• Does Disney pay its fair share? Yes

    Does Disney pay its fair share? Yes
    A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times published a hit piece on Disneyland predicated on a misguided question: Is Disney paying its fair share in Anaheim? While the story raises some provocative questions about deals made between Disneyland and the city, the article had a seemingly predetermined narrative. Given Disneyland and Anaheim are in Orange County, and we analyze both the city and the company regularly, we thought we’d help the Times answer its own question: Yes, Disneyland pays it
  • House heading toward vote to extend health care subsidies in a rebuke of GOP leadership

    House heading toward vote to extend health care subsidies in a rebuke of GOP leadership
    By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House is moving ahead Thursday on legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for the Affordable Care Act after renegade GOP lawmakers joined essentially all Democrats to help millions of Americans afford insurance under Obamacare.
    Forcing the issue to a vote came about after a handful of Republicans signed on to a so-called “discharge petition&rd
  • All eyes on Stolz: What to know about speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

    All eyes on Stolz: What to know about speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
    By HOWARD FENDRICH
    Long track speedskating — sometimes referred to simply as “long track” or just “speedskating” — was a part of the original Winter Olympics back in 1924, when only men participated, and is quite different from short track. Here’s what to know about the competition at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics:
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  • Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applications

    Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applications
    By MORIAH BALINGIT, Associated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to remake Head Start, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start.
    The order came this week in a lawsuit filed in April against Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and oth
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  • They’re back! NHL players return to Winter Olympics for first time since ’14, here is what to know

    They’re back! NHL players return to Winter Olympics for first time since ’14, here is what to know
    By STEPHEN WHYNO, AP Hockey Writer
    One of the showcase events at the Winter Olympics will be hockey, where NHL players are back for the first time since 2014 and the world’s best women’s players are competing in the Games for an eighth consecutive time.
    What’s known: The main arena will have ice that’s smaller than what the speedy, hard-hitting NHL players are used to. What’s not known: Whether the rink will be fully built with a safe ice surface — seating sho
  • 4 tips to help you get more Vitamin C into your diet

    4 tips to help you get more Vitamin C into your diet
    From supporting the immune system to promoting healthy skin, vitamin C plays a crucial role in many of the body’s everyday functions.
    This often underestimated water-soluble nutrient is involved in everything from collagen production to antioxidant defense. While vitamin C is easily obtained through diet and deficiency is relatively uncommon, many American adults don’t consume adequate amounts of this nutrient. Although vitamin C plays a crucial role in health and wellness during win
  • These lucky Disneyland passholders can get into the park for less than a dollar a day

    These lucky Disneyland passholders can get into the park for less than a dollar a day
    A select group of Disneyland Magic Keyholders will soon be able to upgrade their annual passes and get into the Anaheim theme parks for an extra 33 days this summer for less than a dollar a day.
    The new $999 Explore Key will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 13 no earlier than 9 a.m. as a replacement for the $974 Enchant Key that will be discontinued starting on the same date.
    Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s them
  • What to know about figure skating, a cornerstone of the Winter Olympics

    What to know about figure skating, a cornerstone of the Winter Olympics
    By DAVE SKRETTA
    Figure skating has long been a cornerstone of the Olympics, pre-dating the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 with appearances at the Summer Games in 1908 and 1920. The program has changed over the years, and now includes men’s and women’s competitions, the pairs event and ice dance, along with a team competition that combines all of the disciplines. Here’s what to know about figure skating at the Milan Cortina Games.
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  • How to get a cheeseburger for $1.08 at McDonald’s on Jan. 8, 2025

    How to get a cheeseburger for $1.08 at McDonald’s on Jan. 8, 2025
    McDonald’s is selling cheeseburgers for $1.08, but your window of opportunity is very narrow.
    The offer is available to its app users for one day, Thursday, Jan. 8.
    The offer will be available after restaurants stop serving breakfast at 10:30 a.m. for most locations.
    The occasion is “1 in 8 Day,” a celebration the fast food giant invented to honor the one in eight Americans it claims has worked in a McDonald’s restaurant. The community includes current and former crew mem
  • Average US long-term mortgage rate edges higher but remains near 2025 low

