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• Fraud infects our disability system

  10-02-2020 19:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Kenneth and Mandy Henderson have given a new dimension to marital togetherness.
  Two years ago, a disability claim filed by Mandy Henderson, a lieutenant in the Santa Clara County sheriff’s office, came under suspicion.
  She claimed to be in constant pain from injuries suffered on the job and had to spend most of her days lying on a couch. However, a surveillance video showed her walking and engaging in bodybuilding exercises in Las Vegas, where she was living while still on the sheriff&rsqu
  
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• Ronda Rousey confirms Gina Carano comeback fight May 16

  17-02-2026 17:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Two of the most iconic fighters in women’s mixed martial arts history are stepping back into the ring against one another in Southern California.
  Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano will end their respective retirements for a women’s featherweight fight May 16 at Intuit Dome under Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian’s Most Valuable Promotions banner.
  Netflix announced the bout as “a legacy showdown” in a social media post Tuesday morning. Rousey, who for months has been posting
  
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• Police credit a good Samaritan for ending a deadly shooting at a Rhode Island ice rink

  17-02-2026 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
  A shooter unleashed a flurry of bullets during a Rhode Island youth hockey game, killing two people and injuring three others, in an attack that was cut short when a spectator stepped in to help stop the tragedy, authorities said.
  Investigators had spoken to nearly 100 witnesses as of Monday evening as they attempt to piece together what happened early Monday afternoon inside the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles outside Providence.
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• Elevate Prize winners gain more than $300K in funding. They learn to better tell their own stories

  17-02-2026 16:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer
  For Mónica Ramírez, being named one of this year’s 10 Elevate Prize winners means so much more than the monetary and structural support that comes with it.
  It means the work she does with her Fremont, Ohio-based nonprofit Justice for Migrant Women, which advocates for the rights and needs of migrant women and other marginalized communities, is still valued despite the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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• This sticky rice recipe riffs on a dim sum classic for Lunar New Year or any time

  17-02-2026 16:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By BETTY LIU, Voracious
  Sticky rice, aka sweet glutinous rice, is best steamed so its plump, chewy grains are ready to sponge up all the flavor. This dish from my cookbook “The Chinese Way” is a riff on lo mai gai, a dim sum classic.
  I created it almost by accident when I was obsessed with tomato paste and the umami it can contribute. The result is reminiscent of paella, but with the classic sticky-chewy texture of sweet glutinous rice.
  You’ll end up with a bit of crispy browne
  
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• Tony Clark resigning as head of MLB players union, AP source says, as possible cap fight looms

  17-02-2026 16:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tony Clark is resigning as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a person familiar with union’s deliberations said Tuesday.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because his decision, first reported by ESPN, had not been announced. The person said an announcement was likely later Tuesday.
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• US Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells’

  17-02-2026 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News
  The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official.
  “There are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did — ivermectin, in particular — did engage in sort of a better preclinical study of its properties and its ability to kill cancer cells,” sa
  
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• How the rich pass on their wealth. And how you can too

  17-02-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT SEDENSKY, AP National Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Death and taxes may be inevitable. A big bill for your heirs is not.
  The rich have made an art of avoiding taxes and making sure their wealth passes down effortlessly to the next generation. But the tricks they use – to expedite payouts to heirs and avoid handing money to the government – can also work for people with far more modest estates.
  “It’s a strategic game of chess played over decades,” says Mark Bo
  
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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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• Delaware man married in the 1970s to former first lady Jill Biden pleads not guilty in wife’s death

  17-02-2026 15:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MINGSON LAU, Associated Press
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The long-ago first husband of former first lady Jill Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he killed his current wife in Delaware.
  William Stevenson, 77, was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975.
  A state grand jury this month charged Stevenson with killing Linda Stevenson, 64, who was found unresponsive at their home in Wilmington on Dec. 28. He has remained in custody since he was charged Feb. 3 with mur
  
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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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