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• 'Nervous' Darrell Issa attacks challenger Doug Applegate

  29-09-2016 03:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Rep. Darrell Issa is launching attacks on Democratic rival Doug Applegate, the latest sign that the Vista Republican has a re-election battle on his hands for the first time since winning office in 2000.
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• Santa Ana overhauls U-Visa certification process following oversight commission review

  20-02-2026 17:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Changes aimed at streamlining the Santa Ana Police Department’s certification process in support of U-Visas, which the federal government uses to grant temporary legal status to noncitizen victims of certain crimes, will take effect this month.
  The reforms, recommended by the city’s Police Oversight Commission, aim to improve fairness, accountability and transparency, officials said. Looking ahead, Commissioner Carlos Perrea said he hopes the U-visa policy overhaul will serve as a mo
  
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• Laguna Woods has $43,000 it can’t use. A new California bill aims to fix that

  20-02-2026 17:12 via ocregister.com
  
  A defunct abandoned vehicle service has left Laguna Woods with a funding pot it hasn’t been able to utilize.
  That means some $43,000 is sitting in a dormant account, unable to be touched.
  But a new bill in the California Legislature aims to free up that money, giving Laguna Woods explicit permission to use it for vehicle code enforcement on public streets.
  The nearly $43,000, including interest accrued over the years, stems from a former countywide program, Service Authority for Abandoned
  
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• Santiago Canyon College’s new music degree hits all the right notes

  20-02-2026 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Santiago Canyon College has expanded its academic offerings with a new Associate of Arts degree for transfer in music, creating a pathway for students pursuing music studies to continue their education at four-year institutions.
  The new degree addresses a gap in SCC’s academic infrastructure and course sequence for students seeking transfer opportunities in music, a goal Eleanor Núñez, co-chair of SCC’s Performing Arts department, has pursued since taking on the role in
  
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• Texas congressman claims he’s being ‘blackmailed’ over alleged affair with staffer who later died

  20-02-2026 16:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By JUAN A. LOZANO
  HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas claimed Thursday he was being “blackmailed” following a report he allegedly had an affair with a former staffer who later died.
  The claim by the married Republican congressman comes after the San Antonio Express-News reported that it had obtained text messages in which the former staffer, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, wrote to a colleague that she had an affair with the lawmaker.
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• Officials: There is progress on veterans cemetery in OC, including $10 million more in funding

  20-02-2026 16:35 via ocregister.com
  
  A new federal pledge has supporters of Orange County’s long-awaited veterans cemetery feeling good about funding secured for the project, and a necessary new state feasibility study is expected this spring.
  Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, who has long advocated for the proposed cemetery, said the funding secured constitutes “real progress” in the county’s commitment to ensure its veterans can be laid to rest at home.
  “For years, veterans and their fam
  
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• New bipartisan bill aims to help disabled veterans with home loan fees

  20-02-2026 16:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Deemed an effort to strengthen housing opportunities for veterans, a new bipartisan bill in Congress would ensure disabled veterans don’t have to pay certain home loan funding fees.
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs already offers waivers for veterans wth service-connected disabilities — but only to those who have already received a disability rating, assigned by the VA to determine eligibility for monthly disability compensation and other benefits.
  That means, according to Rep
  
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• Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda

  20-02-2026 16:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
  The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
  It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before
  
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• End of enhanced Obamacare subsidies puts tribal health lifeline at risk

  20-02-2026 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Katheryn Houghton, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News
  Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana.
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• Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say

  20-02-2026 16:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By DORANY PINEDA and SETH BORENSTEIN
  In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted and the cancer rates so high it is known as Cancer Alley.
  “Most adults in the area are attending two to three funerals per month,” said Gary C. Watson Jr., who was born and raised in St. John the Baptist Parish, a majority Black community in Cancer Alley about 30 miles outside of New Orle
  
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• Is ‘income stacking’ a good way to build wealth?

