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• How the coronavirus is devastating Southern California’s Pacific Islanders

  29-06-2020 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Pacific Islanders in Southern California are dying at a higher rate from the coronavirus than any other racial group in the region and statewide, an issue advocates say is getting swept under the radar because the population is small and tends to be lumped with other ethnic groups.
  While coronavirus case numbers overall are lower for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, the death rates are disproportionately higher when the entire population is taken into account, according to the California
  
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• Chargers mock draft 2.0: Marvin Harrison Jr. remains a great fit

  24-04-2024 22:49 via ocregister.com
  
  What’s changed since the first Southern California News Group seven-round mock draft for the Chargers was printed in the paper and posted on the web? Well, for starters, the chatter about a trade back for the fifth pick has only increased as the days have passed and the draft has drawn closer to reality.
  As in the first mock draft three weeks ago, we’ll stick with actually making the Chargers’ nine picks over seven rounds and forgo any attempts at predicting various trade scena
  
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• Corona del Mar’s Niels Hoffmann, Beckman’s Lee brothers seeded first for Ojai Tennis Tournament

  24-04-2024 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowA mix of established and up-and-coming players will aim this week to continue Orange County’s hot streak at 122nd Ojai Tennis Tournament.
  Corona del Mar senior and USC commit Niels Hoffmann is the top seed for the CIF boys singles event, which a county player has captured the past four tournaments.
  Beckman brothers Caden and Tyler Lee are the No. 1 seed for CIF boys doubles, which an Orange County t
  
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• Should Biden pressure the Fed to cut interest rates?

  24-04-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Sky-high mortgage rates and other elevated borrowing costs are pinching American consumers before the 2024 election, threatening President Joe Biden’s chances at a second term.
  Yet so far, Biden has not called on the Federal Reserve, which has raised interest rates to their highest levels in more than two decades, to slash those costs.
  The White House has repeatedly cited the Fed’s independence as the reason that Biden will not push the Fed to cut interest rates. B
  
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• Big GOP donor Buck Johns lists his 3.5-acre Newport Beach estate for $25 million

  24-04-2024 22:20 via ocregister.com
  
  The back yard of 2600 Mesa Drive, as seen looking back at the house from the fence line, is a sprawling lawn that overlooks Newport Harbor’s Upper Bay. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  The view from the back yard of 2600 Mesa Drive is a sprawling vista that overlooks Newport Harbor’s Upper Bay. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  2600 Mesa Drive in Newport Beach, a 3.5-acre property built in 1951, one of the largest residential lots in the city, is
  
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• Mortgage rates jump to 5-month high

  24-04-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  US mortgage rates increased to the highest level in five months, pushing down home-purchase applications for the fifth time in the last six weeks.
  The contract rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage increased 11 basis points in the week ended April 19 to 7.24%, the highest since Nov. 24, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Wednesday. The index of mortgage applications for home purchases fell 1%.
  The overall index of applications, which includes those for home purchases and refinanc
  
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• 30-Year mortgage rate rises to 5-month high

  24-04-2024 22:13 via ocregister.com
  
  US mortgage rates increased to the highest level in five months, pushing down home-purchase applications for the fifth time in the last six weeks.
  The contract rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage increased 11 basis points in the week ended April 19 to 7.24%, the highest since Nov. 24, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Wednesday. The index of mortgage applications for home purchases fell 1%.
  The overall index of applications, which includes those for home purchases and refinanc
  
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• California-based solar-power firm cutting 1,000 workers

  24-04-2024 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  SunPower Corp. will eliminate more than 25% of its workforce as the company copes with a prolonged slump in the rooftop solar business.
  San Jose-based SunPower will cut about 1,000 out of a total of about 3,800 employees, according to a spokesperson.
  The company plans to shutter its residential installation locations and close its direct sales unit as it pivots to a “low-fixed-cost model,” SunPower’s Principle Executive Officer Tom Werner wrote in a note to employees posted on
  
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• Angels’ Brandon Drury still out because of hamstring issue

  24-04-2024 22:05 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Brandon Drury continues to deal with a maddening hamstring injury that he’s trying not to make any worse.
  “It’s definitely frustrating,” Drury said on Wednesday, the sixth game in the last nine that he’s been out. “I want to be out there and help the team and start driving these runners in, but I know that’s coming. For now, I want to get this hamstring feeling right so I can be out there full force.”
  Drury first felt an issue in Bo
  
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• Americans lean on credit cards as financial strain grows

  24-04-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Anika Jindal | Wealth of Geeks
  How do Americans cover unexpected expenses when, according to a Lending Club Corporation survey, 62% of consumers live paycheck to paycheck? Many rely on their credit cards to get by.
  The 29th edition of the  Reality Check: Paycheck-To-Paycheck  research series, conducted in partnership with PYMNTS Intelligence, also found those financially stretched consumers hold 60% of the credit card debt in the United States. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  
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• The Audible: Reggie gets his Heisman back, and what to make of the Clippers and Lakers?

