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• Politicians draw heat for ‘evolving’ without explaining

  17-08-2017 09:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Not too long ago, people could walk into a diner and order the “blue plate special” — a low-priced, standardized meal with “all the fixin’s” for “two bits.”
  But over time this fad wore off. You may like the meatloaf and have zero interest in the baked potato. Or be in love with the cherry pie, but turn your nose up at the dinner salad. And let’s be honest, everyone hates the broccoli.
  Now, we prefer to pick and choose menu items tailored to
  
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• USC men embracing change ahead of matchup with No. 5 Purdue

  16-01-2026 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC men’s basketball team looks slightly different on each game day. It’s not haphazard changes, head coach Eric Musselman said, but rather intentional choices when it comes to starting lineups and playing time.
  “We’re constantly reinventing ourselves,” Musselman told reporters after beating Maryland on Tuesday. Every game has a different identity. Just because someone has a great game tonight doesn’t mean that their role is going to be the same against Pu
  
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• 3rd suspect arrested in assumed murder of man tied to secretive Redlands church

  16-01-2026 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Redlands police this week arrested a third leader of a secretive Hemet-based religious order in connection with the disappearance of a Tennessee man who was an ex-congregant and last known to be seen at a Starbucks in Redlands in 2023.
  Ramon Ruiz Duran Jr., 44, was arrested on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, both for the missing man, Redlands police said.
  He was apprehended in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, Jan. 12,  and waived extradition to California. He was booked
  
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• Rams kicker Harrison Mevis will feel at home in Chicago weather

  16-01-2026 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Growing up in Northern Indiana, Harrison Mevis used to shovel snow off his high school’s field to practice his field goals. So as the Rams prepare to face wintery and blustery conditions in the divisional round against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field — a mere 90 minute drive from Mevis’s hometown in Warsaw, Indiana — the kicker is nonplussed about the weather report.
  “Right back at home,” Mevis said. “I’ve kinda been in that
  
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• National Guard troops to stay on Washington, DC, streets through 2026

  16-01-2026 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
  The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said “the conditions of the mission” warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.”
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• Republicans vouch for Fed chair, creating a rare schism with Trump

  16-01-2026 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
  As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including Justice Department subpoenas and the threat of criminal charges — Senate Republicans have c
  
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• Alexander: The ‘villainy’ continues in Chavez Ravine

  16-01-2026 22:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Cue the whining. Again.
  The fan bases of 29 other teams are mad, their anger directed at Baseball’s Villains, and that should sound familiar. Once the news broke Thursday night of the Dodgers’ signing of free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker – a transaction that will become official once the club makes a corresponding move to free a spot on their 40-man roster – the “they’re ruining baseball” crowd went into overdrive.
  With one additional twist. Now, if you
  
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• FACT FOCUS: Former Proud Boys leader falsely identified as an ICE officer

  16-01-2026 22:08 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELISSA GOLDIN, Associated Press
  As protests continue in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working for the federal agency.
  President Donald Trump pardoned Tarrio in a sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison sentence
  
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• Duran Duran, The Offspring and James Taylor set to headline 2026 BeachLife Festival

  16-01-2026 22:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Redondo Beach will once again be hit with a tidal wave of music as the BeachLife Festival returns with a nod to the ’80s, a touch of punk and some nostalgic rock.
  Festival organizers for the May 1-3 event at Seaside Lagoon, which is expected to attract more than 30,000 people, announced the lineup on Friday, Jan. 16 and it includes headliners Duran Duran on day one, The Offspring on May 2 and James Taylor and His All-Star Band closing it out on May 3.
  “BeachLife’s grateful for
  
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• Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users

  16-01-2026 21:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.
  The case involves what is a known as a “geofence warrant” that was served on Google in a police hunt for a bank robber in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Geofence warrants, an increasingly popular investigative tool, seek location data on every person withi
  
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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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