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• What’s it like outside the conclave? OC residents share experience

  09-05-2025 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Annette Walker watched the movie “Conclave” on her flight to Rome to witness — you guessed it — the real conclave.
  She and her husband, Chuck, both lifelong Catholics living in Orange County, booked tickets to Rome the day Pope Francis died, Monday, April 21.
  “I woke up at three in the morning that day and read that he had passed away,” said Walker, president of City of Hope Orange County. “By the time Chuck woke up at seven, I said, ‘We have to go
  
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• Dodgers working to get players out of Venezuela amid uncertainty

  06-01-2026 03:14 via ocregister.com
  
  The Venezuelan winter league has suspended play in the wake of the United States’ military action in Caracas, leaving players in uncertain situations.
  That group includes Dodgers reliever Edgardo Henriquez, a Venezuelan native who was pitching for La Tiburones de la Guaira in Caracas, the Venezuelan capitol. One of the Dodgers’ top prospects, outfielder Eduardo Quintero (another Venezuelan native) also played briefly for the same team.
  “We’ve been in contact with our guys
  
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• Resources and support for those affected by Palisades and Eaton fires one year later

  06-01-2026 02:58 via ocregister.com
  
  A year later, what are the resources and services that remain, have been added or updated to help those affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires?
  Here is a partial list.Altadena Eaton Fire Relief Fund
  The Altadena Forever 10K, 5K Walk/Run and the 1K Family Walk/Run on Jan. 4, 2026, has a specific GoFundMe account for donations. Details and donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/altadena-eaton-fire-relief-fund
  Bank of America Rebuild Solutions
  The bank’s December 2025 new program to help
  
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• Spectrum offers $25,000 reward for information after cables cut in Jurupa Valley

  06-01-2026 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  Thieves — possibly hunting for copper to recycle for illicit profit — damaged Spectrum fiber optic cables in western Riverside County on Saturday, Jan. 3, briefly cutting service to some customers of the company’s television, internet and phone services.
  Spectrum, which on Dec. 24 noted similar damage to lines in Chino Hills, is offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of those responsible.
  Such acts of vandalism against communications providers are su
  
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• Winter Olympics: Ilia Malinin is ready to tell his story

  06-01-2026 02:22 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — The allure of figure skating, what captivates millions who wouldn’t know Axel Paulsen from Ulrich Salchow, why it transcends the Olympic Games every four years, is its ability to tell a story. More than any other sport, there is a cinematic quality to skating.
  It even comes with a soundtrack.
  “That’s what makes skating unique to, let’s say, hockey, or something that’s based on a clock,” said Shae-Lynn Bourne, a former world champion ice dancer f
  
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• Record $9.6 million fine for Third Coast after substantial oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

  06-01-2026 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK
  Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the $9.6 million fine isn’t likely to be a major burden for Third Coast to pay.
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• Military action in Venezuela emerges as an issue in a closely watched GOP primary in Kentucky

  06-01-2026 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRUCE SCHREINER
  President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president’s backing.
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• A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct

  06-01-2026 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By PATRICK WHITTLE
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.
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• Hilton, Minnesota hotel apologize for email canceling immigration agents’ rooms

  06-01-2026 01:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH RAZA
  A Minnesota hotel that wouldn’t allow federal immigration agents to stay there this month is apologizing and saying the refusal violated its own policies. The Department of Homeland Security had accused the global Hilton hotel chain of a “coordinated” effort to refuse service to its employees.
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• Big Tech’s fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition

  06-01-2026 01:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARC LEVY
  SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don’t want to live next to them, or even near them.
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• Editorial: Trump ditches America First to be the king of Caracas

  06-01-2026 01:27 via ocregister.com
  
  No one should mourn the plight of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. For more than a decade, he has oppressed the people of his nation through authoritarian rule and the misery of socialism. However, we in America should question the wisdom of allowing any president to unilaterally commit acts of war without explicit authorization from Congress.In November, amid Senate debate over whether to block United States actions in Venezuela, the Washington Post reported on a briefing by Secretary of Sta
  
