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• Democrat Abrams says she can’t win Georgia governor’s race, ends challenge

  16-11-2018 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW and KATE BRUMBACK
  ATLANTA — Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her challenge to Republican Brian Kemp in the Georgia governor’s race on Friday, but pledged to fight the former secretary of state’s “gross mismanagement” of the elections with a federal lawsuit.
  Speaking defiantly to a news conference, Abrams said her actions did not constitute a concession, but she acknowledged that she had no further recourse under the law and that Kemp would be certified th
  
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• Who has the best public parks in the nation? Study: The Twin Cities — and Washington, D.C.

  23-05-2024 16:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Irvine had the nation’s fourth-best parks, according to the Trust for Public Land’s annual ParkScore index.
  The index is presented as something of a friendly competition between the 100 most populous cities in the country, and a strong general barometer of which municipalities are investing in park space, amenities and access. The index has also begun in recent years to evaluate equity, or the size and number of parks and amenities in neighborhoods with large populations of
  
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• Scams, frauds and misbehaving billionaires gave Ryan Chapman ‘The Audacity’

  23-05-2024 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Married couple Victoria Stevens and Guy Sarvananthan — the antiheroes of Ryan Chapman’s comic novel, “The Audacity” — are deep in denial.
  Victoria is preparing for the collapse of her company, PrevYou, which promises gullible customers a cure for cancer; an ​​exposé is due to come out exposing the outfit as fraudulent. That’s bad news for Guy, who has become all too used to the sweet life on the gala circuit.
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• Where are Newsom’s 1,200 tiny homes for homeless Californians?

  23-05-2024 16:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom said he’d send tiny homes to San Jose, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego County. Why haven’t any materialized yet?
  In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before a crowd in Sacramento’s Cal Expo event center and made a promise: He’d send 1,200 tiny homes to shelter homeless residents in the capital city and three other places throughout the state.
  The move was part of Newsom’s push to improve the homelessness crisis by quickly moving people out
  
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• Southern California real estate jobs grow by only 200 in April

  23-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Hiring in Southern California’s real estate-related industries essentially halted in April, at the start of the usually robust springtime sales period.
  My trusty spreadsheet found state jobs stats showing property-linked employment in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties was 773,600 in April 2024 – that’s up 200 for the month. That’s 97% below pre-pandemic 2015-19, when 7,540 jobs were added in April on average.
  Rising mortgage rates have slowed ever
  
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• Even AAA-rating can’t save investors from commercial real estate losses

  23-05-2024 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  For the first time since the financial crisis, investors in top-rated bonds backed by commercial real estate debt are getting hit with losses.
  Buyers of the AAA portion of a $308 million note backed by the mortgage on the 1740 Broadway building in midtown Manhattan got less than three-quarters of their original investment back earlier this month after the loan was sold at a steep discount. It’s the first such loss of the post-crisis era, according to Barclays Plc. All five groups of lower
  
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• There’s a backlash brewing against the craziness and the rhetoric of the far left

  23-05-2024 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly around the magazine’s Manhattan office. “I don’t know how this could have happened,” Kael muttered. “Not one person I know voted for him.”
  Polls continue to show President Joe Biden, by all objective criteria a highly successful president, trailing former President Donald Trump, about whom it mus
  
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• Yes, California is a high-tax state

  23-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  “Is California Really a High-Tax State?” 
  That is the headline on a recent report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a liberal Washington, D.C. research group that wants us to believe the answer is “no” even as our wallets are screaming, “Yes!” 
  The report received a fair amount of publicity, as have ITEP’s past publications with similar themes, so it warrants some discussion.  
  As the leaders of the two larges
  
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• All eyes on Rafael Nadal for what is likely his French Open farewell

  23-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer
  PARIS — If this is, as expected, Rafael Nadal’s final French Open, it will be one that everyone – the 37-year-old Spaniard included – surely will remember vividly.
  No matter how healthy the guy everyone calls “Rafa” might be. No matter how long his stay in the bracket lasts. No matter whether he somehow adds another championship at Roland Garros to the record 14 he owns.
  Narrator: Not even Nadal truly bel
  
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• Have a wee bit o’ fun at Scottish Fest this weekend at OC fairgrounds

  23-05-2024 15:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The annual family friendly Scottish Fest is Southern California’s largest Scottish, Celtic, American festival.
  As the organizers tout, “Everyone is Scottish at Scottish Fest” and visitors of any nationality can celebrate the culture with bagpipes, drums, highland dancing, Scottish clans and genealogy, foods and more.
  There will be “heavy athletics” competitions both days, including the caber toss – think throwing a log end over end – throwing hammers and
  
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• U.S. existing home sales surprisngly drop in April

