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• NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid

  18-04-2025 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.
  It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in 2021 on a quest that will take it to 11 space rocks. The close approaches should help scientists better understand our early solar system when planets were forming; asteroids are the ancient leftov
  
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• New California law lets immigrant parents name a caretaker for their child if they’re separated

  17-12-2025 22:46 via ocregister.com
  
  A new law allowing parents to designate someone to care for their child in the event they are detained or deported by federal immigration authorities will soon take effect in California.
  Starting Jan. 1, the Family Preparedness Plan Act expands the type of relative who can qualify as a “caretaker” and creates a process by which a parent may nominate a caretaker to be a “temporary joint guardian” through probate court.
  The new law also prohibits licensed child daycare faci
  
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• Some sanctioned oil vessels divert from Venezuela as Trump threatens blockade

  17-12-2025 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press
  MIAMI (AP) — Some oil vessels are diverting away from Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the South American country, a dramatic escalation in the White House’s pressure campaign on leader Nicolás Maduro.
  Trump said Tuesday on social media, in all caps, that he is ordering a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers” into an
  
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• Postal service plans to open last-mile delivery network to more shippers in money-raising move

  17-12-2025 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
  The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it intends to open its “last-mile” delivery network, the most expensive part of the shipping process, to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with giants such as Amazon and UPS.
  The goal is to diversify and boost revenue through the postal carriers’ final leg of delivery to millions of individual homes and businesses.
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• Ex-NFL player Hardy Nickerson named football coach at JSerra

  17-12-2025 22:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Former NFL linebacker Hardy Nickerson is the new football coach at JSerra, the school announced Wednesday.
  Nickerson, 60, was the head coach at Bishop O’Dowd High in Oakland the past four seasons. Bishop O’Dowd won the CIF State Division 5-AA championship Friday with a 37-0 win over El Cajon Christian at Fullerton High.
  Bishop O’Dowd head coach Hardy Nickerson on the sideline in a high school football game against Monte Vista at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California o
  
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• House to vote on resolutions to put limits on Trump’s campaign against Venezuela and drug cartels

  17-12-2025 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES and BEN FINLEY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House was voting Wednesday on a pair of resolutions that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela.
  Democrats forced the votes using war powers resolutions as Trump has stepped up his threats against the South American nation and Congress has questioned how the U.S. military is conducting a campaign that has destroyed 25 vessels all
  
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• Energy Department watchdog will audit Trump’s cuts of nearly $8B in clean energy grants

  17-12-2025 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press
  An internal watchdog in the U.S. Department of Energy will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects across 16 states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
  The move is especially welcome for Democrats who said that the cuts — part of broader attacks from President Donald Trump on climate programs and clean energy funding —
  
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• Trump administration moves to dissolve national climate research lab in Colorado

  17-12-2025 21:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW DALY and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.″
  White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway. “Vital
  
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• Council public hearing on Anaheim Hills Festival Center housing project pushed to January

  17-12-2025 21:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The Anaheim City Council now plans to consider the housing development proposed to replace the cinema at the Anaheim Hills Festival Center next month.
  The council will also be considering at the Jan. 13 meeting a general plan amendment, amending the site plan for the shopping center area, a final site plan and a development agreement.
  Developers propose to turn the shopping center’s shuttered Regal Cinema into a four-story residential building.
  That project would bring 447 apartment units,
  
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• ‘Living shoreline’ solution being tried to protect eroding Talbert Marsh

  17-12-2025 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Just inland of the ocean and the cars zooming past on the busy Pacific Coast Highway, a wetland oasis is threatened.
  Erosion is chipping away at sensitive and critical habitat inside the Talbert Marsh, at an island area where endangered birds nest each year. Nearby, the loss of sediment is also worrisome for an electric pole that powers a street light at Brookhurst Street and PCH, where damage could cause a nightmare for drivers who use the busy roadways.
  But work is underway to slow the erosion
  
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• Trump pays respects to 2 Iowa National Guardsmen and interpreter killed in Syria as they return home

  17-12-2025 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press
  DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday paid his respects to two Iowa National Guard members and a U.S. civilian interpreter who were killed in an attack in the Syrian desert, joining their grieving families as their remains were brought back to the country they served.
  Trump met privately with the families at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware before the dignified transfer, a solemn ritual conducted in honor of U.S. servic
  
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• Senate approves bill inspired by DC plane crash to ensure military aircraft will broadcast location

  17-12-2025 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  The Senate moved quickly Wednesday afternoon to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
  Just hours after passing a massive defense bill that included the worrisome provisions about military flights, the Senate approved a bipartisan bill that will require all aircraft use ADS-B techn
  
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• Are policymakers ready for the potential impact of AI on the labor market?

  17-12-2025 20:53 via ocregister.com
  
  At some point in the future, AI and robotics will be advanced enough to perform nearly all of the jobs currently performed by humans. Such a future will require that we radically change the relationship that we have with the economy and the means of production. Corporations will be forced to share their revenues as a universal basic income if they want to exist at all. 
  However, before we achieve complete automation, there will be a period of gradually increasing AI adoption that will prese
  
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• Motorcycle officers from Garden Grove, Long Beach injured in separate 22 Freeway crashes

  17-12-2025 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Two motorcycle police officers — one with Garden Grove’s department, the other with Long Beach’s — were injured in separate crashes on the eastbound 22 Freeway in Garden Grove within an hour of each other and about two miles apart on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 16, authorities said.
  Both officers were hospitalized for moderate injuries, said Officer Duane Graham, a California Highway Patrol spokesman.
  About 4 p.m., the CHP began receiving calls about a crash in the left lane
  
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• Winter Olympics 2026: How to watch and key things to know about the Milan Cortina Games