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• Edith Renfrow Smith, part of Northwestern’s ‘SuperAgers’ study, dies at 111

  06-01-2026 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical researchers studying what they called “SuperAgers.”
  Smith, 111, died of natural causes on Friday at the Breakers assisted living facility in Edgewater, where she had moved in October, said her daughter, Alice Frances Smith.  She previously had lived in Lakeview.
  Edith Renfrow was born in
  
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• Orange County girls basketball stat leaders, Jan. 5

  06-01-2026 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County girls basketball stat leaders through Jan. 3.
  The leaderboards are based on stats published on MaxPreps.com.
  SCORINGName, school
  GP
  Pts
  PPG
  Rylee Bradley, Marina
  10
  239
  23.9
  Adelyn Boberg, San Juan Hills
  20
  386
  19.3
  Fiona McCormick, Laguna Beach
  18
  347
  19.3
  Charlotte Muller, Esperanza
  13
  230
  17.7
  Alexa Muller, Esperanza
  8
  133
  16.6
  Vivian Villagrana, Pacifica Christian
  10
  165
  16.5
  TaNiya Paul
  
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• Hyundai and Boston Dynamics unveil humanoid robot Atlas at CES

  06-01-2026 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do things that people do.
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• Bakery serves up tradition with Three Kings Day bread

  06-01-2026 00:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Jovian Mendoza, a baker at Max’s Bakery in Anaheim, stacks Three Kings Bread on a rack after removing them from an oven on Monday, January 5, 2026. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Carmen Mendoza waits on long-time customer Cathy Ambriz while Antonio Rodriguez pulls a piping hot Three Kings Bread out of the oven at Max’s Bakery in Anaheim on Monday, January 5, 2026. The traditional sweet yeast bread, containing a small figurine of baby Jesus inside, is eaten on t
  
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• It’s time for league action in Orange County boys basketball

  06-01-2026 00:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Starting this week, league games will dominate the boys basketball schedule until the CIF Southern Section playoffs begin in early February.
  The biggest game this week is St. John Bosco at Santa Margarita on Friday at 7 p.m. It is a Trinity League opener for both teams.
  St. John Bosco (11-4), led by 6-6 senior Christian Collins, is ranked No. 3 in CIF-SS in the computer rankings.
  Santa Margarita (19-2), led by senior guard Kaiden Bailey (Georgia Tech signee), is No. 2 behind top-ranked Sierra Ca
  
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• Orange County girls soccer Top 10: Santa Margarita continues to lead pack

  06-01-2026 00:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowORANGE COUNTY GIRLS SOCCER TOP 10
  (Records through Sunday, Jan. 4.)
  1. Santa Margarita, 10-0-0: Felicity Nguyen leads the reigning CIF-SS Open Division champion with 17 goals. Sophomore Winter Meskiel has five goals for the Eagles, who were ranked No. 1 in the Orange County season preview. Previous ranking: 1
  2. Mater Dei 10-1-3: Senior forward Valentina Labuschagne has 15 goals and three assists for the
  
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• Liberation or Occupation? The illusion of U.S. regime change

  06-01-2026 00:11 via ocregister.com
  
  In the early hours of January 3, U.S. forces entered and carried out strikes in Venezuela, removing Nicolas Maduro from power. The operation was swift, decisive, and framed as a necessary act—an intervention to combat narco-trafficking, restore order, and free a population suffering under an entrenched dictatorship. 
  We’ve seen this movie before; we know better than to think it will be
  
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• Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO

  05-01-2026 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANDERS KONGSHAUG, CLAUDIA CIOBANU and STEFANIE DAZIO
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation in Venezuela.
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• 2 plead not guilty to federal charges alleging SoCal bomb plot

