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• Plastic surgeons group calls for delaying gender-affirming surgery until age 19

  04-02-2026 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEVI SHASTRI
  The nation’s largest professional organization for plastic surgeons recommended that gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until patients turn 19, changing the group’s stance on the politically charged issue and diverging from several other major medical organizations’ guidance.
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• Experimental cholesterol-lowering pill may offer new option for millions

  04-02-2026 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By LAURAN NEERGAARD
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new kind of pill sharply reduced artery-clogging cholesterol in people who remain at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins, researchers reported Wednesday.
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• Report: Clippers send Chris Paul to Raptors in 3-team trade

  04-02-2026 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The Clippers, Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors reportedly agreed on a three-team trade on Wednesday that sends Chris Paul to the Raptors and Ochai Agbaji, a 2032 Raptors second-round draft pick and cash to the Nets, ESPN was first to report.
  According to reports, the Raptors will not require Chris Paul to report to the team and could still discuss moving him before Thursday’s noon PT NBA trade deadline.
  The Clippers clear a roster spot to convert one of their two-way contract players and
  
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• If money dropped below ATM, be careful — thieves might be at work

  04-02-2026 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Three men have been arrested after allegedly running a distraction theft operation in Orange, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties and elsewhere, authorities said on Wednesday, Feb. 4.
  There have been at least a dozen victims.
  In November, a 66-year-old man was using an ATM in the 17000 block of Santiago Boulevard in Villa Park while a thief watched him enter his pin.
  A second thief lingered.
  One put cash onto the ground, authorities said, so when the victim bent over to pick it up a thief sw
  
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• Melania Trump meets with freed American-Israeli hostage whose story she features in her new film

  04-02-2026 23:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump on Wednesday met with a freed American-Israeli hostage whose plight she featured in her new film, which includes footage from a meeting last year with the man’s wife.
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• Rams’ Les Snead says Matthew Stafford could lead to more aggressive approach

  04-02-2026 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The last three offseasons, the Rams have taken a more conservative approach to team building. Draft picks, smart veteran additions around the edges, the occasional splash a la Davante Adams.
  But as the Rams await Matthew Stafford’s decision on whether to return for 2026, the quarterback’s MVP-caliber play in 2025 may have given Rams general manager Les Snead more reason to be more aggressive should Stafford be back in the fold next season.
  “There is a vision to have sustained s
  
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• Disneyland’s Napa Rose: What you get with the $188 tasting menu

  04-02-2026 22:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland’s award-winning Napa Rose will offer two distinct experiences with a fixed price tasting menu in the main dining room and an a la carte sampling menu in the bar and lounge when the wine country-themed restaurant returns after a 10-month renovation.
  Napa Rose hosted a media preview on Tuesday, Feb. 3 ahead of the grand reopening of the fine dining restaurant on Friday, Feb. 6 at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel.
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• Pacific Symphony announces seasons of milestones under new conductor

  04-02-2026 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The Pacific Symphony’s 2026-27 season, its first under new Artistic and Music Director Alexander Shelley, will mark major milestones with concerts devoted to America’s 250th birthday and the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death.
  “We’ll examine the humanist ideals that galvanized Beethoven, shaped the Declaration of Independence and defined America as we know it,” Shelley said in a statement. “We’ll consider the core belief that the collective is
  
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• David A. Ross resigns from School of Visual Arts after ties to Jeffrey Epstein surface

  04-02-2026 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Art museum curator and director David A. Ross has left his post at the School of Visual Arts in New York after the latest release of documents about Jeffrey Epstein revealed his friendship with the convicted sex offender.
  Ross, who was chair of the MFA art practice program, resigned Tuesday, the school said in a statement, adding that it was “aware of correspondence” between him and Epstein. Ross’ online page at the school was offline Wednesday.
  The resignation was first report
  
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• USC women eye two valuable wins on upcoming road trip

  04-02-2026 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC women’s basketball team can pick up two valuable wins in this week’s road trip to Northwestern and Illinois.
  It is among five teams sitting at 5-6 in the middle of the Big Ten Conference standings, and the Trojans are ranked a respectable 20th in the NET rankings. The latter takes into account additional factors like game results, strength of schedule, game location and play efficiency.
  USC (13-9 overall) showed that it can outplay a high-quality opponent when it beat No. 10
  