  24-04-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Breaking news this morning – Reggie Bush will get his Heisman Trophy back. And my first reaction was: It’s about damn time.
  The Heisman Trust announced that after what it termed “a deliberative process” in determining that the landscape had changed, it saw no more reason to deny Bush his due because of the outdated, arcane and unevenly enforced (italics mine) amateurism rules that were then in play.
  Actually, it shouldn’t have been that “deliber
  
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• Older homeowners wonder: Is it ‘aging in place’ or simply stuck?

  24-04-2024 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  When it came to housing, Susan Apel and Keith Irwin thought they had planned adroitly for later life. They bought a four-bedroom house on 2 acres in Lebanon, New Hampshire, 24 years ago, and “we made sure to pay off the mortgage before we retired,” said Apel, 71.
  That way, the home equity they had built up — they estimate their house is now worth about $700,000 — would allow them to sell and downsize into smaller, more manageable quarters when they needed them.
  That time
  
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• First look inside San Juan Capistrano’s newly renovated Tavern at the Mission

  24-04-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Tavern at the Mission, formerly Cedar Creek Inn, has finished its renovations, offering guests a contemporary new vibe that pays homage to San Juan Capistrano’s equestrian and Western heritage. Both the restaurant and its lounge area, the newly christened Tumbleweed Bar, feature a modern look with gray and cream paint, wood and bovine accents.
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• Nearly half of Inland Empire struggles to pay bills

  24-04-2024 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Almost half of households in the Inland Empire can’t afford usual expenses and about a third had trouble paying an energy bill in the last year, according to a Census Bureau survey.
  Among the 15 largest US metro areas, the area comprising Riverside and San Bernardino counties had the highest share of respondents facing key measures of financial stress. In addition, one in seven said there was sometimes or often not enough to eat at home in the previous seven days, the latest Census househo
  
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• At least 32 dead as flash floods wash over half of Kenya

  24-04-2024 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Larry Madowo | CNN
  At least 32 people have been killed and two are missing after flash floods swept through almost half of Kenya.
  Some 103,500 people in all have been affected.
  Kenya has registered heavy rain since mid-March but downpours have intensified over the past week, leading to mass flooding. The Kenyan Red Cross says it has carried out over 188 rescues since the onset in March.
  Some roads in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi were closed Wednesday and several neighborhoods remained submer
  
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• First days of NFL draft could reveal Rams’ competition timeline

  24-04-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Stop me if you’ve heard this already: For the first time since 2016, the Rams are poised to use a first-round pick in the NFL draft.
  I know, I know, it’s been talked about ad nauseam since the season-ending loss to the Lions in the first round of the playoffs. With pick No. 19 on Thursday, in addition to No. 52 in the second round and Nos. 83 and 99 in the third on Friday, the Rams have the opportunity to add to the young core that made the surprise postseason appearance in 2023. And
  
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• Pro-Palestine students, supporters occupy park on USC campus

  24-04-2024 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Several dozen pro-Palestinian students began an occupation of USC’s Alumni Park on Wednesday, April 24, and issued a list of demands including university divestment from any organizations that “profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine.”
  The action added USC to a growing list of college campuses across the nation that have seen encampments and ongoing protests over the continuing Israel-Hamas war, most notably Columbia University. USC’s Alumni Pa
  
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• To pass Ukraine aid, ‘Reagan Republican’ leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump

  24-04-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON — For Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson, the necessity of providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid as it fends off Russia’s invasion is rooted in their earliest and most formative political memories.
  McConnell, 82, tells the story of his father’s letters from Eastern Europe in 1945, at the end of World War II, when the foot soldier observed that the Russians were “going to be a
  
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• Ron Hart: Dithering dolt Biden tells a whopper about cannibals

