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• JFK would be 100

  03-06-2017 09:00 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s hard to believe that, had he lived, John F. Kennedy would have turned 100 on Monday. I have lived with the Kennedy name and legacy since I was a boy growing up in Palo Alto.
  I was 10 when my father and two of his friends met then-Sen. Kennedy in his hotel suite in San Francisco. It was 1958, and the future presidential candidate, dressed only in boxer shorts and a t-shirt, wanted to know if the three of them would be Kennedy delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los
  
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• State lawsuit claims New Jersey town’s former mayor directed police to keep minorities out

  17-01-2026 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  CLARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey town whose former mayor was once heard denigrating Black people on secret recordings made by a whistleblower is now facing a state lawsuit that claims he and local police officials directed officers to keep minorities out of the community.
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• UCLA gymnastics: Katelyn Rosen bounces back from sophomore season to become team’s ‘pulse’

  17-01-2026 00:27 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Calling Katelyn Rosen’s sophomore season a slump, rocky, or up-and-down may have been an understatement.
  This time last season, the former elite gymnast entered the week-three meet after recording a pair of 9.9 scores the week prior. But after nailing her first two passes of her floor exercise routine on Jan. 18 of last year, Rosen fell on her third – under-rotating a back layout 1.5 into a front tuck on her final floor routine pass, just the second time in her co
  
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• FEMA reverses decision will test soil on 100 lots destroyed by Eaton fire

  17-01-2026 00:21 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced that in a reversal from its original position would be providing soil testing to 100 properties in the Eaton fire area.
  Last March, members of California’s Congressional delegation urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct soil testing after wildfire cleanup.
  In its statement this week the EPA said soil sampling will be done at randomly selected properties and will be focused on testing for lead. Samples will be co
  
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• Trump quietly appoints 4 members to commission that will review his White House ballroom plan

  17-01-2026 00:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom.
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• Seal Beach looking to team up on projects to stop trash washing down the San Gabriel River

  17-01-2026 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Anytime it rains, a river of trash flows straight toward the ocean, spitting out at the mouth of the San Gabriel River.
  The area between Long Beach and Seal Beach has long been a trouble spot as pollution from urban inland cities flows down the river and onto the beach and into the ocean where Orange County and Los Angeles County meet.
  Seal Beach city officials have taken a key step to finding a solution, they said, voting this week to move forward with a memorandum of understanding with Los Ang
  
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• Tennessee man pleads guilty to repeatedly hacking Supreme Court’s filing system

  17-01-2026 00:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded guilty on Friday to hacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s filing system more than two dozen times, court records show.
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• Orcas put on a show off Seattle

  17-01-2026 00:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By MANUEL VALDES
  With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday.
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• Rep. Dave Min, in Minnesota, warns of future ICE actions in Southern California

  16-01-2026 23:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Recent immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota — including the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis mother by federal officers — should be a warning to other communities, including Southern California, said Rep. Dave Min.
  Min, an Irvine Democrat, was part of a group of more than two dozen Democratic lawmakers who converged in a chilly Minneapolis on Friday morning, Jan. 16, for a field hearing about federal immigration enforcement and the violence that has occurred in the area. They
  
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• Can an Orange County candidate win a statewide race? That’s been rare so far

  16-01-2026 23:52 via ocregister.com
  
  A trio of Orange County officials is running for statewide executive office this year, and if any of them emerge victorious in November, it would be a bit of an anomaly.
  That’s not just because former Huntington Beach city attorney Michael Gates and Supervisor Don Wagner are both Republicans running against Democratic incumbents in a very blue state in races for attorney general and secretary of state, respectively. And that’s also not only because former Rep. Katie Porter would be t
  
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• Support a driving force in Altadena’s Cars & Coffee meet-ups

  16-01-2026 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Dave Stone out on walks, diving into exploration of his Pasadena neighborhood and Altadena, just steps away.
  Over time he got to know, at least in nodding and waving fashion, who lived in the homes he walked past, and, because his teenage son Holden liked cars, where vintage and classic wheels lived in proud display in both communities.
  The Eaton fire brought Stone searing visions of burned-out shells of automobiles when he resumed his walks in the days after Jan. 7,
  
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• Swanson: Caleb Williams’ comeback story is just beginning

  16-01-2026 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Just like you wouldn’t want to be down 15 points going into the fourth quarter of an NFL playoff game, Caleb Williams didn’t want to be drafted by the Chicago Bears.
  No one wants to be stuck behind the 8-ball, no one wants to take the relay baton in last place.
  No one wants to be caught screaming on national TV at a wide receiver for running the wrong route. And no one wants to be the dad spending months before the NFL draft calling lawyers and the United Football League and exhausti
  
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• DOJ lawsuit seeking records of 23 million California voters is dismissed by judge

  16-01-2026 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California that sought detailed voting records and personal data on its 23 million registered voters, concluding that the government’s request was “unprecedented and illegal.”
  The Trump administration’s lawsuit, filed last year, contended that California and other states were illegally blocking the federal government’s wide-ranging effort to scrutinize detailed voter
  
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• 2026 nesting season underway for Big Bear’s famed bald eagles

  16-01-2026 23:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Nesting season is upon us. Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, two of Big Bear’s most famous, are preparing for the arrival of the first egg of 2026, which could appear anytime over the next few months.
  Jennifer Voisard, media and website manager for the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley, which runs two webcams capturing life in the eagles’ nest that attract thousands of viewers daily, said  the two lovebirds built their nest last fall and are now “bonding and flirting&rdquo
  
