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• The Book Pages: Why this weekend matters to readers

  03-05-2024 22:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Everybody knows why we become readers.
  For all the events, right?
  OK, that’s probably not the main reason, but it’s one of the benefits of being a reader in Southern California. There are tons of events to rouse us from our cozy chairs and reading forts, and this weekend offers three promising ones.
  Patrons come and go at the Michelle Obama Library in North Long Beach on Thursday, November 9, 2017. (Photo by Scott Varley, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
  Festival of AAPI Books (FAB) Lo
  
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• 70 years since Brown V. Board of Education and California still has work to do

  21-05-2024 22:58 via ocregister.com
  
  May 17th marked the 70th anniversary since the landmark decision in Brown V. Board of Education ostensibly eradicated racial segregation in public schools. Yet, in 2024, many states’ education systems, including California’s, are still stuck in the past due to residential assignment. It’s time state policymakers eliminate residential assignment and address sharing for good by mandating statewide open enrollment so the Brown decision can finally live up to its full potential.&nb
  
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• Have a berry fun time at the 2024 Strawberry Festival in Garden Grove

  21-05-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  The Garden Grove Strawberry Festival marks its 64th anniversary with four days of fun this weekend.
  A highlight of the festival is always the parade, which on Saturday will kick off at 10 a.m. and travels Chapman Avenue, Euclid Avenue and down by Garden Grove High. The parade will feature floats, equestrian groups, marching bands and more.
  The festival launches with an opening reception on Friday and continues through Memorial Day. It takes place along Main Street and up to Euclid Avenue. There
  
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• Defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial

  21-05-2024 22:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money criminal trial, moving the case closer to the moment when the jury will begin deciding his fate.
  “Your honor, the defense rests,” Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the judge. Trump’s team concluded with testimony from a former federal prosecutor who had been cal
  
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• Orange County softball Top 25: Pacifica finishes No. 1 after claiming record ninth CIF-SS title, May 21

  21-05-2024 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe final Orange County softball rankings for 2024.
  Notable this week: Pacifica, the top-ranked team in Orange County entering the season, finishes No. 1 after defeating Orange Lutheran 3-0 in the CIF-SS Division 1 final. It was the Mariners’ Southern Section record ninth title. … Orange Lutheran, which moved to No. 1 after the Carew Classic, slips one spot to No. 2.
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• Orange County softball final Top 25: Pacifica finishes No. 1 in 2024

  21-05-2024 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe final Orange County softball rankings for 2024.
  Notable this week: Pacifica, the top-ranked team in Orange County entering the season, finishes No. 1 after defeating Orange Lutheran 3-0 in the CIF-SS Division 1 final. … It was the Mariners’ second Division 1 title in a row and their record ninth title overall … Orange Lutheran, which moved to No. 1 after the Carew Classic, sli
  
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• Shakira, Enrique Iglesias and Los Tigres Del Norte headline the third annual Besame Mucho Festival

  21-05-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Get ready to grab your tío, botas and sombrero because Bésame Mucho, the ultimate multi-generational, multi-genre Latino music fest is returning to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 21.
  The single-day event, which debuted in 2022, will again include pop, Regional Mexican, merengue, cumbia and rock en Español acts performing across four stages dubbed Besa, Pop, Classicas and Banda.
  This year’s headliners include Colombian Latin pop sensation and Grammy
  
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• Upcoming state audit targets California’s housing mandates

  21-05-2024 22:10 via ocregister.com
  
  California housing regulators are demanding that cities statewide develop meticulous plans to add 2.5 million affordable and market-rate homes by the end of the decade — but some local officials say the process sets them up for failure.
  Frustrated mayors and city councilmembers say the new planning requirements are needlessly confusing and that regulators have been slow to review the plans that have been submitted. They argue the convoluted process is leaving some cities vulnerable to unfa
  
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• What are the betting odds for first Donald Trump-Joe Biden debate?

  21-05-2024 21:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Todd Dewey | Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS)
  LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to participate in two presidential debates. The first one will take place June 27 at CNN’s studios in Atlanta.
  The betting line on which candidate will win the first debate opened at pick’em at BetOnline.ag, an offshore sportsbook that operates illegally in the U.S. The two were each listed at -120.
  Heavy action on Trump caused the book to make him
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Jagger Snitko, Beckman

  21-05-2024 21:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Jagger Snitko, Beckman
  School: Beckman
  Sport: Baseball
  Year: Junior
  Noteworthy: His two-out single in the bottom of the eighth inning drove in the winning run for the Patriots in their 2-1 win over St. John Bosco in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 championship game. The shortstop had two of the Patriots’ six hits in the game and was involved in turning three double plays during the week that included a 3-0 win over Los Alamitos in the s
  
