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• Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s secular, liberal indulgences

  12-10-2017 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  In the late Middle Ages the Roman Catholic church came under fire by reformers for the sale of “indulgences” to church congregants. Corrupt priests could make a pretty penny by selling these indulgences for cash in exchange for a reduction in the amount of punishment their parishioners would have to undergo for their sins.
  Think of it like buying a mulligan on the golf course, only this one saves strokes on your salvation, not on the score card.
  Eventually, Martin Luther targeted the
  
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• What to know about curling, the popular Olympic sport with an Italian star seeking more gold at home

  05-01-2026 22:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press
  Curling dates to the 1700s and was among the handful of sports at the first Winter Olympics in 1924.
  It didn’t return until the 1998 Games with both men’s and women’s competition. It has grown in popularity and size: Curling will be the first sport to open competition, two days before the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Games in February.
  FILE – Rachel Homan, right, throws a rock during Canadian Olympic curling trials ac
  
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• Orange County boys basketball Top 25: Santa Margarita still on top

  05-01-2026 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys basketball rankings as of Monday, Jan. 5. The team records are through Sunday, Jan. 4.
  Notable this week: Santa Margarita won the championship of the top division in the Desert Holiday Classic. …  Mater Dei went 4-0 in its division of the Desert Holiday Classic. … Los Alamitos won the championship of the Diamond Division of The Classic at Damien tournament. … Huntington Beach makes its season debut in the Top 25 … Transfers who had to obser
  
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• Banks snatch up mortgage bonds that saw best returns since 2002

  05-01-2026 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ameya Karve | Bloomberg
  Flush with deposits, US banks are buying up mortgage bonds and betting that the asset class will get a further boost in 2026 from relaxed capital rules.
  Late last year, commercial bank holdings of mortgage paper reached the highest level since 2023, and stood at more than $2.7 trillion toward the end of December, according to Federal Reserve data that wasn’t seasonally adjusted. That sum has increased for four consecutive months through November, the longest such
  
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• IKEA battles Amazon, Temu as market shifts bring pain to flat-pack dynasty

  05-01-2026 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Rafaela Lindeberg | Bloomberg
  As the first snow fell in November over Älmhult, the small Swedish town where IKEA was born in the 1940s, managers of the world’s biggest furniture retailer from across the globe gathered for its annual summit on products, prices and priorities.
  Beneath the bonhomie under the warm glow of Scandinavian lamps and the corporate talk of “togetherness” was a sense of urgency. The iconic global brand with its familiar blue-and-yell
  
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• Factory malaise continues as manufacturing gauge drops to 1-year low

  05-01-2026 21:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By Reade Pickert | Bloomberg
  US manufacturing activity shrank in December by the most since 2024, capping a rough year for American factories.
  The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index edged down to 47.9 from 48.2, according to data released Monday. The measure has been below 50, which indicates contraction, for 10 straight months.
  The decline in the measure reflected producers drawing down their raw materials inventories at the fastest rate since October 2024. That indicat
  
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• Troy’s Michael Echaves, Trabuco Hills’ Mark Nolan named all-star coaches

  05-01-2026 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowMichael Echaves of Troy and Mark Nolan of Trabuco Hills will coach the North and South teams, respectively, in the Orange County all-star football game Jan. 31 at Newport Harbor High.
  The 66th edition game is scheduled for 7 p.m., organizer Frank Albers confirmed.
  Echaves and Nolan will coach the all-star game for the first time.
  This past season, Echaves guided Troy (10-2) to a second consecutive, outrig
  
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• Vonn, Shiffrin, Odermatt chase gold in Alpine skiing at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

  05-01-2026 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDREW DAMPF, Associated Press
  Alpine skiing in its Olympic form dates back more than a century and the sport made its debut at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Events have been modified over the years, but the individual competitions familiar to most fans like downhill and slalom remain. Here is what to know for the Winter Olympics in Italy next month.
  How it works
  There are five different events in Alpine skiing at these Olympics for both the men and women. The i
  
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• No. 21 USC women moving forward from rivalry game ‘disappointment’ and on to Oregon

  05-01-2026 21:20 via ocregister.com
  
  Disappointment and embarrassment. Two words that USC women’s basketball head coach Lindsay Gottlieb used to describe how her team felt after losing 80-46 to No. 4 UCLA on Saturday in the first of two regular-season games between the crosstown rivals.
  “But we own it,” Gottlieb told reporters after the game. “We get a lot of basketball to achieve our goals and we’ll get back to work and take it on the chin. We’ve had great wins and celebrations here and tough lo
  
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• Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence

  05-01-2026 21:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
  Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.
  CPB had been winding down since Congress acted last summer to defund its operations at the encouragement of President Donald Trump. Its board of directors chose Monday to shutter CPB completely instead of keepin
  
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• Will this be the year California makes kindergarten mandatory?