    Average US long-term mortgage rate edges higher but remains near 2025 low
    By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
    The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage edged higher this week to just above its 2025 low.
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  • Venezuela says it’s releasing a ‘significant number’ of prisoners as gesture to ‘seek peace’

    Venezuela says it’s releasing a ‘significant number’ of prisoners as gesture to ‘seek peace’
    By JORGE RUEDA
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is releasing a “significant number” of citizens and foreigners from its prisons in a decision that the head of the country’s legislature described Thursday as a gesture to “seek peace” less than a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face federal drug-trafficking charges in New York.
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  • Europe’s most active volcano is erupting, and tour guides are told to stay away

    Europe’s most active volcano is erupting, and tour guides are told to stay away
    By GIUSEPPE DISTEFANO and GIADA ZAMPANO
    MOUNT ETNA, Italy (AP) — Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily’s Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at the giant volcano in recent weeks.
    Authorities in the city of Catania have suspended or restricted excursions to see the volcano’s lava flows, prompting guides to go on strike for the first time in decades and leaving disgruntled tourists wi
  • What to know about the rules for officers firing at a moving vehicle

    What to know about the rules for officers firing at a moving vehicle
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal immigration operation in Minneapolis turned deadly this week when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good during a confrontation involving her vehicle.
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  • House considers overriding Trump vetoes as Republicans weigh crossing president

    House considers overriding Trump vetoes as Republicans weigh crossing president
    By KEVIN FREKING
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will consider a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump with House votes Thursday to override his vetoes of two low-profile bills that were considered noncontroversial when they passed Congress.
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  • Protests erupt in Iran’s capital after exiled prince’s call; internet cuts out soon after

    Protests erupt in Iran’s capital after exiled prince’s call; internet cuts out soon after
    By JON GAMBRELL
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began.
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  • Protests erupt in Iran’s capital after exiled prince’s call for demonstration

    Protests erupt in Iran’s capital after exiled prince’s call for demonstration
    By JON GAMBRELL
    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic. Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after the protests began.
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  • White House is presenting Trump’s ballroom project for a review months after construction began

    White House is presenting Trump’s ballroom project for a review months after construction began
    By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will share details of President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom at Thursday’s meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission, months after the East Wing was demolished in preparation for the construction.
    Will Scharf, a top White House aide whom Trump tapped to head the commission, opened the meeting by noting “passionate comments on both sides” of the ballroom project but adding that public comm
  • Daxon: Helping prevent human trafficking, a problem even in Orange County

    Daxon: Helping prevent human trafficking, a problem even in Orange County
    Many people still think human trafficking only happens somewhere else, like foreign countries. Certainly not in Orange County.
    Sorry. Orange County is a hotbed for human trafficking. That is why we have an Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, started in 2004 with Waymakers, a nonprofit organization.
    The task force consists of a variety of nonprofit agencies, law enforcement agencies, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, faith-based organizations, service clubs such as Sorop
  • Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, new to the city

    Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, new to the city
    By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JIM MUSTIAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.
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  • Ex-USC athlete Owen Hanson warns of ‘cocaine quarterback’ journey

    Ex-USC athlete Owen Hanson warns of ‘cocaine quarterback’ journey
    Owen Hanson’s body was in FCI Englewood, a low-security federal correctional facility in Colorado, but his mind was elsewhere.
    While a correctional officer was proctoring an exam that counted toward Hanson’s master’s degree, Hanson was thinking about USC. When he was working out, he mentally was at Equinox. The protein shake he made in a mop bucket? That was from Earthbar.
    But regardless of where he placed his mind and body, one thought recurred for the former USC athlete.
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  • Denmark sees talks with the US as a chance for ‘the dialogue that is needed’ over Greenland

