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• Rams schedule release video full of L.A. Easter eggs

  16-05-2024 02:09 via ocregister.com
  
  The Rams released an animated video alongside their 2024 regular-season schedule on Wednesday, making several allusions to Los Angeles culture to celebrate the coming season.
  The video, developed by director Aaron Rolo, opens with the likenesses of six Rams — Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, Kobie Turner and Byron Young — standing in a circle similar to the album artwork for N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton as late Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle&
  
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• Disneyland president remembers ‘kind’ and ‘gentle’ employee killed in backstage accident

  11-06-2024 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  Club 33 manager Bonnye Lear is being remembered by her fellow Disneyland employees as a kind, gentle and caring person who was thoughtful, graceful and full of joy.
  Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock sent a letter to employees on Monday, June 10 sharing the “heartbreaking” news of the death of Lear, who was killed last week in a tragic accident at the Anaheim theme park.
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• Mark Wahlberg officially opens Flecha, his new Huntington Beach restaurant

  11-06-2024 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Actor-turned-restaurateur Mark Wahlberg appeared at the grand opening of Flecha, his nearly 10,000-square-foot Mexican-American restaurant in Huntington Beach, on Saturday, June 8.
  Guests were treated to a gratis selection of menu items, cocktails, cigars and music. Wahlberg worked behind to bar to mix cocktails for thirsty guests and talk about his new culinary venture. A birthday cake was also given to the big boss to celebrate his June 5 birthday.
  The grand opening celebration included a bles
  
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• US captain Tyler Adams to have limited role against Brazil

  11-06-2024 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. captain Tyler Adams will be available in a limited role for the Americans’ friendly game against Brazil on Wednesday night but forward Josh Sargent will miss his second straight match ahead of the Copa America.
  Adams, a 25-year-old defensive midfielder, played just one club match from March 2023 until this past March 13 because of a torn right hamstring that needed surgery. After returning to play two matches for Bournemouth in March, the midfielder was limited b
  
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• Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh raves about ‘incredible’ Justin Herbert

  11-06-2024 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  COSTA MESA — It was one thing to watch Justin Herbert throwing spirals on TV on a Sunday afternoon at home or while reviewing video miles and days or weeks or months removed from the action. But it was quite another thing to observe the Chargers’ strong-armed quarterback up close and personal.
  Stronger.
  Faster.
  Bigger.
  Those were Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh’s initial impressions of Herbert through organized team activities and into a three-day, mandatory minicamp that began Tue
  
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• Nearly 80% of Americans are concerned about the spread of ‘disinformation’ — with Black people among the most targeted

  11-06-2024 20:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Alfred Lubrano | The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
  Jun. 10—Nearly 80% of Americans (79%) say that what they read online can contain “false or fake” information that’s deliberately disseminated “to confuse” — with people of color the most targeted, according to a new poll.
  Recently released by Free Press, a media watchdog organization, the poll of 3,000 people nationwide also found that 76% of respondents expressed concern that they were reading disinf
  
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• Another COVID vaccine? Yes, and here’s why

  11-06-2024 20:49 via ocregister.com
  
  This fall, prepare for the latest round of COVID vaccine Whac-a-Mole.  Like the old arcade game, no matter how many shots we get, the enemy always pops back up.
  But here’s why the new shot, recommended by FDA advisers last week, makes sense: It targets a new version of the virus, the FDA panel said. It bolsters your body’s ever-growing defense system.  And it’s a lot better than getting very sick or hospitalized.
  Last year’s shot isn’t holding up. Protecti
  
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• Ron Paul: Anti-liberty conservatives want more theft

  11-06-2024 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases. The organization claims a GOP embrace of higher taxes will enable the uniparty’s left (Democratic) and right (Republican) wings to create a deficit reduction plan balancing tax increase with spending cuts.
  American Compass is correct that both parties need to prioritize deficit reduction. The $35 trillion (and rising) nation
  
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• Ex-USC linebacker to plead guilty in $1M COVID benefits scheme, other players allegedly involved

  11-06-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Former USC linebacker Abdul-Malik McClain has agreed to plead guilty next week to federal charges alleging he orchestrated a scheme that fraudulently sought more than $1 million in COVID-related unemployment benefits, according to court papers obtained today.
  McClain, 24, who played high school football for JSerra in Orange County, will enter his plea Monday in downtown Los Angeles to one count of felony mail fraud, his plea agreement filed last week states.
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• Costly US sugar tariffs drive candy makers over the border to Canada