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• Kings acquire Rangers’ Artemi Panarin, agree to 2-year contract extension

  04-02-2026 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  General manager Ken Holland and the Kings reeled in a huge fish Wednesday, landing winger Artemi Panarin from the New York Rangers in the club’s most significant trade acquisition since Marian Gaborik in 2014.
  Perhaps not coincidentally, that was the last time the Kings won a playoff series, a goal they seemed to drift further from in the first four months of this season.
  Now, at the relatively modest cost of the Kings’ top prospect Liam Greentree and a third-round draft selection, t
  
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• Former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, leader of Sept. 11 panel, dies

  04-02-2026 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By TOM DAVIES and ISABELLA VOLMERT, Associated Press
  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, a crewcut-wearing Indiana Democrat who was a leading foreign affairs voice during three decades in Congress and helped oversee investigations of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, died Tuesday. He was 94.
  Hamilton, who also led a congressional probe of the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra affair while representing a rural southern Indiana district, died peacefully in his home in Bl
  
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• Laguna Playhouse gets $500K from city, in return will include more community access

  04-02-2026 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Beach nonprofits will have the opportunity to hold events at the Laguna Playhouse for at least 10 weeks a year, in exchange for a one-time $500,000 city contribution to help cover operating costs.
  Discussed for a while, the City Council recently voted unanimously to proceed with the funding after ironing out specifics related to ticket surcharge pricing, the number of weeks a nonprofit could book events, and concession proceeds. The first $250,000 was paid out in January, and the second w
  
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• Mavericks ship Anthony Davis to Wizards in blockbuster trade

  04-02-2026 21:43 via ocregister.com
  
  DALLAS — The Washington Wizards are acquiring Anthony Davis in an eight-player trade with the Mavericks that includes draft picks for Dallas, a person with knowledge of the deal said Wednesday.
  The move is a signal the Mavericks are moving on from the widely criticized trade that sent superstar Luka Doncic to the Lakers for a package headlined by Davis last year.
  Former general manager Nico Harrison, who was fired by Dallas in November, engineered the middle-of-the-night deal that angered
  
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• Argentina requests extradition of Maduro from the US on crimes against humanity charges

  04-02-2026 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By SERGIO FARELLA, Associated Press
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York.
  The inquest from Argentina, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases beyond its borders, accuses Maduro of having committed c
  
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• Still no suspect in the disappearance of ‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie’s mother

  04-02-2026 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACQUES BILLEAUD, SEJAL GOVINDARAO and MIKE BALSAMO, Associated Press
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The search for “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother still had no suspect or person of interest Wednesday, authorities said, four days after she disappeared with signs of forced entry at her home in southern Arizona.
  Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will over the weekend and Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has said they don’t have credible inf
  
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• Nancy Guthrie disappeared from an Arizona neighborhood that is dark at night, quiet and spread out

  04-02-2026 20:37 via ocregister.com
  By JACQUES BILLEAUD, SEJAL GOVINDARAO and MIKE BALSAMO, Associated Press
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Nancy Guthrie’s upscale Arizona neighborhood is quiet and mostly dark at night, lit mainly by car headlights and homes spaced far apart. Long driveways, front gates and desert plants provide a buffer from the winding streets and curious eyes.
  Saguaro cacti tower above the roofline of Guthrie’s Tucson-area home, and wispy trees partially block the view of the front door.
  Those
  
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• Meryl Streep to play Joni Mitchell in Cameron Crowe’s upcoming biopic

  04-02-2026 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Meryl Streep may be making another splash in rock & roll music with her upcoming role as Joni Mitchell.
  The three-time Oscar winner, who starred as late-in-life rocker in 2015’s “Ricki and the Flash,” will reportedly portray the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer in Cameron Crowe’s biopic.
  Legendary music producer Clive Davis revealed the casting news during his annual pre-Grammy party in Los Angeles last weekend, according to multiple reports
  
