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• Dodgers 2020 spring training preview: outfield

  10-02-2020 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As the Dodgers head toward the first workout of spring training on Thursday, we are providing a breakdown of how they stand with their roster. Today, the final installment looks at the outfielders. (Previously, the starting rotation, bullpen, catchers and infielders.)
  2019 RECAP
  Cody Bellinger became the first Dodgers outfielder (he started just 28 games at first base) to win the National League MVP since Kirk Gibson in 1988 by stamping himself as an elite performer over the first two months of
  
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• Want lower home prices? Cut incentives for house investors

  17-02-2026 15:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Basic economics tells you that if you lower the demand for a product, the price should fall.
  Limiting financial incentives for housing investors could increase the share of homes owned by the folks who live there.
  Consider a new study from the American Enterprise Institute. It notes that favorable financing available to small-scale house investors nationwide may provide 10% more buying power than traditional mortgages offered to the general public.
  The study asks “whether federal mortgage
  
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• Niles: Cheap passes won’t buy a fix for Six Flags

  17-02-2026 15:33 via ocregister.com
  
  If there is one word that describes Six Flags’ management strategy, that has to be “persistent.”
  Years of underselling its parks with cheap annual passes have failed to deliver positive financial results for the company. So what is Six Flags going to do in 2026? It is going to keep selling cheap annual passes, but this time the company is going to make them even cheaper.
  That’ll work, right?
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• Thomas Pritzker steps down from Hyatt board saying he deeply regrets association with Epstein

  17-02-2026 15:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
  Thomas Pritzker will retire as the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after details of his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in documents related to the burgeoning investigation of ties the notorious sex trafficker had to the elite and powerful.
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• ​David Archuleta recalls ‘American Idol’ and coming out in memoir, ‘Devout’

  17-02-2026 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s the day after Super Bowl LX, and like a lot of people who watched Bad Bunny’s halftime show, David Archuleta can’t get the lyrics to the hit “DtMF” out of his head.As the former “American Idol” star bounded up to the patio at Tam O’Shanter, the cozy Scottish restaurant off Los Feliz Blvd. in Los Angeles, the Miami-born singer-songwriter was still buzzing from the performance, ecstatic to see Latin representation on a stage as massive as a
  
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• Vietnamese youth say Tết is a reminder about ‘resilience’

  17-02-2026 14:58 via ocregister.com
  
  High school junior Maya Do spent the weeks leading up to today’s kickoff of Tet tucking crisp bills into red envelopes, picking ao dai dresses to wear with friends and preparing a speech to deliver to hundreds at her first protest.
  Do, 16, was born in Vietnam. Her mother immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. Her father, along with countless Viet Kieu refugees, found a pathway to U.S. citizenship and a home in Orange County after Saigon’s fall in 1975. Both lived again in Viet
  
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• Wall Street heads lower in premarket trading as tech stocks appear poised for more losses

  17-02-2026 14:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT, AP Business Writers
  Wall Street pointed toward more losses before the opening bell Tuesday, kicking off a holiday-shortened week of trading that will bring more earnings reports and some highly-anticipated economic releases.
  Futures for the S&P 500 were down 0.5% in premarket trading, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged 0.3% lower. Futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 0.9%
  Tech stocks have been waxing and waning with fluctuations
  
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• Warner Bros reopens takeover talks with Paramount after receiving a waiver from Netflix

  17-02-2026 14:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. will reopen takeover talks with Paramount Skydance after receiving a seven-day waiver to do so from its preferred bidder, Netflix.
  Warner Bros. said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that the waiver will allow it to discuss unresolved “deficiencies” in Paramount’s previous offers.
  Warner Bros. Discovery now has until Monday to negotiate a possible transaction with Paramount Skydance.
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• EU privacy investigation targets Musk’s Grok chatbot over sexualized deepfake images

  17-02-2026 14:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By KELVIN CHAN
  LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland’s data privacy regulator said Tuesday.
  Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said it notified X on Monday that it was opening the inquiry under the 27-nation EU’s strict data privacy regulations, adding to the scrutiny X is facing in Europe and other parts of the world over
  
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• US plans to deploy more missile launchers to the Philippines despite China’s alarm

  17-02-2026 14:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JIM GOMEZ
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The United States plans to deploy more high-tech missile systems to the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South China Sea, where the treaty allies on Tuesday condemned what they called China’s “illegal, coercive, aggressive, and deceptive activities.”
  Beijing has repeatedly expressed alarm over the installation in the northern Philippines of a U.S. mid-range missile system called the Typhon in 2024 and of an anti-ship miss
  
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• Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir launches in 22 languages, turning horror into hope for survivors

  17-02-2026 13:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SYLVIE CORBET
  PARIS (AP) — Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir was released Tuesday in 22 languages worldwide, sharing details of the horror she went through and sending a powerful message of hope and support to victims of sexual abuse.
  “I wanted my story to help others,” Pelicot told French national channel France 5 last week ahead of the release of her book, “A Hymn to Life, Shame has to Change Sides.”
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• Russian and Ukrainian officials meet in Geneva for US-brokered talks after almost 4 years of war

  17-02-2026 13:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS and JAMEY KEATEN
  GENEVA (AP) — Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met in Geneva on Tuesday for another round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, a week before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
  However, expectations for any breakthroughs in the scheduled two days of talks in Switzerland were low, with neither side apparently ready to budge from its positions on key territorial issues and future security guarantees, despite t
  
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• Russian and Ukrainian officials are in Geneva for US-brokered talks after almost 4 years of war

  17-02-2026 13:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS and JAMEY KEATEN
  GENEVA (AP) — Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv were in Geneva on Tuesday for another round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, a week before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
  However, expectations for any breakthroughs in Geneva were low, with neither side apparently ready to budge from its positions on key territorial issues and future security guarantees, despite the United States setting a June deadline for a settlem
  
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• Iran temporarily closing Strait of Hormuz for live fire drills as nuclear talks with US begin

  17-02-2026 13:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.S. and Iran are holding their second round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program Tuesday in Geneva as Iran said it will close the Strait of Hormuz for several hours as it holds live fire military exercises and the United States ramps up its military forces in the region.
  As the talks began, Iranian media announced that Iran had fired live missiles toward the Strait of Hormuz, and said it will close the Strait for several
  
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• Iran temporarily closing Strait of Hormuz for live fire drills as new talks with US start

  17-02-2026 13:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.S. and Iran held their second round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program on Tuesday in Geneva as Iran said it will close the Strait of Hormuz for several hours for live fire military exercises and the United States ramps up its military forces in the region.
  As the talks began, Iranian media announced that Iran had fired live missiles toward the Strait of Hormuz, and said it will close the Strait for several hours for &
  
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• Iran temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz as it held latest round of indirect talks with US

  17-02-2026 13:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
  GENEVA (AP) — Iran announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday for live fire military drills in a rare show of force as its negotiators held another round of indirect talks with the United States in Geneva over its disputed nuclear program.
  It was the first time Iran has announced the closure of the key international waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, since the U.S. began threat
  
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• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84

  17-02-2026 11:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIA TAREEN
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, has died. He was 84.
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• Amid wave of anti-ICE walkouts, LAPD asks students to stay in school

  17-02-2026 05:46 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES –The Los Angeles Police Department urged students Monday to stay in school “amid recent downtown activity” in which young people walked off campuses to take part in protests against immigration enforcement raids.
  In a statement, the department reminded young people and their parents that a city curfew makes it unlawful for minors to be in public during school hours without a parent or for an emergency. It also noted that middle and high school students are legally p
  
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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.
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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.
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