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• U.S. citizens and legal residents sue over aggressive immigration raid at Idaho horse racing track

  10-02-2026 23:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By REBECCA BOONE
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year.
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• Winter Olympics: Maxim Naumov dedicates short program to parents lost in last year’s D.C. plane crash

  10-02-2026 23:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
  Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
  Maxim Naumov of the United States competes during the men’s figure skating short program at the 2026 Winter Olympi
  
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• Immigrant rights groups seek to dismiss a Republican lawsuit to exclude noncitizens from US census

  10-02-2026 23:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE SCHNEIDER
  Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census.
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• LeBron James will not play against Spurs, missing 18th game and ending All-NBA streak

  10-02-2026 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — LeBron James will miss his 18th game of the season on Tuesday night, confirming that the 41-year-old Lakers’ star will fall short of 65 total games and therefore end his bid at postseason awards as well as his 21-year streak of receiving All-NBA honors.
  Players, albeit with some exceptions, must play 65 games to be eligible for end-of-season awards.
  James (left foot arthritis), who was announced as out against the San Antonio Spurs in the second game of a back-to-back a
  
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• Lakers’ LeBron James will sit out vs. Spurs, ending his All-NBA streak

  10-02-2026 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — LeBron James will miss his 18th game of the season on Tuesday night, which means the 41-year-old Lakers star will fall short of the 65-game threshold required to be eligible for the league’s annual awards, ending his 21-year streak of receiving All-NBA honors.
  James (left foot arthritis), who was announced as out against the San Antonio Spurs in the second game of a back-to-back after the Lakers dropped Monday night’s contest to the Oklahoma City Thunder, joins fo
  
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• Rams offseason primer: Offense must evolve after epic season

  10-02-2026 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  How do you build on an offense that led the NFL scoring? That had one of the most successful run games in recent history? That produced an MVP and league leaders in two of the three Triple Crown receiving categories?
  As Rams head coach Sean McVay likes to say, you don’t build on it; you start over and find the next evolution.
  That’s the challenge the Rams will face entering this spring. How to not fall complacent as they try to build on the offensive success they enjoyed in 2025. How
  
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• Trump administration plans to hold back grant money for some Democratic-led states

  10-02-2026 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
  President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.
  Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited concerns over fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, but has not presented evidence beyond remarks from Trump and others in his administration.
  The approach ha
  
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• Gov. Tim Walz says federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end within days

  10-02-2026 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.
  The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Monday with border czar Tom Homan and with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday morning. Homan took over the Minnesota operation in late Janua
  
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• Rams offensive tackle Rob Havenstein announces retirement

  10-02-2026 22:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Back in September of 2023, Steve Avila felt overcome with nerves. The rookie left guard was about to make his NFL debut, and his anxiety was written all over his face.
  Looking over at him, veteran Rams right tackle Rob Havenstein offered the kind of salt-of-the-earth wisdom that he specialized in.
  “‘Hey man, it’s just football. You’re doing it your whole life,’” Avila recalled. “And taking a step back and actually thinking about what he said, I was like,
  
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• Jon Coupal: Sacramento wants to hide information about the bullet train

  10-02-2026 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  No matter how much we wish we could avoid writing about California’s High Speed Rail Project, sometimes circumstances give us no choice. 
  The vampire sucking millions of dollars out of the pockets of California every day is back in the news. Here’s the latest.
  First, recall that the High Speed Rail Project is the granddaddy of all “bait and switch” ballot measures. What began as a $10 billion bond measure to fund a rail project that would travel from Los Angeles to S
  
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• UCI rings in the Year of the Horse with early celebration

  10-02-2026 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  Members of Hansori perform traditional Korean drumming in Irvine, CA on Monday, February 9, 2026. UC Irvine was celebrating the Year of the Horse during their Lunar New Year celebration. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Student Zihan Sheng does Japanese flower arranging during UC Irvine’s Year of the Horse, Lunar New Year celebration in Irvine, CA on Monday, February 9, 2026. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  A student shows a finished origami hor
  