  05-01-2026 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Carolyn Jones | CalMatters
  The past few years, California has been all about the ABCs, 1-2-3s and the wheels on the bus, investing more than $5 billion in early childhood education.
  But kindergarten, a staple of elementary schools for more than a century, remains optional. Despite nearly a half dozen legislative attempts to require it, California is one of 32 states that doesn’t mandate that all 5-year-olds attend school.
  That might change next year. Legislators plan to introduce a new
  
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• UCLA football starts receiving new commitments in transfer portal

  05-01-2026 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Bob Chesney hosted his first recruiting weekend from Friday to Sunday, where about 20 transfer portal entrants arrived in Westwood for their official visits. And on Monday, the Southern California News Group can confirm the first few commits joining the Bruins’ new head football coach as he attempts to right the ship heading into the spring.
  UCLA football received commitments from Cal linebacker Ryan McCulloch, James Madison offensive lineman JD Rayner and Virginia tech
  
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• Could mysterious news site with ties to Orange County influence 2026 election?

  05-01-2026 21:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Colin Lecher | CalMatters
  Earlier this year, as the political battle over Congressional redistricting brought California into the national spotlight, Facebook users were shown a curious series of ads.
  The ads, from a straightforward-looking news site called the California Courier, often felt a lot like campaign commercials, linking to articles hammering Democrats in the state, including Gov. Gavin Newsom. Few punched in the other direction, toward Republicans. One said “California Democ
  
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• Cheap tacos for members as Jack in the Box kicks off its 75th anniversary

  05-01-2026 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Jack in the Box will celebrate its 75th anniversary throughout 2026, beginning Tuesday, Jan. 6.
  The San Diego-based fast food chain was founded by entrepreneur Robert Oscar Peterson, who opened its first location on Feb. 21, 1951. It was at  6270 El Cajon Blvd., near San Diego State University.
  The Valley Relics Musuem in Van Nuys has an original Jack In The Box drive-thru speaker. (2018 photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  Jack in the Box is known for pioneering drive-thru
  
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• Landslide closes section of beach trail in south San Clemente, rail service still operating

  05-01-2026 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Another landslide in San Clemente has shut down a section of the town’s coastal beach trail, though rail service continues.
  Debris fell onto the trail sometime in the evening of Sunday, Jan. 4, or early morning hours of Monday, Jan. 5, with the call coming into the Orange County Fire Authority at about 6 a.m., said OCFA battalion chief Nathan Arellano.
  “We have a significant amount of dirt that came down from the hillside, blocking about 150 feet of the walking trail. It did come dow
  
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• US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child

  05-01-2026 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without clear guidance.
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• Venezuelan government seeks to show it is operating free from US control

  05-01-2026 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By REGINA GARCIA CANO
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government on Monday sought to show its people and the world that the country is being run independently and not controlled by the United States following its stunning weekend arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader who had ruled for almost 13 years.
  Lawmakers aligned with the ruling party, including Maduro’s son, gathered in the capital, Caracas, to follow through with a scheduled swearing-in ceremony o
  
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• US-based multinational companies will be exempt from global tax deal

  05-01-2026 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. multinational corporations will be exempted from paying more corporate taxes overseas in a deal finalized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
  The OECD announced Monday that nearly 150 countries have agreed on the plan, initially crafted in 2021, to stop large global companies from shifting profits to low-tax countries, no matter where they operate in the world.
  The amended version excludes large U.S.-based multinational cor
  
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• A brand new Olympic sport, ski mountaineering, will debut at the Milan Cortina Games

  05-01-2026 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAT GRAHAM, AP Sports Writer
  The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will debut a new sport next month: Ski mountaineering, which combines uphill sprinting (on boots and on skis) and downhill skiing. Although the sport on the global stage is relatively new, it does have roots dating to the late 19th century. Backcountry winter sports have grown in popularity and there is anecdotal evidence that they saw a surge in participation during the pandemic.
  Something to know about skimo: It’s fast, wi
  
