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• Newsom: California on verge of stricter COVID restrictions as ICU beds fill

  03-12-2020 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  All of Southern California could soon be under much tighter coronavirus restrictions, after Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday, Dec. 3, announced a new stay-at-home order that will go into effect in areas where local intensive care bed availability is low — as coronavirus hospitalizations continue surging statewide.
  The order, once it goes into effect, will be similar to what Los Angeles County already has, but would apply to every other Southern California county as well.
  The announcement mark
  
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• Palestine protests: UCLA opens inquiry, USC president in talks with protesters

  30-04-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  On Wednesday, UCLA announced it was investigating alleged attempts by protesters to block student access to class, while at USC President Caroline Folt entered the second day of talks with student protesters.
  University leaders at UCLA have ordered protesters to take down the metal barriers they were using to control foot traffic in and around Royce Quad, where the ‘Palestine Solidarity Encampment’ is now, on April 30, in its sixth day.
  An Israel supporter flys the Israeli flag at UC
  
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• Campus protests: The kids are (mostly) right about America’s misguided, unconditional support for Israel

  30-04-2024 22:36 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m too young to remember the campus convulsions of the 1960s, but older friends who were there tell me that the growing campus protest movement against US support for Israel’s war in Palestine bears a striking resemblance to those days.
  I happen to support that movement’s goals, at least to the extent of wanting to see the US government butt out of other people’s arguments.
  I’m told by some “pro-Israel” friends that the student protesters  are all
  
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• UCLA men’s volleyball opens NCAA Tournament with Fort Valley State sweep

  30-04-2024 22:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The UCLA men’s volleyball team took its first step toward defending its NCAA title with a three-set victory against Fort Valley State in a quarterfinal match at the Walter Pyramid.
  The top-seeded Bruins strung together wins of 25-14, 25-15 and 25-15 against the eighth-seeded Wildcats, the first HBCU institution to qualify in tournament history.
  UCLA (24-5) will play the winner of fourth-seeded UC Irvine and fifth-seeded Penn State in the semifinals Thursday.
  The Bruins w
  
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• Southern California leads state’s 1st population gain since 2019

  30-04-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  California posted its first population increase since the pandemic struck – a gain that was driven geographically from the south.
  The California Department of Finance counted 67,100 more residents in the past year to 39.13 million as of Jan. 1. State demographers connected the growth, the first increase since 2019, to legal foreign immigration and “natural” growth – births vs. deaths.
  California’s population dropped by an average 196,000 residents per year in 2020 t
  
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• Duo sentenced for 2021 Pasadena strip mall shooting that killed Azusa man

  30-04-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Two men were recently sentenced for a shooting at a Pasadena strip mall where an Azusa man was killed and a Duarte woman injured three years ago.
  Dante Dejuan Ward of Irvine received 22 years in prison and Evan Roland Bynum of Los Angeles got six years in prison during their April 24 sentencing at Burbank Superior Court, according to court records and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
  The judge had sentenced the 36-year-old Ward to 11 years and doubled it because he h
  
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• Workers’ paychecks grew faster in the first quarter, a possible concern for the Fed

  30-04-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Rugaber | The Associated Press
  Pay and benefits for America’s workers grew more quickly in the first three months of this year, a trend that could contribute to higher inflation and raise concerns about the future path of price increases at the Federal Reserve.
  Compensation as measured by the government’s Employment Cost Index rose 1.2% in the January-March quarter, up from a 0.9% increase in the previous quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Compared with the sa
  
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• Swanson: The Lakers’ best next move? Don’t panic

  30-04-2024 21:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Woke up Tuesday morning to the sounds of sirens blaring, alarms going off all across the city. Panic in the streets.
  Armageddon?
  No, a Lakers first-round playoff exit.
  Dang near everyone up in arms after the Denver Nuggets excused the Lakers 4-1 on Monday in about as competitive a gentleman’s sweep as one could imagine. I hear you all arguing about who’s gotta go! The coach! His boss! His staff! The players! Which players? All of ’em but the stars! The stars?! Be serious.
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• Fairy gardens: How to conjure myth, magic and mirth when gardening with kids

  30-04-2024 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laura Sampson | The Associated Press
  Fairy gardens captivate the imagination, serving as miniature sanctuaries that offer a glimpse into a whimsical, enchanted world. These tiny landscapes are crafted to attract mythical fairy visitors, blending the allure of fantasy with the beauty of nature.
  The creation of fairy gardens is not just an artistic endeavor, but also an act of fun and whimsy played out with plants. They allow both the young and the young at heart to indulge in creative play and
  