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• Honda profits take a 42% hit from Trump’s tariffs and EV moves

  10-02-2026 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Yuri Kageyama | The Associated Press
  Honda reported Tuesday a 42% drop in profit for the nine months through December, compared to a year earlier, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs hurt the Japanese automaker’s earnings.
  The carmaker faces a litany of challenges that “make it necessary to fundamentally reassess our strategy and rebuild our competitiveness,” it said Tuesday. Those include slowing EV growth, protectionist trade policies, heightened supply chain ri
  
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• Orange County boys basketball Top 25: Santa Margarita is No. 1 going into playoffs

  10-02-2026 21:57 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys basketball rankings as of Tuesday, Feb. 10.
  Notable this week: Santa Margarita defeated St. John Bosco 57-56 last week in the final of the Trinity League Tournament.  JSerra defeated Mater Dei 87-66 in the third-place game. … San Clemente beat Tesoro, 69-65, to tie the Titans for the South Coast League championship. … Pacifica Christian beat Fairmont Prep, 50-46, to tie the Huskies for the San Joaquin League championship. … The playoffs begin Wedn
  
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• Why the words ‘Armenian genocide’ matter after Vance social media reference is deleted

  10-02-2026 21:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW, Associated Press
  U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire.
  The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. government historically has not used for what happened, with a notable exception by the Biden administration. The White House blamed a staff mistake.
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• California housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report

  10-02-2026 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ben Christopher | CalMatters
  In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better lit apartment buildings in California’s housing-strapped cities.The Office of the State Fire Marshal was given until Jan. 1, 2026, to come up with a report on single-stair apartment buildings — a type of mid-sized multifamily developmen
  
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• US’s largest public utility says it now doesn’t want to close two coal-fired plants

  10-02-2026 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration.
  In new filings, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s signaled that it wants to ditch closure dates for the Kingston Fossil Plant and Cumberland Fossil Plant in T
  
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• Chargers offseason primer: Offense and Justin Herbert need help

  10-02-2026 21:26 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s no doubt that Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh believe they built a strong offensive foundation in their two seasons together. But there are plenty of questions about its structural integrity in the wake of an unfulfilling end to the 2025 season.
  Harbaugh got the point quickly during his season-ending news conference last month, after the Chargers’ second consecutive 11-win season ended with their second consecutive one-and-done in the AFC wild-card
  
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• Republican lawmakers grill telecom officials over phone records access in Trump investigation

  10-02-2026 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress.
  “I think what you’ve done here is outrageous. And I think the implications for the privacy of t
  
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• California union pushes work-from-home bill as Newsom readies back-to-office

  10-02-2026 21:19 via ocregister.com
  By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters
  One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s July 1 mandate for most employees to be in the office four days a week.
  The measure, authored by Assemblymember Alex Lee, a Milpitas Democrat, would require state agencies to offer work-from-home options “to the fullest extent possible” and provide written justificatio
  
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• Costa Mesa boy played young Bad Bunny during Super Bowl

  10-02-2026 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  A 5-year-old boy who portrayed a younger Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show hails from Costa Mesa.
  Lincoln Fox Ramadan, a child actor and model, appeared during the Puerto Rican superstar’s show, which drew 135 million viewers. One scene captured hearts across the nation: Lincoln, dressed in a striped collared shirt and khaki shorts, watching television footage of Bad Bunny accepting his Grammy award for album of the year, the singer then walking over to the boy and handing him
  
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• FBI search of Georgia offices tied to probe of possible 2020 election ‘defects,’ affidavit says

  10-02-2026 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE BRUMBACK and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
  The affidavit provides the first public justification for an FBI search last month that targete
  
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• Los Angeles ‘takes’ Marilyn’s old house: a case study in property rights

  10-02-2026 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles government has developed a bad habit of taking private property for the good of the public, and not paying for it.
  This is a very old problem that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution attempted to solve in 1791. “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,” it commands.
  In Los Angeles, that and six dollars will buy you a cup of coffee.
  Owners of rental housing properties under L.A.’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance effecti
  
