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• Direct-to-patient funding is the future of American healthcare

  06-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  American lawmakers showed their constituents the ugliest side of health care policy during this record-setting government shutdown. But if there’s one thing to learn, it’s this: our health care system isn’t about treating patients.
  Instead, the most advanced health care system on the planet has been engineered by politicians to transfer dollars from taxpayers to corporations and bloated government programs. President Trump called it out himself: Democrats were arguing to send m
  
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• 10 questions for 2026’s do-it-yourself economic forecast

  08-12-2025 16:12 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s officially economic forecast season.
  As punctual as any holiday tradition, all the gurus polish their crystal balls to reveal their glossy business outlooks for the coming year.
  Their work is curiously detailed, with seemingly exacting projections for numerous economic variables. These estimates look and feel authoritative, whether in fancy printed or digital form, especially when the outlook’s data includes multiple decimal places.
  But for all that effort, the consensus usually
  
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• Wall Street hangs near its records as the battle to buy Warner Bros. heats up

  08-12-2025 16:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are hanging at the edge of their record heights on Monday as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve later this week on what it will do with interest rates.
  Related Articles Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion bid by Netflix Trump says Netflix deal to buy Warner Bros. ‘could be a problem’ because of size of market share One Tech Tip: Up your Christmas shop
  
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• OC photographer, on his way to shoot a wedding, is deported to El Salvador instead

  08-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By the third hour in chains, Adan Caceres’ head was pounding and his lips were cracking from thirst.
  Shackled at the wrists, ankles and waist, the Orange County wedding photographer sat pinned in his seat on a government plane, listening as the guards mocked the men around him as “criminals.” When one man begged to use the bathroom, he was refused, he said. So the stranger slid his shackled hands down, unzipped his pants and urinated into the same plastic water bottle he’
  
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• How a fabulous new biography of radio legend Bobby Rich came to be

  08-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Pat Gaffey is a longtime radio newsman who got his start at the legendary KPOL/KZLA combo (now separately-owned KMPC, 1540 AM and KLLI, 93.9 FM) in the days when radio news was still a big deal. He also worked at KHTZ (now KNX-FM, 97.1) and spent time as a production assistant for Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40.”
  Bobby Rich is a longtime on-air DJ, having worked in numerous cities including New York, Philadelphia, Tuscon and Seattle; locally, he was heard on KHJ (930 AM), KHTZ,
  
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• Magnitude 7.6 quake triggers a tsunami on Japan’s northern coast

  08-12-2025 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami of up to 40 centimeters in coastal communities in the region, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
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• Trump is proposing a $12B farm aid package to soften blow of his tariffs, White House official says

  08-12-2025 15:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war.
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• Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion bid by Netflix

  08-12-2025 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount has gone hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix which reached a $72 billion takeover deal with the company just days ago.
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• Washington’s Mayor Bowser says the city’s police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down

  08-12-2025 14:44 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith, who was catapulted into national attention after President Donald Trump moved to federalize Washington’s police force and who worked to confront rising violence in the nation’s capital, is stepping down as the city’s police chief, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday.
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• Trump says Netflix deal to buy Warner Bros. ‘could be a problem’ because of size of market share

  08-12-2025 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that a deal struck by Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery “could be a problem” because of the size of the combined market share.
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• Redistricting in Indiana faces ultimate test in state Senate

  08-12-2025 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA VOLMERT, Associated Press
  A proposal to redraw Indiana’s congressional boundaries faces its first public test in the state Senate on Monday, with no clarity on whether it can pass a final vote later in the week despite months of pressure from President Donald Trump.
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• Trump says Zelenskyy ‘hasn’t read’ a US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

  08-12-2025 13:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSIE BLANN, Associated Press
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
  Related Articles Greenland hosts annual talks with US at end of a year when Trump revived talk of takeover Top EU official warns the US against interfering in Europe’s affairs Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsi
  
