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• Abolish the Selective Service System

  09-01-2020 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  At the height of the tensions following the killing of Iranian commander Qassim Soleimani, the website of the Selective Service System crashed.
  “Due to the spread of misinformation, our website is experiencing high traffic volumes at this time,” the Selective Service tweeted. “If you are attempting to register or verify registration, please check back later today as we are working to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience.”
  Some of the misinformation was spread o
  
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• New mayor takes the gavel in Laguna Woods

  25-01-2026 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Woods has a new first. After voters elected an all-female City Council in 2024, the city now has its first Black mayor, a woman to boot.
  Laguna Woods Village resident and Mayor Pro Tem Annie McCary took the helm on the dais in December, chosen by her colleagues to serve the next year leading the council.
  Having grown up in the Jim Crow South, McCary said she “could not have imagined a moment like this.”
  “Opportunities were limited and expectations were often set for us b
  
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• US security agreement for Ukraine is ‘100% ready’ to be signed, Zelenskyy says

  25-01-2026 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that a U.S. security guarantees document for Ukraine is “100% ready” after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia.
  Speaking to journalists in Vilnius during a visit to Lithuania, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is waiting for its partners to set a signing date, after which the document would go to the U.S. Congress and Ukrainian parliament for ratification.
  Zelenskyy also emphasized Ukrain
  
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• Massive winter storm across the US brings ice, frigid temperatures and widespread power outages

  25-01-2026 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE BRUMBACK and JULIE WALKER
  A massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, bringing subzero temperatures and paralyzing air and road traffic. Power lines were draped in ice, and hundreds of thousands of people in the Southeast were left without electricity.
  The ice and snowfall were expected to continue into Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, which could cause “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts&r
  
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• Iran unveils mural warning of retaliation if US conducts a military strike

  25-01-2026 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELENA BECATOROS
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities unveiled a new mural on a giant billboard in a central Tehran square on Sunday with a direct warning to the United States to not attempt a military strike on the country, as U.S. warships head to the region.
  The image shows a bird’s-eye view of an aircraft carrier with damaged and exploding fighter planes on its flight deck. The deck is strewn with bodies and streaked with blood that trails into the water behin
  
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• More than 10,500 flights canceled Sunday as massive winter storm sweeps across US

  25-01-2026 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By MAE ANDERSON and RIO YAMAT
  NASHVILLE (AP) — A massive winter storm made for a brutal travel day Sunday, with widespread cancellations and delays at some of the nation’s busiest airports.
  Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million people — more than half the U.S. population — in a path stretching from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England, the National Weather Service said Saturday night. After sweeping through the South, the storm move
  
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• Latest shooting in Minnesota enforcement surge fuels more calls for immigration agents to leave

  25-01-2026 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH RAZA, JACK BROOK and STEVE KARNOWSKI
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Local leaders and Democrats across the country demanded federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis and set off clashes with protesters in a city already shaken by another shooting death weeks earlier.
  The latest shooting has sparked a legal fight over control of the investigation amid the immigration surge that has swept across Minneapolis and surrounding cities.
  
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• Democrats vow to oppose homeland security funding bill. That increases the chance of a shutdown

  25-01-2026 18:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a partial government shutdown by the end of the week.Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, in a social media post Saturday night, hours after the shooting, said that what is happening in Minnesota is “appalling” and that Demo
  
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• Santa Anita consensus picks for Sunday, January 25, 2026

  25-01-2026 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Sunday, January 25, 2026.
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• Those friendly skies aren’t so friendly anymore

  25-01-2026 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By Shaun Tumpane
  Laguna Woods Globe
  Can you remember when air travel was an enjoyable experience? When travelers got dressed up to fly to Grandma’s house for the holidays?
  Granted, it seems like that was decades ago, because, well, it was decades ago.
  In the ’60s and ’70s, men wore suits and women elegant frocks with decolletage demurely hidden by the softest of fur from some dead animal. Sleek four-engine jets came with a shelf over the ample-width seats for a salesman’s
  
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• U.S. home sales 18% below average despite cheaper mortgages

  25-01-2026 17:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Americans bought homes at the fourth-slowest pace for a November in a 21-year history, despite the lowest mortgage rates in three years.
  Nationally, 269,665 residences were sold in November. That’s existing homes and newly built properties – both houses and condos, according to Attom data dating to 2005. This broad tally of sales is off 13% over 12 months and 18% below average.
  It’s no short-run slip. Sales over the past three years averaged 340,913 per month, 8% below the pace
  