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• Border Patrol uninvited from Chino Hills job fair, San Bernardino County says

  10-02-2026 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is involved in a major recruitment drive, but you won’t see Customs & Border Patrol at a job fair scheduled for Chino Hills on Wednesday, Feb. 11.
  Local community groups sounded the alarm in late January.
  “Indivisible Inland Empire and the Cat Ladies for America Inland Empire condemn the decision to invite Customs and Border Patrol to the upcoming SB County Job Fair in Chino Hills,” a Jan. 28 Instagram post from Indivisible Inland Em
  
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• Love is in the air at Cabazon Dinosaurs as Valentine’s Day nears

  10-02-2026 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Decked out in messages of love with flowers, the Cabazon Dinosaurs greet passersby on the 10 Freeway and those who stop to visit.
  This time of year they are painted with flowers and Mr. Rex, the recognizable T-Rex’s message reads “Let Love Bloom,” as Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, draws near.
  “I think it’s really neat that they paint them,” said Phoenix resident Caryn Smith on Friday, Feb. 6. She and her husband Billy Smith were visiting the site for the firs
  
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• US-Canada bridge brouhaha deepens as White House says Trump could amend a permit for the project

  10-02-2026 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor hours after its prime minister signaled there could be a detente.
  The Gordie Howe International Bridge, which would connect Ontario and Michigan, would be a vital economic artery between the two countries and is scheduled to open in early 2026. B
  
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• Angels to have MLB distribute streaming TV broadcasts

  10-02-2026 20:39 via ocregister.com
  
  TEMPE, Ariz. — The Angels answered one of the questions about their television coverage on Tuesday, by announcing that fans will be able to purchase a streaming package through MLB.TV.
  Fans who are in the Southern California market can pay $99.99 for the whole season or $19.99 per month to stream Angels games.
  The club is still working out details for who will produce the games and how they will be distributed to fans who still have cable or satellite television.
  The Angels also confirmed
  
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• US to expand passport revocations for parents who owe child support, AP sources say

  10-02-2026 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are made, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
  While passport revocations for unpaid child support of more than $2,500 have been permitted under 1996 federal leg
  
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• Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument

  10-02-2026 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.
  The multicolored flag, one of the world’s most well known emblems of LGBTQ+ rights, was quietly removed in recent days from a flagpole on the National Park Service-run site, which centers on a tiny park in Manhattan&r
  
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• Swanson: Clippers inspire by making basketball more accessible

  10-02-2026 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  TARZANA — Every basketball team is, of course, trying to get buckets.
  The Clippers are the most invested team I know in giving buckets.
  If you’ve shot hoops at a public basketball court anywhere in the city of Los Angeles since 2022, the Clippers’ logo was on the backboard. A ubiquitous reminder of the $10 million donation team owner Steve Ballmer made to the L.A. Parks Foundation for renovations at every one of Los Angeles’ public basketball courts.
  Savvy marketing, good
  
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• New details emerge about Six Flags Magic Mountain’s 2027 coaster

  10-02-2026 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  New details have emerged about the first-of-its-kind ride coming to Six Flags Magic Mountain that will take thrill seekers on an off-road motorcycle ride over rugged hillside terrain when the new roller coaster debuts in 2027.
  Roller Coaster Database recently added speed, height, length and inversion stats for the new Vekoma Thrill Glider coming to the Valencia amusement park.
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• FDA to reassess the safety of BHA, a preservative used in popular snack foods

  10-02-2026 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer
  Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products.
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• Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain? Ask the Lawyer

  10-02-2026 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I saw on television that the Mickey Mouse character is no longer subject to copyright, or something along those lines. This seems very surprising. Can you clarify?
  B.W., Culver City
  Ron Sokol
  A: In the United States, a copyright under the current rule (a work created after 1978) has a duration of the life of the author plus 70 years. Older works, published before 1929 — which includes some aspects of Mickey Mouse — generally have a fixed term of 95 years from publication.
  Focusing
  
