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• We call them palm trees but they really are something else

  12-04-2025 00:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area.
  A tree or not a tree, that is the question
  The palm tree isn’t really a tree. They are Arecaceae which is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like f
  
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• USC men’s basketball adds Kam Woods to depleted roster

  18-12-2025 20:55 via ocregister.com
  
  The USC men’s basketball team has added another player to its roster 12 games into its season.
  Graduate guard Kam Woods, who most recently played at Robert Morris University, was added Thursday and will be eligible to play immediately.
  “Kam brings a tremendous competitive spirit to our program and is a proven winner,” Trojans head coach Eric Musselman said in a press release. “Kam has been an integral part of an NCAA Tournament bid at Robert Morris and a Final 4 run at NC
  
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• Álvaro Vargas Llosa: What kind of president will José Antonio Kast be?

  18-12-2025 20:44 via ocregister.com
  
  José Antonio Kast’s victory in Chile’s presidential election confirms that Latin America is changing direction. Election after election seems to be producing right-wing winners, and not by small margins—in the case of Chile’s new president-elect, by more than 16 points in the runoff (58.2 percent against Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who received 41.8 percent). 
  That said, Brazil and Mexico, the two giants that account for half the region’s popu
  
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• Ducks back for 2-week stay, starting with back-to-back games

  18-12-2025 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  The Ducks are set to begin a crucial stretch with six of seven games at home – the seventh being an excursion to downtown LA – beginning with their back-to-back set Friday and Saturday at Honda Center.
  They’ll host the Dallas Stars and then the Columbus Blue Jackets, who bettered the Ducks in overtime off Adam Fantilli’s game-winner in their most recent match, a 4-3 loss on Tuesday.
  That was the Ducks’ second defeat in a game that went beyond the allotted 60 minutes
  
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• To improve affordability, California must work with employers rather than target them

  18-12-2025 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Affordability is a hot topic throughout the country, especially in California, where the cost of living is extraordinarily high – so much so that gubernatorial candidates and legislators have centered their messaging to voters around affordability.
  At the same time, however, state lawmakers proposed more than $16 billion in tax and fee increases during the first year of the 2025-26 session.
  In the Assembly, 12 lawmakers voted for at least $10 billion in tax and fee increases. In the Senate
  
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• Chipotle Mexican Grill creates a high-protein menu

  18-12-2025 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Chipotle Mexican Grill is the latest restaurant chain to jump on the high-protein bandwagon, launching a new protein menu two days before Christmas.
  Six items ranging from 15 grams to a whopping 81 grams of protein will debut on Tuesday, Dec. 23.
  The items will be available for dine-in or can be ordered online, according to a news release from the Newport Beach-based company.
  All of the items feature Adobo Chicken. Other ingredients vary by item but include white and brown rice, black beans and
  
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• Trump signs executive order that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

  18-12-2025 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BILL BARROW, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
  The switch would move marijuana away from its current classification as a Schedule I drug, alongside heroin and LSD. Cannabis would instead be a Schedule III substan
  
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• OCVarsity’s All-Orange County Football Team for 2025

  18-12-2025 20:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe All-Orange County football team will appear in the Friday, Dec. 19, edition of the Orange County Register. The All-Orange County football selections for the 2025 season.
  The selections were made by reporters Dan Albano, Steve Fryer and Michael Huntley.
  ALL-COUNTY FOOTBALL  
  Offensive Player of the Year: Luke Fahey, Mission Viejo, Sr.
  Defensive Player of the Year: Dash Fifita, Santa Marg
  
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• All-County Football 2025: Second Team and Third Team selections

  18-12-2025 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALL-ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL TEAM 2025
  Beckman Makhi Czaykowski jumps through a hole in the Hillcrest defense to gain big yardage in the CIF Southern California Division 4-A Regional football final in Tustin on Saturday, December 6, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)
  SECOND TEAM OFFENSE
  QB: Brady Annett, Corona del Mar, Sr.
  QB: Brady Edmunds, Huntington Beach, Jr.
  RB: Makhi Czaykowsk
  