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• Are you old enough to read this column? Yes, and young enough, too

  25-01-2026 16:09 via ocregister.com
  
  I am hearing from readers that there may be a movement afoot for me to rename my column because being a fan of Senior Moments makes them feel old.It’s all in perspective, of course.One reader named Helena (she used an assumed name because she is only 45 years old, rather than 50, which is associated with being – or at least getting – old) confessed sheepishly that my stories resonated with her.Does that mean, she wanted to know, she is aging too fast?
  It was actually Dr. Tim, a
  
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• OC advocates fear new federal rules will make it tough to keep people housed

  25-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For Dawn Price and Nishtha Mohendra – who are, respectively, the outgoing and incoming leaders of Friendship Shelter, a nonprofit that helps homeless people in south Orange County – a race is on.
  For Becks Heyhoe-Khalil, executive director of United to End Homelessness, and for Doug Becht, director of the county Office of Care Coordination, a race is on.
  And for thousands of people in Orange County living on the streets, or in subsidized apartments, or in their own homes but with low
  
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• Native Americans are dying from pregnancy. They want a voice to stop the trend

  25-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Oona Zenda, KFF Health News
  Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.
  Then 25 years old and six months pregnant, she drove herself to the emergency room in Ronan, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, where an ambulance transferred her to a larger hospital 60 miles away in Missoula. Once she arrived, the staff couldn’t detect her baby’s heartbeat. Swa
  
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• Don’t equate antisemitism with anti-Zionism, Chapman University argues

  25-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Chapman University(file photo)
  “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” “Pope in Hell.” “Priests Rape Boys.”
  Not exactly refined commentary, perhaps, but courts have determined that such sentiments are protected by the First Amendment nonetheless. So argue attorneys for Chapman University in their response to a lawsuit filed by a pair of recent graduates who charge Chapman with antisemitism.
  “While many understandably found this speech offensive or disturbing
  
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• California produced two Republican presidents. Why not a Democratic one?

  25-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California once exported a national mood: confidence, growth, competence, a booming middle class, and large industries that represented national strength. That vision was the California that helped produce and endorse Republican presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, both from Southern California.
  Modern California exports a different national image today: staggering costs, visible chaos, costly housing, soaring energy prices, and a politics that often seems geared toward deep-blue cit
  
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• Amy Reichert: Two friends, one broken immigration system

  25-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In the heart of this piece is a tale of two friends and a human story about what it means to seek both justice and mercy in our national immigration debate.
  A couple of weeks ago, I said goodbye to my dear friend Jackie Cruz Acencio as she prepared to leave San Diego with her husband, Oscar, a U.S. Marine, who is being medically evacuated from Balboa Naval Hospital following a tragedy that never should have happened. 
  On Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar was driving his family home with
  
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• Fred Smoller: Orange County has too many cities. It’s time to right-size.

  25-01-2026 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Regarding your January 15 editorial (“Orange County cities eye tax hikes, not spending cuts”), to maintain city services without increasing taxes, Orange County should consider reducing the number of local government units. 
  The number of Orange County cities has grown significantly. In 1960, there were only 15. By 1975 there were 25. Today, 34. This number will increase as new cities are formed in South County.
  The City of Orange (population 138,000) has an entire city (Villa P
  
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• Editorial: Ballot measure hamstrings future AI development

  25-01-2026 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  With the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence, policy makers in California and other states are rushing to address the technology’s potential downsides by reaching into their usual toolbox of regulation. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed one relatively modest law last year, but vetoed a far-reaching measure with nebulous language that could have hobbled an industry that’s become a leading source of state revenue.
  The Trump administration is taking the right tack by pushing a federal approach
  
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• Young couples embracing prenuptial agreements

  25-01-2026 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I recently read an article in a national magazine that reported young, engaged couples now embrace prenuptial agreements.
  Man, did that make me feel old (as does using the word “man” just then).
  I remember when prenups were viewed as something only for the wealthy, and, worse, they meant someone didn’t think the marriage would last. Maybe that last part is still true — after all, Gen Z grew up with not just divorced parents, but divorced grandparents as not unusual.
  A Har
  
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• National School Choice Week holds up a mirror to the failure of our current K-12 system

  25-01-2026 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Today marks School Choice Week, a time when advocates of educational freedom highlight and promote the value of school choice. As the last few years have taught a lot of parents, it’s better to have options than to be stuck, subject to the whims of any single institution.
  The premise of school choice is relatively straightforward. If your local, traditional public K-12 school is serving the needs for your child, great.
  But if it’s not, it best serves the interests of parents, student
  
