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• Disneyland’s newest food option, the Tropical Hideaway, is finally open and here’s what it looks like

  19-12-2018 21:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Main entrance to the Tropical Hideaway in Adventureland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018. The restaurant replaces Aladdin’s Oasis. Visitors to the park can reach The Tropical Hideaway across its main bridge, through Walt DisneyÕs Enchanted Tiki Room or along ÒSkipperÕs Walk,Ó a pathway leading from the Jungle Cruise loading dock. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Main entrance to the Tropical Hideaway in Adventureland
  
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• When did Christmas trees start to appear at Southern California holiday celebrations?

  08-12-2025 21:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Christmas trees have been at the heart of American Christmas holiday celebrations since the 1800s. The beloved tradition began in the Northeast and migrated west with pioneers and settlers.
  The tradition of bringing an evergreen tree indoors and adding decorations began in Germany. The tradition evolved from winter solstice customs and as a symbol of everlasting life.
  When German settlers came to the United States in the mid-1800s, they brought their Christmas traditions with them.
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• Boeing finalizes $4.7B acquisition of key 737 Max supplier Spirit AeroSystems

  08-12-2025 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By RIO YAMAT
  Boeing said Monday that it has completed a $4.7 billion purchase of key supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages for the giant aerospace company’s 737 Max jetliners, including an Alaska Airlines aircraft that suffered a door-panel blowout last year.
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• In-N-Out will open its first 3 Tennessee locations this week

  08-12-2025 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger will open three drive-thrus in Nashville suburbs this week as part of a major expansion into Tennessee.
  Drive-thrus will open in Lebanon and Antioch on Wednesday, Dec. 10 and Murfreesboro on Friday, Dec. 12, according to a news release.
  News agencies in Tennessee are not yet reporting what kinds of crowds are expected, but In-N-Out’s debut in the Southeast has been eagerly anticipated.
  The expansion will bring the total number of In-N-Out restaurants to 431 and officially p
  
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• In-N-Out will open its first 3 Tennesee locations this week

  08-12-2025 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger will open three drive-thrus in Nashville suburbs this week as part of a major expansion into Tennessee.
  Drive-thrus will open in Lebanon and Antioch on Wednesday, Dec. 10 and Murfreesboro on Friday, Dec. 12, according to a news release.
  News agencies in Tennessee are not yet reporting what kinds of crowds are expected, but In-N-Out’s debut in the Southeast has been eagerly anticipated.
  The expansion will bring the total number of In-N-Out restaurants to 431 and officially p
  
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• Bessent divests from soybean farmland ahead of Trump aid announcement for farmers

  08-12-2025 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has proclaimed solidarity with U.S. farmers in recent months as they grappled with the loss of a major soybean buyer due to President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
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• Porto’s Bakery begins construction at Downtown Disney

  08-12-2025 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The oft-delayed Porto’s Bakery in Downtown Disney that was first announced three years ago has finally begun demolition of the former La Brea Bakery and construction on the new restaurant at the east end of the Anaheim outdoor shopping mall next to Disneyland.
  Construction is “officially underway” on the new Porto’s Bakery & Cafe coming to Downtown Disney, according to the official Porto’s Instagram account.
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• Air quality alert issued for the Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area Tuesday

  08-12-2025 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area is under an air quality alert which was reported by the National Weather Service on Monday at 11:28 a.m. The alert is in effect until Tuesday Dec. 9, at 11:30 a.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA adds to expect, “The South Coast AQMD has issued a mandatory wood-burning ban for residents in the South Coast Air Basin. The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pellets, and manufactured fire logs in any indoor or outdoor wood-burning device.”
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• Bomb explosion kills over 30 in eastern Congo after army clashes with pro-government militia

  08-12-2025 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JUSTIN KABUMBA and MONIKA PRONCZUK
  GOMA, Congo (AP) — A bomb explosion killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo following a dispute between the Congolese army and a pro-government militia, despite a deal signed in Washington and touted as a major step toward peace in the country.
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• Los De Juárez Burritos is giving away 100 free burritos

  08-12-2025 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  While many restaurants use anniversaries to celebrate milestones, a noted Anaheim burrito joint is commemorating its follower count instead.
  Los De Juárez Burritos — Omar De la Vega and Juan Del Rio’s Anaheim burrito spot known for its slender, juicy burritos — will give away 100 chile relleno burritos on Wednesday, Dec. 10 to mark its reaching 10,000 followers on Instagram.
  “It’s the burrito that put us on the map,” said De La Vega. “We&rsqu
  
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• Even as SNAP resumes, new work rules threaten access for years to come

  08-12-2025 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By Renuka Rayasam and Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss, KFF Health News
  Alejandro Santillan-Garcia is worried he’s going to lose the aid that helps him buy food. The 20-year-old Austin resident qualified for federal food benefits last year because he aged out of the Texas foster care system, which he entered as an infant.
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• Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey

  08-12-2025 20:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
  President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, said Monday she is resigning as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, giving up her fight to stay in the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.
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• Kerry Jackson: Checking the fine print on Newsom’s “donor state” boast

  08-12-2025 20:08 via ocregister.com
  
  California brags about its donor state status, that is, it forwards more in tax dollars to Washington than it gets back in federal spending. But that’s changed.According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government, California’s balance of payments with the federal government – the net difference between federal revenue collected from the state and the entirety of federal spending within that state – is negative. Three times between 2015 and 2023, California took in more th
  
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• Get your fill of the holiday spirit with these festive seasonal cocktails