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• 4 reasons why Universal won’t launch Fast & Furious coaster until 2026

  21-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Ride enthusiasts will have to wait much longer than expected to climb aboard the new Fast & Furious roller coaster now that Universal Studios Hollywood has announced the state-of-the-art attraction won’t debut until 2026.
  The Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster will feature 360-degree rotating coaster vehicles designed to look like drifting race cars from the street racing film franchise that has earned $7 billion at the worldwide box office.
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• 3 reasons why Universal won’t launch Fast & Furious coaster until 2026

  21-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Ride enthusiasts will have to wait much longer than expected to climb aboard the new Fast & Furious roller coaster now that Universal Studios Hollywood has announced the state-of-the-art attraction won’t debut until 2026.
  The Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift coaster will feature 360-degree rotating coaster vehicles designed to look like drifting race cars from the street racing film franchise that has earned $7 billion at the worldwide box office.
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• Why finance scams target older adults, and how to protect yourself

  21-05-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
  While financial fraud can happen to anyone, older adults face unique challenges when it comes to scams, which are increasingly common among that age group.
  Losses due to scams targeting those age 60 or older ballooned to $3.4 billion last year, an increase of 11% over the previous year, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. The average amount lost was $33,915.
  Tech support scams were reported to be most common among this demographic, follow
  
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• Why one New York health system stopped suing its patients

  21-05-2024 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Noam N. Levey | (TNS) KFF Health News
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jolynn Mungenast spends her days looking for ways to help people pay their hospital bills.
  Working out of a warehouse-like building in a scruffy corner of this former industrial town, Mungenast gently walks patients through health insurance options, financial aid, and payment plans. Most want to pay, said Mungenast, a financial counselor at Rochester Regional Health. Very often, they simply can’t.
  “They’re scared. Th
  
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• How to manufacture a border crisis

  21-05-2024 21:21 via ocregister.com
  
  When you read about the border crisis, small words make a big difference. You’ve likely heard about the surge in migrant “encounters” at the border. And there are a lot of these—more than 2.1 million in fiscal year 2023[1] —so it’s a handy way for the agency to request a bigger enforcement budget. 
  But here’s the thing: an “encounter” is any person who is questioned by agents, or anyone whose documentation is run through the system. It&r
  
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• UN halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in the southern Gaza city

  21-05-2024 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMY MAGDY, LEE KEATH and TIA GOLDENBERG
  CAIRO — The United Nations said Tuesday it suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the U.S. for sea deliveries.
  The U.N. has not specified how many people have stayed in Rafah since the Israeli military began its intensified assault there two weeks ago, but apparently several hundred thousand people
  
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• Why does the jury in a criminal case have to be unanimous? Ask the lawyer

  21-05-2024 20:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: The prosecution in a criminal case has to not only prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but also bring in a unanimous jury to get a conviction. Who are we protecting here? Why does the verdict have to be unanimous?
  T.W., Tustin
  Ron Sokol
  A: The justification for requiring a unanimous jury in criminal cases is that no one should be deprived of their liberty unless it is fully agreed upon. In the typical civil case, a unanimous jury is not mandatory because often the result is to award moneta
  
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• Law enforcement looking into the death of ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry

  21-05-2024 20:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Local and federal authorities are investigating how “Friends” actor Matthew Perry obtained the prescription drug ketamine, which contributed to his death in October.
  A Los Angeles Police Department representative told City News Service there is an “open investigation” into the actor’s Oct. 28 death. The 54-year-old Perry was found unresponsive in the pool at his Pacific Palisades home and he died at the scene.
  The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner la
  
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• Lakers’ Anthony Davis earns All-Defensive 1st-team honors

  21-05-2024 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  After being excluded from the league’s end-of-season awards the previous three seasons, Anthony Davis has been recognized as one of the NBA’s best defenders.
  The Lakers big man was named to the 2023-24 All-Defensive first team Tuesday. Davis’ inclusion was expected after he finished in fourth place in the voting for Defensive Player of the Year, which was awarded to Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert.
  Davis has been named to an All-Defensive team five times. He is now a three-time f
  
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• Pro-Palestinian campus protests evoke Vietnam-era uprisings and other ‘struggles of the past’

  21-05-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Alongside fellow protesters, a DePaul University seniorlived in one of a sea of small tents on the quad for a little over two weeks, until police on Thursday cleared out the pro-Palestinian encampment — the last onestanding on a Chicago-area college campus.
  To the 22-year-oldpeace and conflict studies major, thecampus protests against the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza and its ensuing humanitarian crisis have been inherently connected to university protest movements of the past, with echoes
  
