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• Biden open to compromise but rejects infrastructure inaction

  07-04-2021 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By Josh Boak | Associated Press
  President Joe Biden drew a red line on his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan Wednesday, saying he is open to compromise on how to pay for the package but inaction is unacceptable.
  The president turned fiery in an afternoon speech, saying that the United States is failing to build, invest and research for the future and adding that failure to do so amounts to giving up on “leading the world.”
  “Compromise is inevitable,” Biden said. “We
  
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• USC valedictorian gets cheers, standing ovation during commencement

  11-05-2024 01:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Asna Tabassum, USC’s valedictorian who was denied the opportunity to speak at commencement this year because of a pro-Palestine post she shared on social media, graduated on Friday, May 10, crossing the stage to the sound of cheers and a standing ovation after her name was called.
  But it didn’t take place during the traditional main-stage commencement ceremony.
  That event, which would’ve taken place Friday, had been canceled in the wake of campus unrest over the past few weeks
  
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• Sam Rubin, who died Friday at 64, felt like a fun-loving friend on the KTLA 5 Morning News

  11-05-2024 01:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Legendary Los Angeles entertainment reporter Sam Rubin aways felt like a friend. You might be a Hollywood star talking with Rubin on the KTLA 5 Morning News or a bleary-eyed viewer watching from home, but Rubin’s cheerful, curious, conversational style made you feel like part of his circle.
  Rubin, 64, died Friday at home, apparently after a heart attack. He’d called in sick Friday, one day after interviewing actress Jane Seymour on the Morning News with no sign of anything wrong.
  As
  
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• Workers at Apple stores are pushing to join unions

  11-05-2024 01:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ramishah Maruf | CNN
  New York  — Apple faces plenty of challenges this year including regulatory scrutiny in Washington, sluggish sales in China and a competitive landscape in AI. Now, its leaders also have to contend with labor unrest.
  Apple store workers in Towson, Maryland, made history in June 2022 when they voted to form the first union at one of the tech giant’s sleek US stores. Since 2023, the worker group outside of Baltimore has been in contract negotiations with App
  
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• GOP congressmember decries mail-in ballot ‘flaws’ after 104 Southern California votes aren’t counted

  11-05-2024 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  “Flaws in the mail-in ballot system” led to at least 104 ballots from California’s March 5 primary going uncounted though they were postmarked on or before Election Day, a Southern California congressmember said.
  Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, sent a letter this week to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy seeking answers as to why the ballots sent to voters from Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties arrived too late, as first reported by the Southern California News Group.
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• City of Irvine breaks ground on Great Park cultural terrace

  11-05-2024 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine leaders celebrated this week breaking ground on the 45-acre Cultural Terrace West development, which will be the next large section of the city’s Great Park to be completed.
  A community event promoted the attractions that will relocate to the new terrace near Marine Way and Skyhawk within the next several years.
  The public examines the Great Park Framework Plan during an open house for the public to view the plans for the next development phase of the Great Park and meet the develop
  
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• S. Africa again asks the world court to restrain Israel in Gaza

  11-05-2024 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By Molly Quell | Associated Press
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court Friday to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.”
  The request marks the fourth for additional measures by South Africa, which filed a genocide case against Israel late last year at the International Court of Justice. According to the latest request, the previous p
  
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• More than 1,400 people experiencing homelessness in Anaheim

  11-05-2024 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  There are more than 1,400 people experiencing homelessness in Anaheim, according to the latest point in time count numbers released this week, the highest number of unhoused people recorded in recent years.
  “The new numbers are astounding,” said Mike Robbins, president of People’s Homeless Task Force Orange County. “We are fighting a losing battle.”
  Every two years, the county counts who is experiencing homelessness, both in shelters and on the streets. The county r
  
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• The ‘best of the best’ lowrider cars are going on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum

  11-05-2024 00:03 via ocregister.com
  
  They’re equipped with state of the art hydraulics, sport spectacularly intricate paint jobs, pristine decked-out interiors and they’ve become cultural icons while riding low on four wheels.
  They’re lowriders and the Petersen Automotive Museum is celebrating the artistry, creativity and the unique identity of these over-the-top vehicles with “Best in Low: Lowrider Icons of the Street and Show.”
  The show, which opens Saturday, May 11 and runs through April 2025, inclu
  
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• Vehicles taken ‘hostage’ in Inland Empire insurance fraud scheme, authorities say

  11-05-2024 00:00 via ocregister.com
  
  More than a dozen people are accused of engaging in an elaborate fraud scheme across the Inland Empire that entailed making false representations to people involved in collisions in order to take their vehicles and hold them “hostage” until receiving insurance payments, authorities said Friday, May 10.
  Search warrants were executed Thursday by the Inland Empire Automobile Insurance Task Force, led by investigators from the California Department of Insurance and composed of law enforc
  