  23-05-2024 15:35 via ocregister.com
  
  High mortgage rates and rising prices continued to put a damper on the spring homebuying season last month.
  Existing home sales fell 1.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.14 million in April from a revised 4.22 million in March, the National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday. Sales dropped across the country — down 4% in the Northeast, 2.6% in the West, 1.6% in the South and 1% in the Midwest.
  The median price of previously occupied homes rose 5.7% to $407,600 — the
  
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• Larry Elder: Biden’s Black Lies Matter

  23-05-2024 15:35 via ocregister.com
  
  President Joe Biden delivered a commencement speech at Morehouse College, an all-male, historically black school in Atlanta. The America into which these graduating students now enter, according to Biden, reeks of “systemic racism” and “the poison of white supremacy.”
  “What is democracy if Black men are being killed in the street?” said Biden. “If Black men are being killed on the streets, we bear witness. For me, that means to call out the poison of whi
  
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• Making it easier to make things in America

  23-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  With more tariffs on electric vehicles and an election featuring two pro-tariff presidential candidates on the way, the debate about how best to support and strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector is back. Some argue, mistakenly, that the key to protecting American industries and manufacturing jobs is a set of tariffs on industrial imports. This approach is ultimately counterproductive. There are better ways to help American manufacturing, not the least of which is to remove regulatory barriers
  
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• Orange County All-Star Baseball Game set for May 29

  23-05-2024 07:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County All-Star Baseball Game will be played May 29 at Great Park in Irvine.
  This is the first year the game is at Great Park after being played at Glover Stadium for most years.
  The nine-inning game begins at 6:30 p.m.
  The game was first played in 1968. Among the past players are Hall Of Fame inductees Bert Blyleven (Santiago High School) and Gary Carter (Sunny Hills). Current MLB players who played in the game include Griffin Canning (Santa Margarita) and Patrick Sandoval (Mission V
  
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• Dodgers cap 13-game stretch with a dud against Diamondbacks

  23-05-2024 07:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — After a run of 13 consecutive games did the Dodgers no favors, perhaps a five-city tour is more their speed.
  Even with Tyler Glasnow on the mound on Wednesday night, the Dodgers were overcome by the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 6-0 loss when the offense disappeared and a three-game series was squandered.
  The daunting top of the order of Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith went a combined 2 for 14 mostly against right-hander Brandon Hughes, who was coming
  
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• Esperanza softball coach Ed Tunstall retires after 21 seasons

  23-05-2024 06:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowEd Tunstall’s voice cracked with emotion as he discussed his favorite part of being the Esperanza softball coach.
  “Don’t get me started,” he said, trying to move along the conversation.
  Tunstall said he especially relished the interaction with his players, and that’s what made his announcement on Wednesday difficult.
  After 21 seasons leading one of Orange County’s most
  
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• UCLA women’s golf falls to Stanford in NCAA match play final

  23-05-2024 05:55 via ocregister.com
  
  CARLSBAD — There wasn’t much of a sunset on Wednesday, with the marine layer hugging the coast and blocking the sun’s descent into the Pacific Ocean.
  As far as a sunset to a career, it was glorious.
  Rachel Heck lagged a birdie putt to a few inches on the 15th green to score the clinching point in top-ranked Stanford’s 3-2 victory over UCLA in the match play final at the NCAA women’s golf championships on Omni La Costa Resort & Spa’s North Course. She sprin
  
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• UCLA gymnast Alex Irvine transfers to Auburn after freshman season

  23-05-2024 05:19 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA gymnast Alex Irvine announced that she is transferring to Auburn in an Instagram post on Wednesday evening.
  “Found what I was looking for,” she wrote in the post. “Thank you Auburn coaches for a great visit and my family for trusting me to make big decisions like this.”
  View this post on InstagramA post shared by Alex Irvine (@alexirvvine)Irvine just completed her freshman season at UCLA and was seen as an up-and-coming gymnast for the Bruins. She reliably fit into t
  
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• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts calls bullpen the most pleasant surprise so far

  23-05-2024 04:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Andy Pages has burst onto the scene, Yoshinobu Yamamoto has handled his transition to MLB well and the defense has been far better than advertised, even with the infrequent stumble.
  Yet, when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked about the most pleasant surprise two months into the season, he looked toward a different part of the roster.
  “I guess probably the roles in the bullpen,” Roberts said. “You know, having four of the five top leverage guys essential
  
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• Anaheim Discovery Christian’s Zuxu Wu qualifies for CIF State boys golf championships

  23-05-2024 04:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowAnaheim Discovery Christian senior Zuxu Wu is the last Orange County boys golfer still playing this postseason.
  The Academy League champion carded a 4-under-par 70 to tie for ninth Wednesday at the CIF-SCGA SoCal Regional at Los Serranos Golf Club to advance to next week’s state championships.
  The top-nine finishing individuals not on advancing teams and the top-three schools qualified for the CIF S
  
