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• Legislation touted as pro-transparency will eliminate basic services

  24-05-2017 09:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The fundamental purpose for a city or county is to serve its residents. If government is doing its job, then your streets are clean and safe, your public parks and buildings are maintained and the like. Taxpayers should be able to expect that government is spending their hard-earned dollars on critical services that improve their health, safety and quality of life. Assembly bill 1250, authored by Assemblyman Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, would severely limit a city or county from c
  
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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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• ChatGPT’s free ride is ending: Here’s what OpenAI plans for advertising on the chatbot

  16-01-2026 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for a premium version of the chatbot.
  The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn’t yet rolled out ads but will start testing them in the coming weeks.
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• Judge allows a third offshore wind project to resume construction as the industry challenges Trump

  16-01-2026 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By JENNIFER McDERMOTT, Associated Press
  A federal judge ruled Friday that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume, the third project this week to successfully challenge the Trump administration in court.
  The administration announced last month it was suspending leases for at least 90 days on five East Coast offshore wind projects because of national security concerns. Its announcement did not reveal specifics about those concerns.
  Developers and states sued in an effort to block th
  
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• Ex-husband indicted by grand jury in slaying of couple found in their Ohio home

  16-01-2026 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS, Associated Press
  Columbus, OHIO (AP) — An Ohio grand jury has indicted a man in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband who were killed in their Columbus home last month.
  Court records show a Franklin County grand jury charged Michael David McKee on Jan. 16, with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary while using a firearm suppressor.
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• Venezuelan opposition leader is confident about return of democracy but says little of her plans

  16-01-2026 20:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN and ISABEL DEBRE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Friday she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro.
  But when pressed, she took pains to avoid giving any details on her plans to return home or any timetable for elections in Venezuela.
  Her remarks reflect how President Donald Trump’s endorsement o
  
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• Kathleen Kennedy, steward of ‘Star Wars,’ steps down from Lucasfilm

  16-01-2026 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE
  After more than 13 years at the helm of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from the “Star Wars” factory founded by George Lucas.
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• EPA has options for cleaning up contaminated water in north OC, public meetings this month to take input

  16-01-2026 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public feedback on its options for cleaning up, at least in the interim, the Orange County North Basin Superfund site, where a large plume of contaminated groundwater continues to spread beneath Fullerton and Anaheim and has most recently reached into Buena Park.
  Extending more than six miles long and a mile wide, the plume contains harmful volatile organic compounds resulting from decades of degreasing solvents used in local manufacturing from
  
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• Matthew McConaughey trademarks ‘Alright, Alright, Alright’ catchphrase to protect against AI

  16-01-2026 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey trademarked ‘Alright, alright, alright,” his popular catchphrase from “Dazed and Confused,” in order to protect against possible AI misuse.
  The trademark is part of an overall trademark protecting his image and voice.McConaughey, 56, has had eight separate applications approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  “My team and I want to know that when my voice or likeness is e
  
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• Julio Iglesias calls sexual abuse allegations against him ‘absolutely untrue’

  16-01-2026 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Julio Iglesias on Friday denied allegations that he sexually assaulted two former employees, calling the accusations “absolutely untrue.”Media reports from earlier this week alleged Iglesias had sexually and physically assaulted two women who worked at his residences in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas between January and October 2021. A day later, Spanish prosecutors said they were studying the allegations.
  “With deep sorrow, I r
  
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• OpenAI to test targeted ads in ChatGPT, stepping up revenue push

  16-01-2026 20:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Shirin Ghaffary
  (Bloomberg) — OpenAI will start testing advertisements in the ChatGPT app for certain US users, marking a major shift for the company as it seeks to bolster revenue from the popular chatbot.
  The ads will appear in the coming weeks for logged-in users of the free version of ChatGPT as well as a newer, lower-cost $8-a-month “Go” plan that first launched in India and is now expanding to the US, the company said Friday.
  The more expensi
  
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• Members of Zizians group attend hearing ahead of Maryland trespassing trial

  16-01-2026 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SCOLFORO and HOLLY RAMER
  Cumberland, Md. (AP) — Three members of the Zizians, a cultlike group linked to six deaths across the U.S., were in court in Maryland on Friday for a hearing ahead of their trial on trespassing, weapons and drug charges.
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• In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump’s desire to own their Arctic island

  16-01-2026 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By EMMA BURROWS
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force.
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• ICE says a Cuban man died during a suicide attempt. A witness says a guard fatally choked him

  16-01-2026 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL BIESECKER, CEDAR ATTANASIO and RYAN J. FOLEY
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Cuban immigrant died in a Texas immigration detention facility earlier this month during an altercation with guards, and the local medical examiner has indicated that his death will likely be classified as a homicide.
  The federal government has provided a differing account surrounding the Jan. 3 death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, saying the detainee was attempting suicide and staff tried to save him.
  A witness told The
  