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• Greenland hosts annual talks with US at end of a year when Trump revived talk of takeover

  08-12-2025 13:38 via ocregister.com
  
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland is hosting annual meetings with U.S. officials to discuss bilateral ties at the end of a year in which U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up talk of a U.S. takeover of the mineral-rich island that is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.
  Related Articles Top EU official warns the US against interfering in Europe’s affairs Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsidies expire Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman
  
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• Top EU official warns the US against interfering in Europe’s affairs

  08-12-2025 13:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By LORNE COOK, Associated Press
  BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official on Monday warned the United States against interfering in Europe’s affairs and said only European citizens can decide which parties should govern them.
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• Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsidies expire

  08-12-2025 13:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in key battleground U.S. House districts are working to contain the political fallout that may come when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act.
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• Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Monday midday – 1/4 mile visibility

  08-12-2025 11:47 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine was placed under a dense fog advisory by the National Weather Service on Monday at 2:43 a.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 a.m.
  The NWS Hanford CA states to prepare for, “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1000 and 2500 feet.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” the NWS said. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.”
  The fu
  
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• Battling food deserts is an invented solution to a more complicated problem

  08-12-2025 08:02 via ocregister.com
  
  How fun it must be to spend other people’s hard-earned money. That’s the position government leaders find themselves in day in and day out as they make decisions about what to spend our tax dollars on. They have billions to indulge the most fanciful items on their policy wish lists. 
  Sometimes they splurge hundreds of millions on a 911 system that doesn’t work at all or billions on a fancy new high-speed rail to nowhere – that’s billions of dollars, every one o
  
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• Elaine Parker: Three healthcare reform ideas for Congress

  08-12-2025 06:53 via ocregister.com
  
  As 2025 winds down, enhanced Obamacare subsidies are finally set to expire. Yet, congressional Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to preserve this temporary, pandemic-era giveaway that should have sunset years ago. The scheme not only hides the true cost of care for millions of Americans but undermines genuine efforts to reform our broken healthcare system with choice, transparency, and competition.
  If conservatives are resolute, this could be the rare exception to Ronald Reagan’s adage
  
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• Agree with him or not, Noam Chomsky’s ideas are still worth grappling with

  08-12-2025 06:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Today marks the 97th birthday of Noam Chomsky, known both for his status as  “the father of modern linguistics” as well as his prolific political commentary.
  I’m aware that as the opinion editor of an editorial page that tilts libertarian he’s an unusual figure to highlight, but he was intellectually influential to me ever since I read a booklet of his (“9/11”) sometime in 2002 (I would’ve been 11).  Though I came to identify more with thinkers
  
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• Ducks blow past Blackhawks in lopsided rout

  08-12-2025 05:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Ducks right wing Beckett Sennecke (45) reacts after scoring against the Chicago Blackhawks during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
  Ducks left wing Cutter Gauthier (61), center Mason McTavish (23), right wing Beckett Sennecke (45), and defenseman Olen Zellweger (51) celebrate after scoring against the Chicago Blackhawks during the second period of an NHL hockey game Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swop
  
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• No. 16 USC women overcome sluggish start in win over Washington

  08-12-2025 04:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The No. 16 USC women’s basketball team recovered from a sluggish start to hand Washington its first loss, 59-50, and win its Big Ten Conference opener.
  The win marked head coach Lindsay Gottlieb’s 100th win as head coach at USC.
  The Trojans (7-2 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) out-worked the No. 21 Huskies on the boards and grabbed 50 to Washington’s 38. The Huskies (8-1, 0-1) came into the game as the second-best rebounding team in the conference at 44.9 rebounds per
  
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• FBI seeks woman suspected in fraud schemes in Orange, Los Angeles counties

