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• Cal State Fullerton MBA grad works toward religious liberty

  25-10-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  The Register asked Cal State Fullerton alum Stephanie Campbell to address the topic of separation of church and state.
  Campbell, who earned her MBA from Cal State Fullerton in 1980, helped found the Orange County chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in 2004.
  The website of the national organization, founded in 1947, says: “Americans United is happy to work with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Humanists and those who profess other religious beliefs or
  
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• Maduro is out. Whether that serves U.S. interests remains to be seen.

  07-01-2026 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  After years of increasingly brutal oppression, Venezuela is finally free of dictator Nicolás Maduro after he was captured last Saturday by the U.S. military in Caracas. Exiled Venezuelans across the world took to the streets to celebrate. “My joy is too big,” said a Venezuelan in Chile.
  Many across the world share that joy. Freedom advocates longed for Maduro’s ousting for years. Footage of him in shackles is a welcome sight for those of us who care about individual righ
  
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• Chat platform Discord files confidentially for IPO

  07-01-2026 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Caroline Hyde and Bailey Lipschultz
  (Bloomberg) — Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a rapidly growing pipeline of venture capital-backed tech listings.
  The San Francisco-based chat app company is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on a listing, people familiar with the plans said in March. Discord, whose platform is popular with gamers and programmers, has more than 200 m
  
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• Orange County boys soccer: JSerra trying to build another championship team

  07-01-2026 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  JSerra’s boys soccer team started play last week in the Trinity League. The Lions defeated St. John Bosco 2-1 on Friday in their league opener.
  The Lions get a bigger test Wednesday when they face Servite in a league game at home at 5:30 p.m.
  Servite beat Santa Margarita 2-0 in a Trinity League opener Friday at Santa Margarita.
  Last season the Lions finished 20-0-1 and earned championships in the CIF-SS Open Division and CIF Southern California Regional Division I playoffs.
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• Orange County boys soccer Top 10, Jan. 7

  07-01-2026 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The first Orange County boys soccer rankings of the 2025-26 season.
  ORANGE COUNTY BOYS SOCCER TOP 10
  (Records through Jan. 5)
  1. JSerra (6-3): The Lions were last year’s CIF Southern Section Open Division and CIF Southern California Regional Division I champions. They lost some fine players to graduation but a strong corps of young players make JSerra a team to beat — again — in the CIF-SS.
  2. Mater Dei (7-0): The Monarchs are seen as the top challenger to JSerra’s attemp
  
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• Orange County boys soccer: 10 players to watch

  07-01-2026 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE COUNTY PLAYERS TO WATCH
  Mina Besada, Sunny Hills, F, Sr.: Besada scored 18 goals over the Lancers’ first 15 games.
  Jude Califf, JSerra, D, Jr.: He was All-Orange County second team last season as a sophomore at Villa Park.
  Joaquin Chavez, Orange Lutheran, MF, Jr.: Chavez was All-Orange County second team and All-Trinity League first team last season as a sophomore.
  Nathan Cueva, Valencia, F, Sr.: Cueva did not play last season after transferring from Sunny Hills, where he was an All
  
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• Saint-Tropez bids adieu to Brigitte Bardot with a funeral and public homage

  07-01-2026 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By SYLVIE CORBET and THOMAS ADAMSON
  PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot’s funeral was being held on Wednesday with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century after retiring from movie stardom at the height of her fame.
  The animal rights activist and far-right supporter died Dec. 28 at age 91 at her home in southern France.
  She died from cancer after undergoing two operations, her husband, Bernard d’Orma
  
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• Newspapers seek sanctions over allegations OpenAI deleted key evidence

  07-01-2026 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Lawyers representing the New York Daily News and an array of news organizations suing OpenAI for allegedly stealing and distorting their reporters’ work have asked a Manhattan judge to sanction ChatGPT’s parent company, alleging the tech behemoth deleted millions of conversations they were required to hand over as evidence of copyright infringement.
  OpenAI continued to destroy output logs despite orders from two judges to preserve and provide them to the news organizations, new court
  
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• US Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela’s future in flux

