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• UCLA cancels classes, condemnations roll in, after night of violence at pro-Palestinian encampment

  01-05-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA canceled classes Wednesday, May 1, a day after violence roiled the campus at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment occupied by protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.
  “Due to the distress caused by the violence that took place on Royce Quad late last night and early this morning, all classes are cancelled today. Please avoid the Royce Quad area,” the university posted on X shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday.
  Police push back as demonstrators a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCL
  
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• Avatar land coming to Disneyland resort, Disney CEO confirms

  15-05-2024 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The DisneylandForward plan that has been full of promises but vague on specifics throughout the three-year approval process is finally starting to come into focus with a themed land based on the World of Pandora set to become the first project to break ground.
  Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed during the MoffettNathanson Media and Communications Summit on Wednesday, May 15 that an Avatar themed land is coming to the Disneyland Resort.
  “We have just gotten approval from the city of Anaheim for
  
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• Stormy Daniels wore bulletproof vest to Trump trial, lawyer says

  15-05-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH WILKINSON | [email protected] | New York Daily News
  Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest under her outfits while she was testifying at former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, her lawyer said.
  The former adult film star was “paralyzed” with fear ahead of the proceedings, attorney Clark Brewster said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°.”
  “She was concerned about the security co
  
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• Medical residents are increasingly avoiding states with abortion restrictions

  15-05-2024 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Julie Rovner, Rachana Pradhan | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Isabella Rosario Blum was wrapping up medical school and considering residency programs to become a family practice physician when she got some frank advice: If she wanted to be trained to provide abortions, she shouldn’t stay in Arizona.
  Blum turned to programs mostly in states where abortion access — and, by extension, abortion training — is likely to remain protected, like California, Colorado, and New Mexico. Arizona has
  
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• Biden calls for presidential debates starting June 27 — and Trump agrees

  15-05-2024 20:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Dave Goldiner | New York Daily News
  President Biden Wednesday called for two high-profile presidential debates starting with a clash on CNN in the network’s Atlanta studios on June 27 — and former President Trump quickly agreed.
  “I’ll be there,” Trump told Fox News. “Look forward to being in beautiful Atlanta.”
  The two rivals quickly agreed to the first debate after feisty Biden issued a challenge to square off against Trump next month in an early mornin
  
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• Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one

  15-05-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News
  Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care.
  The slender, battery-powered gadget, called a BioButton, records vital signs including heart and breathing rates, then wirelessly sends the readings to nurses sitting in a 24-hour control room elsewhere in the hospital or in their homes. The dev
  
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• Energy drinks can lead to serious heart issues in kids and teens, health experts say

  15-05-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Carlton Gillespie | Miami Herald (TNS)
  Hennessy Sepulveda thought she was going to die.
  “I began dissociating as I was driving. I was 10 minutes away from my house. My vision started warping and the lights were hitting me really bright,” she said. “I felt my chest pounding, I felt a wave of panic hit me — I knew something was wrong.”
  Sepulveda, a Florida International University student who was 19 at the time, was admitted to the hospital, and was surprised by the c
  
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• Preakness Stakes preview: How to watch and what to expect

  15-05-2024 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  The Preakness Stakes will have a Triple Crown possibility on the line when Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan runs in the field of eight horses Saturday in the 149th rendition of the race.
  Mystik Dan is coming off winning the Derby by a nose in that race’s closest finish since 1947. Bob Baffert-trained Imagination and Brad Cox’s Catching Freedom appear to be the most formidable challenges in the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. Muth, who opened as the favorite, was scra
  
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• After announcing more job cuts, Tesla rallies investors to vote for Elon Musk’s $56B pay package

  15-05-2024 19:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By Dana Hull and Anders Melin
  Tesla Inc. is looking to woo its unusually large base of retail investors to get approval for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package.
  To help lead that drive, the company’s board has hired a strategic adviser, according to a person familiar with the matter. To bolster the campaign, the adviser is working with an outside law firm, the person said.
  The adviser has set up a dedicated Vote Tesla website to encourage participation among r
  
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• Rent growth outstrips wages in most US metros, new report shows

  15-05-2024 19:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anna Helhoski | NerdWallet
  If you rent your home in a major metro area, chances are you already know this hard truth: Your pay raises aren’t keeping up with your rent hikes.
  A new analysis released on Tuesday by the rental website StreetEasy and its parent company Zillow found that rent growth has surpassed wage growth in 44 out of the 50 largest U.S. metros since before the pandemic. The report analyzed rental data from both company sites as well as wage growth data from the Bureau of
  
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• Home Depot sales slide as housing market weakens