  11-06-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  Ilena Peng | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  Last fall, Hershey Co. repurchased a factory outside Ottawa that it closed more than a decade earlier. Blommer Chocolate Co., a U.S. rival, is expanding in Ontario while it shutters an 85-year-old Chicago plant. Oreo-maker Mondelez International Inc. says it has invested $250 million in Ontario manufacturing facilities just in the last few years.
  Although Canada ​​​​is far too cold to grow enough sugar for its candy industry, it has manag
  
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• US has first case of sexually transmitted ringworm

  11-06-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Hunter Boyce | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
  ATLANTA — A rare fungus recently caused the first-ever U.S. case of sexually transmitted ringworm. Reported in JAMA Dermatology on Wednesday, a new study helmed by doctors from NYU Langone Health revealed the case involved a New York City man in his 30s.
  The unnamed man had sex with multiple men in multiple countries during a recent trip, NBC News reported. Returning home after visiting England, Greece
  
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• College World Series, with only SEC and ACC teams, might portend the future

  11-06-2024 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. — The College World Series begins this week and only two conferences will be represented on the game’s biggest stage for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950.
  The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference each are sending four teams, the SEC for the fourth time since 2015 and seventh overall and the ACC for the first time since 2006.
  Their exclusivity this year hints at an even greater concentration of power in the sport as college at
  
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• Amazon is tinkering with grocery business. Some are unsure it’s working

  11-06-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Lauren Rosenblatt | The Seattle Times (TNS)
  When Amazon introduced its cashierless checkout system — aptly called Just Walk Out — the tech was seen as the latest prong in Amazon’s mission to transform brick-and-mortar stores and become a dominant competitor in the grocery industry.
  Roughly seven years later, Amazon is taking that technology out of its grocery stores, and the revolution it had hoped to bring has yet to materialize.
  Amazon says it is still committe
  
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• Older worker accuses RTX, formerly Raytheon, of discriminating in job ads

  11-06-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michael Casey | The Associated Press
  Defense contractor RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corp., was sued Tuesday over allegations that it discriminated against older workers in job ads.
  The lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston accuses RTX of posting ads that target younger workers at the expense of their older peers in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act, and the Virginia Human Rights Act.
  The lawsuit alleges th
  
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• California gig worker law AB 5 withstands challenge from Uber

  11-06-2024 19:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMatters
  Uber lost its long-running attempt to overturn a California law that would require it to provide employment rights to its drivers and delivery workers.
  The ruling on Monday, June 10 by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could have major implications — depending what the state Supreme Court decides in a separate but related case.
  Uber and Postmates, a food-delivery platform Uber now owns, alleged that Assembly Bill 5 violated their rights under the Equal P
  
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• Supreme Court justices Alito and Roberts discuss politically sensitive topics in secret recordings

  11-06-2024 19:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By Devan Cole | CNN
  A left-wing activist on Monday released secret recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, as well as Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing a range of politically sensitive topics.
  In conversation with the activist, who represented herself as a religious conservative and did not disclose in the recordings she released that she was producing them and would make them public, Justice Alito endorses her suggestion that “peop
  
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• ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

  11-06-2024 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s not 1968.
  But after anti-war, pro-Palestinian demonstrations roiled college campuses this spring and led to clashes between protesters and police, the specter of the chaos surrounding that summer’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago looms as the party returns in August to mark the renomination of President Joe Biden.
  To be sure, the landscape is vastly different than it was in the late 1960s, even amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right. Ne
  
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• Child safety advocates disrupt Apple developers conference

  11-06-2024 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  CUPERTINO — Around 35 protesters gathered at Apple headquarters Monday morning during the company’s annual global developers conference demanding the tech giant add a system to remove child sexual abuse content on iCloud — a venture Apple previously abandoned due to concerns over user privacy.
  iCloud is a storage service that allows users to store and sync data across their devices, keeping information including photos, files, backups, passwords secure. The protesters — c
  
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• Key Bridge collapse: Baltimore shipping channel fully reopens after more than 2 months

  11-06-2024 19:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel, in its entirety, opened for business as of Monday evening.
  The navigable waterway had been at least partially blocked since March 26, when the 984-foot container ship Dali lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s support piers, knocking it over and killing six men who were filling potholes on the span. The ship itself was lodged in the channel for nearly two months, in addition to 50,000 tons of debris from the bridge
  
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• Frank Carroll, renowned figure skating coach, dies at 85