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• Ukraine’s young skiers practice in a bombed-out Olympic training base

  16-01-2026 19:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By ILLIA NOVIKOV
  CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Young athletes in northern Ukraine spend their days cross-country skiing through a scorched forest, focused on their form — until a siren inevitably shatters the silence.
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• US flu activity fell for a second week. But experts worry the season is far from over

  16-01-2026 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season appears to be waning with two straight weeks of decline in measures of flu activity, according to the latest government data released Friday.
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• Walmart names new US chief, group heads ahead of CEO change

  16-01-2026 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jaewon Kang
  (Bloomberg) — Walmart Inc. appointed new heads for its three main divisions, completing a leadership refresh at the world’s largest retailer.
  David Guggina, chief e-commerce officer of Walmart US, is being promoted to chief executive officer of the division — the company’s biggest and most important business — according to a statement. He’s assuming the spot that’s being vacated by John Furner, who is replacing the outgoing Doug McMillon as C
  
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• Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?

  16-01-2026 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVE SKRETTA
  It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed “Quad God” who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought impossible.
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• Trump takes the unusual step of thanking Iran for canceling executions of political prisoners

  16-01-2026 19:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of political prisoners.
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• How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience

  16-01-2026 19:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Ben’Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his address to Congress.
  Ben’Ary said he was shocked to see his phone had been disabled. He found the explanation later in his personal email account, a let
  
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• Canada breaks with U.S. to slash tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles

  16-01-2026 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  BEIJING — Canada will lower tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles and China will do the same for Canadian canola products, a major shift in policy that was announced Friday during a landmark state visit by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada to Beijing.
  Carney announced that Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market under a preferential tariff rate of 6.1%. That is much lower than the current rate of 100% that Canada imposed in 2024 at the behes
  
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• Renee Good had 4 gunshot wounds, Fire Department report reveals

  16-01-2026 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brooks Johnson, The Minnesota Star Tribune
  MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report.
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• California politicians wrongly fixate on education spending instead of results

  16-01-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted most of his final State of the State address last week to touting what had been accomplished during the past seven years, and one boast was about California’s public school system educating nearly 6 million kids in grades K-12.
  Newsom said his new budget would increase spending on the system to $27,418 per student, which includes federal money. He highlighted expansions in pre-kindergarten, programs before and after school and the melding of education with social
  
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• Virginia lawmakers back redrawing congressional maps, paving the way for a voter referendum

  16-01-2026 19:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By OLIVIA DIAZ, Associated Press/Report for America
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia voters will decide whether to back a redrawn district map that favors Democrats in the tit-for-tat battle for the U.S. House after the left-leaning Senate advanced a proposed constitutional amendment on Friday that supports mid-decade congressional redistricting.
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• Trump isn’t waiting for future generations to name things after him. It’s happening now

  16-01-2026 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE and WILL WEISSERT
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Most American presidents aspire to the kind of greatness that prompts future generations to name important things in their honor.
  Donald Trump isn’t leaving it to future generations.
  As the first year of his second term wraps up, his Republican administration and allies have put his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Kennedy Center performing arts venue and a new class of battleships that’s yet to be built.
  FILE &nd
  
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• A Liberian man released after his battering-ram arrest in Minneapolis is back in custody again

  16-01-2026 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACK BROOK
  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — A Liberian man in Minnesota is back in custody Friday, his lawyer said, a day after a judge ordered him released because federal agents broke down his door to arrest him without a judicial warrant.
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• Retired Orange County fire official accused of child molestation in San Diego County

  16-01-2026 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  A former firefighter who worked in San Diego County and retired as an assistant chief in Orange County is facing criminal charges alleging he molested two children roughly two decades ago.
  Phillip Johnson, 60, has pleaded not guilty in Vista Superior Court to charges of molesting the alleged victims at family gatherings between roughly 2001 and 2008, according to the criminal complaint and other court documents. The girls, now adults, were between the ages of 6 and 8 at the time of the alleged i
  
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• Trump plans to pardon ex-Puerto Rico Gov. Vázquez in campaign finance violation case, official says

  16-01-2026 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said Friday.
  Vázquez pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Her sentencing was set for later this month.
  Federal prosecutors had been seeking one year behind bars.
  The official who confirmed the planned pardon indicated Tr
  
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• Sharks are famous for fearsome teeth, but ocean acidification could make them weaker

  16-01-2026 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By PATRICK WHITTLE
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sharks are the most feared predators in the sea, and their survival hinges on fearsome teeth that regrow throughout their lives. But changes in the ocean’s chemistry could put those weapons at risk.
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