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• Ping, ping ping. Here’s what it’s like to drive into a big hailstorm in the name of science

  13-06-2025 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN, BRITTANY PETERSON and CAROLYN KASTER
  INSIDE A TEXAS HAILSTORM (AP) — Wind roared against the SUV’s windows as its tires sloshed through water dumped onto the road by the downpour. A horizon-wide funnel cloud loomed out the window, several miles away. Then came the loud metallic pings on the roof. First one, then another. Then it was too fast to count and too loud to hear much of anything else.
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• Justice Department faces deadline to release files on Epstein sex trafficking investigation

  19-12-2025 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
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• The Kennedy Center starts work to add Trump’s name onto the building

  19-12-2025 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center started the work of adding Donald Trump’s name to the building on Friday, a day after the president’s handpicked board voted to do so.
  Several blue tarps were hung in front of the institution early Friday to block views of the work underway. A large letter D was seen on the exterior before the final tarps went up, along with workers on scaffolding at the center, which was named for John F. Kennedy, a Democratic presiden
  
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• Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US

  19-12-2025 17:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELLIOT SPAGAT and HALLIE GOLDEN
  President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
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• Lazerson’s 2026 mortgage and housing predictions

  19-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  High inflation and a weak job market will be the big storyline in 2026.
  Mortgage-minded consumers buying and refinancing will be the big winners as rates are going to dip into the 5% range.
  Those are my big predictions. Come and see what else my crystal ball says.
  1) Freddie Mac mortgage rates are going to average 5.5% while local rates will average 5%. Local rates are always lower than national rates by about one-half to three-quarters percent because the California loan sizes are larger (
  
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• HOA Homefront: Questions on board candidate nominations

  19-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: A careful reading of the election statutes indicates non-members still have ways to be HOA Board directors and HOA officers. Section 5100(g)(3) says “An association shall disqualify a person from nomination as a candidate if the person is not a member of the association at the time of the nomination.” I wonder about write-ins or appointments. — B.D., San Diego
  A: Civil Code Section 5105(f) says that if nominees are disqualified that directors must be held to the same standar
  
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• No, pedestrians can’t just step into the roadway without breaking the law

  19-12-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: A TV station had a story about the Los Angeles Police Department’s traffic-enforcement division having undercover officers or other decoys walk across the street with a gaggle of motorcycle officers hiding nearby. The motorists who did not stop for the jaywalkers were descended upon by the motorcycle cops, like a nest of hornets. Since when did jaywalkers have the right of way? Or is this another “only-in-L.A.” story?
  – Kioren Moss, Ventura
  A: In 2023, a new state law
  
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• Rep. Ted Lieu, co-chair of House Democrats’ new AI commission, discusses government’s role in burgeoning industry

  19-12-2025 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Back in early 2023, Rep. Ted Lieu wanted to make a point about the powerful capabilities of artificial intelligence and how Congress should regulate the rapidly developing technology.
  So the Los Angeles County Democrat introduced legislation expressing support for Congress to tackle the issue: a resolution written entirely by ChatGPT. It was the first time a piece of federal legislation had been written by AI.
  Later that year, TIME named Lieu one of its 100 most influential people in AI for
  
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• These were the 13 largest wildfires in LA, OC, SB and Riverside counties in 2025

  19-12-2025 16:35 via ocregister.com
  
  2025 began with a series of raging fires in Los Angeles, which decimated neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, killing more than 30 people. The burn zones remain in the rebuilding process, an arduous and lengthy undertaking nearly a year later.
  After the devastation from the Palisades and Eaton fires, though, the rest of 2025 was quite the opposite in terms of damage from wildfires across Southern California, fire officials said.
  “Overall this year, if you take away the deva
  
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• When it comes to herbal shrubs, common myrtle is close to perfection

  19-12-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Here are five things to work on in the garden this week:
  Vegetables. An easily memorized rhyme concerning crop rotation in the vegetable garden goes like this: “beans, roots, greens, fruits.” The idea here is to plant a leguminous crop, such as bean,s that enriches the soil with nitrogen, followed by a light-feeding root crop such as carrots, to be followed by greens (lettuce or cabbage) that will pull a little more nitrogen out of the soil, and then finally to plant a heavy-feeding
  
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• Tanning bed users have nearly twice as much damage to skin cells, Northwestern study finds

  19-12-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Though tanning may be far from the minds of chilly Illinois residents at the moment, a new study out of Northwestern Medicine is highlighting the risks of tanning beds, and showing how they can lead to skin cancer.
  Not only is the use of tanning beds associated with nearly triple the risk of developing melanoma, but heavy users of tanning beds also had more damage to the DNA of their skin cells, according to the study published Friday in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.
  Dr. Pedram Ger
  