  20-02-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  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.
  Financial planners often say you can pull two basic levers to improve your financial life: earn more money or spend less.
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• HOA Homefront: What minutes are… and aren’t

  20-02-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Corporation are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created registering with the state.Once registered, corporations have legal rights very similar to those of humans. However, since corporations primarily act through their boards, a permanent record, minutes, of those actions must be kept.
  Minutes are the official record of what a corporate board decided. If the minutes do not mention a decision, then for the purposes of the corporation it didn’t happe
  
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• Flashing lights in rear-view: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

  20-02-2026 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This just in: Driving While White or Asian in Orange County results in proportionally fewer police stops than Driving While Black or Hispanic, according to data from the California Department of Justice.
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  What does that mean?
  It means that, based on the county’s demographics, White and Asian people were pulled over less often than you might otherwise expect. To wit:
  – 36.7% of the population is White, while a slightly lower 35% of stops involved driver
  
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• Ramadan’s first Friday prayers are held at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque

  20-02-2026 15:39 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM MEDNICK
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered under heavy Israeli restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including some who were allowed to enter from the occupied West Bank.
  The Ramadan prayers at Al-Aqsa took place for the first time since a shaky ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect in October. It was the first opportunity many had t
  
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• OC Music & Dance school opts out of Great Park Cultural Terrace

  20-02-2026 15:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The under-development Great Park Cultural Terrace lost a tenant this week, with Orange County Music and Dance leaders deciding to build a new facility elsewhere in Irvine.
  OCMD’s board of directors were in agreement at their recent meeting that the nonprofit youth performing arts school should drop plans to build at the Great Park for “a number of practical and financial considerations,” including “unforeseen delays” to being able to complete construction by fall 20
  
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• Life is harsh and dangerous in Russian-run parts of Ukraine, activists and former residents say

  20-02-2026 15:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By YURAS KARMANAU
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Even now, safely in her new home of Estonia, Inna Vnukova says she can’t purge the terrifying memory of living under Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine early in the war and her family’s harrowing escape.
  They hid in a damp basement for days in their village of Kudriashivka after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In the streets, soldiers waving machine guns bullied residents, set up checkpoints and looted homes. The
  
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• New Balboa Island ferries will be battery powered — with ‘smokestacks’

  20-02-2026 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I was pleased to read that funding is in place to keep the Balboa Island ferries running. Where will the new ferries be built? We like to take out-of-town visitors to lunch, which include a no-frills cruise.
  – Ron Lesovsky, Huntington Beach
  A: Excellent choice of fun, Ron.
  You reminded Honk to get his family out there soon — it’s been too long for the ol’ gent.
  The family-owned company, born in 1919, that carries people, bicycles and cars across Newport Bay is replacin
  
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• Trump says he doesn’t know if aliens are real but directs government to release files on UFOs, more

  20-02-2026 15:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE L. PRICE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.”
  Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.
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• LA’s dogged defense of ‘mansion’ tax destroys housing supply

  20-02-2026 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — I sometimes prattle about a proverbial $1 million tax on poodles as a way to illustrate the counterproductive nature of many tax proposals. This is an ideal analogy for Los Angeles’ Measure ULA, the “mansion tax” that voters in 2022 approved by a wide margin. It has had the same, negative effect as that punitive tax on pooches, based on recent research.
  The city of Los Angeles has a licensed dog population of around 100,000, with poodles of all
  
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• Union and New York hospital system reach a tentative deal to end the city’s largest nursing strike

  20-02-2026 14:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By PHIL MARCELLO
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s largest nursing strike in decades is poised to end after more than 4,000 nurses seeking better staffing and job security at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative contract agreement with management early Friday.
  The New York State Nurses Association said union negotiators and administrators at the last of three major hospital systems hit by the more than monthlong walkout approved a tentative deal but did not disclose detai
  
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• US economy grows at 1.4% rate in the fourth quarter, slower than expected

  20-02-2026 14:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and MATT OTT, AP Economics Writers
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economic growth slowed in the final three months of last year, dragged down by the six-week shutdown of the federal government and a pullback in consumer spending.
  The nation’s gross domestic product — the output of goods and services — increased at a 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday, down from 4.4% in the July-September quarter and 3.8% in
  
