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• LAFC opens 2026 MLS season hosting Messi and Inter Miami CF at the Coliseum

  21-11-2025 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Football Club’s current Major League Soccer season will conclude at some point during the next three weeks pending playoff results, but the upcoming 2026 campaign is already making news.
  On Thursday, MLS revealed next year’s 34-game regular season schedule, and LAFC has a prominent spot on opening day, when the Black & Gold host Lionel Messi and Inter Miami CF on Feb. 21 at the 77,500-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
  Six of LAFC’s first nine home games ta
  
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• High wind watch issued for 5 Freeway through Grapevine from Tuesday to Thursday – wind gusts up to 60 mph

  22-12-2025 10:15 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine is the focus of a high wind watch released at 1:12 a.m. on Monday by the National Weather Service. The watch is valid from Tuesday 4 p.m. until Thursday Dec. 25, at 4 p.m.
  According to the NWS Hanford CA, “South winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph possible.”
  “Damaging winds could blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are possible. Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles,” the NWS said. “M
  
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• No. 19 USC women hold off Cal in close win

  22-12-2025 05:20 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Freshman Jazzy Davidson scored a go-ahead layup with 4:05 remaining and finished with a season-best 24 points, leading the No. 19 USC women past California 61-57 on Sunday in the 2025 Invisalign Bay Area Women’s Classic.
  After Davidson’s basket, Londynn Jones hit a jumper the next time down as USC used a 6-0 burst to take control. The Trojans answered each Cal threat with a key defensive play or big basket.
  Cal called timeout with 43.8 seconds left and trailing
  
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• Kyle Evans, UC Irvine edge North Dakota State at Sun Bowl Invitational

  22-12-2025 03:57 via ocregister.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas — Coming off a demoralizing home loss, the UC Irvine men’s basketball team was in need of a bounce-back effort and Kyle Evans and the Anteaters came up with one.
  Evans scored a career-high 24 points to lead UCI to a 74-73 victory over North Dakota State in the first game of the Don Haskins Sun Bowl Invitational on Sunday night at the Haskins Center.
  Evans shot 11 for 12 from the floor while pulling down a game-high nine rebounds, blocking three shots and recording thre
  
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• Long Beach State proves no match for No. 4 Iowa State

  22-12-2025 03:05 via ocregister.com
  
  AMES, Iowa — It didn’t take long to see the Long Beach State men’s basketball team was facing a different kind of opponent.
  Tangling with an unbeaten top-five team on its home court proved to be far too big of a challenge on Sunday, as LBSU was held to six points through the first 10 minutes and found itself facing a 36-point deficit less than 15 minutes into the first half in a 91-60 loss to No. 4 Iowa State.
  Milan Momcilovic made seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points for the
  
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• Clippers’ Ivica Zubac out at least 3 weeks with ankle sprain

  22-12-2025 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers center Ivica Zubac suffered a Grade 2 sprain of his left ankle on Saturday in the team’s victory against the Lakers and will be out for at least three weeks. He will be re-evaluated at that time, according to the team.
  Zubac went up for a shot in the first quarter near the basket, but landed directly on LeBron James’ foot, sending the 7-footer hard to the court. Zubac immediately grabbed his ankle and stayed down as play continued the other way. He then hobbled to the bench
  
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• Texas A&M women’s volleyball sweeps Kentucky to win its 1st national title

  22-12-2025 01:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Texas A&M head coach Jamie Morrison, center left, holds up the trophy after his team defeated Kentucky in the NCAA Division 1 college volleyball championship, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
  Texas A&M players cut the net after their win over Kentucky in the NCAA Division 1 college volleyball championship, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
  Texas A&M head coach Jamie Morrison, ceter right, cheers with his team after
  
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• Final night of Hanukkah celebrated with community at Newport Beach Jewish center

  22-12-2025 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  As children find treats tossed from a Newport Beach fire truck, Lucy, a chihuahua owned by Jerry Kahan, also looks for loot. The event was part of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, December 21, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Christopher Yates, who bills himself as the “world’s biggest dreidel,” greets Hanukkah party guests at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Newport Beach on
  Sunday, December 21, 202
  
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• Chargers’ defense makes halftime adjustments to get necessary results

  22-12-2025 01:01 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Seventeen points in the first half?
  Too many, as far as the Chargers’ defensive players were concerned.
  Two hundred-eleven total net yards?
  Too many.
  Sixty-one rushing yards?
  Too many.
  So, the Chargers’ defensive unit held an impromptu meeting in their locker room at halftime of their game Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys. They needed to get back on track. They needed to return to the defensive pressure that had given up an average of 15.5 points in their pr
  
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• USC men rout UC Santa Cruz in Kam Woods’ debut

