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• Avalon Lafosse, 1st teen to win a Segerstrom Center for the Arts leadership award, is out to save the world through art therapy

  31-05-2019 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  In the midst of high school graduation ceremonies, it seems almost too early to introduce a student about to enter her senior year. Then again, perhaps it’s the perfect time.
  On Tuesday, June 4, 16-year-old Avalon Lafosse will become the first teenager to receive a Segerstrom Center for the Arts leadership award.
  The cool thing is that the award isn’t just about Lafosse’s personal artistic accomplishments, although there is that. It’s also about how she teaches art to kid
  
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• Alabama promised to improve psychiatric care for men charged with crimes. They still wait years

  12-11-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAFIYAH RIDDLE
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station.
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• Sweetgreen opening first ‘Infinite Kitchen’ drive-thru in Orange County

  12-11-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Salad stans, start your engines.
  Sweetgreen, the noted purveyor of salads and protein bowls, has, quite fittingly, chosen the fertile vehicular environs of Orange County for its first drive-thru location with an automated kitchen.
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  Branded by the Los Angeles-based company as a “sweetlane,” the new Sweetgreen drive-thru will
  
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• 2028 Los Angeles Olympics competition schedule announced, including a ‘Super Saturday’

  12-11-2025 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The majority of the competition schedule for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics was announced Wednesday by its organizing committee, LA28.
  The 2028 Games will be the largest in history with 51 sports. The opening ceremony is scheduled for July 14, 2028, with the closing ceremony set for Day 16, July 30, 2028.
  The first medal event will be the triathlon, which will be held in Venice on Day 1, July 15.
  However, as is custom, several team sports will begin preliminary competition before the opening cere
  
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• In-N-Out Burger launches a foundation to fight homelessness

  12-11-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger’s has launched a new nonprofit called the His Eyes Foundation to combat homelessness in the nine states where the chain currently does business.
  His Eyes is holding its inaugural fundraising campaign this month in In-N-Out restaurants, where customers are invited to round up their purchases for the cause. In-N-Out will match contributions three-to-one up to $300,000.
  November is National Homelessness Awareness Month.
  The foundation was formed by In-N-Out owner and president
  
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• Why Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde says the group is more popular than ever

  12-11-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Simon Raymonde had for years refused to write a memoir about his life in Cocteau Twins, the dreamy British post-punk group he’d been in with Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie from 1983 to 1997.
  He’d never cared much for rock musician memoirs, finding most shallow and uninspired. And since Cocteau Twins ended, he’d been focused on his day-to-day life running the English record label Bella Union, which has released music by acts including Father John Misty, Patti Smith, Fleet Fo
  
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• Fall Signing Day 2025: Orange County athletes who are signing, Nov. 12

  12-11-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  OCVarsity is compiling a list of the Orange County high school athletes who will be signing official agreements with a college this week or in the coming weeks.
  The NCAA no longer uses the NLI (National Letter of Intent); athletes now sign “financial aid agreements” to make their signing official.
  Athletes from all sports except football, and who are seniors (Class of 2026), are eligible to sign beginning Wednesday, Nov. 12.
  Our list includes athletes who received a commitment letter
  
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• Climate change is in the news during COP30. We’ve got tips to tackle your climate anxiety

  12-11-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By CALEIGH WELLS, Associated Press
  Every autumn, news feeds get flooded with stories about climate change. That’s because around this time each year, global leaders gather to discuss collective efforts to limit our emissions of planet-warming gases, released primarily from oil, gas and coal.
  Some of the information coming out of the COP30 conference is bleak. But it’s not just COP. Climate stories can be difficult to consume year-round, whether it’s about natural disasters, vic
  
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• UN watchdog hasn’t been able to verify Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium in months

  12-11-2025 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, Associated Press
  VIENNA (AP) — The International Atomic Energy Agency has not been able to verify the status of Iran’s near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel and the United States struck the country’s nuclear sites during the 12-day war in June, according to a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog circulated to member states and seen Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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• Global tuberculosis diagnoses rise to a record, but deaths fall, WHO reports

  12-11-2025 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide rose again last year, eclipsing 2023’s record total, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.
  About 8.3 million people across the globe were reported as newly diagnosed with TB in 2024. Not all infections are diagnosed and the new numbers represent 78% of the estimated number of people who actually fell ill last year, the WHO noted.
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• What Americans think about Trump’s management of the government, according to a new poll

  12-11-2025 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JILL COLVIN and LINLEY SANDERS, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with much of the rising discontent coming from fellow Republicans.
  The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research was conducted after Democrats’ recent victories in off-year elections but before Congress took major steps to try to en
  
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• Winter Olympics sports resist push to add cyclocross and cross-country running to their program

  12-11-2025 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Organizers of traditional snow and ice sports said Wednesday they do not want events from summer federations added to their Winter Olympics program.
  Cyclocross and cross-country running — even indoors sports — have been suggested as additions to the Winter Games for the 2030 Olympics hosted in the French Alps and Nice.
  Those would be unwelcome “piecemeal proposals,” the Winter Olympic Federations group of governing bodies said in a state
  
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• Trump has an affordability problem

  12-11-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  While Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has tried his best to assure his side that last week’s elections were a nothingburger — just blue states doing blue state things — it’s clear the margin of Democratic victories is forcing a discussion over whether Trumponomics is working.
  The 2024 elections were a clear rebuke of Bidenomics and Democratic policies blamed for persistently high inflation. Voters who ranked the economy top of mind generally broke to the right in ho
  
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• 19,600 UC employees reach tentative contract, averting strike

  12-11-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  One of three big unions planning to strike the University of California on Nov. 17-18 has reached a tentative agreement, leaving more than 60,000 left to continue with plans to picket at 18 campuses and medical facilities statewide.
  After 17 months of negotiations, UC and the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America Local 9119, which represents 19,664 healthcare, research and technical professionals, agreed to a tentative deal Nov. 8, according to a UC st
  