  07-01-2026 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
  Faith leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging prayers for peace as they attend to congregations roiled by uncertainty and high emotions following the U.S. capture of deposed leader Nicolás Maduro.
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• UCLA football stocks up on receivers in transfer portal

  07-01-2026 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Open up the playbook: UCLA quarterback Nico Iamaleava will have a few new wide receivers, among multiple Wednesday transfer commits, to work with in 2026.
  A trio of wide receivers – Florida’s Aidan Mizell, James Madison’s Landon Ellis and San Jose State’s Leland Smith – joined UCLA’s transfer class Wednesday morning, according to multiple reports. Mizell, Ellis and Smith combined for 1,489 receiving yards in 2025, with the latter two eclipsing more than 600 re
  
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• Editorial: Brea is playing developer with taxpayer cash

  07-01-2026 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Costco, the ubiquitous Issaquah, Washington-based seller of food and consumer products, is so popular that it earned nearly $270 billion in revenues last year. That put it at No. 12 for revenues on the Fortune 500 list of companies. Obviously, the mega-retailer knows what it’s doing — and is perfectly capable of opening a new store without a government’s help.
  Yet the Brea City Council voted 3-1 to “enter an agreement with a Southern California real estate developer to pu
  
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• Nick Reiner’s attorney withdraws from case; defendant now off suicide watch

  07-01-2026 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH
  With his previous attorney withdrawing from the case, arraignment was postponed today for Rob Reiner’s youngest son, who is accused of killing the famed filmmaker and his photographer wife Michele in their Brentwood home.
  Nick Reiner, 32, remains jailed without bail pending his next court appearance on Feb. 23. He appeared in a downtown courtroom Wednesday morning, when defense attorney Alan Jackson informed a judge that his firm had withdrawn from the case. Reiner
  
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• Gov. Ron DeSantis calls for special session in April to redraw Florida’s congressional districts

  07-01-2026 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE SCHNEIDER and DAVID FISCHER
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he plans to call a special session in April for the Republican-dominated legislature to draw new congressional districts, joining a redistricting arms race among states that have redrawn districts mid-decade.
  Even though Florida’s 2026 legislative session starts next week, DeSantis said he wanted to wait for a possible ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on a key provision of the Voting R
  
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• ‘The Wiz’ brings updated enchantments to Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa

  07-01-2026 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  When actor Alan Mingo Jr. landed the title role in the 50th anniversary revival of the Broadway musical “The Wiz,” he felt confident that he knew what would come next.
  A national tour, a Broadway run, and then back on the road again, he was imagining himself doing basically the same show he’d loved since his boyhood in Maryland in the ’80s.
  The first part of that unfolded as expected. The 2023 national tour of “The Wiz” moved to Broadway a year later, and retu
  
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• Shooting is reported in Minneapolis, where the feds are conducting an immigration crackdown

  07-01-2026 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM SULLIVAN and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities reported a shooting Wednesday involving federal agents in Minneapolis, where immigration enforcement has been conducting a major crackdown.
  Live video posted online showed a large presence of federal and local officers, yellow police tape and cars that had been in a crash. Cmdr. Gregory Bovino of U.S. Customs and Border Protection was in the group.
  “We are aware of a shooting involving federal law enforcement
  
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• ICE agent shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown

  07-01-2026 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By TIM SULLIVAN and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist when she allegedly tried to run over law enforcement officers during an immigration crackdown in the city, authorities said Wednesday.
  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot the woman in her vehicle in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
  The shooting marks a dramatic e
  
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• Trump threats against Greenland pose new, potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO

  07-01-2026 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By LORNE COOK
  BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one, for an alliance focused on external threats that could now face an armed confrontation involving its most powerful member.
  The White House says the administration is weighing “options” that could include military action to take control of the strategically located and mineral-rich island,
  
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• Orange County restaurants opening in 2026 to put on your radar

  07-01-2026 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County certainly saw its fair share of goodbyes in 2025. The loss of 55-year-old Spaghetti Bender, along with acclaimed spots like Detention, Gema and Tustin’s the Black Marlin, hit hard. However, the region has a bounty of new eateries to look forward to in 2026. From two incoming Din Tai Fung locations and chef Michael Campbell’s latest concepts to a Chicago hot-dog staple and a New York City cookie icon, there are plenty of new menus and venues on the horizon.
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• ‘One Battle After Another’ dominates SAG’s Actor Awards with 7 nominations