  05-01-2026 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Two alleged members of an extremist group pleaded not guilty on Monday, Jan. 5, to charges of planned coordinated bombing attacks on New Year’s Eve across Southern California — a suspected plot that was derailed by authorities weeks earlier.
  Audrey Carroll, 30, of South Los Angeles, and Zachary Aaron Page, 32, of Torrance, were arraigned in Los Angeles federal court.
  The pair are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, providing and attempting to provide material
  
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• Cuba faces uncertain future after US topples Venezuelan leader Maduro

  05-01-2026 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By DÁNICA COTO and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
  HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials on Monday lowered flags before dawn to mourn 32 security officers they say were killed in the U.S. weekend strike in Venezuela, the island nation’s closest ally, as residents here wonder what the capture of President Nicolás Maduro means for their future.
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  05-01-2026 23:42 via ocregister.com
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• Chargers review: Will resting key players pay off in Sunday’s wild-card game?

  05-01-2026 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  We’ll find out in no uncertain terms this Sunday night in Foxborough, Massachusetts, whether Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh’s plan to rest so many key players for their final regular-season game pays dividends in their AFC wild-card game against the New England Patriots.
  The Chargers’ 19-3 loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday was an all-too-predictable result considering how many of their top players didn’t play or played very limited roles. Was that the plan all along?
  
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• McDonald’s facing class action lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ McRib meat

  05-01-2026 23:30 via ocregister.com
  
  McDonald’s is facing a class action lawsuit from plaintiffs who allege the fast food chain has long deceived customers about what type of meat is in the popular, limited McRib sandwich.
  The lawsuit was filed late last month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by eaters from California, New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C. who claim the sandwich is marketed as containing pork rib meat but actually has none.
  The complaint alleges that despite the patty’s
  
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• Orange County boys basketball stat leaders, Jan. 5

  05-01-2026 23:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowThe Orange County boys basketball stat leaders through Jan. 3.
  The leaderboards are based on stats published on MaxPreps.com.
  SCORINGName, school
  GP
  Pts
  PPG
  Richie Ramirez, Mater Dei
  17
  430
  25.3
  Devin Gonzales, MSA
  7
  169
  24.1
  Josh King, Orange Lutheran
  16
  377
  23.6
  Matthew Ahern, Capo Valley Christian
  13
  301
  23.2
  Jaiden Sabino, Woodbridge
  12
  263
  21.9
  Rocco Jensen, San Juan Hills
  11
  234
  21.3
  Christopher Trotter
  
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• FACT FOCUS: Fabricated and misrepresented images shared widely online after US removal of Maduro

  05-01-2026 23:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELISSA GOLDIN, Associated Press
  As deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in a U.S. courtroom Monday, an array of misrepresented and fabricated images that began circulating soon after his capture over the weekend continued to multiply on social media.
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• ‘Disneyland Handcrafted’ documentary offers behind-the-scenes look at park’s construction

  05-01-2026 23:18 via ocregister.com
  
  A new documentary film focused on the yearlong creation of Disneyland offers a behind-the-scenes look at the transformation of an Anaheim orange grove into a revolutionary theme park using rarely seen footage discovered in the vaults of the Walt Disney Archives.
  The new “Disneyland Handcrafted” documentary by filmmaker Leslie Iwerks on the one-year blitz to build Walt Disney’s first theme park will debut Jan. 22 on YouTube and the Disney+ streaming service.
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• Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using ‘women’ and ‘race’ in grant applications

  05-01-2026 22:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By MORIAH BALINGIT, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people” — a directive that could reshape the early education program.
  A coalition of organizations representing Head Start providers and parents said in court filings last month that the Department of Health and Human Services told a Head S
  
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• FAA picks 2 firms to replace 612 outdated radar systems that air traffic controllers rely on

  05-01-2026 22:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK, Associated Press
  The federal government has picked two companies to replace 612 radar systems nationwide that date back to the 1980s as part of a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system.
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that contractors RTX and Spanish firm Indra will replace the radar systems by the summer of 2028. The administration set an ambitious goal of completing the overhaul by the
  
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