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• Briefly: Dow cutting about 4,500 jobs in AI, automation pivot

  29-01-2026 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Dow is planning to cut approximately 4,500 jobs as the chemicals maker puts more emphasis on using artificial intelligence and automation in its business.
  The company said Thursday that it anticipates about $600 million to $800 million in severance costs related to the cuts. Those costs are part of a broader plan aimed at simplifying operations and streamlining.
  Shares of Dow, which has about 34,600 employees globally, fell 3% in midday trading Thursday. Dow is based in Midland, Michigan.
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• LA Fair 2026: The lineup of concerts coming to the Fairplex

  29-01-2026 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The LA County Fair at Fairplex has announced its lineup of concerts and comedy shows, featuring a mix of returning favorites, chart-topping artists and a few surprises.
  Concerts will take place during the annual LA County Fair, which opens in May and runs through the end of the month. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m., and fairgoers are encouraged to arrive at least three hours early to allow enough time for parking, entry and seating.
  Concert tickets include admission to the LA County Fair on the ni
  
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• LA County Fair 2026: The lineup of concerts coming to the Fairplex

  29-01-2026 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The LA County Fair at Fairplex has announced its lineup of concerts and comedy shows, featuring a mix of returning favorites, chart-topping artists and a few surprises.
  Concerts will take place during the annual LA County Fair, which opens in May and runs through the end of the month. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m., and fairgoers are encouraged to arrive at least three hours early to allow enough time for parking, entry and seating.
  Concert tickets include admission to the LA County Fair on the ni
  
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• Seagoing albatross makes rare appearance off California coast, startling researchers

  29-01-2026 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.
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• 3,000 pharmacists and technicians will join Kaiser’s nurses strike

  29-01-2026 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 3,000 workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Southern California said Thursday that they would join a “second wave” strike against Kaiser Permanente.
  UFCW said Thursday that members voted to give Kaiser a 10-day notification of an unfair labor practice strike beginning Feb. 9. The lab and pharmacy employees with the UFCW locals postponed a previously announced strike scheduled for Feb. 3, according to UFCW Local 770 spokeswoman Heather Rutman.
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• Newborn calf struggling in deep freeze brought indoors to curl up on couch

  29-01-2026 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By DYLAN LOVAN
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures on their farm over the weekend opened their home to a newborn calf that was struggling in the deep freeze.
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• Orange to spend $300,000 more to stop drivers from crashing into Plaza Park in famed traffic circle

  29-01-2026 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  The installation of some traffic safety measures around the traffic circle in the Old Towne Orange has helped reduce crashes, which peaked at a dozen in 2022, and needed repairs to the plaza’s park and historic fountain; this week the City Council decided to take more steps to prevent collisions.
  Since 2018, there have been 43 drivers who drove into the park at the heart of the Orange traffic circle, a few making it all the way to damage the fountain. Some 70% involved drivers under the in
  
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• Feds want to join lawsuit accusing UCLA Medical School of racial discrimination in admissions

  29-01-2026 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  The Trump administration is seeking to join a lawsuit accusing the UCLA Medical School of engaging in racial discrimination in its admissions process, according to court papers obtained Thursday.
  In a complaint filed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that UCLA’s medical school uses a “systemically racist approach” to admissions that favors Black and Latino applicants over those who are white and Asian American.
  The DOJ is seeking to join plaintiffs in the suit b
  
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• South aims to extend winning streak in Orange County all-star football game

  29-01-2026 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowTwo decade-long streaks will collide in the Orange County North vs. South All-Star Football Classic on Saturday at Newport Harbor High.
  The South enters the annual game for seniors riding a 10-game winning streak in the series. The North will seek its first victory since a 12-6 triumph in 2014.
  Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at gofan.co.
  The North coach, Michael Echaves of Troy,
  
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• South aims to extend winning streak in O.C. all-star football game Saturday

  29-01-2026 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowTwo decade-long streaks will collide in the Orange County North vs. South All-Star Football Classic on Saturday at Newport Harbor High.
  The South enters the annual game for seniors riding a 10-game winning streak in the series. The North will seek its first victory since a 12-6 triumph in 2014.
  Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased on gofan.co.
  The North, led by coach Michael Echaves of
  
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• California lawmakers are pushing various immigration-related bills this year

  29-01-2026 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Just three days after ICU nurse Alex Pretti was killed by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis, California senators advanced a bill meant to make it easier for people to sue federal immigration officials if their civil rights have been violated.
  Proponents said Senate Bill 747 is a “first in the nation” type of bill — and it’s called the “No Kings Act,” a reference to the nationwide demonstrations against President Donald Trump that have occurred throughout h
  
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• Douglas Schoen: As Trump slides on immigration, Newsom looks to rise