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• All-County Football 2025: Luke Fahey is the offensive player of the year

  18-12-2025 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowALL-ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL 2025
  Offensive Player of the Year: Luke Fahey, Mission Viejo, SeniorA wide receivers group that lost its top returner to injury. An offensive line with one returning starter and no seniors.
  From an outside perspective, those appeared to be trials this fall for Mission Viejo quarterback Luke Fahey.
  But internally, he saw his cast of football teammates much differently.
  Mission Vi
  
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• All-County Football 2025: Dash Fifita is the defensive player of the year

  18-12-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita senior, linebacker Dash Fifita, in Rancho Santa Margarita on Monday, December 15, 2025, is the Orange County football Defensive Player of the Year for the 2025 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Santa Margarita senior, linebacker Dash Fifita, in Rancho Santa Margarita on Monday, December 15, 2025, is the Orange County football Defensive Player of the Year for the 2025 season. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Santa Margarita senior,
  
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• All-County Football 2025: Marcello Giuliano is the coach of the year

  18-12-2025 20:00 via ocregister.com
  
  ALL-ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL 2025 
  Coach of the Year: Marcello Giuliano, BeckmanThree years ago, Beckman’s football team was coming off multiple underwhelming seasons that produced seven combined wins over a three-year stretch.
  It has been a steady climb for the Patriots since then.
  Led by coach Marcello Giuliano, the Patriots won their first CIF Southern Section championship this season. They also won a school-record 12 games and the Lambda League championship.
  In the CIF-SS Divis
  
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• Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett dies in Newport Beach at 91

  18-12-2025 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOHN ROGERS
  Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
  Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for The Associated Press, died Wednesday in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family, said his son Andrew Arnett. He had been suffering from prostate cancer
  
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• Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua have a lot to lose in Netflix boxing bout

  18-12-2025 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  MIAMI — Jake Paul proudly boasts he has become the face of boxing during the past decade. Now the YouTuber-turned-fighter is ready to embark on his riskiest ring venture yet after 13 professional fights featuring a cross section of opponents that lack the active status and talent of his next rival.
  Paul will fight two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Friday night at the Kaseya Center, home of the NBA’s Miami Heat. The scheduled eight-round bout will be streamed on Netflix
  
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• Disneyland closes 11 attractions after the busy Christmas season

  18-12-2025 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Disneyland will close 11 attractions for seasonal refurbishments after the busy Christmas holiday season comes to an end and the Anaheim theme park resort shifts into one of the rare slow periods on the calendar before the start of the 2026 Lunar New Year celebration.
  Rise of the Resistance, Haunted Mansion, It’s a Small World, Incredicoaster, Grizzly River Run, Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind, Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, Mark Twain Riverboat, Sailing Ship Columbia, Pixie Hollow and &ldq
  
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• ‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams shares grim cancer update from hospital bed

  18-12-2025 19:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Ailing “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams admitted on Wednesday that things aren’t going well as he shared a grim update on his battle with prostate cancer.
  “Things aren’t going so well here, medically, I have to be honest,” he told fans in a video from his hospital bed. “But you never know; could be a miracle.”
  The controversial cartoonist announced in May that he was dying from prostate cancer and didn’t expect to live past the summer. But on We
  
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• Trump’s handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center

  18-12-2025 19:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said.
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• The 30 best Southern California concerts and festival sets of 2025

  18-12-2025 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Live music is entertainment. Seems obvious, but bear with us a moment.
  Concerts are carefree and fun nights with a favorite pop star. An emotional experience under the spell of musical magic. The simple, dumb joy of a mosh pit. A festival community of countless fans in search of the sweet and sublime.
  In 2025, we were also reminded of the power of music to heal after the devastation of Pacific Palisades and Altadena when wildfires swept down from the hillsides and canyons and through those commu
  