  08-12-2025 04:49 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A 73-year-old woman accused of defrauding the Banc of California if about $14.7 million nearly a decade ago remains wanted by the FBI.
  Mary Carole McDonnell is suspected of multiple fraud schemes beginning in July of 2017 that continued until at least May of 2018 throughout Orange and L.A. counties, federal officials said Saturday.Mary McDonnell is wanted for alleged bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. She has ties to Los Angeles, California, Montgomery Alabam
  
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• LeBron James’ late heroics help Lakers hold off 76ers

  08-12-2025 04:32 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — With Luka Doncic being away from the team and in Slovenia for the birth of his second daughter for the start of the Lakers’ three-game trip, Coach JJ Redick was hopeful the star guard would be feeling like himself for Sunday’s road game against the Philadelphia 76ers.
  But what wasn’t mentioned was LeBron James, back in the lineup after a one-game absence because of sciatica and left foot joint arthritis, resembling the version of himself that the Lakers hav
  
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• Lakers’ Marcus Smart could return to lineup Wednesday against Spurs

  08-12-2025 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA — After being sidelined for six consecutive games because of back ailments, including Sunday’s road game against the Philadelphia 76ers, Lakers Coach JJ Redick is hoping Marcus Smart will be back in the lineup in his team’s next game.
  Smart wasn’t available Sunday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, sitting out because of left lumbar muscle strain – another change in injury designation after being listed with lower back injury management in the previous thre
  
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• Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Monday midday – limited visibility

  08-12-2025 03:28 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine is under a dense fog advisory which was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 6:23 p.m. The advisory is in effect until Monday Dec. 8, at 11 a.m.
  The NWS Hanford CA states to anticipate, “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1000 and 2500 feet.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” according to the NWS. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of di
  
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• UCLA rallies in final second to beat USC for men’s water polo title

  08-12-2025 02:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Frederico Jucá Carsalade points in excitement during UCLA’s win over USC in the the men’s water polo championship on Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center in Stanford, CA on Friday, Dec. 7, 2025.(Ross Turteltaub, UCLA Athletics)
  STANFORD, Calif. — Frederico Jucá Carsalade scored with one second remaining to cap a four-goal fourth quarter, and UCLA rallied to beat USC 11-10 to win the men’s water polo championship on Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center.
  It was th
  
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• Former Dodger Jeff Kent elected to baseball Hall of Fame

  08-12-2025 02:42 via ocregister.com
  
  FILE – New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens watches a home run by Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz during sixth inning MLB baseball Wednesday night, Aug. 29, 2007 at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)
  FILE – San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds watches the flight of his home run, his 755th, during the second inning of a baseball game game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007.(AP Photo/ Kevork Djansezian, File)
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• Liberation, Juan Hernandez win close one at Los Alamitos

  08-12-2025 02:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Heavily favored Liberation and jockey Juan Hernandez had to work for the filly’s first stakes win, edging 4-1 Cecilia Street and Diego Herrera in the $100,000 Soviet Problem Stakes at Los Alamitos on Sunday.
  Cecilia Street challenged front-running Liberation first on the far turn, and again after slipping a length behind in mid-stretch, but couldn’t get by the John Sadler-trained daughter of Omaha Beach and Ponytail.
  Liberation, who paid $2.60 after winning by a half-length, had fini
  
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• OCFA chief to retire in January, tentatively accepts federal agency director role

  08-12-2025 02:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy will retire from the agency after the turn of the new year and has tentatively accepted a federal position, according to a memo sent out Friday night and obtained by the Southern California News Group.
  Fennessy, who has served as OCFA chief for nearly eight years, said he has tentatively accepted a director role with the newly created United States Wildland Fire Service, pending completion of a federal onboarding process.
  “Serving alongside
  
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• Rams thump Cardinals to stay tied atop NFC West

  08-12-2025 02:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams running back Kyren Williams celebrates after running for a touchdown as Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker looks on in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
  Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford passes the ball in the first half of an NFL football game against the Arizona Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
  Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett warms up before facing the
  
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