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• ‘Sinners’ makes history, setting Oscars nomination record

  22-01-2026 12:58 via ocregister.com
  By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press Film Writer
  Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences voters showered “Sinnners” with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.&
  
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• Trump’s pick to lead the NSA vows to follow the law if confirmed

  29-01-2026 21:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army general tapped to lead the U.S. National Security Agency assured lawmakers Thursday that he will follow the Constitution and the law when it comes to using the NSA’s powerful surveillance tools.
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• Horse racing notebook: Jockey Cruz Mendez’s friends hope for a ‘miracle’

  29-01-2026 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  This week at Los Alamitos Race Course, all the talk is about the man who isn’t there.
  Cruz Mendez, a much-admired quarter-horse jockey at the Orange County track, remains in a nearby hospital after a fall in a race Saturday night left him with a spinal cord injury and paralysis in his legs.
  Mendez underwent surgery Sunday, and since then friends and friendly rivals have been trying to stay optimistic that the 40-year-old rider’s condition will improve once swelling subsides.
  “H
  
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• Trump’s wide ambitions for Board of Peace spark new support for the United Nations

  29-01-2026 21:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDITH M. LEDERER and FARNOUSH AMIRI
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it to have a larger international mandate beyond the Gaza ceasefire and recommitted their support for the over 80-year-old global institution.
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• Jewelry, art and toy train top list of priciest foreign gifts to Biden and other officials in 2024

  29-01-2026 21:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign leaders and governments presented to former President Joe Biden, his wife, U.S. Cabinet members and other senior officials tens of thousands of dollars in gifts in the last year of the Biden administration, including a $19,000 painting, an $11,000 necklace, a $5,000 bracelet and in one case $15,000 in cash, according to the latest accounting from the State Department.
  The annual report, published Thursday in the Federal Registe
  
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• The No Kings Act: Why federal agents must be accountable under the Constitution

  29-01-2026 20:56 via ocregister.com
  
  This past weekend, the country witnessed yet another senseless killing by a masked federal agent.
  In Minneapolis, ICU nurse Alex Pretti – like elementary school parent and poet Renee Good before him – was trying to protect his neighbors when he was attacked and shot 10 times by federal officers.
  These deaths – and the federal government’s refusal to conduct independent investigations or even share evidence with local authorities – expose a growing and dangerous real
  
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• First Brands founder charged with fraud that wiped out billions

  29-01-2026 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Chris Dolmetsch and David Voreacos | Bloomberg
  First Brands Group founder Patrick James and his brother Edward, a former executive at the company, were indicted in New York following the collapse of the bankrupt auto-parts maker last year.
  The duo engaged in a series of schemes to defraud the company’s lenders and financing partners, according to the federal indictment. The brothers faked and inflated invoices for accounts receivable, double- and triple-pledged loan collateral, falsifie
  
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• Trump’s ICE: Kicking down doors, kicking down the Constitution

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m not yet accustomed to the unprecedented greed, cruelty, and staggering incompetence of the second Trump Administration. But it’s their total disregard for the Constitution and laws of our country that keeps shouting in my ear that I have to speak up. The latest example of this is the Homeland Security memo that instructs ICE officers they have the right to break into homes, to kick down doors and drag the occupants out—as they actually did in Minnesota—to accomplish a
  
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• House Republicans propose voting changes as Trump administration eyes the midterms

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements, including some before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
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• House Republicans propose stricter voting requirements as Trump administration eyes the midterms

  29-01-2026 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
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• FEMA could still support winter storm response in a shutdown, despite administration warnings

  29-01-2026 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency would have enough money to respond to the massive winter storm still impacting large swaths of the U.S. even if a partial government shutdown begins at midnight Friday, experts and former FEMA officials said, despite Trump administration warnings to the contrary.
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• Theater review: ‘The Notebook’ avoids cloying sentimentality in Costa Mesa

  29-01-2026 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  A couple’s passage through courtship, lost and found love and the waning days of marriage in “The Notebook,” newly arrived at the Segerstrom Center for the next 10 days, may be unabashedly sentimental, but emerges as a satisfying journey.
  The source material of Nicholas Sparks’ 1994 original, best-selling novel was followed by the tearjerker 2004 hit movie version with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Both yanked cloyingly hard on the heartstrings.
  Toggling back and forth
  
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• California lawmakers can’t resist writing performative legislation

  29-01-2026 20:30 via ocregister.com
  
  California legislators introduce hundreds of bills during their biennial sessions. While some are serious efforts to address real issues, many are performative — offered to please political constituencies that their authors want to cultivate, align themselves with popular trends, or repay political debts.
  The easiest species of performative legislation are resolutions that express support for some cause. Many hours of taxpayer-financed time are wasted on hearings and debate, even thou
  
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• Cooking with Judy: Chocolates at Valentine’s Day arouse passion for chocolate

  29-01-2026 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  The ancient Aztecs considered it a powerful aphrodisiac. Montezuma, according to legend, consumed large quantities of the stuff to enhance his charms with the ladies.
  We’re talking about chocolate, of course, and with Valentine’s Day around the corner, the chocolatiers will get a workout.
  What is it about chocolate that is so comforting, so intoxicating, so downright addictive? Legend has it that chocolate possesses passion-arousing chemicals. Can this be why a box of chocolate is th
  
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• Didn’t book a $1,500 dinner at Noma? Try these 7 OC restaurants instead