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• Huntington Beach must release air show settlement, judge rules

  23-05-2024 04:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Huntington Beach must comply with the state open records law and release the entire settlement agreement between it and the operator of the annual air show, an Orange County Judge ruled Wednesday, May 22.
  The city has spent the last year refusing to release the $5 million settlement document between it and Pacific Airshow agreed to in May 2023.
  Gina Clayton-Tarvin, a resident and Ocean View School District trustee, sued the city after it refused to release the document under the state’s op
  
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• Newsom shuns tax increases yet his budget contains billions in new levies on businesses

  23-05-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a much-revised 2024-25 state budget this month, he became visibly irritated when reporters pressed him about raising taxes to cover a $44.9 billion deficit, particularly the corporate tax hikes that left-leaning groups have suggested to avoid spending cuts in health, welfare and education programs.
  “When considering the 8.84 % corporate tax – which is the highest, arguably, depending on how you analyze it, in the country – no, I’m not prepa
  
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• Eric Trump political fundraiser in Temecula gets underway

  23-05-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A fundraiser for conservative school board candidates headlined by Eric Trump is underway Wednesday evening, May 22, in Temecula.
  The Trump-loving crowd donned red Make America Great Again caps, hoisted Donald Trump 2024 flags and enjoyed a guitarist’s performance of “Folsom Prison Blues” — dedicated to Hillary Clinton. They gathered in the Stampede, a popular country music venue in rustic Old Town Temecula.
  At least an hour before the 6 p.m. event, people on both sides o
  
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• Eric Trump blasts Democrats, promises his dad will win election during Temecula speech

  23-05-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In a speech in Temecula, Eric Trump on Wednesday night, May 22, blasted Joe Biden, Democrats and the “war on God” while vowing that his father will reclaim the White House in November.
  Former president Donald Trump’s son asserted that his father won the 2016 and 2020 elections before saying: “And I promise you, we will win again.”
  He ended his speech at a fundraiser for conservative school board candidates by saying: “I’m sorry you live in communism. But
  
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• OC man faces federal charges, is accused of obtaining fraudulent COVID-relief loans

  23-05-2024 03:56 via ocregister.com
  
  An Orange County man who owned Riverside and Anaheim ambulatory transportation businesses has been indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges alleging he obtained fraudulent COVID-19 disaster loans, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
  According to court documents, from May 2020 to December 2021, Aliso Viejo resident Mehrdad “Mitch” Tabrizi submitted two fraudulent applications for Paycheck Protection Program loans — a federal program created to provide financial a
  
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• Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard earns 2nd-team All-NBA honor

  23-05-2024 03:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard, whose season was cut short by a knee injury, was named to the 2023-24 All-NBA second team, the league announced on Wednesday. It is the sixth time in his 12-year career he has received an All-NBA distinction.
  Leonard appeared in 68 games this season before sitting out the Clippers’ final eight regular-season games because of a swollen right knee. Although he played in two of the team’s six first-round playoff games against the Dallas Mavericks, Leonard
  
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• Lakers’ LeBron James, Anthony Davis receive All-NBA honors

  23-05-2024 03:16 via ocregister.com
  
  LeBron James continues to raise the bar during the latter stages of his career while Anthony Davis has once again been formally recognized as one of the league’s best players for the first time in four years.
  James and Davis received 2023-24 All-NBA honors on Wednesday, with Davis being named to the second team while James was named to the third team.
  Davis’ All-NBA honor was his first since the 2019-20 season, when he made the first team.
  For James, who was the youngest player to ma
  
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• Magnolia High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  23-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  A group of graduates celebrate at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Graduate Jordy Mujguia waves to the crowd at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  A graduate exalts after the ceremonies at the Magnolia High School graduation ceremony in Anaheim on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kit
  
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• Kings sign Aatu Jämsen to a 2-year, entry-level deal

  23-05-2024 02:59 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings have signed winger Aatu Jämsen to a two-year, entry-level contract worth up to $852,500 per season, the team announced in a news release.
  Jämsen was originally a seventh-round draft selection of the Kings (No. 190 overall) in 2020. He remained in his native Finland with the pro club Pelicans, for which he competed at various junior levels and at the senior level for the past three campaigns. Last season, he had 25 points in 36 games, including 14 goals against the country&rsq
  
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• LAX officials urge travelers to plan ahead for Memorial Day, summer trips

  23-05-2024 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  With record numbers of people expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend, Los Angeles International Airport officials urged people Wednesday to plan ahead and give themselves plenty of time to reach the airport and board their flights.
  Memorial Day traditionally marks the beginning of the summer travel season, and airport officials reminded travelers that passenger numbers and vehicular traffic will be rising over the next few days and remain high for the next few months.
  “With school bre
  
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