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• Epstein emails released by Democrats say Trump ‘knew about the girls’ and spent time with a victim

  12-11-2025 16:34 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email that Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to communications released Wednesday.
  The emails made public by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee add to the questions about Trump’s friendship with Epstein and about
  
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• Yes, you do need to clean your water bottle. Here’s why and how

  12-11-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — You keep your trusty reusable bottle filled with only clear, delicious water. Do you still need to wash it?
  Experts say reusable bottles get grubby no matter what liquid they’re filled with, and it’s important to clean them regularly.
  Water bottles pick up germs from our mouths when we take a sip, and from our hands when we touch the straw or lid. They’re covered in tiny, tough-to-reach nooks and crannies which can
  
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• US stocks are drifting around their records as AMD rallies

  12-11-2025 16:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting in mixed trading on Wednesday.
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• Is COVID during pregnancy linked to autism? What a new study shows, and what it doesn’t

  12-11-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News
  A large study from Massachusetts has found that babies whose mothers had COVID-19 while pregnant were slightly more likely to have a range of neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3. Most of these children had speech or motor delays, and the link was strongest in boys and when the mother was infected late in pregnancy.
  The increase in risk was small for any one child, but because millions of women were pregnant during the pandemic, even a small increase ma
  
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• Atlanta Fed president Bostic to retire in February, opening seat on key committee

  12-11-2025 16:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will retire at the end of his current term in February, opening up a new seat on the Fed’s interest-rate setting committee at a time that President Donald Trump is seeking to exert more control over the central bank.
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• Want to join Cynthia Erivo in her ‘Wicked’ treehouse for tea? Airbnb is giving hopefuls a shot

  12-11-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In celebration of “Wicked: For Good,” Airbnb is partnering with fans to provide a one-of-a-kind experience in Southern California.
  “Wicked: For Good” picks up a few years after the first film ended. Cut to Elphaba, who’s settled in a treehouse in the Ozian Forest. At her new home, she studies the Grimmerie (the spell book featured in “Wicked”) and improves her powers.
  To celebrate the film, an Airbnb getaway in Thousand Oaks, inspired by her sanctua
  
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• Talks resume to find solutions for battered Capo and Doheny beaches

  12-11-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Darla O’Dea stopped her bike ride to soak in the sight at Capistrano Beach as strong waves and high tides pushed cobble and rock into the parking lot, each wave threatening what’s left of the battered beach.
  “This is crazy,” said the San Clemente resident during last week’s big swell event. “We used to take our kids to this beach. They used to have basketball courts… It’s sad. It’s really sad to see all of this.”
  Capistrano Beach got s
  
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• I talked to three women who asked for higher pay. This is what they got — and what they learned

  12-11-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Natalie Todoroff, Bankrate.com
  When Jessye Kass Karlin asked for a raise, she didn’t just need one person to say “yes.” She needed eight.
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• Frumpy Mom: Is it too early for Christmas decorations?

  12-11-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I’ve noticed a lot of Christmas creep lately, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.
  A couple of neighbors already have their Christmas lights up and blazing. This is wrong.
  I thought there was some sort of Supreme Court ruling that you must put your Christmas lights up on Thanksgiving weekend or later. Am I wrong about that? Even if for some reason —like thermonuclear war — that you had to hang your lights up early, you shouldn’t technically plug them in until then.
  
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• Why a Visa-Mastercard legal settlement could lead to your rewards credit card getting declined

  12-11-2025 15:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEN SWEET, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Visa and Mastercard have proposed a settlement in their long-running legal dispute with merchants and retailers over how much they charge merchants to accept their cards.
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• US Mint in Philadelphia to press final penny as the 1-cent coin gets canceled

  12-11-2025 15:37 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Back in 1793, a penny could get you a biscuit, a candle or a piece of candy. These days, many sit in drawers or glass jars and are basically cast aside or collected as lucky keepsakes.
  But their luck is about to run out.
  FILE – Pennies sit in a penny press machine at the American Dream mall, March 2, 2025, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
  The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is set to strike its last circulating penny on Wednesday as the
  
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• Trump urges Israel to pardon Netanyahu, sparking concerns over US influence

  12-11-2025 15:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press
  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel’s president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country.
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• Grijalva will be sworn in as the House’s newest member, paving the way for an Epstein files vote

  12-11-2025 15:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MATT BROWN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the House returns Wednesday for the first time in months, Democrat Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in as its newest member, nearly seven weeks after winning a special election in Arizona to fill the seat last held by her late father.
  Grijalva’s swearing-in is expected to be among the first actions by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who had previously declined to seat her until the chamber reconvened following
  
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• House returns for vote to end the government shutdown after nearly 2 months away

  12-11-2025 14:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEVIN FREKING, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MATT BROWN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers will make a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital on Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to potentially put an end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history.
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• Top diplomats will talk with Ukraine’s foreign minister at the G7 meeting in Canada

  12-11-2025 14:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By ROB GILLIES and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press
  NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are meeting Ukraine’s foreign minister on Wednesday as Ukraine tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across the country ahead of winter.
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• Small grocers and convenience stores feel an impact as customers go without SNAP benefits

  12-11-2025 13:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press Business Writer
  A little more than a year ago, Ryan Sprankle welcomed President Donald Trump to one of the three grocery stores his family owns near Pittsburgh. Trump was on the campaign trail; they talked about high grocery prices, and the Republican nominee picked up a bag of popcorn.
  But these days, Sprankle would have a different message if Trump or any lawmakers visited his store. He wants them to know that delayed SNAP benefits during the government shut
  
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