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• Anaheim briefs: Help supporting Anaheim families at a toy and gift drive   

  18-12-2025 19:34 via ocregister.com
  Marina Mondragon, founder of Wings of Kindness, continues to bring kindness to Anaheim, this time with the group’s third annual toy drive and giveaway on Dec. 19.
  Everyone is invited to come out for the event and enjoy the evening, meet your neighbors and share the holiday spirit. The event will be collecting donations through the day on Dec. 19 and the community giveaway will be  5 to 7 p.m. at Mondragon Family Market. They are collecting unwrapped toys for children of all ages, gift
  
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• Democrats keep 2024 election review under wraps, saying a public rehash won’t help them win in 2026

  18-12-2025 19:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By BILL BARROW
  ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats will not issue a postelection report on their 2024 shellacking after all.
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• Cooking with Judy: When a cookie hobby becomes a career, life is sweet

  18-12-2025 19:24 via ocregister.com
  
  What a difference a year makes.
  Last Christmas, Christina Karras was invited to a friend’s cookie competition holiday party. She wound up winning the competition and a business was born.
  “I grew up baking with my mom,” she told me. “She was a cake decorator, and watching her and helping was always something I loved and turned to when I just needed something familiar or supportive.
  “Last year I got my MBA, applied for jobs, and while waiting for responses, I returned
  
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• House Democrats release more photos from Epstein’s estate

  18-12-2025 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats released several dozen more photos Thursday from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, showing his associations with the rich and famous, as the Department of Justice faces a deadline to release many of its case files on the late financier by the end of the week.
  The photos released Thursday were among more than 95,000 that the House Oversight Committee has received after issuing a subpoena for t
  
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• Along the Texas Coast, a new sanctuary aims to protect the endangered and rare whooping crane

  18-12-2025 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By DORANY PINEDA and JOHN LOCHER
  WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, is one of the rarest in North America and was among the first to be protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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• Rural schools hit by Trump’s grant cuts have few options for making up for the lost money

  18-12-2025 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNIE MA
  SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When the funding for Shannon Johnson’s job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.
  Johnson taught elementary and middle-school students in rural Kentucky how to navigate conflict, build resilience and manage stress and anxiety before a crisis happens. Few districts, especially rural ones, can dedicate a full-time role to early intervention amid a nation
  
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• Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan on trial for helping immigrant does not testify

  18-12-2025 18:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By TODD RICHMOND
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities did not take the stand Thursday after her attorneys presented less than an hour’s worth of witnesses in her defense as she faces obstruction and concealment charges.
  The case against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was expected to head to the jury later Thursday after closing arguments.
  The highly unusual charges against a sitting judge are an extraordinary
  
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• US stocks jump after an encouraging inflation update, as Micron helps AI stocks stop their slide

  18-12-2025 18:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are jumping on Thursday following an encouraging report on inflation that could help the Federal Reserve keep cutting interest rates next year. A strong profit report from Micron Technology also helped AI stocks halt their sharp slides, at least for now.
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• Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

  18-12-2025 18:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN
  NEW YORK (AP) — The last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing streaks to nighttime and early morning skies. Compared to other meteor showers, it’s more subdued, but experts say it’s still worth a glimpse.Meteor showers happen when space rocks hit Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds and burn up, gaining fiery tails — the end of a “shooting star.” Random meteors are visible from E
  
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• Average US long-term mortgage rate edges lower, remaining near its low for the year

  18-12-2025 18:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
  The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage edged lower this week, staying relatively close to its low for the year.
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• The shortest day of the year is descending on the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s what to know

  18-12-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead.
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• DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled

  18-12-2025 18:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JAIMIE DING, CHRISTINE FERNADO, CLAIRE RUSH and RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.”
  Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Washington, D.C.
  When grand jurors thrice decl
  
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