  29-01-2026 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  With his eyes on 2028, Gavin Newsom is homing in on the shifting attitudes towards President Trump’s immigration crackdown, looking to score points against his longtime adversary while boosting his own prospective presidential candidacy. 
  Indeed, despite the locus of ICE efforts shifting from California to Minnesota, Newsom believes he can harness the growing anger following the tragic killing of two Americans in Minneapolis to raise his national profile.
  Further, it’s unknown w
  
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• Andrew Torgashev conquers doubts, injuries on the way to Milan

  29-01-2026 22:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Since he was a small boy his whole life had been headed to this moment, only this moment, no other direction, a pre-determined path that ignored the law of averages and the cruelty of his sport that lurked beneath its beauty and grace.
  The son of a Soviet ice princess, he was destiny’s child, as if his birth certificate actually read Andrew Torgashev, future Olympian.
  “His entire conscious life,” his grandfather said, “has been connected with this sport.”
  Torgashev,
  
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• Venezuelan lawmakers approve easing state control of oil industry

  29-01-2026 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By REGINA GARCIA CANO
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s legislature on Thursday approved opening the nation’s oil sector to privatization, reversing a tenet of the self-proclaimed socialist movement that has ruled the country for more than two decades.
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• The Audible: What’s next for the Rams and Chargers?

  29-01-2026 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: So the Rams and Chargers will not cause all kinds of angst and heartburn next week in the Bay Area … although the Seattle Seahawks, another main rival of the host 49ers, will be playing for a championship a week from Sunday in Levi’s Stadium, and I’m sure the locals are thrilled about that.
  But what should we expect from the Rams’ and Chargers’ offseasons? For a while during the season, both teams looked like they could make noise in the playoffs. Th
  
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• A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail, authorities say

  29-01-2026 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man falsely claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said.
  Mark Anderson, 36, of Mankato, Minnesota, was arrested and charged with impersonating an FBI agent in a foiled bid to free Mangione from the Metropolitan Detention Center, the notorious Brooklyn lockup where he is held while awaiting state and federal murder trials in
  
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• Conservative judge in Minnesota tries to keep Trump administration in check during crackdown

  29-01-2026 22:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ED WHITE
  A law enforcement agency executing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has been described as a serial violator of court orders in Minnesota.
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• Swiss Court opens door for Jordan Chiles to regain Olympic bronze

  29-01-2026 22:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday ordered the Court of Arbitration for Sport to review new video evidence as Team USA and UCLA gymnast Jordan Chiles bid to regain a bronze medal from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
  The court asked CAS to revisit its decision to overturn Chiles’ bronze medal finish following an appeal by the Romanian federation that a scoring appeal by U.S. coaches that resulted in Chiles being awarded the bronze medal was not made within the required one-minut
  
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• Detainees pepper-sprayed on 2 occasions at Florida ‘Deportation Depot’ immigration detention center

  29-01-2026 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID FISCHER
  MIAMI (AP) — Detainees have been pepper-sprayed on at least two occasions at a Florida immigration detention center dubbed “Deportation Depot” since it opened this past September.
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• Trump’s pick to lead the NSA vows to follow the law if confirmed

  29-01-2026 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army general tapped to lead the U.S. National Security Agency assured lawmakers Thursday that he will follow the Constitution and the law when it comes to using the NSA’s powerful surveillance tools.
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• Horse racing notebook: Jockey Cruz Mendez’s friends hope for a ‘miracle’

  29-01-2026 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  This week at Los Alamitos Race Course, all the talk is about the man who isn’t there.
  Cruz Mendez, a much-admired quarter-horse jockey at the Orange County track, remains in a nearby hospital after a fall in a race Saturday night left him with a spinal cord injury and paralysis in his legs.
  Mendez underwent surgery Sunday, and since then friends and friendly rivals have been trying to stay optimistic that the 40-year-old rider’s condition will improve once swelling subsides.
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• Trump’s wide ambitions for Board of Peace spark new support for the United Nations

  29-01-2026 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it to have a larger international mandate beyond the Gaza ceasefire and recommitted their support for the over 80-year-old global institution.
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• Jewelry, art and toy train top list of priciest foreign gifts to Biden and other officials in 2024

  29-01-2026 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign leaders and governments presented to former President Joe Biden, his wife, U.S. Cabinet members and other senior officials tens of thousands of dollars in gifts in the last year of the Biden administration, including a $19,000 painting, an $11,000 necklace, a $5,000 bracelet and in one case $15,000 in cash, according to the latest accounting from the State Department.
  The annual report, published Thursday in the Federal Registe
  
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• The No Kings Act: Why federal agents must be accountable under the Constitution

