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• California State University system’s math problem

  20-09-2019 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The education bureaucrats in California have a public-relations problem. State education officials sold the Common Core K-12 academic standards to skeptical parents with the officials’ promise that kids would be “college- and career-ready.”  California State University administrators sold abolition of remedial classes to incoming students and their parents with the administrators’ promise that without having to take these classes, students would graduate from college
  
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• Some surprises among Orange County teams in CIF-SS basketball quarterfinals

  17-02-2026 03:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Every basketball season there are surprises in the CIF-SS playoffs.
  This year, Orange County’s boys teams have provided plenty of them.
  In the CIF Southern Section quarterfinals Tuesday there are a number of county teams that few could have predicted would get this far.
  Among them …
  Canyon in Division 2
  Tuesday’s matchup: Bishop Amat at Canyon, 7 p.m.
  Canyon (18-12) got into the playoffs as an at-large team before beating Silverado, 63-55, in the first round and Oxnard, 70-67,
  
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• This state bill would stop local law enforcement from helping ICE carry out its agenda

  17-02-2026 02:38 via ocregister.com
  
  A state lawmaker from Los Angeles County has introduced legislation meant to prevent local law enforcement officers from being “commandeered” into helping federal immigration officials carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program.
  The Protect California Rights Act, introduced by Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, D-Alhambra, would clarify that state and local law enforcement agencies cannot aid federal agents during operations involving what she described as r
  
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• Newport Harbor, Orange Lutheran girls soccer to clash in CIF-SS quarterfinals

  17-02-2026 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange Lutheran’s girls soccer team has scored eight goals in two playoff matches after netting two in its final five Trinity League games. Newport Harbor has allowed only one goal in two postseason showdowns.
  Yes, a rising attack will encounter an organized defense Wednesday when Orange Lutheran plays host to Newport Harbor in the CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinals at 5 p.m.
  “Stopping their abil
  
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• Newport Harbor, Orange Lutheran girls soccer to clash in CIF quarterfinals

  17-02-2026 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange Lutheran’s girls soccer team has scored eight goals in two playoff matches after netting two in its final five Trinity League games. Newport Harbor has allowed only one goal in two postseason showdowns.
  Yes, a rising attack will encounter an organized defense Wednesday when Orange Lutheran plays host to Newport Harbor in the CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinals at 5 p.m.
  “Stopping their abil
  
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• Karen Bass says Casey Wasserman should step down as LA28 chair

  17-02-2026 02:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a CNN interview Monday that she believes Casey Wasserman should step down as chair of the LA28 Olympics Organizing Committee, breaking weeks of silence on this issue.
  “My opinion is that he should step down,” Bass told CNN’s Dana Bash. She added that while the LA28 board has discretion over its leadership, she did not support its recent decision to keep Wasserman in place.
  “The board made a decision. I think that decision was unfortuna
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Monday, Feb. 16

  17-02-2026 01:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Monday, Feb. 16
  Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
  The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
  GIRLS SOCCER
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Round 2
  DIVISION 7
  Savanna 3, de Toledo 2
   
   
   
  
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• LAFC set to begin new era with CONCACAF Champions Cup game at Real España

  17-02-2026 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Credit Son Heung-min for playing a big part in the Los Angeles Football Club opening its ninth season in Honduras on Tuesday.
  Following the South Korean superstar’s arrival last August, LAFC went from averaging 1.6 points per game to a solid two over a dozen MLS matches to close out the 2025 regular season.
  That late charge pushed LAFC to 60 points, which proved enough to claim the final spot among MLS teams participating in the latest version of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.
  Coming off the
  
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• JSerra-Mater Dei boys soccer rivalry to continue in Open Division playoffs

  17-02-2026 01:19 via ocregister.com
  
  The JSerra and Mater Dei boys soccer rivalry is one of the better rivalries in Orange County high school sports.
  So many high-stakes games have been the centerpiece of the rivalry.
  The stakes are high again this week as JSerra and Mater Dei play each other twice in the CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs.
  JSerra (8-4-4) is the home team against Mater Dei (14-1-3) on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Mater Dei is the home team against JSerra on Saturday at 5 p.m.
  The cumulative score from both games will
  
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• Erick Erickson: GOP ignores Trump’s deepening unpopularity at its own peril

  17-02-2026 01:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, “I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don’t want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country.” You might not want to hear this, but Douthat is right.
  Perhaps he is not right on the specific issues, but generally, he is right. Ignore the polls. The polling average is a better indication of where things are and the pres
  
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• U.S. trio begins quest for women’s figure skating medals