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• Winter Olympics: Amber Glenn: A ‘new role model’

  04-02-2026 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Amber Glenn skates during the “Making Team USA” performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
  Gold medalist Amber Glenn takes photos with fans after the women’s free skating competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
  Amber Glenn reacts to seeing her scores after competing during the women’s free skating competition at
  
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• Study shows particle pollution from wildfire smoke was tied to 24,100 deaths per year in the US

  04-02-2026 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By DORANY PINEDA, Associated Press
  Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States, according to a new study.
  The paper, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that from 2006 to 2020, long-term exposure to tiny particulates from wildfire smoke contributed to an average of 24,100 deaths a year in the lower 48 states.
  “Our message is: Wildfire smoke is very dangerous. It is an increasing threat to h
  
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• Minions music saga leaves Winter Olympic figure skaters ‘hoping and praying’

  04-02-2026 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES ELLINGWORTH, AP Sports Writer
  MILAN (AP) — It’s the message no figure skater wants to get. At any time, an email could block them from using the music they’ve built their Olympic programs around.
  As the skating world grapples with a music standoff involving the lovable, mischievous Minions, U.S. champion Amber Glenn is gripped by “this Minions saga.”
  It’s a relatable problem for any skater, and Glenn has a promise to keep.
  “I told people they we
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to block new California congressional districts that favor Democrats

  04-02-2026 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
  No justices dissented from the brief order.
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• Supreme Court allows new California congressional districts that favor Democrats

  04-02-2026 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration.
  No justices dissented from the brief order denying the appeal without explanation, as is common on the court’s emergency docket.
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• IOC open to earlier dates for future Winter Olympics and Paralympics because of warmer temperatures

  04-02-2026 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By GRAHAM DUNBAR, Associated Press
  MILAN (AP) — Staging future Winter Games as early as January and the Paralympic Winter Games in February is a possibility because of the effects of warmer temperatures, the International Olympic Committee said Wednesday.
  Every Winter Games medal was won in February since the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics opened Jan. 29, and moving to January would likely disrupt scheduling of storied World Cup races and events. It also would more directly clash with NFL and NBA
  
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• Letter: John Phillips is wrong. Mahan is California’s Beto O’Rourke.

  04-02-2026 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Columnist John Phillips is way off in his declaration that Matt Mahan is the “anti-Gavin Newsom.” He, like a lot of Democrats, is hoping San Jose Mayor Mahan is the shiny new thing.
  Mahan is not the “anti-Newsom“ that Phillips wants, he’s just California’s version of Beto O’Rourke. He’s a tall thin “cool guy“ who just gives Democrat talking point answers.
  Mahan got destroyed in the California governor debate last night by Steve Hilton.
  
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• Free from ‘sports prison,’ Winter athletes get chance to enjoy Olympics without a COVID lockdown

  04-02-2026 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDDIE PELLS and STEPHEN WHYNO
  In some ways, the goals Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris set for the Milan Cortina Olympics are the same ones he set in his three previous appearances at the Games.
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• Double cork? Blindside? Goofy? A glossary of snowboarding terms for the Winter Olympics

  04-02-2026 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH WILSON and EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press
  LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — A backside double cork 1080! Followed by a cab triple cork 1440! Holy Crail, that was a sweet grab!
  The snowboarders and freestyle skiers will be speaking a language all their own as they “shred some gnar” (ride some gnarly conditions) at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
  Can’t tell a melon from a method grab? No worries. Here’s a cheat sheet of some terms you might hear when the action starts
  
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• Minnesota athletes head into the Winter Olympics with concerns about turmoil back home

  04-02-2026 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARTHA BELLISLE and DAVE CAMPBELL
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As excitement has built and focus has sharpened in preparation for the Winter Olympics, biathlete and Minnesota native Luci Anderson has been jarred at times by thoughts of home.
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• Government lawyer yanked from immigration detail in Minnesota after telling judge ‘this job sucks’

  04-02-2026 19:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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• Anaheim’s city manager, the ‘longest-tenured’ the city’s recent history, resigns