  08-12-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re having any trouble getting into the holiday spirit this year, don’t worry, there are plenty of ways to get into a cheerful mood by actually drinking holiday spirits.
  So to get your cheers on, here are some restaurants and a new pop-up bar that are offering holiday cocktails this season.
  El Torito’s festive Cha Cha Chata cocktail, available through Jan. 11. (Photo by Max Milla)
  El Torito
  Various locations; eltorito.com
  The Mexican chain restaurant is getting into the f
  
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• Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Tuesday midday – 1/4 mile visibility

  08-12-2025 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine is the focus of a dense fog advisory released at 10:53 a.m. on Monday by the National Weather Service. The advisory is in effect until Tuesday Dec. 9, at 11 a.m.
  “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1000 and 2500 feet,” can be expected according to the NWS Hanford CA. “Mountain Highways included but not limited to: 41, 58, 152, 168, 198 and Interstate 5.”
  “Sudden encounter of low visibility could make d
  
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• Bullets in Luigi Mangione’s bag convinced police that he was UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect

  08-12-2025 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was put in handcuffs at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.
  The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days ea
  
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• ICEBlock app maker sues Trump administration for free speech violations

  08-12-2025 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her “state power” to force Apple to remove the app.
  Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other apps from its app store after Bondi said they put Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk by enabling people to track ICE activity in their neighborhoods.
  The
  
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• Judge orders the release of an immigrant with ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

  08-12-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from ICE custody while she fights potential deportation, an immigration judge ruled Monday.
  Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was previously engaged to Leavitt’s brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
  
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• Settlement approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims

  08-12-2025 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACK BROOK, Associated Press/Report for America
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge after years of negotiations.
  Richard Trahant, an attorney representing victims in the case, and a spokesperson for the archdiocese both confirmed the approval of the settlement to The Associated Press on Monday.
  Earlier this month, some of the survivors behind the
  
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• ‘It’s not safe to live here.’ Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

  08-12-2025 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVEN GRATTAN, Associated Press
  PUERTO ASIS, Colombia (AP) — Jani Silva sits inside the wooden house she built on the banks of Colombia’s Putumayo River — a home she hasn’t slept in for more than eight years.
  The longtime environmental activist has been threatened for work that includes protecting part of the Amazon from oil and mining exploitation. She describes a tense escape one night through a back window after community members tipped her that armed men were outs
  
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• Angels still want to add starting pitching

  08-12-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  ORLANDO — The Angels aren’t planning on stopping at the two starters they’ve added this winter.
  “I’d like to add more,” general manager Perry Minasian said from the Winter Meetings on Monday. “We’d like to continue.”
  Minasian said the average big league team used more than 13 starters last season, so there’s no reason to stop with the two they’ve added this winter: Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah.
  That’s particularly true
  
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• Honduran man is held without bond in North Carolina train stabbing that drew comments from Trump

  08-12-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIK VERDUZCO and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond in a non-fatal stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train that drew comments from President Donald Trump pointing out the suspect is in the country illegally.
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• Recipe: Vegan Pesto Cavatelli celebrates old-world flavors in a new way

  08-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Recently I welcomed Tara Punzone to my home kitchen to show me how to prepare her scrumptious Pesto Cavatelli. Punzone is the celebrated vegan chef behind Pura Vita, the 100 percent plant-based Italian restaurant and wine bar in West Hollywood. Her new cookbook, “Vegana Italiana” (Rodale), is a lively celebration of old-world Italian flavors transformed to be entirely plant-based.
  Happily, even without the classic use of Parmigiano Reggiano, her Pesto Cavatelli was delicious. Every b
  
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• AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care

  08-12-2025 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
  As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills.
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• 12 FBI agents fired for kneeling during racial justice protest sue to get their jobs back

  08-12-2025 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture.
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• 2026 Housing market: Stable rates, rising costs ahead

  08-12-2025 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Thinking about making a big life change in 2026? Well, buying a home is a lot like getting married. The planning seems to take forever, everything’s more expensive than you thought it would be, and stress can quickly reach “Should we even be doing this?” levels.
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• A year after Bashar Assad fled, Syria struggles to heal

  08-12-2025 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL, Associated Press
  HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the capital threw open its doors to release the prisoners.
  Arrested in 2018 for fleeing compulsory military service, the father of three had cycled through four other lockups before landing in Saydnaya, a sprawling complex just north of Damasc
  
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• Climate change threatens Asia’s water and power systems, reports warn

  08-12-2025 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SIBI ARASU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
  BENGALURU, India (AP) — Climate change is battering Asia’s water and power systems and putting millions in harm’s way, forcing countries to pour billions into shoring up basic services, according to two recent reports.
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• High school football: Orange County schedule for the CIF State championships

  08-12-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Three football teams from Orange County will be playing in CIF State championship games on Saturday, Dec. 13. Here is the schedule for those games:
  HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 
  CIF State Championships
  Saturday, Dec. 13
  OPEN DIVISION
  Santa Margarita vs. Concord De La Salle at Saddleback College, 8 p.m.
  DIVISION 4-A 
  Beckman vs. El Cerrito at Buena Park HS, 7 p.m.
  DIVISION 7-AA
  Woodbridge vs. Redding Christian at Fullerton HS, 11 a.m.
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• CSUF spider expert likes to share her work with students

  08-12-2025 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  While most people flinch at the sight of a spider, Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of biological science Anna Holmquist is fascinated by them. She sees the eight-legged creatures not as pests but as essential players in ecosystems that offer insights into biodiversity and community ecology.
  Holmquist’s passion for spiders and other insects and invertebrates began at a very young age, and she has clear memories of turning over rocks in her backyard and being mesmerized by the hidden
  
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