  15-05-2024 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Home Depot Inc.’s string of negative sales extended into a sixth straight quarter as the big-box retailer struggles to overcome a weak housing market and lower demand for big-ticket items.
  Same-store sales, which investors use to track performance at locations open for at least a year, fell 2.8% in the company’s fiscal first quarter, a bigger drop than analysts were expecting. The Atlanta-based company was hit by “continued softness in certain larger discretionary projects&rdqu
  
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• Travel: Take a hike through ancient history in rural, mountainous Japan

  15-05-2024 19:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Revered for guiding, the three-legged crow god surely had my back. In rural mountainous Japan, I hoofed up the steep Kumano Kodo trail, retracing ancient footsteps of emperors, shoguns, and nobles who trekked this same pilgrimage route seeking spiritual salvation more than 1,000 years ago.
  Mystical vibes wafted through the serene, dense, lore-loaded forest of towering cedar, cypress and camphor trees. A sign at the hallowed “milk rock” noted a wolf somehow dripped milk from the stone
  
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• Tiny homes: housing’s hot trend

  15-05-2024 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Assia Awad | Wealth of Geeks
  Nearly  90% of the one in three Americans who stayed in an alternative living space rental enjoyed their time there. Alternative living spaces include tiny homes, modular homes, container homes, and converted vans or RVs.
  While they’re more popular as a vacation novelty, recent Google Trends data shows searches for information about tiny homes has increased exponentially since 2011.
  Sales seem to be largely to the 54% of Americans who want to invest an add
  
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• Amazon warehouse workers struggle to afford food, rent

  15-05-2024 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Five years after Amazon.com Inc. raised wages to $15 an hour, half of warehouse workers surveyed by researchers say they struggle to afford enough food or a place to live.
  The national study, published Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development, asked US employees about their economic wellbeing, including whether they’d skipped meals, went hungry, or were worried about being able to make rent or mortgage payments.
  Fifty-three percent of re
  
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• Californians are not paying their bills at the highest level since 2021

  15-05-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Californians started 2024 with the most challenges in paying their bills on time in nine quarters.
  If there’s a must-watch number out there to gauge the financial pulse of the consumer, it’s the New York Fed’s quarterly tracking of who’s paying their bills on time. These figures are compiled from an analysis of credit histories from Equifax. So, we’re talking about bill-paying patterns of folks with credit profiles.
  Caveat noted, we see that Californians had 1.27% o
  
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• Buddha’s birthday: When is it and how is it celebrated in different countries?

  15-05-2024 18:59 via ocregister.com
  
  By DEEPA BHARATH (Associated Press)
  The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C. This is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on the school of Buddhism or country to which one belongs. In several Asian countries, it is observed on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunisolar calendar, which th
  
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• Things are heating up at Wahoo’s Fish Taco

  15-05-2024 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Inside the kitchens of Wahoo’s Fish Taco, one size doesn’t fit all.
  “For us, everything comes in its raw form, and we tend to slice and dice and marinate ourselves. It requires a little more knife skills,” said Wing Lam, co-founder of the Tustin-based chain with his brothers Ed and Mingo Lee.To improve the cooking process, Wahoo’s Fish Taco is renovating its kitchens as well as freshening up its dining rooms.
  “The most important thing we’ve done is chang
  
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• 70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn’t

  15-05-2024 18:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNIE MA (AP Education Writer)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision — the fabled Brown v. Board of Education, taught in most every American classroom — still stands.
  But for decades, American schools have been re-segregating. The country is more diverse than it ever has been, with students more exposed to classmates from different backgrounds. Still, ar
  
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• Coastal czars overstep power in surf contest

  15-05-2024 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The best way to handle contentious cultural battles in our diverse and politically divided country is to let private actors sort things out on their own. Whenever government inserts itself into these debates, it leads only to bitterness and anger.
  One of the latest debates involves transgender athletes. Should they compete with athletes from their same biological sex or with athletes from the gender with which they identify? We have our own views, but that’s not of consequence. What matter
  
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• Disneyland to pump beignet smells into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure

  15-05-2024 18:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Walt Disney Imagineering plans to tap into all five senses, adding the smell and taste of fresh beignets to the sights, sounds and touch of the experience on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure when the former Splash Mountain attraction returns after an extensive makeover.
  Disneyland visitors will smell the sweet scent of beignets frying in the queue of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure when the attraction opens later this year, according to Disneyland officials.
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• Preakness favorite Muth won’t run because of fever