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• Australian Open: Irvine’s Learner Tien joins Alcaraz, Djokovic (walkover) in quarterfinals

  25-01-2026 11:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer
  MELBOURNE, Australia — Irvine’s Learner Tien is the youngest man to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals in 11 years, and the youngest American man to go so far in a Grand Slam event since 2002.
  And he didn’t have to go the distance again with three-time runner-up Daniil Medvedev to get there.
  The 20-year-old Tien had a 6-4, 6-0, 6-3 win over Medvedev on Sunday (late Saturday night PT), a year after a second-round, five-set upset over the 2021 U.
  
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• Servite basketball gets a boost with win over Los Alamitos

  25-01-2026 08:49 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Having lost its three Trinity League games by an average margin of 21 points a loss, Servite’s boys basketball team was hungry for a win.
  The Friars got that win impressively Saturday in a 69-56 victory over Los Alamitos in the Nike Extravaganza at Mater Dei High.
  Servite improved to 18-8 overall. The Friars, No. 12 in The Orange County Top 25, are 0-3 in the six-team Trinity League with two league games remaining, at home against JSerra on Wednesday and at St. John Bosco
  
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• UC Irvine men edge UC San Diego with late basket, stingy defense

  25-01-2026 08:14 via ocregister.com
  
  LA JOLLA — Stingy defense and a clutch basket in the final 30 seconds helped the UC Irvine men’s basketball team to a critical Big West win.
  Jurian Dixon made a go-ahead floater with 29 seconds left, and UC Irvine held UC San Diego scoreless for the final 3:47 to earn a 61-59 victory on Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 4,000 at LionTree Arena.
  The win – in their fourth straight road game over a two-week stretch – keeps the Anteaters (14-7 overall, 7
  
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• Newport Harbor girls water polo beats No. 1 Mater Dei in tournament final

  25-01-2026 07:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowNEWPORT BEACH — A sensational first period on both ends of the pool powered Newport Harbor’s girls water polo team to its biggest victory of the season on Saturday.
  The Sailors erupted for six goals in the opening quarter and raced past top-ranked Mater Dei 12-6 in the finals of the Newport Invite at Newport Harbor High.
  Newport Harbor (23-3), ranked No. 2 in Orange County this week to Mater D
  
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• Luka Doncic beats Mavericks again as Lakers rally in 4th quarter

  25-01-2026 05:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Lakers forward LeBron James reacts after a basket by the Dallas Mavericks during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  Lakers forward Rui Hachimura reacts after scoring a shot against the Dallas Mavericks during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  Lakers guard Luka Doncic (77) works the floor against Dallas Mavericks forward Dwight Powell (7) during the first half of
  
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• Luka Doncic beats Mavericks again as Lakers rally in 4th

  25-01-2026 05:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Lakers forward LeBron James reacts after a basket by the Dallas Mavericks during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  Lakers forward Rui Hachimura reacts after scoring a shot against the Dallas Mavericks during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  Lakers guard Luka Doncic (77) works the floor against Dallas Mavericks forward Dwight Powell (7) during the first half of
  
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• Trevor Moore returns, delivers in shootout as Kings top Blues

  25-01-2026 05:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) celebrates after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the St. Louis Blues Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Kings’ Quinton Byfield (55) and St. Louis Blues’ Cam Fowler (17) battle for a loose puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) scores past St. Louis Blues goaltender Joel Hofer during a shoot
  
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• Kings’ Trevor Moore scores deciding goal in shootout to beat Blues

  25-01-2026 05:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) celebrates after scoring during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the St. Louis Blues Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Kings’ Quinton Byfield (55) and St. Louis Blues’ Cam Fowler (17) battle for a loose puck during the third period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
  Kings’ Trevor Moore (12) scores past St. Louis Blues goaltender Joel Hofer during a shoot
  
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• 2 men sentenced to life in prison for attack tied to MS-13 gang that killed a man and wounded his girlfriend in Lake Forest

  25-01-2026 05:13 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — Two men were sentenced Friday to life in prison for a machete and knife attack that killed a man and wounded his girlfriend seven years ago at a Lake Forest apartment complex.
  Jose Rafael Andrademembreno, 29, and Edwin Francisco Diaz, 25, were both convicted Oct. 14 of first-degree murder with special circumstances of lying in wait as well as conspiracy and the personal use of a deadly weapon. Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Menninger tacked on an additional year to
  
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