  29-01-2026 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  This past weekend, the country witnessed yet another senseless killing by a masked federal agent.
  In Minneapolis, ICU nurse Alex Pretti – like elementary school parent and poet Renee Good before him – was trying to protect his neighbors when he was attacked and shot 10 times by federal officers.
  These deaths – and the federal government’s refusal to conduct independent investigations or even share evidence with local authorities – expose a growing and dangerous real
  
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• First Brands founder charged with fraud that wiped out billions

  29-01-2026 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Chris Dolmetsch and David Voreacos | Bloomberg
  First Brands Group founder Patrick James and his brother Edward, a former executive at the company, were indicted in New York following the collapse of the bankrupt auto-parts maker last year.
  The duo engaged in a series of schemes to defraud the company’s lenders and financing partners, according to the federal indictment. The brothers faked and inflated invoices for accounts receivable, double- and triple-pledged loan collateral, falsifie
  
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• Trump’s ICE: Kicking down doors, kicking down the Constitution

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m not yet accustomed to the unprecedented greed, cruelty, and staggering incompetence of the second Trump Administration. But it’s their total disregard for the Constitution and laws of our country that keeps shouting in my ear that I have to speak up. The latest example of this is the Homeland Security memo that instructs ICE officers they have the right to break into homes, to kick down doors and drag the occupants out—as they actually did in Minnesota—to accomplish a
  
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• House Republicans propose voting changes as Trump administration eyes the midterms

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements, including some before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
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• House Republicans propose stricter voting requirements as Trump administration eyes the midterms

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
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• FEMA could still support winter storm response in a shutdown, despite administration warnings

  29-01-2026 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency would have enough money to respond to the massive winter storm still impacting large swaths of the U.S. even if a partial government shutdown begins at midnight Friday, experts and former FEMA officials said, despite Trump administration warnings to the contrary.
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• Theater review: ‘The Notebook’ avoids cloying sentimentality in Costa Mesa

  29-01-2026 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A couple’s passage through courtship, lost and found love and the waning days of marriage in “The Notebook,” newly arrived at the Segerstrom Center for the next 10 days, may be unabashedly sentimental, but emerges as a satisfying journey.
  The source material of Nicholas Sparks’ 1994 original, best-selling novel was followed by the tearjerker 2004 hit movie version with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Both yanked cloyingly hard on the heartstrings.
  Toggling back and forth
  
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• California lawmakers can’t resist writing performative legislation

  29-01-2026 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  California legislators introduce hundreds of bills during their biennial sessions. While some are serious efforts to address real issues, many are performative — offered to please political constituencies that their authors want to cultivate, align themselves with popular trends, or repay political debts.
  The easiest species of performative legislation are resolutions that express support for some cause. Many hours of taxpayer-financed time are wasted on hearings and debate, even thou
  
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• Cooking with Judy: Chocolates at Valentine’s Day arouse passion for chocolate

  29-01-2026 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The ancient Aztecs considered it a powerful aphrodisiac. Montezuma, according to legend, consumed large quantities of the stuff to enhance his charms with the ladies.
  We’re talking about chocolate, of course, and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, the chocolatiers will get a workout.
  What is it about chocolate that is so comforting, so intoxicating, so downright addictive? Legend has it that chocolate possesses passion-arousing chemicals. Can this be why a box of chocolate is th
  
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• Didn’t book a $1,500 dinner at Noma? Try these 7 OC restaurants instead

  29-01-2026 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Look, I get it. And I feel for you. You were among the literal tens of thousands of souls who couldn’t land a seat at Noma’s Los Angeles residency, missing the chance to fork over $1,500 to eat fermented forest floor fare in Silver Lake. Reservations vanished in under three minutes after going live on Monday. Alas.
  Hungry? Sign up for The Eat Index, our weekly food newsletter, and find out where to eat and get the latest restaurant happenings in Orange County. Subscribe here.
  But if
  
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• Starbucks sees room to expand with hundreds of new US stores and increased seating

  29-01-2026 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks said Thursday that it plans to open hundreds of new stores across the U.S. and add seating capacity at thousands of existing locations, doubling down on a strategy of emphasizing the company’s cafes as community hubs even as consumer demand for drive-thru coffee grows.
  The company unveiled its plans during a presentation in New York for investors. After announcing in September that it would close hundreds of less profitabl
  
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• Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating her

  29-01-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis, according to court papers made public Thursday.
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• Justice Department charges man who squirted vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar

  29-01-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis.
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• How ‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’ explores class and corruption

  29-01-2026 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Daniyal Mueenuddin spent a decade after finishing his 2009 prize-winning short story collection, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” writing a nonfiction book about his mother and “the complicated circumstances surrounding her death and her life.”But he says he never got it quite right, so he put it aside and returned to fiction. 
  The result, “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” has earned rave reviews for the way it captures life in Pakistan across a half-cen
  