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• This city is challenging big landlords without waiting on Trump

  10-02-2026 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michael Sasso and Kriston Capps | Bloomberg
  President Donald Trump wants to ban big investors from buying more houses. Some local governments are already on the case – and Atlanta is ground zero.
  The Atlanta area has the highest share of corporate-owned single-family rentals in the US, and that’s spooked many locals. Residents fume about the impact on prices. Politicians have tried to impose restrictions, with mixed success — and say they’re glad to have Trump on their
  
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• Irvine adds more pickleball options; courts have drop in and reservation hours

  10-02-2026 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine pickleball fans have a new set of courts for playing.
  The city recently celebrated the opening of eight new courts at Mike Ward Community Park. The courts have lighting for evening play and there were four shade structures, picnic tables, benches and hydration stations added nearby.
  Arnaud Ancenay of Irvine, puts on a dramatic face as he returns a serve during an inaugural match on the new pickleball courts at Mike Ward Community Park on
  Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Eight lighted courts wil
  
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• Who’s Mariah Carey? Italian journalists to strike after commentator’s blunders at opening ceremony

  10-02-2026 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By DANIELLA MATAR
  MILAN (AP) — Misidentifying Mariah Carey. Mistaking the Olympics’ top boss for the Italian president’s daughter. Confusing the location of the opening ceremony. These gaffes at the Milan Cortina Winter Games by a top Italian broadcaster’s commentator so thoroughly embarrassed its staff that they’re going on strike.
  Related Articles Raedler and Huber of Austria win team combined at the Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin is 4th ‘Don’t jump in the
  
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• Recipe: Make this Beef, Mushroom and Carrot Stir-Fry for Lunar New Year

  10-02-2026 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  With Lunar New Year just around the corner, palate memories of Asian-themed dishes tempt me and fuel my desire to cook. Of course, the choices seem endless, but this year in an effort to make dishes that are quick to prepare as well as delicious, I’m turning to a simple beef stir-fry. OK, I’ll probably also make some dumplings that friends tell me promote prosperity in the new year, but the main event will be strips of beef stir-fried with carrots and mushrooms, served atop rice.
  So
  
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• Paramount sweetens offer to Warner Bros shareholders in hostile takeover fight

  10-02-2026 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is again sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, while again extending the deadline for its tender offer as it scrambles for more shareholder support.
  Related Articles US stocks flirt with records as Hasbro soars but Coca-Cola slips Is a weaker U.S. dollar a good thing? Typical 2025 California home seller made $265,000 vs. $107,000 for US Retail sales unchanged in December from November, closin
  
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• Paramount sweetens offer for Warner Bros. shareholders in hostile takeover fight

  10-02-2026 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount is again sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, while again extending the deadline for its tender offer as it scrambles for more shareholder support.
  Related Articles US stocks flirt with records as yields fall after a discouraging report on US shoppers Is a weaker U.S. dollar a good thing? Typical 2025 California home seller made $265,000 vs. $107,000 for US Retail sales unchanged i
  
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• What to Stream: Charli XCX, Timothée Chalamet, Ethan Hawke

  10-02-2026 18:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
  Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Richard Linklater’s deliciously wistful “Blue Moon” starr
  
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• CSUF collaboration uses AI to help visitors get personal with art installation

  10-02-2026 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Visitors can always view the new Lightwall piece of art on the wall at the California Center for the Arts from a distance.
  Consisting of hand-scappled geometric shapes and prisms on a white background with three rows of four clear acrylic cubes, it is an interesting piece of abstract art on its own merits.
  However, when the visitor walks up to Lightwall, it becomes something else altogether.
  The rotating acrylic cubes reflect light that is projected from points around the wall’s
  frame. (Ph
  
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• Israeli minister calls West Bank measures ‘de facto sovereignty,’ says no future Palestinian state