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• Capistrano Valley Christian girls beach volleyball loses in CIF-SS final

  30-04-2024 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Capistrano Valley Christian advanced to a CIF Southern Section girls beach volleyball championship match for the second year in a row Saturday at Long Beach City College.
  The Eagles lost to Oaks Christian 3-2 in the Division 2 final.
  Capistrano Valley Christian got to the final by beating Crean Lutheran in the semifinals.
  Capistrano Valley Christian lost to Crean Lutheran in last year’s Division 2 championship match.
  This was the second season that the CIF Southern Section held girls beach
  
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• UC Irvine pro-Palestinian encampment lasts overnight, demonstrator asked to leave campus by police

  30-04-2024 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A few dozen students at UC Irvine stayed overnight at a tent encampment that formed Monday, April 29, on campus, hoping to get the university to cut financial ties with Israel and raise awareness over the death of Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.
  The protest is part of a nationwide movement across college campuses where pro-Palestinian demonstrators are erecting tent encampments. The UCI students say their encampment will last until the university meets their demands.
  Tuesday mor
  
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• UC Irvine pro-Palestian encampment lasts overnight, demonstrator asked to leave campus by police

  30-04-2024 21:11 via ocregister.com
  
  A few dozen students at UC Irvine stayed overnight at a tent encampment that formed Monday, April 29, on campus, hoping to get the university to cut financial ties with Israel and raise awareness over the death of Palestinian people in the Israel-Hamas war.
  The protest is part of a nationwide movement across college campuses where pro-Palenstian demonstrators are erecting tent encampments. The UCI students say their encampment will last until the university meets their demands.
  Tuesday morning,
  
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• They staffed the Jan. 6 committee. Threats still follow them

  30-04-2024 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Chris Marquette and Michael Macagnone | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
  WASHINGTON — A deep unease trickled through Jacob Glick’s entire body. He had started a virtual deposition of Jim Watkins, the large, scruffy QAnon conspiracy theorist who runs 8kun, a website filled with hateful, racist content that included calls for violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
  Glick, then an investigative counsel for the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack, made the customary introductions of his
  
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• Review: ‘Galilee, 34’ at South Coast Repertory offers a fresh take on the life of Jesus

  30-04-2024 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?”
  In “Galilee, 34” talented playwright Eleanor Burgess channels Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical question but ups the ante from his “Hamilton” lyric to hypothesize about the origins of an even bigger historical biography, aka, “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”
  This superbly written two-act play received its world premiere on South Coast Repertory’s Argyros stage this weekend.
  “Galilee, 34&rdquo
  
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• Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity could alter impeachment

  30-04-2024 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Michael Macagnone | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
  WASHINGTON — How the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity in former President Donald Trump’s effort to jettison his federal charges could have some collateral damage: Congress’ impeachment power.
  At oral arguments in the case Thursday, Trump attorney D. John Sauer told the justices that the nation’s founders decided impeachment was the check on a president’s behavior in office — and not criminal prosecut
  
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• Travel: 9 reasons you won’t recognize Las Vegas on your next trip

  30-04-2024 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune
  LAS VEGAS — The most common refrain you’ll hear from anyone who’s been to Las Vegas — besides “what happens there stays there” — is how it’s nothing like it used to be.
  Vegas has been evolving since the very first pair of dice rolled down a craps table like desert tumbleweed. And it just keeps changing, so much so that it’s virtually impossible for a Vegas experience to repeat itself.
  Just since my visit in Feb
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Niels Hoffmann, Corona del Mar

  30-04-2024 20:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Niels Hoffmann
  School: Corona del Mar
  Sport: Tennis
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: He won the CIF singles championship at the prestigious Ojai Tennis Tournament. Hoffmann, seeded No. 1, beat No. 2-seeded Lorenzo Brunkow of Palisades High 6-1, 6-3 in the final. Corona del Mar won the Griggs Cup team trophy. Hoffmann was last year’s CIF Southern Section singles champion. He will play college tennis at USC.
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• US to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicles in 5 years

  30-04-2024 20:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tom Krisher | The Associated Press
  In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement the government says will save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of injuries every year.
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled the final version of the new regulation on Monday, calling it the most significant safety rule in the past two decades. It’s designed to prevent many
  
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• Will building new California city get on November ballot?

