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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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• Get your fill of the holiday spirit with these festive seasonal cocktails

  08-12-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re having any trouble getting into the holiday spirit this year, don’t worry, there are plenty of ways to get into a cheerful mood by actually drinking holiday spirits.
  So to get your cheers on, here are some restaurants and a new pop-up bar that are offering holiday cocktails this season.
  El Torito’s festive Cha Cha Chata cocktail, available through Jan. 11. (Photo by Max Milla)
  El Torito
  Various locations; eltorito.com
  The Mexican chain restaurant is getting into the f
  
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• Bullets in Luigi Mangione’s bag convinced police that he was UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect

  08-12-2025 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was put in handcuffs at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.
  The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days ea
  
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• ICEBlock app maker sues Trump administration for free speech violations

  08-12-2025 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her “state power” to force Apple to remove the app.
  Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other apps from its app store after Bondi said they put Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk by enabling people to track ICE activity in their neighborhoods.
  The
  
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• Judge orders the release of an immigrant with ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

  08-12-2025 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from ICE custody while she fights potential deportation, an immigration judge ruled Monday.
  Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was previously engaged to Leavitt’s brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
  
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• Settlement approved for New Orleans Archdiocese to pay hundreds of clergy abuse victims

  08-12-2025 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By JACK BROOK, Associated Press/Report for America
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved Monday by a federal judge after years of negotiations.
  Richard Trahant, an attorney representing victims in the case, and a spokesperson for the archdiocese both confirmed the approval of the settlement to The Associated Press on Monday.
  Earlier this month, some of the survivors behind the
  
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• ‘It’s not safe to live here.’ Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

  08-12-2025 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVEN GRATTAN, Associated Press
  PUERTO ASIS, Colombia (AP) — Jani Silva sits inside the wooden house she built on the banks of Colombia’s Putumayo River — a home she hasn’t slept in for more than eight years.
  The longtime environmental activist has been threatened for work that includes protecting part of the Amazon from oil and mining exploitation. She describes a tense escape one night through a back window after community members tipped her that armed men were outs
  
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• Angels still want to add starting pitching

  08-12-2025 19:12 via ocregister.com
  
  ORLANDO — The Angels aren’t planning on stopping at the two starters they’ve added this winter.
  “I’d like to add more,” general manager Perry Minasian said from the Winter Meetings on Monday. “We’d like to continue.”
  Minasian said the average big league team used more than 13 starters last season, so there’s no reason to stop with the two they’ve added this winter: Grayson Rodriguez and Alek Manoah.
  That’s particularly true
  
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• Honduran man is held without bond in North Carolina train stabbing that drew comments from Trump

  08-12-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIK VERDUZCO and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man to be held without bond in a non-fatal stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train that drew comments from President Donald Trump pointing out the suspect is in the country illegally.
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• Recipe: Vegan Pesto Cavatelli celebrates old-world flavors in a new way

  08-12-2025 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Recently I welcomed Tara Punzone to my home kitchen to show me how to prepare her scrumptious Pesto Cavatelli. Punzone is the celebrated vegan chef behind Pura Vita, the 100 percent plant-based Italian restaurant and wine bar in West Hollywood. Her new cookbook, “Vegana Italiana” (Rodale), is a lively celebration of old-world Italian flavors transformed to be entirely plant-based.
  Happily, even without the classic use of Parmigiano Reggiano, her Pesto Cavatelli was delicious. Every b
  
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• AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care

  08-12-2025 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
  As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills.
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• 12 FBI agents fired for kneeling during racial justice protest sue to get their jobs back

  08-12-2025 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture.
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• 2026 Housing market: Stable rates, rising costs ahead

  08-12-2025 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Thinking about making a big life change in 2026? Well, buying a home is a lot like getting married. The planning seems to take forever, everything’s more expensive than you thought it would be, and stress can quickly reach “Should we even be doing this?” levels.
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• A year after Bashar Assad fled, Syria struggles to heal

  08-12-2025 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By GHAITH ALSAYED and ABBY SEWELL, Associated Press
  HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the capital threw open its doors to release the prisoners.
  Arrested in 2018 for fleeing compulsory military service, the father of three had cycled through four other lockups before landing in Saydnaya, a sprawling complex just north of Damasc
  
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• Climate change threatens Asia’s water and power systems, reports warn

  08-12-2025 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By SIBI ARASU and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL
  BENGALURU, India (AP) — Climate change is battering Asia’s water and power systems and putting millions in harm’s way, forcing countries to pour billions into shoring up basic services, according to two recent reports.
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• High school football: Orange County schedule for the CIF State championships

  08-12-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Three football teams from Orange County will be playing in CIF State championship games on Saturday, Dec. 13. Here is the schedule for those games:
  HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 
  CIF State Championships
  Saturday, Dec. 13
  OPEN DIVISION
  Santa Margarita vs. Concord De La Salle at Saddleback College, 8 p.m.
  DIVISION 4-A 
  Beckman vs. El Cerrito at Buena Park HS, 7 p.m.
  DIVISION 7-AA
  Woodbridge vs. Redding Christian at Fullerton HS, 11 a.m.
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• CSUF spider expert likes to share her work with students

  08-12-2025 18:39 via ocregister.com
  
  While most people flinch at the sight of a spider, Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of biological science Anna Holmquist is fascinated by them. She sees the eight-legged creatures not as pests but as essential players in ecosystems that offer insights into biodiversity and community ecology.
  Holmquist’s passion for spiders and other insects and invertebrates began at a very young age, and she has clear memories of turning over rocks in her backyard and being mesmerized by the hidden
  
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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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• 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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