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• Starbucks to pay about $35M to NYC workers to settle claims it violated labor law

  01-12-2025 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday.
  The company will also pay $3.4 million in civil penalties under the agreement with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. It also agrees to comply with the city’s Fair Workweek law going forward.
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• Woman sentenced to 4 years in prison for blackmailing soccer star Son Heung-min

  08-12-2025 18:33 via ocregister.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for blackmailing soccer star Son Heung-min, a South Korean court said Monday.
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• Thailand launches airstrikes along border with Cambodia as tensions reignite

  08-12-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI and SOPHENG CHEANG
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as both sides accused the other of breaking a ceasefire that halted fighting earlier this year.
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• Bloomberg expands his support of mayors globally to help save democracy. And improve trash pickup

  08-12-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By GLENN GAMBOA
  Michael R. Bloomberg has believed mayors have plenty to teach each other since he was mayor of New York City and supported the effort to share good municipal ideas through his nonprofit Bloomberg Philanthropies since he left office in 2013.
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• UN Palestinian aid agency says Israeli police ‘forcibly entered’ its Jerusalem compound

  08-12-2025 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEGAN JANETSKY and JULIA FRANKEL, Associated Press
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police forcibly entered the compound of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem early Monday, escalating a campaign against the organization that has been banned from operating on Israeli territory.
  The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, said in a statement that “sizable numbers” of Israeli forces, including police on motorcycles, trucks and
  
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• Where you can watch a free holiday boat parade in Southern California

  08-12-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  What would the Southern California holidays be without our annual free-to-watch boat parades? Head out to enjoy the colorful, free, festive atmosphere that always include lighted-up boats — and often costumes, music and more.
  Just get there early, because they’re justly popular, expect to hunt for parking (or bike or Uber), and dress warmly. It’s colder than you think. A thermos of hot beverages would not be unwelcome. And, if you just won the lottery, reserve a table by the wa
  
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• The European Union moves ahead with toughening its migration system

  08-12-2025 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM McNEIL
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials on Monday were finalizing a major overhaul of its migration system, including streamlined deportations and increased detentions, after years of fierce debate on the issue has seen the rise of far-right political parties.
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• Meet Bob Chesney, UCLA football’s new ‘ultimate type of competitor’

  08-12-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Salve Regina, a small Division III university of just under 3,000 students, accomplished a feat that had felt unthinkable in the years before Bob Chesney arrived.
  Eight consecutive losing seasons. Little hope. Chesney turned the page. Salve Regina finished 2010 with a 6-4 record, and Chesney, then 34, was hunting for a new offensive coordinator.
  Kevin Gilmartin, fit in a suit and tie, sat at a meager circular table in the office that’s now his own and stared at Chesney, who was at his firs
  
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• The Supreme Court weighs Trump’s bid to fire independent agency board members

  08-12-2025 17:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s push to expand control over independent federal agencies comes before a sympathetic Supreme Court that could overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.
  Lawyers for the administration are defending President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter without cause and calling on the court to jettison the unanimous 1935 decision in Humphrey&rsq
  
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• In ‘Dust Bunny,’ Mads Mikkelsen hunts the monster under a little girl’s bed

  08-12-2025 17:25 via ocregister.com
  
  In “Dust Bunny,” an imaginative 10-year-old named Aurora is terrified of the monster under her bed. It’s real to her, and when her parents vanish one night and their bedroom is torn to pieces, she’s sure it’s coming for her next.
  But Aurora, played by Sophia Sloan, has a whole lot of moxie, too.
  After following her mysterious, melancholy neighbor, played by Mads Mikkelsen, into Chinatown one night – and spying him take down a team of assassins who approach him
  
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• New Visit Huntington Beach CEO, John Urdi, skis into town

  08-12-2025 17:03 via ocregister.com
  
  John Urdi will be taking the helm for Visit Huntington Beach; the longtime travel exec trading the snow and skis for sand and surf.
  Urdi, the founding CEO for Mammoth Lakes Tourism in 2010, was recently selected to replace the retiring Kelly Miller as CEO and president of Visit HB, one of the region’s largest destination marketing groups.
  The announcement follows a nationwide search, Visit HB officials said, with Urdi expected to start his new role Jan. 1.
  “It’s been a wild rid
  
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• Status Update: Frolic with cats at this Tustin cafe; Trader Joe’s nearly ready in Costa Mesa

  08-12-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The Fluffy Tail Cafe in Tustin is providing a temporary home to 16 cats under 7 months of age that were fostered by rescue partner Tiny Paws & Whiskers, also in Tustin. The cafe address is 13562 Newport Ave. (Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  At the Fluffy Tail Cafe in Tustin, one of the kittens available for adoption waits for a customer to join her on a cat lounge. The cafe is providing a temporary home to 16 cats under 7 months of age that were fostered by rescue partner Tiny P
  
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• World Cup to include 3-minute hydration breaks in each half of all games, not only in hot weather

  08-12-2025 16:59 via ocregister.com
  
  ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says it will include three-minute hydration breaks in each half of every game at next year’s World Cup, not just those played in hot weather.
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• Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier to be arraigned over sports betting scheme