  11-06-2024 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Longtime figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who over the course of a 60-year career helped guide six Olympic medalists at 10 Winter Games, including Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, died Sunday. He was 85.
  U.S. Figure Skating, with whom Carroll worked closely for decades, announced his death. It said Carroll died Sunday “after a battle with cancer.”
  “Frank was everything I could have hoped for in a coach and more,” Kwan said in a post on social media. “He was never
  
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• Anaheim celebrates the red, white and blue ahead of Flag Day

  11-06-2024 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Raul Montano waves to the crowd at the 29th annual Anaheim Flag Day celebration and parade which was held on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Kay Carpenter of Anaheim wears a patriotic shirt as she walks through an area of large flags at the 29th annual Anaheim Flag Day celebration and parade which was held on Sunday, June 9, 2024. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer)
  Elsie the beagle is dressed as a hot dog at the 29th annual Anaheim Fla
  
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• Biden and gun control advocates want to flip an issue long dominated by the NRA

  11-06-2024 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW (Associated Press)
  ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and other public places, in addition to the nation’s daily gun violence.
  Now, gun control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hard-line positions of the gun lobby and their most influential champion, former President Donald Trump. They also point to controv
  
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• KTLA5’s Sam Rubin named posthumous winner of LA Area Emmy Governors Award

  11-06-2024 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The late KTLA5 entertainment reporter Sam Rubin has been named the posthumous recipient of the 76th Los Angeles Area Emmy Governors Award, the Television Academy announced Tuesday.
  The award, which is presented to an individual, company or organization that has made an outstanding, innovative and visionary achievement in the arts, sciences or management of television as well as a substantial contribution to the greater Los Angeles area, recognizes Rubin’s legacy of more than three decades
  
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• This new play imagines what would happen if Trump flees from the law after his felony convictions

  11-06-2024 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  When Emmy-winning TV writer Christian McLaughlin first came up with the idea for his latest play back in 2017, he knew the concept was a bit out there.
  He thought it would be pretty funny to write a play about a power-mad former president who decides to flee prosecution for multiple crimes along with his dysfunctional family. He knew it was a bit absurd back then, but now, well, considering former President Donald Trump’s recent legal woes, that’s not so far-fetched anymore.
  “W
  
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• Alexander: Sparks duo navigating WNBA’s challenging rookie path

  11-06-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — It is not easy to be a WNBA rookie.
  Fact is, it’s not easy to become a WNBA rookie. In April’s draft, 36 players were selected. Twelve of them are currently on the league’s rosters, and familiar players such as UCLA’s Charisma Osborne and USC’s McKenzie Forbes and Kaitlyn Davis did not make their respective teams.
  Of those who did make it? Well, set aside Indiana’s Caitlin Clark, the No. 1 pick and the player seemingly everyone is talk
  
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• Hunter Biden convicted on all charges in gun trial

  11-06-2024 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Jurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial in Delaware reached a verdict after about three hours of deliberations and found him guilty on all charges.
  President Joe Biden’s son is accused of lying when he swore he wasn’t a drug user in order to buy a gun in 2018.
  Hunter Biden faced three felony charges over the gun he had for 11 days before his brother’s widow found it in his truck and threw it in the trash.
  This story is developing. Check back for updates.
  
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• Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 federal charges in gun trial

  11-06-2024 17:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By RANDALL CHASE, CLAUDIA LAUER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
  Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a
  
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• UN says Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes in a deadly raid

  11-06-2024 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By JAMEY KEATEN (Associated Press)
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians.
  Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations of rules of proportionality, distinction and precaution by the Israeli forces in Saturday’s raid at the urban Nusei
  
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• Are black and white California license plates legal?

  11-06-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Yvonne Murphy of Corona said she has noticed several black and white California license plates on vehicles on the roads recently, but she was not able to find them posted anywhere on the Department of Motor Vehicles website. “Are they a legal plate?” she asked.
  A: The DMV does not currently produce a license plate that is black and white. So, there are a couple of possibilities here. First, Murphy may be referring to digital license plates, DMV spokesperson Katarina Snow said. &ld
  
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• Antonio Villaraigosa kicks the tires

  11-06-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Even though the next California gubernatorial election is two years away, the campaign to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom is well underway. The list of announced and potential candidates is a who’s-who of Golden State politics.
  Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, former state Senate leader Toni Atkin and former Controller Betty Yee are among the Democrats who have already announced their plans to run.
  Attorney General Rob Bonta and former state At
  
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