  04-02-2026 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim’s top administrative executive resigned Tuesday night, just a week after he left a closed session questioning seemingly unscathed and with vocal support from at least two councilmembers.
  The City Council unanimously accepted City Manager Jim Vanderpool’s request to move up his plans for retirement and step down, which he put in for days after he was questioned behind closed doors by city leaders for having attended an Anaheim Chamber of Commerce-funded retreat to Lake Havasu
  
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• Do you know what skimo is? Could Vonn and Shiffrin team up? Here’s what’s new at the Olympics

  04-02-2026 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOWARD FENDRICH, Associated Press
  Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as “the most gender-balanced in history.”
  That’s reflected in, and helped by, changes on the schedule over the coming weeks.
  A women’s doubles event was added to luge. A women’s large hill individual event appears in ski jumping for the first time at an Olympics
  
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• The high art of bean-to-bar chocolates in Huntington Beach

  04-02-2026 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Within the realm of Valentine’s Day gifting, you have the grocery store heart box (charming in all of its populist splendor), and then you have Bella Sophia Chocolates.
  Tucked away in Huntington Beach’s Pacific City Mall, this isn’t just a candy shop — it’s an atelier where cocoa beans are treated with the same reverence a vintner gives a prized pinot noir. Founded in 2016 by the husband-and-wife duo of Steph and J.D. Shafer, Bella Sophia is a love letter to the cra
  
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• The hospitality stop known as ‘Ice House’ is now the ‘Winter House’ for US athletes

  04-02-2026 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — The Winter Olympics are a land of snow and frozen water — no “ice,” though, at least not at the hospitality house being hosted by U.S. sports teams in Milan for the Games.
  The Ice House has been officially renamed the Winter House, in a nod to the tension surrounding the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, commonly known as ICE.
  “Our hospitality concept was designed to be a private space free of distractions where athletes, their families,
  
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• Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera shares stories from the Cuban Revolution to stardom

  04-02-2026 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1971, guitarist Phil Manzanera was a 20-year-old rock guitarist without a band. Then, a friend showed him an ad in Melody Maker magazine for a band that needed someone just like him.
  “The Perfect Guitarist for Avant-Rock Group,” the ad read. “Original, creative, adaptable, melodic, fast, slow, elegant, witty, scary, stable, tricky.”
  Call Roxy, it finished, and Manazanera did just that.
  Guitarist Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music comes to Southern California a pair of intima
  
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• Ukraine says Russia is illegally targeting the power grid. Here’s what the law says

  04-02-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE CORDER
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks, plunging people into frozen darkness in one of the country’s coldest winters on record.
  Ukraine has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny civilians light, heating and running water.
  “Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than diplomacy,” Ukrain
  
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• Hungarian court sentences German anti-fascist activist to 8 years for far-right rally assaults

  04-02-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  By JUSTIN SPIKE
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian court on Wednesday sentenced a German anti-fascist activist to eight years in prison for taking part in assaults against participants of a far-right rally in February 2023.
  Authorities allege the 25-year-old defendant, identified only as Maja T., was one of more than a dozen people who assaulted participants in an annual far-right event in Budapest known as the “Day of Honor” — one of the biggest neo-Nazi rallies in Eur
  
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• Here’s what international law says about striking energy facilities in war

  04-02-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE CORDER
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks, plunging people into frozen darkness in one of the country’s coldest winters on record.
  Ukraine has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny civilians light, heating and running water.
  “Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than diplomacy,” Ukrain
  
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• Curling is set to kick off the Milan Cortina Winter Games

  04-02-2026 18:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press
  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — After years of preparation and planning, the Winter Olympics are getting underway Wednesday with the first curling matches in Cortina.
  Curling at the historic curling stadium — eight teams in mixed doubles — began two full days before the opening ceremony for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. American curler Korey Dropkin said he has been waiting a long time for this moment.
  “Being amongst the best,
  
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• Trump says Washington has waited 200 years for the arch he wants to build. Not quite

  04-02-2026 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says history is on his side.
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• Aliso Niguel girls soccer beats San Clemente for South Coast League title