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• Justice Department says members of Congress can’t intervene in release of Epstein files

  16-01-2026 23:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER
  NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
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• Trump’s credit card threats rain on banks’ earnings parade

  16-01-2026 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Georgie McKay
  (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s unexpected demand for a cap on credit card interest rates sent financial shares tumbling this week, leaving the heads of Wall Street’s biggest lenders fielding a swarm of questions on their quarterly earnings calls.
  With just days to go before big banks reported results, Trump last Friday called on credit-card companies to cap interest rates at 10%, or roughly half the current average on outstanding balances, for one year. Th
  
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• USC men embracing change ahead of matchup with No. 5 Purdue

  16-01-2026 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC men’s basketball team looks slightly different on each game day. It’s not haphazard changes, head coach Eric Musselman said, but rather intentional choices when it comes to starting lineups and playing time.
  “We’re constantly reinventing ourselves,” Musselman told reporters after beating Maryland on Tuesday. Every game has a different identity. Just because someone has a great game tonight doesn’t mean that their role is going to be the same against Pu
  
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• Trump administration delays plan to withhold wages for student loan borrowers in default

  16-01-2026 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans.
  The Education Department announced Friday involuntary collections on federal student loans will remain on hold as the agency finalizes new repayment plans. The shift reverses course on earlier plans to restart wage garnishment
  
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• Lakewood shooting that killed 3 was family murder-suicide, officials say

  16-01-2026 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The shooting that left three people dead inside a Lakewood home on Thursday, Jan. 15, was a murder-suicide in which a man killed his wife and teenage daughter before taking his own life, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said on Friday, Jan 16.
  Deputies were dispatched at about 8 a.m. to the 5800 block of Lorelei Avenue after receiving a report of an assault with a deadly weapon, the department said. Deputies found a 19-year-old woman who had left the single-story home unharmed a
  
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• 3rd suspect arrested in assumed murder of man tied to secretive Redlands church

  16-01-2026 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Redlands police this week arrested a third leader of a secretive Hemet-based religious order in connection with the disappearance of a Tennessee man who was an ex-congregant and last known to be seen at a Starbucks in Redlands in 2023.
  Ramon Ruiz Duran Jr., 44, was arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, both for the missing man, Redlands police said.
  He was apprehended in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, Jan. 12,  and waived extradition to California. He was booked
  
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• 3rd suspect arrested in assumed murder of man tied to secretive Hemet church

  16-01-2026 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Redlands police this week arrested a third leader of a secretive Hemet-based religious order in connection with the disappearance of a Tennessee man who was an ex-congregant and last known to be seen at a Starbucks in Redlands in 2023.
  Ramon Ruiz Duran Jr., 44, was arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, both for the missing man, Redlands police said.
  He was apprehended in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, Jan. 12,  and waived extradition to California. He was booked
  
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• Rams kicker Harrison Mevis will feel at home in Chicago weather

  16-01-2026 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Growing up in Northern Indiana, Harrison Mevis used to shovel snow off his high school’s field to practice his field goals. So as the Rams prepare to face wintery and blustery conditions in the divisional round against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field — a mere 90 minute drive from Mevis’s hometown in Warsaw, Indiana — the kicker is nonplussed about the weather report.
  “Right back at home,” Mevis said. “I’ve kinda been in that
  
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• National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026

  16-01-2026 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
  The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said “the conditions of the mission” warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.”
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• Republicans vouch for Fed chair, creating a rare schism with Trump

  16-01-2026 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
  As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including Justice Department subpoenas and the threat of criminal charges — Senate Republicans have c
  
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• Alexander: The ‘villainy’ continues in Chavez Ravine

  16-01-2026 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Cue the whining. Again.
  The fan bases of 29 other teams are mad, their anger directed at Baseball’s Villains, and that should sound familiar. Once the news broke Thursday night of the Dodgers’ signing of free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker – a transaction that will become official once the club makes a corresponding move to free a spot on their 40-man roster – the “they’re ruining baseball” crowd went into overdrive.
  With one additional twist. Now, if you
  
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• FACT FOCUS: Former Proud Boys leader falsely identified as an ICE officer

  16-01-2026 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELISSA GOLDIN, Associated Press
  As protests continue in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working for the federal agency.
  President Donald Trump pardoned Tarrio in a sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison sentence
  
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• Duran Duran, The Offspring and James Taylor set to headline 2026 BeachLife Festival

  16-01-2026 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Redondo Beach will once again be hit with a tidal wave of music as the BeachLife Festival returns with a nod to the ’80s, a touch of punk and some nostalgic rock.
  Festival organizers for the May 1-3 event at Seaside Lagoon, which is expected to attract more than 30,000 people, announced the lineup on Friday, Jan. 16 and it includes headliners Duran Duran on day one, The Offspring on May 2 and James Taylor and His All-Star Band closing it out on May 3.
  “BeachLife’s grateful for
  
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• Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users

  16-01-2026 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.
  The case involves what is a known as a “geofence warrant” that was served on Google in a police hunt for a bank robber in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Geofence warrants, an increasingly popular investigative tool, seek location data on every person withi
  
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• Trump says he wants to keep Hassett in White House, clouding Fed chair selection

  16-01-2026 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve.
  “I actually want to keep you where you are, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said at a White House event, when he saw Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, in the audience. ”I just wa
  
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• Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of popular Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits

  16-01-2026 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer.
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