    Denmark sees talks with the US as a chance for ‘the dialogue that is needed’ over Greenland
    By CLAUDIA CIOBANU
    Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control.
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  • Inside a chaotic digital record of the Brown University shooting: What students saw, feared, shared

    Inside a chaotic digital record of the Brown University shooting: What students saw, feared, shared
    By LEAH WILLINGHAM
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn’t wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts — through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, rumors that felt urgent because they might keep someone alive.
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  • Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order

    Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order
    By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court mandates they describe as outdated.
    A federal judge on Monday approved a joint motion from Louisiana and the U.S. Justice Department to dismiss a 1967 lawsuit in DeSoto Parish schools, a district of about 5,000 students in the state’s northwest. It’s the second such dismissal since t
  • California’s hidden jobs tax was no accident

    California’s hidden jobs tax was no accident
    California employers are about to get hit with a massive tax increase — one they never voted on, one lawmakers and the governor never debated, but one Sacramento knew was coming.
    At the very moment families and employers should be seeing relief from the Working Families Tax Cuts, which are in effect this year, California is moving in the opposite direction by raising taxes on employees and worsening the cost-of-living crisis already plaguing the state.
    California’s unemployment insur
  • Anaheim Hills briefs: Put your quarters to use helping the Woman’s Club make change

    Quartermania, hosted by the Woman’s Club of Orange, is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 17, and the community is invited to participate in the fun and fundraising
    This fun event combines an auction and a raffle where attendees “bid” to win exciting auction items. Those interested in attending should bring a roll of quarters and get ready to have lots of fun.
    Proceeds will support WCO philanthropies. Some of these include: Alzheimer’s Association, Child Creativity Lab, Friends
  • What to know about the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis

    What to know about the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protesters confronted federal officers Thursday in Minneapolis the day after a woman was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
    The demonstrations came amid heightened tensions after President Donald Trump’s administration dispatched 2,000 officers and agents to Minnesota for its latest immigration crackdown.
    The killing of 37-year-old Renee Good on Wednesday set off a clash between federal officials who insist the shooting was an act of se
  • How Americans feel about crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, according to an AP-NORC poll

    How Americans feel about crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, according to an AP-NORC poll
    By JAMES POLLARD and LINLEY SANDERS
    NEW YORK (AP) — Quintin Sharpe considers it a duty to support those without means. Whether collecting food pantry goods through local service groups or helping out his parents’ nonprofit music school, he regularly gives back to his small-town waterside community in southeast Wisconsin.
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  • Trump bid to ban corporate homebuying blindsides Wall Street

    Trump bid to ban corporate homebuying blindsides Wall Street
    Patrick Clark
    (Bloomberg) — The time of the corporate landlord as America’s housing villain was supposed to be over.
    Money managers like Blackstone Inc. and Pretium who binged on single-family rentals in the wake of the financial crisis took blow after blow as housing prices shot up. But the cohort has since cooled its buying, and the attacks slowed.
    No longer. President Donald Trump on Wednesday brought the issue front-and-center when he pledged in a social media post to stop instit
  • Slightly more Americans file for jobless benefits in the last week of 2025, but layoffs remain low

    Slightly more Americans file for jobless benefits in the last week of 2025, but layoffs remain low
    By MATT OTT
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. filings for jobless benefits rose in the last week of 2025 but remain historically low, despite signs that the labor market is weakening.
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  • Harvey Weinstein says jurors were bullied into convicting him. A judge is set to rule

    Harvey Weinstein says jurors were bullied into convicting him. A judge is set to rule
    By JENNIFER PELTZ
    NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein returned to court Thursday, seeking to get his latest sex crime conviction thrown out because anger and apprehensions flared among jurors during deliberations last spring.
    It’s the latest convoluted turn in the former Hollywood honcho’s path through the criminal justice system. His landmark #MeToo-era case has spanned seven years, trials in two states, a reversal in one and a retrial that came to a messy end in New York last ye

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