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• Silly stocking stuffer ideas from the Nerds

  19-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Giving gifts gets expensive, amiright?
  A new NerdWallet survey finds that 82% of Americans plan to purchase gifts this holiday season. And 65% of these holiday shoppers are concerned about tariffs impacting their holiday gift shopping this year.
  One solution? Fewer pricey presents, more affordable ones, some that’ll garner a laugh. For this list, we’re thinking outside the sock. Get it?
  Prices are current at the time of this writing, but you know the holidays. Things could get cheape
  
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• Drug-war chest-pounding will cost lives, erode our liberties

  19-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: “America’s public enemy number one … is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive. … This will be a worldwide offensive dealing with the problems of sources of supply.”
  The war has ebbed and flowed over the past 54 years, but the results are clear. Drugs won. But instead of
  
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• Endangered steelhead trout have a safe haven in a Huntington Beach classroom

  19-12-2025 15:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California steelhead trout will soon find a safe haven to survive and thrive in a Huntington Beach high school.
  When a fire, flood or other natural disaster hits, the endangered trout will be collected and transported to Edison High School until their habitat is safe to return to, housed in two 500-gallon holding tanks for safekeeping.
  School officials, teachers and students, as well as representatives from the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Califor
  
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• Southern California house hunters continue to balk at high prices

  19-12-2025 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California’s homebuying chill continues.
  Across the six-county region, October had 15,281 closed sales of houses and condos, both existing residences and newly constructed, according to real estate tracker Attom. It was the fifth-slowest October in 21 years.
  This broad measure of local homebuying activity is up a slim 0.2% in a year, but it’s still 23% below the month’s average since 2005.
  House hunters may be modestly encouraged by mortgage rates off their recent peak
  
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• From Vietnam to Gaza: Why I’m cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act

  19-12-2025 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I was born in California the year my refugee parents came to this country from Vietnam. After years of brutal war, my parents and sisters were forced to flee the only home they had ever known. A home, a country and a nation; their Vietnam that they will never be free to return to.
  They were lucky; they made a new life in America. But hundreds of thousands of people, including my father’s first wife and four of their children, lost their lives attempting to flee a war-torn country seized by
  
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• Dense fog advisory affecting Orange County Coast and Orange County until Friday morning – limited visibility

  19-12-2025 10:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Coast and Orange County are the focus of a dense fog advisory issued at 1 a.m. on Friday by the National Weather Service. The advisory is valid between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA adds to be ready for, “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog.”
  “Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous,” the NWS said. “If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.”Navigating fog: Safety t
  
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• Heading into 2026, Democrats are on the brink of success – and self-sabotage

  19-12-2025 08:38 via ocregister.com
  
  After a victorious November, Democrats appear set to see a blue wave come 2026.
  Historical trends are on their side – the party in power almost always loses sets in the midterm – they lead generic Congressional polling by 3-points per RealClearPolitics’ average, and they’ve had a string of off-year wins across the country.
  Yet while Democrats’ momentum heading into a crucial midterm year seems intact, there is the very real risk that they shoot themselves in the foo
  
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• Rams WR Puka Nacua doubles down on officiating criticism after loss to Seahawks

  19-12-2025 08:29 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — In the minutes after the Rams’ 38-37 overtime loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night, Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua took to X (formerly Twitter) to lambast the officiating in the game, doubling down on the criticism he made about officials on a controversial live stream this week.
  “Can you say i [sic] was wrong. Appreciate you stripes for your contribution,” Nacua wrote on X before later deleting the post.
  In an appearance on a livestream hosted by inter
  
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• Orange County’s new football leagues are set for 2026 and 2027 seasons

  19-12-2025 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County Football Conference has released the county’s leagues for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
  The football-only leagues are based on the HSratings.com power ratings from the past two seasons.
  Besides the power ratings moving teams to new league, there are other changes made by the conference.
  The top-rated Alpha League has expanded into a six-team group from four. The Tango League is now ho
  
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• Orange County’s football leagues are set for 2026 and 2027 seasons

  19-12-2025 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County Football Conference has released the county’s leagues for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
  The football-only leagues are based on the HSratings.com power ratings from the past two seasons.
  Besides the power ratings moving teams to new leagues, there are other changes made by the conference.
  The top-rated Alpha League has expanded into a six-team group from four. The Tango League will hav
  
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• Sonora girls soccer knocks off La Habra in wild game between rivals

