. The watch is valid from Tuesday 4 p.m. until Friday Dec. 26, at 4 p.m.
  The NWS Hanford CA said, “Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.”
  “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas. Low-water crossings may be flooded,&rdquo
  
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• Rep. Elise Stefanik says she’s suspending her campaign for New York governor, won’t seek reelection

  19-12-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress.
  In a post on X, Stefanik, a Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said “it is not an effective use of our time or your generous resources to spend the first half of next year in an unnecessary and protracted Republican primary, especially in a challenging state like New York.”
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• Rep. Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor and won’t seek reelection to House

  19-12-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress, abruptly bowing out of what was expected to be a bruising Republican primary and ending a once-promising tenure in the House.
  Stefanik, an ally of President Donald Trump, said in a statement that she was confident of her chances in the Republican primary for governor against Bruce B
  
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• Lululemon opens in Downtown Disney just in time for last minute Christmas shopping

  19-12-2025 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneylanders looking for leggings to wear in the park or hoping to find a last minute Christmas gift for a friend can stop by the new Lululemon shop in Downtown Disney that has opened early ahead of its planned 2026 debut.
  The new Lululemon shop opened on Friday, Dec. 19 in the former ESPN Zone at the Anaheim outdoor shopping mall next to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, according to Disneyland officials.
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• Five people sue Universal, claiming Stardust Racers caused severe injuries

  19-12-2025 22:08 via ocregister.com
  Five people have filed separate lawsuits against Universal Orlando Resort, claiming they suffered severe and permanent injuries — in some cases, bleeding of the brain, spinal cord damage and paralysis — after their heads slammed repeatedly against the seat in front of them while riding Stardust Racers at the new Epic Universe theme park.
  It’s the same intense roller coaster that 32-year-old Kevin Rodriguez Zavala rode on the night of Sept. 17 and died shortly afterward.
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• Visit the Queen Mary for free until Sunday, Dec. 21 — but there’s a catch

  19-12-2025 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The historic Queen Mary ocean liner, now a hotel and restaurant in Long Beach, is offering free admission until Sunday, Dec. 21. That’s a savings of $43.46 off regular general admission.
  To take advantage of this offer, you must bring a new, unwrapped toy with you, to donate to “Queen Mary Cares.” The toys are earmarked for needy children in Long Beach.
  Parking costs $20 and is not included in the freebie. But, while you’re there, you might want to check out the special h
  
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• Investigation starts into North Carolina plane crash that killed NASCAR driver Biffle and 6 others

  19-12-2025 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press
  STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family, and three others are trying to figure out who was flying the plane and what caused it to return to the airport soon after takeoff.
  The Cessna C550 erupted into a large fire when it hit the ground Thursday, about a third of a mile from the airport’s runway, killing a
  
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• Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter calls TSA ‘unconstitutional’ after pat-down

  19-12-2025 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  One of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughters said she experienced an “absurdly invasive” pat-down Thursday at an airport security checkpoint and suggested her father would limit or eliminate the Transportation Security Administration if it was under his authority.
  Evita Duffy-Alfonso said on the social platform X that she nearly missed her flight after opting out of a body scan because she said she is pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure. She said she
  
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• Nature is rebounding a year after January’s fires, as plants, wildlife – and even a waterfall – thrive

  19-12-2025 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  When a devastating Jan. 7 wildfire burned through the natural canyons above Altadena, land was charred and left denuded, but worse than that, the spring storm surge unloosed boulders and sediment that washed away trails and creek beds.
  A view of the downtown Los Angeles skyline is seen through burned Mountain Mahogany along the Loma Alta Trail in the Rubio Canyon Preserve in Altadena on Friday, December 12, 2025. The land, owned by Arroyos and Foothills Conservancy which saved the land from deve
  
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• Judge nixes conviction of one of two men found guilty of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

  19-12-2025 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary.
  Nearly two years after a jury delivered its verdict, the decision came from the same Brooklyn federal judge who presided over the trial. In Friday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall granted Karl Jordan Jr. an acquittal on the m
  
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• Boy, 15, stabbed and robbed at Topanga Mall