  17-02-2026 01:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A trio of U.S. figure skaters start their charge for the women’s medals at the Olympics, and there are big tricks in store in snowboarding and freestyle skiing.
  Day 11 at the Milan Cortina Games also sees a world record-holding U.S. team chase speedskating team pursuit gold and a crunch game for Sweden in men’s hockey.
  U.S. skaters have plenty of rivals for gold
  Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito are American skating stars for a new era. Rivals from Japan and Russia are sure t
  
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• Cuban drivers face monthslong wait for gasoline in a government app designed to reduce lines

  17-02-2026 00:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
  HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Drivers in Cuba are facing the prospects of waiting several months to refuel their cars, as fuel shortages caused by a U.S. oil siege intensify.
  To avoid chaos outside gas stations, Cuba’s government last week made it obligatory for drivers to use an app known as Ticket to get refueling appointments.
  But drivers in Havana told The Associated Press on Monday that the app is only awarding them appointments several weeks or months from now.
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• What Panda Express has going on for Lunar New Year

  17-02-2026 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Lunar New Year is a big holiday for Panda Express, although it doesn’t show up on the menu.
  The Year of the Horse begins Tuesday, Feb. 17. The horse is the seventh of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Each animal returns every 12 years, bringing its special characteristics to play. The horse is considered hardworking, smart and friendly. This year’s element is fire, so the Fire Horse, which returns every 60 years, has a little extra kick.
  ALSO SEE: Lunar New Year: A look at the Year
  
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• Trump administration ordered to restore George Washington slavery exhibit it removed in Philadelphia

  17-02-2026 00:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
  An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month, a federal judge ruled on Presidents Day, the federal holiday honoring Washington’s legacy.
  The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the explanatory panels from Independence National Historical Park, the site where George and Marth
  
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• Nixon Library visitors spent Presidents’ Day with influential American leaders

  17-02-2026 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Abraham Lincoln, played by Robert Broski, gives a speech during a Presidents’Day celebration at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA on Monday, February 16, 2026. Listening on stage are actors portraying George Washington, James Madison and Ulysses S. Grant. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  George Washington, played by Gary Beard, celebrates a visitor dumping tea into the harbor during a Presidents’Day celebration at the Richard N
  
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• Opening statements held in the trial of a Georgia high school shooting suspect’s father

  17-02-2026 00:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN RABY
  A man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school should be held responsible for providing the weapon despite warnings about alleged threats his son made, a prosecutor said Monday.
  Related Articles Al Pacino, Jamie Lee Curtis and others pay tribute to Robert Duvall, who died at age 95 3 killed, including suspect, in shooting during Rhode Island youth hockey game More third-country nationals have been deported by the US to Cameroon,
  
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• Will factory-built housing take off in California this year?

  17-02-2026 00:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ben Christopher | CalMatters
  As the first home rolled off the factory floor in Kalamazoo, Michigan —  “like a boxcar with picture windows,” according to a journalist on the scene — the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development proclaimed it “the coming of a real revolution in housing.”
  For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes. Now, amid
  
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• Gun charge against man arrested outside Trump rally in Coachella headed toward dismissal

  16-02-2026 23:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Vem Miller, the man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Coachella in 2024 after Riverside County sheriff’s deputies confiscated two firearms from his truck, will have a charge of carrying a loaded firearm in public dismissed if he complies with a judge’s order.
  Miller, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, did not have to enter a guilty plea to receive what is called a misdemeanor diversion.
  On Jan. 29, Riverside County Superior Court Judge James Hodgkins ordered Miller to complete a
  
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• Hollywood groups condemn AI video maker by ByteDance

  16-02-2026 23:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Barbara Ortutay | The Associated Press
  A new artificial intelligence video generator from Beijing-based ByteDance, the creator of TikTok, is drawing the ire of Hollywood organizations that say Seedance 2.0 “blatantly” violates copyright and uses the likeness of actors and others without permission.Seedance 2.0, which is only available in China for now, lets users generate high-quality AI videos using simple text prompts. The tool quickly gained condemnation from the movie and TV i
  
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• California sends $90 million to Planned Parenthood

  16-02-2026 23:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Just over four months after Planned Parenthood affiliates were defunded by the Trump administration, California injected another $90 million lifeline in “reproductive healthcare” grants to the state’s seven affiliates — among the largest in the United States.The latest funding comes as a result of legislation, Senate Bill 106, passed by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Feb. 11.
  Since last fall, California has provided $235 million to the st
  
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• Winter Olympics: Team USA women’s hockey rolls over Sweden to reach final