  19-12-2025 07:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LA HABRA — Every serious rivalry needs a trophy.
  For the La Habra and Sonora girls soccer teams, that trophy is a bronzed soccer shoe attached to a wooden pedestal called “The Cleat.”
  After Sonora defeated the Highlanders, 3-2, in a nonleague match at La Habra High School on Thursday, the trophy belongs to the Raiders for the first time in four years.
  A goal by Zoey Gutierrez in the 70th minute on a free kick that went directly into the goal from 40 yards out proved to be the g
  
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• Long Beach State men hold off Pepperdine with crucial defensive play

  19-12-2025 07:01 via ocregister.com
  
  LONG BEACH — The Long Beach State men’s basketball team came out on the right side of a close game on Thursday night, holding on to defeat visiting Pepperdine, 81-78, at the Pyramid.
  LBSU led by one point when a pull-up jumper by Long Beach freshman Gavin Sykes rolled off the rim with 15 seconds left.
  Javon Cooley grabbed the rebound for Pepperdine and tried to go end-to-end, but Shaquil Bender elevated and blocked his layup attempt. Rob Diaz III grabbed the loose ball for LBSU and w
  
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• Luka Doncic’s 45-point triple-double leads Lakers past Jazz

  19-12-2025 06:31 via ocregister.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Lakers’ biggest area of improvement hasn’t been a secret.
  From Coach JJ Redick to star guard Luka Doncic, multiple members of the team openly spoke about the need for collective improvement on the defensive end of the court since their home loss to the San Antonio Spurs last week. They also acknowledged that Sunday’s road win against the Phoenix Suns was a step in the right direction, but more progress was needed.
  And even though significant chunks of
  
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• Rams lose to Seahawks in OT thriller, fall out of 1st place in NFC West

  19-12-2025 06:12 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — After 15 weeks and ultimately 67 minutes spent neck-and-neck on Thursday night, the fate of the NFC West came down to a two-point play in overtime. Hold, and the Rams would have the inside track to the top seed for the NFC playoffs. Fail, and the Seahawks would take control of the conference and the division.
  Sam Darnold’s throw just cleared Kobie Turner’s fingers. Tight end Eric Saubert slipped open and caught the ball in the end zone to secure a 38-37 Seattle v
  
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• Rams can’t hold late lead, fall to Seahawks in OT in NFC West showdown

  19-12-2025 06:12 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — After 15 weeks and ultimately 67 minutes spent neck-and-neck on Thursday night, the fate of the NFC West came down to a two-point play in overtime. Hold, and the Rams would have the inside track to the top seed for the NFC playoffs. Fail, and the Seahawks would take control of the conference and the division.
  Sam Darnold’s throw just cleared Kobie Turner’s fingers. Tight end Eric Saubert slipped open, and caught the ball in the end zone to secure a 38-37 Seattle
  
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• Londynn Jones has career-best night as USC women crush Cal Poly

  19-12-2025 06:05 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The No. 19 USC women’s basketball team bounced back from its loss to No. 1 UConn in a big way by dominating Cal Poly, 86-39, on Thursday night.
  Londynn Jones came off the bench to score a career-high 28 points for USC (8-3 overall, 2-0 Big Ten). She shot 11 for 16 from the field and 5 for 8 from 3-point range and tacked on four steals.
  “I get shots up with Coach Nikki (Blue) after every practice,” Jones said after the game. “I have my trainer come up s
  
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• Air quality alert affecting Orange County until early Saturday

  19-12-2025 05:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County Coast, Orange County, San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys, Riverside County Mountains and San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning are under an air quality alert which was reported by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 8:17 p.m. The alert is in effect until Saturday Dec. 20, at 12:15 a.m.
  The NWS San Diego CA states to prepare for, “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 w
  
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• Sloppy, Harden-less Clippers are no match for rested Thunder

  19-12-2025 04:56 via ocregister.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — This one was going to be a considerable challenge even with James Harden.
  Without the former league MVP, the struggling Clippers got run over by the defending champs.
  Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points before resting in the fourth quarter, and the Oklahoma City Thunder bounced back from a rare loss to beat the Clippers, 122-101, on Thursday night.
  The Thunder lost to the San Antonio Spurs last Saturday for just their second defeat of the season, ending their team-reco
  
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• Adrian Kempe scores twice as Kings edge Lightning to snap 4-game skid

  19-12-2025 04:30 via ocregister.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. — The goal-starved Kings ended their three-game trip on a high note.
  Adrian Kempe scored twice in the second period, and the Kings rallied from a one-goal deficit to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1, on Thursday night.
  Anton Forsberg, in goal for the second night in a row, stopped 31 shots to help the Kings snap a four-game skid (0-2-2) and get just their third win in the past nine games (3-4-2). They improved to 11-4-5 on the road this season.
  Oliver Bjorkstrand scored for th
  
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