  19-12-2025 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  A 15-year-old boy was stabbed and robbed at the Westfield Topanga Mall on Thursday evening.
  The robbery occurred around 4:30 p.m. at the mall on the 6600 block of Topanga Canyon in Woodland Hills, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
  After the boy was stabbed with a knife, the robbers took a gold chain from him and fled northbound on Owensmouth Avenue, police said. Both of the attackers were men.
  An ambulance was called for the teen, whose injury police described as a laceration to the armpit
  
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• Settlement abruptly ends Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death trial against Angels, halts jury deliberations

  19-12-2025 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A tentative settlement was announced in the Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death trial against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday morning, Dec. 19 — abruptly ending jury deliberations in the civil case that has grabbed national headlines.
  The details of the settlement have not been divulged.
  But jurors, based on the notes they had sent the judge during several days of deliberations, appeared to indicate they had been strongly considering potentially costly financial penalties against the ball cl
  
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• Angels settle Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death trial, halting jury deliberations

  19-12-2025 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  A settlement was announced in the Tyler Skaggs wrongful-death trial against the Angels on Friday morning, Dec. 19, in a Santa Ana courtroom — abruptly ending jury deliberations in the civil case that has grabbed national headlines.
  The settlement’s terms weren’t divulged.
  But jurors, based on the notes they had sent the judge during several days of deliberations, appeared to be strongly considering costly financial penalties against the ball club.
  Late morning, lawyers for the
  
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• Pedestrian killed after being hit by 2 vehicles in Santa Ana; 1 driver doesn’t stop

  19-12-2025 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  A pedestrian who “walked into traffic” died after being struck by two vehicles on Friday in Santa Ana, police said, and one of the drivers failed to stop.
  The crash occurred at 5:34 a.m on Main Street between Dyer road and Alton Avenue, Santa Ana Police Department Officer Natalie Garcia said.
  The woman “walked into traffic,” Garcia said. Her name and age was not immediately available. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The driver whose vehicle initially struck the pede
  
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• Impatience, frustration with attorneys push some Eaton fire survivors to SCE compensation program

  19-12-2025 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Days after the Eaton fire destroyed the home she rented in Altadena, Liz Huston hired an attorney — a decision she now regrets.
  Frustrated by the attorney’s alleged lack of service, Huston fired the lawyer, asked to be dropped from the lawsuit against Southern California Edison and submitted a claim on her own to SCE’s wildfire compensation program.
  The attorney responded by slapping a lien for services on whatever she gets from SCE, Huston said.
  “I feel really screwed in
  
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• Supreme Court sides with immigration judges in speech case for now, rebuffing Trump administration

  19-12-2025 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with immigration judges on Friday, rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case with possible implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power.
  The decision is a technical step in a long-running case, but it touches on the effects of a series of high-profile firings under President Donald Trump. The justices let stand a ruling that raised q
  
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• Rubio fields questions on Russia-Ukraine, Gaza and Venezuela at wide-ranging news conference

  19-12-2025 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE and DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed in on Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended the Trump administration’s increasing military pressure on Venezuela during a rare, end-of-year news conference Friday.
  In a freewheeling meeting with reporters running more than two hours, Rubio also defended President Donald Trump’s radical overhaul in foreign assistance and detailed the administration’s work to reach
  
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• Elizabeth McCracken recalls being first to read Ann Patchett’s ‘Bel Canto’

  19-12-2025 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including the National Book Award finalist, “The Giant’s House.” She’s been on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and holds the James A. Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. Here, she talks about her new book, “A Long Game,” and her reading life.
  Q. Your new book, “A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction,” is a joy. I grabbed it as I took my dog to the vet, 
  
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• In-House Opinions: Local representatives on lowering healthcare costs

  19-12-2025 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Health care and how to pay for it has been one of the hottest topics in American politics — and around American dinner tables — seemingly since the world was young.
  Certainly since the Affordable Care Act was argued over and then passed into law and signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
  Obamacare aimed to expand health insurance coverage to more Americans and to lower costs. (One of those happened; the other didn’t.) During the COVID-19 pandemic, government subsid
  
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• Paris court rejects bid to suspend Shein platform in France

  19-12-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Friday rejected a government request to suspend Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein in France after authorities found illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the fast-fashion giant’s website.
  Shein welcomed the decision, saying it remains committed to strengthening its control processes in cooperation with French authorities.
  “Our priority remains protecting French consumers and ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations,&rdqu
  
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• States faces a choice on whether to embrace Trump’s tax cuts on tips, overtime and more