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• After surviving kitchen table amputation, Gazan teen injured in war gets artificial leg in Colorado

  21-05-2024 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Ahed Bseiso took a step forward. And then another.
  Her hands held the walker and her eyes were trained downward, watching her left foot advance — and then her new right foot, which followed in a careful, slightly stilted rhythm. She’d learned a short time earlier how to navigate the prosthetic leg, needing only a few moments supported by a set of parallel bars before she lifted her hands and took tentative steps forward.
  She was at an Englewood prosthetic clinic, its walls covered in
  
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• Senate AI ‘road map’ potentially a dangerous detour, critics say

  21-05-2024 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Gopal Ratnam | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s outline for potential federal legislation on artificial intelligence systems was widely welcomed by tech companies for its light touch and promise of federal spending.
  Civil society groups have been far less welcoming. They say it fails to adequately address the harms that AI systems may pose and lacks the specifics needed to develop strong federal policy.
  “The Senate’s bipartisan A
  
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• San Francisco tries tough love by tying welfare to drug rehab

  21-05-2024 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Ronnie Cohen | KFF Health News (TNS)
  Raymond Llano carries a plastic bag with everything he owns in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, and the flattened cardboard box he uses as a bed under his arm as he waits in line for lunch at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. At 55, he hasn’t had a home for 15 years, since he lost a job at Target.
  Llano once tried to get on public assistance but couldn’t — something, he said, looking perplexed, about owing the state money &mdash
  
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• Key Bridge collapse: Largest channel to Port of Baltimore will open Tuesday for 24/7 vessel traffic

  21-05-2024 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  A 400-foot-wide, 50-foot-deep channel into the Baltimore harbor is expected to open later Tuesday as officials claimed victory over one of the largest hurdles in clearing the aftermath of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
  Updating reporters on the timeline at a Tuesday morning news conference in front of a noticeably different Patapsco River, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath said the deep-draft channel would open Tuesday “for 24/7 operations.” He added that the Baltimor
  
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• Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports

  21-05-2024 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By PAUL WISEMAN (AP Economics Writer)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As president, Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign steel, which hurt Clips & Clamps Industries, a Michigan auto supplier — raising its materials prices, making it harder to compete with overseas rivals and costing it several contracts.
  Jeff Aznavorian, the company president, thought he might enjoy some relief once Joe Biden entered the White House. Instead, Biden largely preserved Trump’s tariffs — on ste
  
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• After finishing high school in a pandemic, Cal State Fullerton grads get to celebrate in person

  21-05-2024 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  More than 11,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students will celebrate their graduation in a dozen commencement ceremonies this week at Cal State Fullerton.
  Ceremonies kicked off Monday evening for eligible graduates of the College of Communications and College of the Arts collecting their diplomas before family and friends. For many who graduated high school in 2020, Monday was their first chance to celebrate a commencement in person. For transfer students, it marked triumph over educ
  
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• California’s budget deficit revives state’s everlasting battle over school funding

  21-05-2024 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has been its most contentious element.
  This year is no exception as Gov. Gavin Newsom faces stiff opposition from the education establishment for a new fiscal maneuver to cope with a massive budget deficit.
  A bit of history places it in context.
  Until the 1970s, local school systems were financed almost entirely from property
  
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• Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress

  21-05-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LISA MASCARO (Associated Press)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the hours after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Ohio’s then-Republican senator, Rob Portman, voted to accept President Joe Biden’s win over the defeated former president, Donald Trump, despite Trump’s false allegations that Biden only won because of fraud.
  But as Trump charges toward his rematch with Biden in 2024, Portman has been replaced by Sen. JD Vance, a potential vice pres
  
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• LA County to move Jane Fonda Day so it doesn’t fall on Black April, the day of the fall of Saigon

  21-05-2024 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to move Jane Fonda Day to April 8 from the previously proclaimed date of April 30, after backlash from critics and Vietnamese Americans upset over the date’s overlap with Black April.
  Commemorating the Fall of Saigon, Black April is observed on April 30 and is a solemn occasion for veterans of the Vietnam War and the 521,100-strong Vietnamese population in California.
  The board issued its original Jane Fonda Day proclamation o
  
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• All-Star basketball showcase celebrates top Asian-American high school stars

  21-05-2024 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  As Pranav Iyer, the founder of AMAZN HQ, addressed a large crowd at Mira Costa High School’s basketball gym on Sunday, kids ran behind the players’ benches, trying to get the autographs of the AMAZN All-Star West Showcase players.
  Iyer delivered a message to the fans in attendance about why he started his media platform, AMAZN HQ, in 2019.
  “I wanted to show people that it’s not just one or two of us,” Iyer said. “There’s not just one Asian-American on th
  
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