  17-12-2025 20:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The countdown is on for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
  The torch relay is already underway and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are waiting to be awarded.
  This will be the most spread-out Winter Games in history: The two primary competition sites are the city of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the upscale winter resort in the Dolomites that is more than 250 miles away by road. Athletes
  
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• Winter Olympics 2026 guide: All you need to know about the Milan–Cortina Games

  17-12-2025 20:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The countdown is on for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
  The torch relay is already underway and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are waiting to be awarded.
  A couple takes a photo in front of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics countdown clock, in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
  This will be the most spread-out Winter Games in history: The two primar
  
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• Newsom relaxed his pro-housing stance for certain Democratic locales

  17-12-2025 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  When Gavin Newsom was running for governor he made many promises, one of which was to ramp up housing production, which had been in the doldrums for a decade.
  Describing housing as “a fundamental human need,” Newsom said the shortage “breaks my heart” and promised that as governor he would lead the effort to develop “the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025, because our solutions must be as bold as the problem is big.”
  The goal was impossible on its f
  
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• Poorer Americans dropped federal flood insurance when rates rose

  17-12-2025 20:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Leslie Kaufman | Bloomberg
  When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to align premiums with real flood risk, driven higher by climate change. Critics warned, however, that higher, more honest prices could push homeowners — particularly poorer ones — out of the program and potentially leave them without an emergenc
  
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• Angels GM Perry Minasian has ideas to help Jordan Romano

  17-12-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Perry Minasian believes the Angels can help Jordan Romano rediscover himself.
  A day after the Angels signed the former All-Star reliever to a $2 million deal, the general manager explained why he thinks there is hope for him to put last season’s 8.23 ERA behind him.
  “There are some things we feel like we can do delivery-wise,” Minasian said Wednesday. “There are some things we feel like we can do with the slider. The biggest thing is the stuff is still good. He missed bat
  
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• After nearly 25 years, Gemmell’s in Dana Point announces closure

  17-12-2025 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Opening in 2001 at the Dana Point Harbor, chef-owner Byron Gemmell’s namesake restaurant, Gemmell’s, announced plans to close for good at year’s end.
  “Saying goodbye is never easy,” said Gemmell in a written release. “We appreciate the heartfelt support of our beloved patrons who’ve kept us going.”
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• Medicaid health plans step up outreach efforts ahead of GOP changes

  17-12-2025 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By Claudia Boyd-Barrett | KFF Health News
  Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan in Orange one morning after picking up free groceries. She brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law to help.
  They grabbed canned food, fruit and vegetables and a grocery store gift card. Basu spotted a row of tables in the parking lot staffed by county social service workers helping people apply for food assistance and hea
  
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• EU leaders prepare to take unprecedented steps to help Ukraine at a high-stakes summit

  17-12-2025 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By LORNE COOK
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are about to attempt something they’ve never tried before. The chances of failure are significant. Their actions this week could set dangerous precedents and a wrong move could undermine trust among the bloc’s 27 member countries for years to come.
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• New Year’s Eve: 5 dinners in Orange County that are worth the splurge

  17-12-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  While New Year’s Eve brings an onslaught of beer-soaked parties and midnight-hour tomfoolery, there is a distinct pleasure in choosing a more refined and relaxing route. Ringing in 2026 with a standout meal, one that offers great service, choice ingredients and a special atmosphere, is the perfect way to make a grand entrance into Jan. 1. If you’re looking for a more top-drawer affair, these five eateries are offering menus and settings perfect for your final celebration of the year.
  
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• What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was shot at home near Boston

  17-12-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home near Boston. The 47-year-old professor from Portugal was shot Monday night and died Tuesday at a local hospital.
  Authorities have not provided any details about a possible motive in the killing or any other details. No suspects were in custody as of Wednesday morning, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said.
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• What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting

  17-12-2025 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  By The Associated Press
  Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot at his home near Boston. Loureiro, a married 47-year-old from Portugal, was shot Monday night and died Tuesday at a local hospital.
  Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive, and no suspects were in custody as of Wednesday morning, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said.
  The shooti
  
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• Frumpy Mom: It’s almost Christmas and I’m not ready

  17-12-2025 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Well, here we are, mere nanoseconds away from Christmas and I’m completely ready to go.
  My tree is glowing, the presents are all wrapped, the table is set with beautiful decorations and the lights are illuminating the front of the house in the most festive way possible, even outdoing Clark Griswold.
  For the first time in recent years, I got around to sending Christmas cards that I made by hand while otherwise wasting time watching Hallmark movies on TV.
  And, if you believe all that, I have
  
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• The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home of ABC

  17-12-2025 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer
  In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.
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• Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are awarding $5 million to a leader in neurodiversity education

  17-12-2025 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMES POLLARD
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits to the students powering his fast-growing movement for more inclusive classrooms.
  “I feel like there’s a narrative sometimes that our little actions don’t matter,” Neurodiversity Alliance CEO Da
  
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• Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump’s new Medicaid work requirements

  17-12-2025 18:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By GEOFF MULVIHILL
  Nebraska will become the first state to implement new work requirements for some people with Medicaid health insurance under a law President Donald Trump signed last year.
  Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, announced Wednesday that the requirement would take effect in the state May 1 and could impact about 30,000 people who have slightly higher incomes than traditional Medicaid beneficiaries.
  “We’re not here to take everybody to the curb,” he said. Instead, he sa
  
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• Saturn’s moon Titan may not have a buried ocean as long suspected, new study suggests

  17-12-2025 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARCIA DUNN
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn’s giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all.Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life could possibly survive and even thrive, scientists reported Wednesday.
  The team led by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory challenged the decade-long assumption of a buried global ocean at Titan after taking a fresh look a
  
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