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• Orange County Vietnamese restaurant Brodard to open location in Long Beach

  05-01-2026 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County-based Brodard Restaurant will be coming to Los Angeles County when a new location opens in Long Beach sometime in 2026.
  The latest spot for the long-standing Vietnamese restaurant is slated open at the busy 2ND & PCH mall complex at at 6480 E. Pacific Coast Highway possibly by May.
  This will mark the fifth location for the restaurant that first opened in the 1990s in Orange County’s Little Saigon neighborhood. It was founded by Diane Dang, whose family owned a French bake
  
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• First Person: My post-fire year of here and now

  05-01-2026 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michele Zack
  Practicing Buddhism on and off for 50 years helped me cope with the loss of our Altadena home.
  The word “practice” is key; something you keep working on, not expecting to ever perfect. If your daily habit is reminding yourself to notice the impermanence and discomfort of life, the result is not being as devastated (or angered) by arising misfortune as you might otherwise be.
  2025 has been my year of practicing being in the here and now.
  People with different views of
  
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• After judge’s ruling, HHS authorized to resume sharing some Medicaid data with deportation officers

  05-01-2026 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON
  NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s health department starting Monday can resume sharing the personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials, according to a federal judge’s ruling, in a blow to states that had sued the administration over privacy concerns.
  But the judge’s decision, issued last Monday, strictly limits the scope of data from the 22 plaintiff states that can be shared — for now only allowing the agency to hand over basic
  
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• If someone’s always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude?

  05-01-2026 18:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALBERT STUMM
  Even as a kid, Alice Lovatt was always getting in trouble for being late.
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• 6 fast ways to simplify your finances in 2026

  05-01-2026 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tommy Tindall, NerdWallet
  The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.
  Managing money doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming.
  Still, about a third of Americans (32%) feel anxious about their finances going into 2026, according to a new NerdWallet survey.
  You got this. If
  
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• Finland’s battle against fake news starts in preschool classrooms

  05-01-2026 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES BROOKS
  HELSINKI (AP) — The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms.
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• Recipe: Tangerines lend tang to chicken thighs in this tasty dish

  05-01-2026 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s no secret that I love to cook chicken thighs. They are richer in flavor than chicken breasts, plus they are less expensive. Myriads of flavor enhancements can showcase the bird. Citrus is a favorite, especially tangerine or other varieties of mandarins.
  To make this delicious tangerine-spiked chicken dish, you can use the minced zest, but I prefer to use the finely chopped peel of 2 thin-skinned tangerines, or other mandarins, such as Cuties or Halo brands.
  It is difficult to find bon
  
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• US allies and adversaries use UN meeting to blast Venezuela intervention as America defends action

  05-01-2026 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By FARNOUSH AMIRI and JENNIFER PELTZ
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Monday after an audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela over the weekend to capture leader Nicolás Maduro, with the United Nations’ top official warning that America may have violated international law.
  Before the U.N.’s most powerful body, both allies and adversaries blasted President Donald Trump’s intervention and him signaling the possibility of
  
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• Rams expect Davante Adams, Quentin Lake back for playoff opener vs. Panthers

  05-01-2026 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  As the fifth-seeded Rams prepare for their playoff opener against the fourth-seeded Carolina Panthers on Saturday, they anticipate getting two of their most impactful players back on the field for the contest.
  Both wide receiver Davante Adams (hamstring) and defensive back Quentin Lake (elbow) are expected to play in this weekend’s wild-card round in Charlotte, head coach Sean McVay said on Monday.
  Adams has missed the last three games since suffering the injury in Week 15 against the Lion
  
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• US expands list of countries whose citizens must pay up to $15,000 bonds to apply for visas

  05-01-2026 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders are required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.
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• Are Americans’ household debt levels a major concern for the economy?

  05-01-2026 18:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Holiday spending was expected to be tempered this year but the latest data shows Americans aren’t slowing down, even with growing debt.
  The National Retail Federation said nearly 203 million U.S. shoppers went to retail stores and websites from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday — its highest in nearly nine years.
  Some experts have expressed concern about growing credit card debt and burdens from other factors. U.S. household debt reached $18.59 trillion as of September, said the
  
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