  04-02-2026 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe reemergence of Aliso Niguel’s girls soccer team under coach Sean Melendez took another major step on Tuesday night.
  Paige Balducci scored on a penalty kick in the 12th minute and goalie Addison Rudel made five saves as the Wolverines edged visiting San Clemente 1-0 to claim the South Coast League championship.
  In capturing its first South Coast League crown since 2020, Aliso Niguel (12-4-5, 5-0-
  
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• How Super Bowl halftime moments became flashpoints from the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ to caged kids

  04-02-2026 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a show that lasts roughly 13 minutes, the Super Bowl halftime performance has fueled decades of conversation.
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• How Americans’ top concerns compare to more than 100 other countries, according to Gallup

  04-02-2026 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINLEY SANDERS
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.
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• Travel: Trekking around the Himalayan foothills in northern India

  04-02-2026 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Hindu devotees fed long grasses to ribbon-adorned sacred cows as thousands of pilgrims bathed in India’s ultra-holy Ganges River to wash away their sins and cure ailments. Some soaking adherents tightly gripped iron chains secured to concrete stairs so the fast-rushing flow from the Himalayas wouldn’t fatally sweep them downstream. A young man with no legs determinedly rolled himself on a wheeled board to recite a mantra at the river’s edge. Frail elderly women, swathed in head
  
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• Super Bowl LX ads feature AI, weight-loss drugs and celebs from George Clooney to Kendall Jenner

  04-02-2026 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAE ANDERSON, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks.
  Dozens of advertisers are pulling out all the stops for Super Bowl 60, airing Sunday on NBC. They’re hoping that audiences tuning in will remember their brand names as they stuff their ads with celebrities ranging from Kendall Jenner
  
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• McDonald’s giving away free McNugget caviar kits for Valentine‘s Day

  04-02-2026 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Mickey Dees is going highbrow with its latest culinary mashup, this time pairing its signature crispy nuggets with caviar.
  Just ahead of Valentine’s Day, McDonald’s announced the release of its first-ever McNugget Caviar Kits, which will be exclusively available online next Tuesday for free.
  In a promotional partnership with New York-based Paramount Caviar, the fast food giant will give away free kits — including a 1-ounce tin of McNugget Caviar (Baerii Sturgeon), crème
  
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• What to know about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of ‘Today’ show’s Savannah Guthrie

  04-02-2026 17:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH BRUMFIELD
  Authorities are looking for the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie after they say she was taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona, against her will over the weekend.
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• The former Prince Andrew moves to King Charles III’s private estate after Epstein document uproar

  04-02-2026 17:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANICA KIRKA
  LONDON (AP) — The former Prince Andrew has moved out of his longtime home on crown-owned land near Windsor Castle earlier than expected after the latest release of documents from the U.S. investigation of Jeffrey Epstein revived questions about his friendship with the convicted sex offender.
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• Private-sector’s weak hiring misses forecasts in January, ADP says

  04-02-2026 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jarrell Dillard | Bloomberg
  US companies added fewer jobs than expected in January, pointing to a continued slowdown in the labor market at the start of the year.
  Private-sector payrolls increased by 22,000 after a downward revision to the prior month, according to ADP Research data released Wednesday. The figure was short of all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
  The ADP figures will likely offer this week’s fullest picture of the labor market in January as official data fr
  
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• The last US-Russian nuclear pact is about to expire, ending a half-century of arms control

  04-02-2026 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and HARRIET MORRIS
  The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the United States is set to expire Thursday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.
  The termination of the New START Treaty would set the stage for what many fear could be an unconstrained nuclear arms race.
  Russian President Vladimir Putin declared readiness to stick to the treaty’s limits for another year if Washington follows sui
  
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• National Signing Day 2026: Orange County athletes who are signing Feb. 4

  04-02-2026 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity is compiling a list of the Orange County high school athletes who will be signing official agreements with a college on Wednesday — known as “National Signing Day” — or in the coming days.
  OCVarsity’s list includes athletes who received a commitment letter from an Ivy League school or a military service academy, but does not include athletes offered preferred walk-on status or athletes attending a community college.
  To add an Orange County athlete’s
  
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