  19-12-2025 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID A. LIEB
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — To tax tips or not? That is a question that will confront lawmakers in states across the U.S. as they convene for work next year.
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• Mystery as YouTube creator’s finance livestream appears on White House website

  19-12-2025 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The livestream of a YouTube content creator talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website, raising questions about whether the site was hacked.
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• Young conservative women find a home in Turning Point with Charlie Kirk’s widow at the helm

  19-12-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEJAL GOVINDARAO
  PHOENIX (AP) — Camdyn Glover used to be a quiet conservative. She worried what her teachers would think or if she would lose friends over her convictions. But she said something changed when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, and she started crying in her classroom at Indiana University while other students cheered and clapped.
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• Own vs. rent: Buying is no longer a California financial slam dunk

  19-12-2025 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ben Christopher | CalMatters
  It’s the benchmark of success, a milestone of responsible adulthood, a time-tested way to amass wealth for you and your progeny. Homeownership, we’re told again and again, is a status that every right-thinking person should aspire to — the white-picket-fence-fronted embodiment of the American Dream.
  But what if it’s also a little overrated?
  For generations it has been taken as a near article of faith across the country that ownership is bo
  
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• Federal judge weighs Trump’s claim he is immune from civil litigation over Capitol attack

  19-12-2025 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election.
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• Army sergeant to appear before a military judge on charges that he shot 5 people at Georgia base

  19-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By RUSS BYNUM
  FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army sergeant charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five people at a Georgia base last summer faces arraignment Friday before a military judge.
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• Army sergeant pleads not guilty to charges that he shot 5 people at a Georgia base

  19-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By RUSS BYNUM
  FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army sergeant appearing before a military judge Friday pleaded not guilty in the shootings of five people, including his romantic partner, at a Georgia base where he faces a trial by court-martial in June.
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• Wisconsin Republicans demand Judge Dugan resign or face impeachment after felony conviction

  19-12-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn’t resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.
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• Artist makes stickers to cover Trump’s face on National Parks passes — and the orders are flying in

  19-12-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  It took less than a week for Colorado artist Jenny McCarty’s new project to evolve from good-hearted “micro-activism” to a national phenomenon that’s tapped widespread anger with recent changes to the National Parks Service.
  “With the design that came out for the 2026 National Parks passes, they took away people’s ability to vote on the photographs they love most,” said McCarty, a Boulder, Colorado, water-resource manager who’s been painting images
  
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• ‘6-7,’ Dubai chocolate, Labubu: You took 2025, now scat!

  19-12-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By LEANNE ITALIE
  NEW YORK (AP) — With Labubus hanging from our bags, Dubai chocolate in our bellies and “6-7” ringing in our ears, it’s almost time to bid farewell to a few things that went hard in 2025.
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• Military lawyer swiftly fired from immigration bench after defying Trump deportation push

  19-12-2025 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN
  MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, The Associated Press has learned.
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• Warm weather and low snowpack bedevil Western ski resorts

  19-12-2025 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEAD GRUVER and BRITTANY PETERSON
  EDWARDS, Colo. (AP) — Ski resorts are struggling to open runs, walk-through ice palaces can’t be built, and the owner of a horse stable hopes that her customers will be satisfied with riding wagons instead of sleighs under majestic Rocky Mountain peaks. It’s just been too warm in the West with not enough snow.
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• Alexander: It’s December … and a lot of people miss baseball

  19-12-2025 18:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The world according to Jim:
  This may be a hint of what’s really at stake as baseball’s owners and its Players Association prepare to battle over a new collective bargaining agreement.
  Remember the immediate aftermath of the classic Dodgers-Toronto Blue Jays World Series last month? Large numbers of people posting social media messages about baseball, and about that Series, many of which seemed to be people who either had rekindled their interest in the sport or had been drawn in by t
  
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• Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say

  19-12-2025 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
  A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
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• Stocks rise on Wall Street and pull closer to weekly gains as AI stocks climb

  19-12-2025 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAMIAN J. TROISE
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Friday and further trimmed losses from earlier in the week for several major indexes.
  Related Articles Lazerson’s 2026 mortgage and housing predictions HOA Homefront: Questions on board candidate nominations Silly stocking stuffer ideas from the Nerds Southern California house hunters continue to balk at high prices Palantir CEO buys 3,700-acre Colorado monastery for $120 million
  The S&P 500 jumped
  