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• 15 pro tips for starting vegetables in the May garden

  10-05-2024 23:48 via ocregister.com
  
  May is the busiest month in my garden. Spring blooms give way to early summer blooms. Perennial bloom takes over for bulbs. The vegetable garden gets planted, fruit trees get attention and, if I’m lucky, the earliest stone fruits are ready to pick by month’s end. May is a glorious time to garden!
  Vegetable gardensAre you new to vegetable gardening? Or have you had trouble starting summer vegetable, herb and flower seeds in the past? Enroll in my Easy Seed Starting Online Course to le
  
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• Rivian laying off 92 employees at Orange County facilities

  10-05-2024 23:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine-based Rivian Automotive is laying off 92 people at several Orange County facilities, effective June 18, the latest in a series of cost-cutting efforts by the electric automaker.
  The cuts come just two months after the automaker trimmed 191 salaried jobs based in the county. That round focused on product teams and those in the company’s commercial EV business. The latest round of cuts mostly affects support and office workers.
  Also see: Are EV sales declines in California just a
  
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• May Revise sets up California for painful spending choices and tax increases

  10-05-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Giving credit where it is due, Gov. Newsom’s “May Revise” budget proposal recognizes the seriousness of the situation. He proposes real cuts, opposes tax increases, and suggests some efficiency improvements – which are all positive steps.Unfortunately, the proposal still relies on too many budget gimmicksand fund shifts. The Newsom plan also underestimates the severity of the current budget shortfall that must be addressed. Making matters worse, growing economic headwinds
  
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• Here’s a look at motherhood and pregnancy in the U.S.

  10-05-2024 23:08 via ocregister.com
  
  There are about 3.6 million babies born in the U.S. each year, which is an average of 9,863 a day. Here’s a look at pregnancy and birth in the U.S.
  Conception to birthdate
  The length of the average pregnancy is approximately 266 days. As the exact estimate of the ovulation is usually not known, an estimate of the birthdate is made using the day of the last menstrual period. This is usually 14 days before ovulation, so 14 days are added to the figure of 266, making a total of 280 days, or 4
  
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• When CHOC is the dinner table talk, you get three generations of nurses

  10-05-2024 23:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Like grandmother. Like mother. Like daughter.
  If you’ve walked the halls of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County in the last 50 years, you’ve likely had a chance encounter with at least one generation of the nurses from this family tree.
  Lezlie Brown-Zoller began her CHOC career 51 years ago as a nurse in the Orange hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit. Her daughter, Meghen Reahm, joined CHOC in 2002 and as a daytime nursing supervisor oversees staffing safety and
  
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• McDonald’s readies $5 meal deal to lure customers back into stores

  10-05-2024 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s Corp. is looking to launch a $5 meal deal in the US that the burger chain is betting can lure penny-pinching consumers back in.
  The deal could include a McChicken or a McDouble along with fries and a drink, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. On the company’s first-quarter earnings call, Chief Executive Officer Chris Kempczinski said McDonald’s had to be “laser-focused on affordability” given how price-w
  
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• The Book Pages: A forgotten Los Angeles novel is rediscovered

  10-05-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  In 1970s-era Los Angeles, something was in the air. Much of that was smog, but there were other atmospheric troubles in those days of Me-Decade malaise.
  Call it a feeling of uneasiness, a sense that the overripe paradise of Southern California had gone off. Author Gavin Lambert captures some of that dread – as well as L.A.’s toxic air – in his 1971 novel, “The Goodby People.” (Yes, he spelled it “Goodby,” which, like so
  
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• Angels Deals: Free food and discounts for fans based on Angels games

  10-05-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Angels partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items all season long based on how the Angels play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  McDonalds
  Free medium fries with a minimum purchase of $2 when the Angels win a home game.
  Chick-fil-A
  Free Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich if the Angels score 7 or more runs at any home game. Offer available by opening the Chick-Fil-A App until 11:59 p.m. the night of the game and using within 3 busine
  
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• Bill would ban some production quotas for U.S. warehouse workers

  10-05-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Getting a few more packages out shouldn’t injure workers or force them to skip lunch or a bathroom break, according to a new U.S. Senate bill that seeks to regulate production quotas for warehouse workers in the Inland Empire and nationwide.
  The Warehouse Worker Protection Act, unveiled Thursday, May 2, would ban quotas that the bill’s authors say require workers to move at an unsafe pace, miss restroom breaks or cut corners in their work in order to keep up with expectations.
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• Sam Rubin, KTLA 5 entertainment reporter, dies at 64

  10-05-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Sam Rubin, one of the most recognizable and likable entertainment reporters in the business and a fixture on the KTLA Morning News since 1991, died Friday at age 64.
  TMZ reported that Rubin suffered a fatal heart attack Friday morning. A KTLA source told Variety that Rubin died at his home in Brentwood.
  KTLA technology reporter Rich DeMuro wrote on X that he is “in absolute shock.” He posted a picture of himself with Rubin and wrote, “Thinking the most of your family right now.
  