  30-04-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  A wealthy Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has submitted what it says are enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election.
  The campaign submitted more than 20,000 signatures but would need only about 13,000 valid ones to qualify for the ballot. If verified by Solano County’s elections office, voters will decide in the fall whether to allow urban development on land currently zoned for agricultu
  
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• FDA finalizes rule to increase oversight of lab tests

  30-04-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lauren Clason, CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday finalized a rule to regulate most tests developed in a lab, in a move that observers expect will face legal challenges and prompt intervention from Congress.
  The rule effectively reclassifies tests developed and performed in a lab as medical devices for the purposes of FDA regulation. It’s a controversial strategy, but in the wake of the testing debacle during the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA is clea
  
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• How to escape from a money rut

  30-04-2024 20:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
  Sometimes, climbing out of a money rut starts with a pep talk — to yourself.
  “I like affirmations and speaking out loud,” says Giovanna Gonzalez, a financial educator and author of “Cultura & Cash.” Her favorite affirmations are statements like, “I am not a reflection of my money mistakes,” “I can improve my financial situation,” and “My finances are within my control.”
  If you find yourself repe
  
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• What Florida’s new 6-week abortion ban means for the South, and traveling patients

  30-04-2024 20:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times and KFF Health News
  Monica Kelly was thrilled to learn she was expecting her second child.
  The Tennessee mother was around 13 weeks pregnant when, according to a lawsuit filed against the state of Tennessee, doctors gave her the devastating news that her baby had Patau syndrome.
  The genetic disorder causes serious developmental defects and often results in miscarriage, stillbirth, or death within one year of birth. Continuing her pregnancy, do
  
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• DEA will move to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug

  30-04-2024 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By Zeke Miller, Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian and Lindsay Whitehurst | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
  The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of canna
  
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• US home prices up 6.4% in a year, says Case-Shiller index

  30-04-2024 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  US home-price gains accelerated in February, extending a streak of increases that has pushed many would-be buyers to the sidelines.
  Prices nationally climbed 6.4% from a year earlier, an S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index shows. That’s larger than the 6% annual gain in January.
  Purchasing a home is more expensive than ever in many areas of the country after run-ups in both prices and mortgage rates over the past couple of years. While new listings have ticked up recently, giving buyers m
  
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• Analysis: White House went from braggadocious to silent on Middle East intel — in 4 days

  30-04-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett | CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
  WASHINGTON — White House officials remain mum about a purported Israeli counterstrike on Iranian soil, the continuation of a stark message shift about American and allied intelligence capabilities in the Middle East over just a few short days.
  The episode shows how Biden administration officials employed silence at they tried to avoid the outbreak of a broader war. But it also raises questions about transparency at a time U.S. officials continue to be p
  
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• Israel won’t join truce talks until Hamas responds, Kan says

  30-04-2024 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Alisa Odenheimer | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  Israel will consider joining cease-fire talks with Hamas only when the group responds to the latest internationally mediated proposal for a temporary truce and hostage release, state-run Kan News reported.
  Citing an unidentified political official, Kan said the Israeli government is expecting an answer from the Iran-backed group on Wednesday evening. Under the latest terms for a pause in hostilities, Israeli forces have agreed to withdraw from parts of Gaz
  
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• Disneyland fight involving stroller-pushing mom leads to ejection

  30-04-2024 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  A brawl between two groups of women that included a stroller-pushing mom joining the fray before pulling a child to safety turned an otherwise joyful day at Disney California Adventure into a Mommy Fight Club filled with an emotional whirlwind of slaps and screams.
  A fight on April 23 at 5 p.m. in front of the Lamplight Lounge at Disney California Adventure led to the ejection of the Disneyland resort visitor who allegedly instigated the fight.
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• Encino out of the Kentucky Derby, Epic Ride is in

  30-04-2024 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Encino won’t run in the Kentucky Derby this weekend, trainer Brad Cox said Tuesday.
  The colt was a 20-1 shot on the morning-line for the 150th edition on Saturday. Cox didn’t immediately give a reason for the decision. That leaves the trainer with early 8-1 third-choice Catching Freedom and Just a Touch for the 1¼-mile race.
  Epic Ride now joins the 20-horse field. The colt trained by John Ennis is listed as 50-1 on the morning line. Adam Beschizza will
  
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• Cal State Fullerton: Grateful for Delgadillo, who is ‘grateful for the game’

  30-04-2024 19:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The first time Kelly Ford saw Megan Delgadillo on a softball field in person, Delgadillo treated her future coach to a home run. This would stand out like a combination of Halley’s Comet and a unicorn sighting. You’re not going to see many of these, and you’re going to appreciate them for what they are.
  “That certainly made an impression,” Ford said.
  It did — but not for the reasons you’d think. Ford wasn’t recruiting Delgadillo out of Riverside Po
  
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• Kristi Noem’s dog: Political Cartoons

  30-04-2024 19:43 via ocregister.com
  
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