  10-02-2026 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM METZ
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A top Israeli official said Tuesday that measures adopted by the government that deepen Israeli control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing “de facto sovereignty,” using language that mirrors critics’ warnings about the intent behind the moves.
  Related Articles Survey says democracies’ anti-corruption efforts are slipping and raises concern about the US Netanyahu wants Trump to demand more from Iran. The leaders
  
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• ‘We hold these truths’: Viewing the Declaration of Independence, visitors reflect on America at 250

  10-02-2026 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By GARY FIELDS
  WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be sustained.
  Related Articles Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires Pleas from Savannah Guthrie’s family to finding missing mom turn from hopeful to desperate US immigration court blocks deporta
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Drew Anderson, Santa Margarita

  10-02-2026 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Drew Anderson
  School: Santa Margarita
  Sport: Basketball
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: The Trinity League Tournament did not designate a tournament MVP, but Anderson might have been it. He scored 21 points with nine rebounds in the Eagles’ 84-56 win over JSerra in the tournament semifinals. He also scored 24 points in a 57-56 win over St. John Bosco in the championship game. Anderson, a 6-8 forward, signed with Oregon State.
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• Survey says democracies’ anti-corruption efforts are slipping and raises concern about the US

  10-02-2026 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEIR MOULSON
  BERLIN (AP) — Established democracies’ efforts against public-sector corruption appear to be flagging, according to a survey released Tuesday that serves as a barometer of perceived corruption worldwide. It raised concern about developments in the United States and the impact elsewhere of U.S. funding cuts.
  Related Articles Israeli minister calls West Bank measures ‘de facto sovereignty,’ says no future Palestinian state Netanyahu wants Trump to demand mor
  
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• Netanyahu wants Trump to demand more from Iran. The leaders will meet this week

  10-02-2026 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Washington on Tuesday to encourage President Donald Trump to expand the scope of high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran. The negotiations resumed last week against the backdrop of an American military buildup.
  Israel has long called for Iran to cease all uranium enrichment, dial back its ballistic missile program and cut ties to militant groups across the region. Iran has always rejected those demands, s
  
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• A 15-week ‘Walk for Peace’ concludes with Buddhist monks’ arrival in Washington

  10-02-2026 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIFFANY STANLEY and DEEPA BHARATH
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., on foot Tuesday, walking single file across a bridge over the Potomac River to cap a 15-week trek from Texas that has captivated the country.
  Related Articles Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires Pleas from Savannah Guthrie’s family to finding missing mom turn from hopeful to desperate US immigration court blocks deportat
  
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• Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims

  10-02-2026 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick’s previous claim that he had cut ties with the late financier after 2005.
  Lutnick once again downplayed his relationship with the disgraced financier who was once his neighbor in New York City as he was questioned by Democrats during
  
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• Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires

  10-02-2026 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By DORANY PINEDA and SETH BORENSTEIN
  A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.
  Related Articles Trump set to gut US climate change policy and environmental regulations: White House official In the Arctic, the major climate threat of black carbon is overshadowed by geopolitical tensions After years of testing, CDFW approves SoCal made pop-up
  
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• Norms is ready for its closeup in a new movie opening Friday, Feb. 13

  10-02-2026 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The future of mankind depends on late-night diners in Norms’ restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard in a new film coming out on Friday, Feb. 13.
  The darkly comic sci-fi adventure is called “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” and it stars Sam Rockwell. It’s directed by Gore Verbinski, whose hits include “The Ring” and the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies.
  It was written by Matthew Robinson, whose credits include writing and do-dire
  
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• Pleas from Savannah Guthrie’s family to finding missing mom turn from hopeful to desperate

  10-02-2026 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By TY O’NEIL and JOHN SEEWER
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The heart-breaking messages made by “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her family have shifted from hopeful to desperate as they plead with the apparent kidnappers to hand over their missing mother.
  More than a week into the search for Nancy Guthrie, there are more questions than answers about who abducted the 84-year-old from her home in Arizona and whether she is still alive.
  Authorities have released few details, le
  
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