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• Ford recalls more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles due to roll-away risk

  19-12-2025 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S. because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away.
  The Detroit automaker said that the recall includes certain 2022-2026 F-150 Lightning BEV, 2024-2026 Mustang Mach-E, and 2025-2026 Maverick vehicles. At issue is the integrated park module, which may fail to lock into the park position when the driver shifts into park.
  Ford said that it will implement a park module software update for free.
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• 4 months in, activists say Trump’s operation in Washington targets immigrants

  19-12-2025 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By GARY FIELDS and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump launched a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., four months ago, he billed it as a mission to fight rampant crime.
  But activists and local leaders say that description belies what has emerged as a simultaneous crackdown on immigrants, who have grown increasingly concerned for their status and safety in the city.
  One-third of all arrests made during the operation were immigration-related, accordi
  
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• No. 4 UCLA women host Long Beach State striving for more

  19-12-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  LOS ANGELES — While Sienna Betts and Lauren Betts playing on the court together may have been the focus of Tuesday evening, coach Cori Close turned to another aspect of her UCLA women’s basketball squad.
  Postgame, Close brought up assistant coach Tasha Brown speaking to the Bruins, attempting to play to what the UCLA head coach called championship standards just over a month into the season.
  “March is happening now,” Close said Brown remarked. “Do not deceive yourse
  
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• $2.5 billion Disneyland Paris makeover starts with new Frozen land

  19-12-2025 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland Paris will once again try to get its second park right after decades of misfires with a $2.5 billion makeover that will add Frozen and Lion King lands, a new entry promenade and an aquatic drone spectacular around a central lake.
  The World of Frozen themed land will debut on March 29 when the Disneyland Paris theme park resort in France officially rechristens the Walt Disney Studios Park as Disney Adventure World.
  The Adventure Way entry promenade, Adventure Bay central lake, “C
  
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• November US homes sales rose from the previous month, but down from 2024 as prices climb

  19-12-2025 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
  Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May despite average long-term mortgage rates holding near their low point for the year.
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• Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

  19-12-2025 17:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM MEDNICK
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday.
  The new report by The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, comes months after the group said famine was occurring in Gaza City and likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to humanitarian ai
  
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• Flood watch in place for Yosemite from Saturday to Monday triggered by intense rainfall

  19-12-2025 17:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Yosemite, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra, San Joaquin River Canyon and Upper San Joaquin River are under a flood watch which was issued by the National Weather Service on Friday at 8:39 a.m. The watch is valid from Saturday 4 p.m. until Monday Dec. 22, at 4 p.m.
  According to the NWS Hanford CA, “Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.”
  “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Lo
  
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• These are Americans’ biggest priorities for the government in 2026, according to a new poll

  19-12-2025 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By LINLEY SANDERS, SIMRAN PARWANI, THOMAS BEAUMONT and MIKE CATALINI
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother’s emergency room trips for seizures are depleting her retirement savings and will soon force her to go on Medicaid.
  At the same time, Dvorak, who’s 56 and suffers from a chronic knee condition that keeps her on state and federal assistance, expects her own health costs to go up next year.
  It’s the kind of financial squeeze that has made hea
  
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• Justice Department faces deadline to release files on Epstein sex trafficking investigation

  19-12-2025 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
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• The Kennedy Center starts work to add Trump’s name onto the building

  19-12-2025 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center started the work of adding Donald Trump’s name to the building on Friday, a day after the president’s handpicked board voted to do so.
  Several blue tarps were hung in front of the institution early Friday to block views of the work underway. A large letter D was seen on the exterior before the final tarps went up, along with workers on scaffolding at the center, which was named for John F. Kennedy, a Democratic presiden
  
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• Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US

  19-12-2025 17:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELLIOT SPAGAT and HALLIE GOLDEN
  President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
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• Lazerson’s 2026 mortgage and housing predictions

  19-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  High inflation and a weak job market will be the big storyline in 2026.
  Mortgage-minded consumers buying and refinancing will be the big winners as rates are going to dip into the 5% range.
  Those are my big predictions. Come and see what else my crystal ball says.
  1) Freddie Mac mortgage rates are going to average 5.5% while local rates will average 5%. Local rates are always lower than national rates by about one-half to three-quarters percent because the California loan sizes are larger (
  
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