  22-12-2025 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The USC men’s basketball team went into Sunday afternoon with a new opponent and a new player in the lineup, but that didn’t stop the Trojans from beating UC Santa Cruz 102-63.
  The victory marked head coach Eric Musselman’s 250th career win.
  Gabe Dynes scored a season-high 16 points and had an additional five rebounds and four blocks. Chad Baker-Mazara and Ezra Ausar each scored 15 points and Baker-Mazara grabbed seven boards. Jacob Cofie added 14 points and
  
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• Pedestrian injured in Fullerton hit-and-run

  21-12-2025 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  A pedestrian was injured during a hit-and-run in Fullerton on Saturday night, authorities said.
  Officers dispatched at shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 20 to the vicinity of N. Gilbert Street and Carol Ave., where they found a pedestrian lying in the roadway, Fullerton police said.
  The vehicle fled the scene before officers arrived, police said in a statement.
  Paramedics took the pedestrian to a trauma center. His condition was not provided, and police did not disclose his age.
  The crime is und
  
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• Kings close pre-holiday schedule with bottom-dwellers

  21-12-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings will head into the Christmas pause with a back-to-back set at home against the worst team in the East and then the worst team in the West as they begin life without Phillip Danault.
  Danault was traded to the Montreal Canadiens some 30 minutes before Friday night’s trade freeze took effect, netting a second-round pick originally owned by the Columbus Blue Jackets.
  Monday, the Kings will welcome those Blue Jackets, who’ve lost 11 of their last 14 games, to sink to last place
  
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• Cal State Fullerton’s comeback falls short at Oklahoma State

  21-12-2025 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  STILLWATER, Okla. — The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team put a scare into Oklahoma State, using sizzling shooting from outside to stay with its Big 12 opponent before coming up just short in a 94-89 loss on Sunday afternoon.
  Jefferson De La Cruz Monegro scored 20 points and Landon Seaman had 19 points and 13 rebounds to pace Fullerton (5-8), while Christian Williams had 18 points on 6-of-10 shooting from 3-point range and Joshua Ward added 14 points and six assists.
  The Tita
  
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• Justin Herbert, Chargers rout Cowboys, edge closer to playoffs

  21-12-2025 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Quarterback Justin Herbert and the Chargers couldn’t clinch an AFC playoff berth with a victory Sunday at AT&T Stadium. They needed a victory to move closer, of course, plus a little help from either the Las Vegas Raiders or the San Francisco 49ers.
  The Chargers did their part by beating the Dallas Cowboys, 34-17, for their fourth win in a row.
  Then the waiting game started.
  In the simplest terms, the Chargers (11-4) needed either the Raiders to defeat the Hous
  
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• Jon Coupal: Courts widen the door to even more local taxes in California

  21-12-2025 21:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Since 1978 with the passage of Proposition 13, California voters have repeatedly tried to protect their homes and businesses from excessive taxation by imposing limits on property taxes and requiring two-thirds voter approval for other local taxes. Despite the clear intent of the voters, California courts have sided with the government and its special interest benefactors by creating loopholes that significantly weakened these protections.
  The worst of these loopholes, fashioned out of whole clo
  
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• Thousands of legal immigrants are paying for the crimes of one

  21-12-2025 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Imagine you’re a senior in Law School, about to graduate with honors. You spent years working toward your degree and paid thousands in tuition. You had your dream job lined up at a big law firm after graduation and were planning on buying a home.
  Two weeks before your graduation ceremony, a student from the School of Business is discovered cheating on an exam. The university president then decides that, to ensure no one else cheats in the future, no degrees will be issued for an indefinite
  
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• Russia says talks on US peace plan for Ukraine ‘are proceeding constructively’

  21-12-2025 21:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were pressing on “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”
  The talks are part of the Trump administration’s monthslong push for peace that also included meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Berlin earlier this week.
  Florida talks press on
  “The discussions are proceeding constr
  
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• Trump’s return brought stiff headwinds for clean energy. So why are advocates optimistic in 2026?