  16-02-2026 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  MILAN — Team USA, with a 5-0 rout of Sweden, advanced to a Milano Cortina Olympic Games women’s hockey final that they’ve been aiming for even before they left the ice after losing the Olympic final in Beijing four years earlier.
  The U.S. scored on three consecutive shots in less than three minutes in the second period to blow the game open and secure a spot in their sixth gold medal final in seven Olympic Games.
  The U.S. will face a familiar foe in the final: Canada, a 2-1 win
  
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• Injured seabird desperately pecks at hospital door for help

  16-02-2026 23:33 via ocregister.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency room at a hospital in Germany until medical staff noticed it and called firefighters to help with its rescue.
  The cormorant, a shiny black waterbird, had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it made its presence known at the glass door of the Klinikum Links der Weser hospital in the northern city of Bremen on Sunday.
  An injured cormorant stands in front of the door of an emergency room at a hospital
  
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• Al Pacino, Jamie Lee Curtis and others pay tribute to Robert Duvall, who died at age 95

  16-02-2026 23:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  Remembrances poured in Monday in honor of Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor known for roles in “Apocalypse Now,” “Lonesome Dove,” Tender Mercies” and as the intrepid consigliere of the first two “Godfather” movies.
  Duvall died Sunday at age 95 at his home in Virginia, according to an announcement from his publicist and a statement posted on his Facebook page by his wife, Luciana Duvall.
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• Adam Sandler, Jamie Lee Curtis and others pay tribute to Robert Duvall, who died at age 95

  16-02-2026 23:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  Remembrances poured in Monday in honor of Robert Duvall, the Oscar-winning actor known for roles in “Apocalypse Now,” “Lonesome Dove,” Tender Mercies” and as the intrepid consigliere of the first two “Godfather” movies.
  Duvall died Sunday at age 95 at at his home in Virginia, according to an announcement from his publicist and a statement posted on his Facebook page by his wife, Luciana Duvall.
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• Orange County softball preview: Orange Lutheran starts the season atop pack

  16-02-2026 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowORANGE COUNTY SOFTBALL PREVIEW 2026
  Orange Lutheran softball players, clockwise from bottom center, Carlie Snyder, Sierra Nichols, Cate Medvitz, Maddy Armendariz, Morgan Fitzpatrick and Josephine Marsh in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 6, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Orange Lutheran softball player Carlie Snyder (56) in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 6, 2026. (Photo by Jef
  
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• Business briefly: Apple to hold product launch with Mac updates

  16-02-2026 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Apple said on Monday that it’s holding a product launch on March 4, with the company preparing to announce several new devices in the coming weeks.
  The iPhone maker invited media to gatherings in New York, Shanghai and London, saying it is holding an in-person “experience.” The invitation implies a more low-key showcase than the typical launches held at the company’s campus in Cupertino.
  The invitation doesn’t specify whether a keynote will be streamed online, as ha
  
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• Presidents’ Day storm brings heavy rain to Southern California but so far no havoc

  16-02-2026 22:51 via ocregister.com
  
  An intense Presidents’ Day storm arrived over parts of Southern California on Monday morning, Feb. 16, leading to heavy rains, strong winds, and flash-flood and evacuation warnings.
  It is the first of three storms expected to land over Southern California this week.
  “We’ve seen some very impressive rainfall rates,” said David Gomberg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “When you get that intense rainfall, that increases your chance of urban flooding.
  
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• Police respond to reports of multiple people shot at a Rhode Island hockey rink

  16-02-2026 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Police are responding to reports of multiple people hurt in a shooting at a Rhode Island ice rink where a youth hockey game was scheduled.
  Little detail was immediately available about the shooting Monday afternoon at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles outside Providence.
  Outside the arena, tearful families and high school hockey players still in uniform could be seen hugging before they boarded a bus to leave the area. Roads surround
  
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• 3 killed, including suspect, in shooting during Rhode Island youth hockey game

  16-02-2026 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Three people, including the suspect, were fatally shot during a Rhode Island youth hockey game Monday, authorities said.
  Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that three other victims are hospitalized in critical condition.
  “It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute,” she said. Goncalves did not provide details about the suspect or the ages of those who were killed, though she said it app
  
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• Tommy Edman won’t be ready for Opening Day for Dodgers, creating an opening at 2B

  16-02-2026 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — When it comes to the Dodgers’ everyday lineup, there seems to be just one thing 2B determined – second base.
  Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed Monday that Tommy Edman will open the season on the injured list following ankle surgery last fall.
  “He took some swings the other day, from both sides. Did some skipping, some light jogging, I think it was. Getting his body in shape,” Roberts said.
  “I think just looking at where his ankle is at,
  
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