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• Inflation rose more quickly than expected in December

  20-02-2026 14:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A key inflation gauge accelerated in December, a sign that many prices are still rising more quickly than most Americans would prefer — and faster than the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% a year.
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• Mexico and El Salvador make big cocaine seizures at sea as US continues lethal strikes

  20-02-2026 14:27 via ocregister.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The navies of El Salvador and Mexico announced drug seizures in the Pacific Ocean this week of more than 10 tonnes of cocaine, in contrast to deadly strikes by the U.S. government that just this week left 11 people dead on three boats suspected of carrying drugs in Latin American waters.
  The latest announcement came Thursday, when Mexico said it had seized nearly four tonnes of suspected drugs and detained three people from a semisubmersible craft, 250 nautical miles&nbs
  
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• Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

  20-02-2026 14:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer
  For years, social media companies have disputed allegations that they harm children’s mental health through deliberate design choices that addict kids to their platforms and fail to protect them from sexual predators and dangerous content. Now, these tech giants are getting a chance to make their case in courtrooms around the country, including before a jury for the first time.
  Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and s
  
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• How extreme cold is affecting Americans’ lives, according to a new poll

  20-02-2026 13:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions in North America kicked off 2026 with bitterly cold temperatures, with many saying it’s been years since they’ve experienced such frigid winter weather.
  “Pipes that never froze on me for 15 years froze,” said Chris Ferro, 58, from Brooklyn, New York, about the abnormally cold temperatures he experienced in January and February. Ferro owns several residential properties in Albany and sai
  
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• Saudi Arabia may have uranium enrichment under proposed deal with US, arms control experts warn

  20-02-2026 13:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia could have some form of uranium enrichment within the kingdom under a proposed nuclear deal with the United States, congressional documents and an arms control group suggest, raising proliferation concerns as an atomic standoff between Iran and America continues.
  U.S. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden both tried to reach a nuclear deal with the kingdom to share American technology. Nonproliferation experts warn any spinnin
  
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• World shares, US futures advance after AI fears drag Wall Street lower

  20-02-2026 13:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer
  BANGKOK (AP) — European shares were higher Friday after a mixed day of trading in Asia, as worries over risks linked to massive investments in artificial intelligence and a potential U.S.-Iran conflict weighed on major benchmarks.
  Germany’s DAX rose 0.2% to 25,103.32 and the CAC 40 in Paris was up 0.7% at 8,460.35. Britain’s FTSE 100 picked up 0.4% to 10,672.75.
  The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.3% while that for the Dow Jones Indu
  
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• Police search Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home a day after his arrest

  20-02-2026 13:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAN PYLAS
  LONDON (AP) — Police continued on Friday to search the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for the best part of 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office linked to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
  Following one of the most tumultuous days in the modern history of Britain’s royal family, the former Prince Andrew is back at his new residence on the Sandringham estate, King
  
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• Excessive litigation is a hidden tax on California households

  20-02-2026 13:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California used to be the land of opportunity. Today, its courts are driving up costs on families and small businesses alike — not because consumers are being harmed, but because plaintiffs’ lawyers have learned how to turn everyday laws into litigation revenue engines.The American Tort Reform Foundation’s newest Judicial Hellholes® report once again names California as the worst of the worst in the nation — this time going so far to specifically name Los Angeles &mda
  
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• Winter weather advisory active for 5 Freeway north of LA until Friday morning — winds gusting up to 40 mph

  20-02-2026 12:17 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway corridor near Santa Clarita, Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains and Southern Ventura County Mountains are under a winter weather advisory which was released by the National Weather Service on Friday at 3:15 a.m. The advisory is in effect until 7 a.m.
  The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA says to be ready for, “|* Insert hazard descriptor *|. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.”
  “The hazardous conditions could impact the Friday morning commute,” the NWS said. “Sl
  
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