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• Mark Wahlberg opens Mexican restaurant in Huntington Beach

  10-05-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Actor and Boston native Mark Wahlberg — who, along with his brothers, co-owns casual burger joint Wahlburgers — has moved into the fine-dining landscape with his own culinary project: Flecha Cantina, a nearly 10,000-square-foot Mexican-American restaurant located inside the Bella Terra shopping center in Huntington Beach.
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• Dodger Deals: Free food and discounts for fans when the Dodgers score

  10-05-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Dodgers partnered with several restaurants to offer free and discounted menu items throughout the season based on how the Dodgers play. Here are the deals available and how you can get them:
  Panda ExpressWhen the Dodgers win, you win! Visit https://t.co/4iaClE6WWA to learn more and get your $5 Panda Plate. pic.twitter.com/S0wToGF5RL
  — Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 7, 2024Panda Plate for $5 until 11:59 p.m. the following day by using the code “Dodgerswin” in
  
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• Newsom says state has $27 billion budget shortfall, but it can be balanced without raising taxes

  10-05-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s state budget has a $27.6 billion deficit, but it can be balanced without new taxes or major cuts to core programs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
  Unveiling his revised $288 billion May state budget for 2024-25, Newsom laid out a plan that relies on taking some money from “rainy day” reserves set aside in prior years, while also delaying some state programs, leaving 10,000 state jobs unfilled, and reducing spending on other programs — from new water storage to
  
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• See a collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork at Fullerton’s Muckenthaler

  10-05-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  About a year ago, Annabella Pritchard, a local art curator, was chatting with a good friend, an learned about a recently acquired,  unique collection of Salvador Dali’s artwork.
  The owner of the collection, financier Benjamin Feldman, the friend told Pritchard, was interested in sharing the art with a nonprofit and preferably showing it as its own exhibition.
  Guests view the Dali artwork during the Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s opening reception for an exhibit of Salvador Dali&
  
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• Can Missouri GOP remove candidate for governor with alleged KKK ties? Judge to decide

  10-05-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Kacen Bayless | (TNS) The Kansas City Star
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Cole County judge will decide whether the Missouri Republican Party can block a candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan from running for governor as a Republican.
  Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker held a one-day trial in Jefferson City on Thursday over a lawsuit from the state party seeking to remove the candidate, Darrell Leon McClanahan III, from the August ballot.
  McClanahan, who resides in Milo, a small vil
  
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• Sean Burroughs, Long Beach baseball icon, dies at 43

  10-05-2024 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Sean Burroughs, a celebrated baseball standout who led the Long Beach All-Stars to back-to-back Little League World Series titles and played seven seasons in the major leagues, died Thursday. He was 43 years old.
  Long Beach Little League announced Burroughs’ death in a statement posted on Instagram. The cause of death was not immediately known.
  Burroughs was one of the most decorated amateur baseball players in history. The son of 1974 American League Most Valuable Player Jeff Burroughs, S
  
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• Ex-Fatburger, Johnny Rockets CEO accused of ‘cover-up’ in $47M scheme to avoid taxes

  10-05-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A federal grand jury indicted the former CEO of Fat Brands, Inc. this week for what they said was a years-long scheme to distribute $47 million of shareholder funds disguised as loans to himself to avoid paying taxes.
  Andrew A. Wiederhorn, of Beverly Hills, who is still the controlling shareholder of the company behind such restaurant chains as Fatburger and Johnny Rockets, was accused of conspiring with the company’s CFO and an accountant to hide the disbursements to himself over more tha
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian diver Grant Schneider soars to CIF State championship

  10-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowGrant Schneider’s future appears bright with his commitment to attend Stanford.
  His view at the CIF State diving championships on Thursday also was sparkling.
  The Capistrano Valley Christian junior became the third Orange County boy to claim a state title with a strong performance at Clovis West High.
  Schneider scored 612.60 points to outdistance runner-up Gunnar Grubbs of Palo Alto by just over 28
  
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• Though noncitizens can vote in few local elections, GOP goes big to make it illegal

  10-05-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.org
  Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud.
  Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming to keep noncitizens away from the polls. They’re using state constitutional amendments and new laws tha
  
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• Olympian Kristi Yamaguchi is ‘tickled pink’ to inspire a Barbie doll

  10-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY TANG (Associated Press)
  Like many little girls, a young Kristi Yamaguchi loved playing with Barbie. With a schedule packed with ice skating practices, her Barbie dolls became her “best friends.”
  So, it’s surreal for the decorated Olympian figure skater to now be a Barbie girl herself.
  “It’s a huge, huge honor. I think a lot of pride comes along with it, not just recognizing the Olympic achievement, but also being recognized during AAPI Month and following i
  
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