  08-12-2025 16:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Miami Heat player Terry Rozier is set to appear Monday in a federal court in Brooklyn on charges he helped gamblers placing bets on his performance in NBA games.
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• Cal Fire says Orange County owes nearly $32 million for Airport fire costs

  08-12-2025 16:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal Fire has filed a complaint against Orange County and two Public Works employees seeking to recoup nearly $32 million in costs associated with last year’s Airport fire.
  The state agency filed in Orange County Superior Court to recover costs related to “fire suppression, investigation, report-making, administrative, accounting and collection,” as well as legal fees, according to the complaint dated Sept. 3.
  The Airport fire, which erupted Sept. 9, 2024 in Trabuco Canyon, and
  
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• 10 questions for 2026’s do-it-yourself economic forecast

  08-12-2025 16:12 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s officially economic forecast season.
  As punctual as any holiday tradition, all the gurus polish their crystal balls to reveal their glossy business outlooks for the coming year.
  Their work is curiously detailed, with seemingly exacting projections for numerous economic variables. These estimates look and feel authoritative, whether in fancy printed or digital form, especially when the outlook’s data includes multiple decimal places.
  But for all that effort, the consensus usually
  
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• Wall Street hangs near its records as the battle to buy Warner Bros. heats up

  08-12-2025 16:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are hanging at the edge of their record heights on Monday as Wall Street waits to hear from the Federal Reserve later this week on what it will do with interest rates.
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• OC photographer, on his way to shoot a wedding, is deported to El Salvador instead

  08-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By the third hour in chains, Adan Caceres’ head was pounding and his lips were cracking from thirst.
  Shackled at the wrists, ankles and waist, the Orange County wedding photographer sat pinned in his seat on a government plane, listening as the guards mocked the men around him as “criminals.” When one man begged to use the bathroom, he was refused, he said. So the stranger slid his shackled hands down, unzipped his pants and urinated into the same plastic water bottle he’
  
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• How a fabulous new biography of radio legend Bobby Rich came to be

  08-12-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Pat Gaffey is a longtime radio newsman who got his start at the legendary KPOL/KZLA combo (now separately-owned KMPC, 1540 AM and KLLI, 93.9 FM) in the days when radio news was still a big deal. He also worked at KHTZ (now KNX-FM, 97.1) and spent time as a production assistant for Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40.”
  Bobby Rich is a longtime on-air DJ, having worked in numerous cities including New York, Philadelphia, Tuscon and Seattle; locally, he was heard on KHJ (930 AM), KHTZ,
  
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• Magnitude 7.6 quake triggers a tsunami on Japan’s northern coast

  08-12-2025 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan on Monday, triggering a tsunami of up to 40 centimeters in coastal communities in the region, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
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• Trump is proposing a $12B farm aid package to soften blow of his tariffs, White House official says

  08-12-2025 15:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war.
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• Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion bid by Netflix

  08-12-2025 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount has gone hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix which reached a $72 billion takeover deal with the company just days ago.
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• Washington’s Mayor Bowser says the city’s police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down

  08-12-2025 14:44 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith, who was catapulted into national attention after President Donald Trump moved to federalize Washington’s police force and who worked to confront rising violence in the nation’s capital, is stepping down as the city’s police chief, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday.
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• Trump says Netflix deal to buy Warner Bros. ‘could be a problem’ because of size of market share

  08-12-2025 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that a deal struck by Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery “could be a problem” because of the size of the combined market share.
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• Redistricting in Indiana faces ultimate test in state Senate

  08-12-2025 14:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA VOLMERT, Associated Press
  A proposal to redraw Indiana’s congressional boundaries faces its first public test in the state Senate on Monday, with no clarity on whether it can pass a final vote later in the week despite months of pressure from President Donald Trump.
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• Trump says Zelenskyy ‘hasn’t read’ a US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

  08-12-2025 13:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By SUSIE BLANN, Associated Press
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
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• Greenland hosts annual talks with US at end of a year when Trump revived talk of takeover

  08-12-2025 13:38 via ocregister.com
  
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland is hosting annual meetings with U.S. officials to discuss bilateral ties at the end of a year in which U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up talk of a U.S. takeover of the mineral-rich island that is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.
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• Top EU official warns the US against interfering in Europe’s affairs

  08-12-2025 13:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By LORNE COOK, Associated Press
  BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official on Monday warned the United States against interfering in Europe’s affairs and said only European citizens can decide which parties should govern them.
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• Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsidies expire

  08-12-2025 13:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Republicans in key battleground U.S. House districts are working to contain the political fallout that may come when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act.
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• Dense fog advisory active for 5 Freeway through Grapevine until Monday midday – 1/4 mile visibility

  08-12-2025 11:47 via ocregister.com
  
  5 Freeway through Grapevine was placed under a dense fog advisory by the National Weather Service on Monday at 2:43 a.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 a.m.
  The NWS Hanford CA states to prepare for, “Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog for elevations between 1000 and 2500 feet.”
  “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.”
  The fu
  
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