  07-01-2026 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press
  “One Battle After Another” dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honors.
  In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, no movie has received more than five nominations. Along with a nod for the guild’s top award, best ensemble, the cast of “One Battle After Another” w
  
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• Actor Awards, formerly SAG Awards, will announce nominations Wednesday

  07-01-2026 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press
  Not all award shows require you to get up early in the morning to hear the nominations read.
  The Actor Awards, formerly the SAG Awards, will announce nominations Wednesday at 1 p.m. EST on Netflix’s YouTube Channel. This is the first year under the new moniker for one of Hollywood’s most closely watched Oscars harbingers.Presented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and voted on by the guild’s 160,000-pl
  
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• Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow

  07-01-2026 17:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money, signing off on a proposal that is expected to be the first of many as conservative states seek new latitude from a White House promising to “return education to the states.”
  Iowa was the first state to apply for an exemption from certain spending rules after Education Secretary Linda McMahon invited states to request th
  
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• New dietary guidelines urge Americans to avoid processed foods and added sugar

  07-01-2026 17:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer
  Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar, according to the latest edition of federal nutrition advice released Wednesday by the Trump administration.
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• US military action in Venezuela is seen as both a blessing and a curse for Russia’s Putin

  07-01-2026 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  The lightning U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces botched an attempt to capture Ukraine’s capital and topple its leader at the start of Moscow’s invasion nearly four years ago.
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• David Lee Roth is coming to the House of Blues Anaheim

  07-01-2026 17:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Lee Roth is set to return to the stage in 2026 with a North American tour dubbed A Night With David Lee Roth, marking his first major run of live dates in several years.
  The tour launches April 16 and will visit 30 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including a Southern California stop at House of Blues Anaheim on April 20.
  Best known as the iconic frontman of Van Halen, Roth played a defining role in shaping arena rock throughout the late ’70s and ’
  
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• With most customers gone, Altadena’s Lake Avenue businesses are slow to return

  07-01-2026 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  After driving through the intersection at New York Drive, traffic headed north along Altadena’s Lake Avenue toward the San Gabriel Mountains is light — always, even during rush hour.
  In the year since the Eaton firestorm swept through the foothill community on Jan. 7, 2025, navigating the town is easy. The mom-and-pop businesses and restaurants that once lined the short stretch of Lake are largely gone — as are some of the fire-ravaged surrounding neighborhoods.
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• Million-dollar ZIPs have 74% of OC home sales. How’d your ZIP do?

  07-01-2026 16:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Wonder why homebuying in Orange County is such a financial challenge?
  Here’s another reason: Orange County had 60 million-dollar ZIP codes in the three months ended in October – two more than a year earlier.
  There were 4,781 sales in communities with five or more sales and a median selling price of $1 million, says Attom data. That’s up 1% vs. the previous year and was 74% of countywide sales.
  The busiest seven-figure ZIP was Laguna Niguel 92677 with 192 sales. Prices ranged fr
  
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• Job openings slide to 2nd lowest level in 5 years as hiring remains sluggish

  07-01-2026 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up.
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• Job openings slide to 2nd lowest level in 5 years as hiring grows sluggish

  07-01-2026 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up.
  Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, the Labor Department said Wednesday, down from 7.4 million in October. Layoffs also dropped, however, as companies appear to be holding onto workers even as they are rel
  
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• Trail running legend Kilian Jornet advises beginners to enjoy the view and go easy

  07-01-2026 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH WILSON
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hikers navigating rugged terrain may have noticed more people speeding along the same trail while leaping over rocks and roots like two-legged mountain goats.
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• What is a robo-advisor? How it works, how much it costs, and pros and cons

  07-01-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By James Royal, Ph.D., Bankrate.com
  Robo-advisors automate the investing process for you, making it simple to invest in a diversified portfolio of assets — and they cost much less than a typical financial advisor. It’s little wonder that many investors have turned to them, and robo-advisors now manage hundreds of billions of dollars.
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