  24-04-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Biden lied again. The legacy corporate media covers for him, so you might not have heard about it. Biden told a doozie this time about his uncle getting eaten by cannibals.
  Biden said his “Uncle Bosie” was shot down in a plane he was flying in combat over New Guinea during WWII, and then he was eaten by cannibals. But the true story has come out because the Pentagon keeps records. Uncle Bosie was not flying the plane (he was a passenger), it was not shot down (both engines failed), a
  
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• Gov. Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California

  24-04-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sophie Austin | Associated Press/Report for America
  SACRAMENTO — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
  It would apply only to doctors licensed in good standing in Arizona and their patients, and last only through the end of November. Arizona’s 1864 law banning nearly all abortions except if the mother’s life is in jeopardy takes eff
  
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• Huntington Beach City Council’s silly fight over voter ID law

  24-04-2024 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  We’re not exactly shocked that the state filed a lawsuit against Huntington Beach over the recently passed initiative that requires voters at polling stations to show their identification before voting – and also provides surveillance at voter drop boxes. The city’s conservative council majority spearheaded Measure A and 53 percent of voters supported it.
  “By requiring additional documentation to establish a voter’s identity and eligibility to vote at the time of vo
  
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• States move to label deepfake political ads

  24-04-2024 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Gopal Ratnam | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — After 20,000 or more New Hampshire voters received a call with the artificial-intelligence-doctored voice of President Joe Biden asking them to skip the state’s primary in January, state officials were in a quandary.
  Attorney General John M. Formella launched an investigation alongside others into the robocall that urged recipients to “save your vote for the November election,” ultimately identifying a Texas-based organizatio
  
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• Airlines now must pay automatic refunds for canceled flights

  24-04-2024 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By Allyson Versprille | Bloomberg
  Airlines will now have to provide automatic refunds to travelers if their flights are canceled or significantly altered under new US Department of Transportation rules.
  The final regulations released Wednesday outline the circumstances where passengers are entitled to refunds for all travel to, from and within the US. The goal is to make it easier for people to get money back and to make refund policies more consistent from one airline to the next.
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• Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer

  24-04-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Arielle Zionts | KFF Health News (TNS)
  HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
  Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she’s lost six friends and acquaintances to suicide, two to car crashes, and one to appendicitis. Four of her relatives died in their 30s or 40s, from causes such as liver failure and covid-19, she said. And she recently lost a 1-year-old nephew.
  “Most Native A
  
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• Amon-Ra St. Brown agrees to 4-year deal with Lions worth more than $120M, according to source

  24-04-2024 20:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY LAGE (AP Sports Writer)
  DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Lions and wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth more than $120 million with $77 million in guarantees, according to a person familiar with the situation.
  The person spoke Wednesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the financial terms were not announced.
  “Four more years,” St. Brown said in an Instagram post.
  Detroit drafted St. Brown out of USC in t
  
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• Disneyland adds another potential themed land to the mix: Encanto

  24-04-2024 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The number of potential new themed lands that could be built as part of DisneylandForward has grown to 10 for those keeping track of all the possibilities that could come to the Anaheim theme parks under Disney’s $1.9 billion plan that just won preliminary approval.
  An Encanto themed land is the latest addition to the ever-growing line-up of possibilities that Disney continues to dangle as enticing possibilities for Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
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• Biden administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them

  24-04-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Jordan Rau | (TNS) KFF Health News
  The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so.
  The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to p
  
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• Study: More than 25% of Americans expect to never retire

  24-04-2024 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fatima Hussein | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising faster than their income, an AARP survey finds.
  About 1 in 4 have no retirement savings, according to research released Wednesday by the organization that shows how a graying America is worrying more and more about how to make ends meet even as economists and policymakers say the U.S. economy has all but achieved a soft
  
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• Travel: How to spend 6 perfect days in the Scottish Lowlands

  24-04-2024 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  When one dreams of vacationing in Scotland, it’s the Highlands and not the Lowlands that comes to mind. Don’t take our word for it; even the national tourism board touts the Scottish Highlands as “the Scotland of your imagination and the perfect backdrop for your next adventure” on its website. And on National Geographic’s list of “Best of the World” destinations, only the Highlands gets love.
  OK, so the Scottish Lowlands isn’t home to the monstrou
  
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• Is financial trauma holding you back from living your best life?

  24-04-2024 19:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alana Benson | 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.
  Whether it’s going to bed before midnight, eating broccoli, or dealing with your finances, doing the “right” thing can sometimes feel like a herculean effort.
  Similar to an erratic sleep schedule or
  
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