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• Anaheim briefs: Learn how to help in an emergency with CERT training

  29-01-2026 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The city is hosting Community Emergency Response Team training to help residents be ready for an emergency.
  The idea behind CERT training is that residents learn how to help themselves and their neighbors, so in the event of a disaster, they can help those around them while they wait for first responders.
  Training sessions will be Tuesdays and Thursdays in March, with a graduation and skills assessment on March 28. Participants must attend all the training days.
  The program is free and open to a
  
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• Unemployed donkeys are the key to this 7-hour communal gaming experience

  29-01-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Playing video games is nothing new. Playing video games with other players is pretty common too. But doing it in real life, as a seven-hour group experience that’s meant to be a theatrical endurance game, well, that’s where the unemployed donkeys trot in.
  Asses.masses, a long-running theatrical video game project that lets audiences use a single controller to play the game as a collective, is coming to CAP UCLA’s Nimoy Theater on Feb. 7 when about 300 people will gather to play
  
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• Rocket Cos. accused of mortgage steering

  29-01-2026 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alexis Weisend | The Seattle Times
  Rocket Cos., which acquired Seattle-based Redfin last year, allegedly pressured agents to steer buyers toward its loans — even if the loan terms were unfavorable for their clients, a lawsuit claims.
  In the lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, three homeowners from Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania accuse the Detroit-based homeownership services company of scheming to funnel homebuyers into its mor
  
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• A new California law requires deed notifications to combat property fraud

  29-01-2026 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Why would someone want to steal your property title?
  The answer is simple: financial gain.
  Someone with a stolen title might attempt to take a loan out against your property or even sell the home and collect the cash. Or the thief might pose as a landlord, attempting to get unsuspecting renters to cough up rent and a month of security deposit.
  Also see: Has California housing become a buyer’s market?
  Title theft or fraud can threaten an owner’s actual ownership of property and t
  
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• Here’s when you’ll get your tax refund from the IRS

  29-01-2026 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tax filing season is underway, and the IRS expects 164 million people will file returns by April 15.
  The average refund last year was $3,167. This year, analysts have projected it could be $1,000 higher, thanks to changes in tax law. More than 165 million individual income tax returns were processed last year, with 94% submitted electronically.
  People with straightforward returns should not encounter delays, but because of an exodus of IRS wo
  
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• Trump says he asked Putin not to target Kyiv for 1 week during brutal cold spell

  29-01-2026 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI and SUSIE BLANN
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to target the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv for one week as the region experiences frigid temperatures.
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• Drummond: PYLUSD’s new opt-out policy for personal beliefs, experiences takes effect

  29-01-2026 18:28 via ocregister.com
  A new policy allowing parents and guardians to opt out of instruction, an assignment or activity that might adversely impact “deeply held personal beliefs or personal experiences” took effect this month in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.
  The policy adds another dimension to a previously adopted policy allowing exemptions for religious reasons.
  The district’s trustees approved a first reading of the policy in November and a second reading in December, both on
  
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• Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission given repreive by council considering changes to its authority

  29-01-2026 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Santa Ana City Council, which has been considering revising its Police Oversight Commission’s purview, will give the group that got off to a slow start some time to settle into its role before any major changes are discussed.
  Though the commission was established in 2022, it took a while for the council to appoint its members and to staff its director position. Commissioners only recently began carrying out key duties after significant setbacks.
  “Let’s see what the commissi
  
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• Israel returns Palestinian bodies, official says, marking last exchange between Israel and Hamas

  29-01-2026 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and TOQA EZZIDIN
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Thursday, just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage, a Gaza Health Ministry official said.
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• One of snowboarding’s most valuable skills is also one of its most underappreciated

  29-01-2026 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press National Writer
  In Shaun White’s early days riding snowboards, the sport was so new that his mom was still getting the hang of things after a lifetime of skiing.
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• Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

  29-01-2026 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer
  Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio.
  The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the regular-season during games hosted by the Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings.
  About 10 blind and low-vision fans wi
  
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• US life expectancy hit an all-time high in 2024, CDC says

  29-01-2026 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history.
  It’s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates from all the nation’s top killers, including heart disease, cancer and drug overdoses.
  What’s more, preliminary statistics suggest a continued improvement in 2025.
  “It’s pretty much good news all the way around,” said R
  
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• Former ICE spokesman: Agency encouraged Trump propaganda more than facts

  29-01-2026 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Richard Beam said he always knew working at ICE would be a contentious and, at times, controversial position. But he believed in the mission, and in his job to inform the public about the agency – by telling the truth, he said.
  He remembered that all changed one day in 2025.
  Beam was working in a cubicle at ICE’s Santa Ana field office when he hopped on a routine weekly call with colleagues and supervisors, he said. The group would go over best practices in their public affairs work,
  
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