  21-12-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT
  There were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while blocking wind and solar, according to dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians.
  Surveyed by The Associated Press, many described 2025 as turbulent and challenging for clean energy, though there was progress as projects connected to the electric grid. They said clean energy must continue to grow to meet skyrocketing de
  
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• Trump is leaning on son-in-law Jared Kushner for difficult diplomacy

  21-12-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the dawn rose on President Donald Trump’s second term, one key figure from his first administration stood back, content to focus on his personal business interests and not retake a formal government role.
  Now, nearly a year into Trump 2.0, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been drawn back into the foreign policy fold and is taking a greater role in delicate peace negotiations. Talks had initially been led almost solo by s
  
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• Muddy eruption at Yellowstone’s Black Diamond Pool captured on video

  21-12-2025 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
  “Kablooey!”
  That’s the word U.S. Geological Survey volcanic experts used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday morning.
  Video shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the pool just before 9:23 a.m. in Biscuit Basin about midway between park favorites Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic.
  Other recent eruptions have mostly been audible and not visible, because they happened eit
  
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• Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul

  21-12-2025 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI AND ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier.
  Blanche pledged that the Trump administration eventually would meet its obligation required by law. But he stressed that the department was obligated to
  
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• Coast Guard is pursuing another tanker helping Venezuela skirt sanctions, US official says

  21-12-2025 21:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to Venezuelan government.
  The pursuit of the tanker, which was confirmed by a U.S. official briefed on the operation, comes after the U.S. administration announced Saturday it had seized a tanker for the second time in less than two weeks.
  The official, who
  
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• Flood watch issued for 5 Freeway north of LA for Tuesday and Wednesday caused by significant downpours

  21-12-2025 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway north of LA is under a flood watch which was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 11:51 a.m. The watch is valid from Tuesday 4 p.m. until Wednesday Dec. 24, at 10 p.m.
  According to the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA, “Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.”
  “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Mud and debris flows will be possible across foothill and mountain areas, in
  
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• Flood watch issued for the Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area for Tuesday and Wednesday due to significant rain

  21-12-2025 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County and Santa Ana Mountains area is under a flood watch which was released by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 11:47 a.m. The watch is valid from Tuesday 4 p.m. until Wednesday Dec. 24, at 10 p.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA said, “Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.”
  “Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Mud and debris flow are possible near and in burn scars, including
  
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• Air quality alert in place for Orange County Monday

  21-12-2025 20:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Coast, Orange County, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys, Riverside County Mountains and San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning are included in an air quality alert reported by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 11:41 a.m. The alert is in effect until Monday Dec. 22, at 11:45 a.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA adds to anticipate, “The South Coast AQMD has extended a mandatory wood-burning ban for residents in the South Coast Air Basin. The No-Burn rule bans burning wood, pelle
  
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• A Brown University student returns to her Southern California home, a path to healing interrupted by another mass shooting

  21-12-2025 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Mia Tretta returned home to sunny Saugus, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, after finishing her junior fall semester at Brown University.
  It was a moment full of the energy of reuniting loved ones, the promise of some home cooking. A chance in California for some warmer weather. Like many college kids coming home for the holidays, it often feels ceremonious.
  But this year for the young international and public affairs major, it was a homecoming like no other, after what she and her peers had ju
  
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• Aliso Niguel girls soccer beats Oaks Christian for Best in the West title

  21-12-2025 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALISO VIEJO — Pregame “hype” sessions in the locker room. Opportunistic offense and hustling defense. And a supportive bench standing and cheering for 70 minutes.
  The enthusiasm of Aliso Niguel’s girls soccer team continued to pay dividends Saturday night as the Wolverines beat previously unbeaten Oaks Christian 2-0 in the finals of the Best in the West tournament’s top divis
  
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• Photos: Rising from the ashes, Palisades theater troupe revives its holiday tradition

  21-12-2025 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Photo by David Crane; Text by Camelia Heins
  Thousands were left homeless by January’s deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County. More than two dozen people died. Businesses became cinders. Churches were leveled. Schools crumbled.
  And, not far from Palisades High, “The Pierson Playhouse,” creative home of the Theatre Palisades Actors’ Troupe, went up in flames.
  The show, for once, could not go on. A performance scheduled to open three days after the fire, was postponed.
  But n
  
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• Santa Anita delays opening day to Dec. 28, heeding rain forecasts

  21-12-2025 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Fans who look forward to opening day at Santa Anita will have to look forward a little longer this year.
  Santa Anita is postponing the opening of its 89th winter-spring thoroughbred racing season for two days to Sunday, Dec. 28, because of forecasts for heavy rain in Southern California.
  Instead of holding its traditional day-after-Christmas opener and racing Friday through Sunday, the Arcadia track will run Sunday, Monday, Dec. 29, and then add Wednesday, Dec. 31, to the already scheduled Thurs
  
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• Ducks face struggling Kraken before heading into holiday break

  21-12-2025 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM –– The Ducks have one remaining game before the holiday break, in which they’ll seek to deny any Christmas cheer to the NHL’s most wayward team at the moment, the Seattle Kraken.
  The Kraken have gone 2-9-0 in their past 11 games, putting up the league’s second worst penalty kill percentage (and most porous defense) during that time, when the Ducks have simultaneously had their second worst power play.
  Yet absent much menace from their man advantage units, th
  
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