  15-05-2024 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  BALTIMORE — Preakness favorite Muth has been ruled out of the race after spiking a fever, removing a horse trained by Bob Baffert and potentially giving Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan a clearer path through the second leg of the Triple Crown.
  The Maryland Jockey Club announced Muth’s status change Wednesday morning, roughly 12 hours after the horse arrived at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Baffert said Muth’s temperature reached 103 degrees and the camp had no choice but t
  
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• Grand Performances will make the summer sizzle with free concerts

  15-05-2024 17:12 via ocregister.com
  
  California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles will become a hot music venue this summer with the return of the Grand Performances free concert series.
  The recently announced lineup for the annual series will range from groups performing modern and traditional sounds from places like Latin America, Asia, Africa in all sorts of genres, from Afrobeat to cumbia to classic jazz to ambient electronica and salsa.
  “We are going to have some spectacular performers and we are representing the many cultur
  
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• The California Environmental Quality Act can be preserved and reformed to limit abuses

  15-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  After more than a year of study, California’s Little Hoover Commission has confirmed what many have long known: the California Environmental Quality Act needs reform.
  The commission, which stands as an independent agency which investigates state policy issues and offers recommendations for reform, began holding hearings on CEQA in March 2023.
  The commission credits the environmental protection law, which was signed in 1970 by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, for offering important protections to t
  
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• Gov. Gavin Newsom must stick to his word and continue to oppose higher taxes

  15-05-2024 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom threw cold water on calls for new taxes in light of the state’s massive budget deficit.
  “I’m not prepared to increase taxes,” he said on Friday while unveiling his May Revise to the state budget. “We have among the highest tax rates in the United States of America for high wage earners. We have among the highest tax rates, as I noted, for corporate tax rates … I feel strongly that we have to live within our means, within the framework of bei
  
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• OC club pro Michael Block, who lived a dream in 2023, returns for sequel at PGA Championship

  15-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  By WILL GRAVES The Associated Press
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Four blissful, borderline mystical days at Oak Hill last spring opened up the world for Michael Block.
  It also forced the PGA club pro-turned-cult hero to close his office door at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club, the Mission Viejo course where he’s long served as the head professional.
  It’s a tradeoff Block has learned to live with over the last 12 dizzying months.
  The 47-year-old understands the shelf life for the instant celebrit
  
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• John Eastman, ex-Chapman Law dean and Trump attorney, will feel love at CAGOP convention

  15-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A veritable love fest awaits John Eastman at the CAGOP convention in Burlingame this weekend.
  Many righteous California Republicans are circling the wagons around Eastman — Chapman Law’s former dean and Donald Trump’s former lawyer — as he battles his disbarment over the 2020 election and accuses critics of “lawfare.”
  Fans can indulge in a photo opportunity with Eastman on Friday, May 17 ($100 for an individual or couple, plus $25 for each extra body in the pi
  
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• I asked for hospital prices and got a police visit instead

  15-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Parents will do anything to help their sick or injured child. Sadly, the American healthcare system often takes advantage of our desperation to overcharge and profiteer. Healthcare price transparency is urgently needed to protect families like mine and restore trust in the medical system. This Congress has the opportunity to deliver it.
  Consider my story. My 18-month-old son slipped and broke his leg. He received the standard of care from a Los Angeles pediatrician, but I wanted a second opinion
  
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• Frumpy Mom: Should I go to my high school reunion?

  15-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I received something in the mail recently that doesn’t make any sense. It was an invitation to my 50th high school reunion, which is impossible because I’m only 27 years old.
  I know, I know. Some of you insist that I must be much older, because I learned to drive a stick on my parents’ Ford Fairlane station wagon and remember fighting furiously with my brother over possession of the only bathroom in the house.
  I’m pretty sure they don’t even build houses with one ba
  
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• California auditor to look into Huntington Beach’s air show settlement

  15-05-2024 15:17 via ocregister.com
  
  The California State Auditor’s office will review the settlement agreement between the city and the operator of the air show held annually in Huntington Beach, looking to reveal what went into the decision-making process that led to the city paying out nearly $5 million.
  The legislature’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee approved the audit request made by one of the committee members at a hearing Tuesday afternoon in Sacramento.
  “Our focus will be to understand how the ci
  
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• I don’t agree with what most of the demonstrators say. But I’ll defend their right to say it.

  15-05-2024 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  “Palestine will be free!” chant the protesters. “From the river to the sea.
  Some says that’s a call for genocide — another holocaust — elimination of Israel and all Jews.
  So, should the chant be illegal?
  The House of Representatives just voted to make it illegal at universities. Both Republicans and Democrats voted for the bill.
  Canadian politicians go further. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants people “advocating genocide” sentenced to life in pr
  
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