  29-01-2026 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Look, I get it. And I feel for you. You were among the literal tens of thousands of souls who couldn’t land a seat at Noma’s Los Angeles residency, missing the chance to fork over $1,500 to eat fermented forest floor fare in Silver Lake. Reservations vanished in under three minutes after going live on Monday. Alas.
  Hungry? Sign up for The Eat Index, our weekly food newsletter, and find out where to eat and get the latest restaurant happenings in Orange County. Subscribe here.
  But if
  
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• Starbucks sees room to expand with hundreds of new US stores and increased seating

  29-01-2026 19:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks said Thursday that it plans to open hundreds of new stores across the U.S. and add seating capacity at thousands of existing locations, doubling down on a strategy of emphasizing the company’s cafes as community hubs even as consumer demand for drive-thru coffee grows.
  The company unveiled its plans during a presentation in New York for investors. After announcing in September that it would close hundreds of less profitabl
  
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• Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating her

  29-01-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis, according to court papers made public Thursday.
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• Justice Department charges man who squirted vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar

  29-01-2026 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis.
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• How ‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’ explores class and corruption

  29-01-2026 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Daniyal Mueenuddin spent a decade after finishing his 2009 prize-winning short story collection, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” writing a nonfiction book about his mother and “the complicated circumstances surrounding her death and her life.”But he says he never got it quite right, so he put it aside and returned to fiction. 
  The result, “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” has earned rave reviews for the way it captures life in Pakistan across a half-cen
  
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• Anaheim briefs: Learn how to help in an emergency with CERT training

  29-01-2026 19:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The city is hosting Community Emergency Response Team training to help residents be ready for an emergency.
  The idea behind CERT training is that residents learn how to help themselves and their neighbors, so in the event of a disaster, they can help those around them while they wait for first responders.
  Training sessions will be Tuesdays and Thursdays in March, with a graduation and skills assessment on March 28. Participants must attend all the training days.
  The program is free and open to a
  
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• Unemployed donkeys are the key to this 7-hour communal gaming experience

  29-01-2026 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Playing video games is nothing new. Playing video games with other players is pretty common too. But doing it in real life, as a seven-hour group experience that’s meant to be a theatrical endurance game, well, that’s where the unemployed donkeys trot in.
  Asses.masses, a long-running theatrical video game project that lets audiences use a single controller to play the game as a collective, is coming to CAP UCLA’s Nimoy Theater on Feb. 7 when about 300 people will gather to play
  
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• Rocket Cos. accused of mortgage steering

  29-01-2026 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By Alexis Weisend | The Seattle Times
  Rocket Cos., which acquired Seattle-based Redfin last year, allegedly pressured agents to steer buyers toward its loans — even if the loan terms were unfavorable for their clients, a lawsuit claims.
  In the lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, three homeowners from Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania accuse the Detroit-based homeownership services company of scheming to funnel homebuyers into its mor
  
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• A new California law requires deed notifications to combat property fraud

  29-01-2026 18:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Why would someone want to steal your property title?
  The answer is simple: financial gain.
  Someone with a stolen title might attempt to take a loan out against your property or even sell the home and collect the cash. Or the thief might pose as a landlord, attempting to get unsuspecting renters to cough up rent and a month of security deposit.
  Also see: Has California housing become a buyer’s market?
  Title theft or fraud can threaten an owner’s actual ownership of property and t
  
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• Here’s when you’ll get your tax refund from the IRS

  29-01-2026 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tax filing season is underway, and the IRS expects 164 million people will file returns by April 15.
  The average refund last year was $3,167. This year, analysts have projected it could be $1,000 higher, thanks to changes in tax law. More than 165 million individual income tax returns were processed last year, with 94% submitted electronically.
  People with straightforward returns should not encounter delays, but because of an exodus of IRS wo
  
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• Trump says he asked Putin not to target Kyiv for 1 week during brutal cold spell

  29-01-2026 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By AAMER MADHANI and SUSIE BLANN
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to target the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv for one week as the region experiences frigid temperatures.
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• Drummond: PYLUSD’s new opt-out policy for personal beliefs, experiences takes effect

  29-01-2026 18:28 via ocregister.com
  A new policy allowing parents and guardians to opt out of instruction, an assignment or activity that might adversely impact “deeply held personal beliefs or personal experiences” took effect this month in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.
  The policy adds another dimension to a previously adopted policy allowing exemptions for religious reasons.
  The district’s trustees approved a first reading of the policy in November and a second reading in December, both on
  
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• Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission given repreive by council considering changes to its authority

  29-01-2026 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The Santa Ana City Council, which has been considering revising its Police Oversight Commission’s purview, will give the group that got off to a slow start some time to settle into its role before any major changes are discussed.
  Though the commission was established in 2022, it took a while for the council to appoint its members and to staff its director position. Commissioners only recently began carrying out key duties after significant setbacks.
  “Let’s see what the commissi
  
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• Israel returns Palestinian bodies, official says, marking last exchange between Israel and Hamas

  29-01-2026 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and TOQA EZZIDIN
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Thursday, just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage, a Gaza Health Ministry official said.
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• One of snowboarding’s most valuable skills is also one of its most underappreciated

  29-01-2026 18:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By EDDIE PELLS, Associated Press National Writer
  In Shaun White’s early days riding snowboards, the sport was so new that his mom was still getting the hang of things after a lifetime of skiing.
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• Some blind fans to experience Super Bowl with tactile device that tracks ball

  29-01-2026 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer
  Some blind and low-vision fans will have unprecedented access to the Super Bowl thanks to a tactile device that tracks the ball, vibrates on key plays and provides real-time audio.
  The NFL teamed up with OneCourt and Ticketmaster to pilot the game-enhancing experience 15 times during the regular-season during games hosted by the Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons and Minnesota Vikings.
  About 10 blind and low-vision fans wi
  
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