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• Who will lead the O.C. Department of Education next? These candidates applied for the superintendent job

  22-05-2024 16:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Six people are interviewing for the Orange County superintendent position that will be open once Superintendent Al Mijares retires at the end of June.
  The Orange County Board of Education will hear from the six on Wednesday, May 22, at the Department of Education’s offices in Costa Mesa. Candidates are expected to share their past educational experiences and hopes for the department.
  The candidate selected will complete the remainder of Mijares’ term, which ends in early January 2027
  
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• Angels’ Mike Trout says recovery going ‘slower than I thought’

  19-06-2024 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — The progress has been slower than Mike Trout expected. In truth, the Angels star didn’t know what to expect after having surgery to repair a torn meniscus last month.
  “It’s my first time with a knee injury (so) I’m trusting the process and taking it day by day,” Trout said before Tuesday’s game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
  Initially it was thought the Angels’ 11-time All-Star center fielder would be sidelined for 4-6 weeks following the
  
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• LAFC putting on a show for Olivier Giroud from afar

  19-06-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  In Europe for a pair of friendlies with Luxembourg, Maxime Chanot crossed paths with his Los Angeles Football Club teammate-to-be, French striker Olivier Giroud.
  The day before they played against one another June 5 during the final 10 minutes of a 3-0 victory for Giroud’s side, the attacker and the center back chopped it up in northeast France, near the city of Metz.
  “He follows all of our results so knows exactly where we stand,” said Chanot, who brought depth and s
  
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• Russia President Vladimir Putin makes a rare visit to North Korea, an old ally

  19-06-2024 02:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By KIM TONG-HYUNG
  SEOUL, South Korea — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early on Wednesday, after saying the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington.
  Putin was met at Pyongyang’s airport by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. They shook hands and embraced, and Kim later joined Putin in his car to personally guide him to Pyongyang’s Kumsusan State Guest House, North Kore
  
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• Christina Ricci lists her renovated Woodland Hills home for $2.2 million

  19-06-2024 02:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The family room. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The dining area. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The open plan living space. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The kitchen. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The living room. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The primary bedroom. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The primary bathroom. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  A walk-in closet. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The tranquil grounds. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  The putting green. (Photo by The Luxury Level)
  A poolside view of the hom
  
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• All that rain, and now all that brush on fire in Southern California. What gives?

  19-06-2024 01:50 via ocregister.com
  
  After a winter during which Los Angeles received more rain than notoriously drippy Seattle, anyone who had only recently packed away their foul-weather gear might have believed the worst of the year-round brush fire season in Southern California would be delayed.
  When firefighting officials assembled in Irvine in May to warn the public that the threat was coming soon, a lush green hillside stood as a backdrop.
  And yet on June 15, the Post fire ignited in Gorman, north of Los Angeles, and it has
  
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• California Gov. Gavin Newsom joins LAUSD in effort to restrict cell phone use in schools

  19-06-2024 01:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE AUSTIN | Associated Press/Report for America
  SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he wants to restrict students’ usage of smartphones during the school day, citing the mental health risks of social media.
  The announcement, which was first reported by Politico, comes a day after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people. Newsom said he plans to build o
  
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• Huntington Beach library privatization bidder withdraws proposal

  19-06-2024 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The sole bidder to take over management of Huntington Beach’s public libraries withdrew its bid ahead of Tuesday’s City Council meeting on the matter, according to city officials, appearing to put a halt to city efforts that drew widespread opposition.
  The City Council was set to consider privatizing management of its city libraries and vote on entering into negotiations with Library Systems & Services, a private Maryland-based company. There’s been ardent opposition from r
  
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• Brothers Ryder and Chase Dodd make history with selection to U.S. Olympic men’s water polo team

  19-06-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Ryder Dodd fueled the argument that he is the best U.S. men’s water polo prospect since Tony Azevedo by reaching a “dream” accomplishment Tuesday with his brother Chase.
  Ryder, 18, and Chase, 21, became first-time Olympians as the U.S. federation announced its 13-player men’s roster for the Paris Games.
  Ryder, who turned 18 on Jan. 19, follows the footsteps of the legendary Azevedo, U.S. captain Ben Hallock and Thomas Dunstan (Mater Dei) as players fro
  
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• Top young surf talent in town to compete at USA Surfing championships

  19-06-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The competition this week at Lower Trestles is a front-row seat to witness the next generation of the country’s best wave riders at work.
  The best young surfers in the country are battling it out at the USA Surfing National Championships through Saturday, June 22, an event that draws about 200 competitors from around the country, many from Southern California beach towns.
  The championships, hosted just south of San Clemente at San Onofre State Beach, are a chance for youngsters under 18 ye
  
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• Euro 2024: Cristiano Ronaldo makes history in Portugal’s win

  19-06-2024 00:35 via ocregister.com
  
  LEIPZIG, Germany — Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to feature at six European Championship tournaments when he captained Portugal to a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic in their opening game on Tuesday.
  The 39-year-old Ronaldo, who made his tournament debut at Euro 2004 where Portugal reached the final, already had the records for the most goals (14) at the tournament, while he extended his appearance record to 26 games. He helped Portugal win the title at Euro 2016.
  He warmed up f
  
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• Noam Chomsky’s wife says reports of famed linguist’s death are false

  19-06-2024 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE | AP National Writer
  NEW YORK — Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports Tuesday that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue.
  “No, it is false,” she wrote Tuesday in response to an emailed query from The Associated Press. Noam Chomsky, 95, had been hospitalized in Brazil while recovering from a stroke suffered a year ago, Valeria Chomsky told the AP last week. But the Beneficencia Portuguesa hospital in Sao Paulo said in a
  
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• Angel City FC seeks 1st win in 6 games amid offensive struggles

  19-06-2024 00:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City Football Club’s winless streak reached five games with Saturday’s scoreless draw against the Houston Dash.
  With half of the season in the rearview-mirror after Wednesday’s meeting against Racing Louisville FC, Angel City (3-6-3, 12 points) is in the same situation as last season, searching for a second-half charge to make the playoffs.
  Unlike last season, there will be eight teams making the playoffs, so when that’s taken into consideration, Angel City is just
  
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• Galaxy adapting smoothly so far to spate of injuries

  18-06-2024 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The Galaxy had a little bit of everything on display in Saturday’s victory over Sporting Kansas City.
  From first-team debuts  for Tucker Lepley and Ruben Ramos Jr. to a second-half sub playing less than 20 minutes and having to be subbed off to a reconfigured midfield, through it all, the Galaxy kicked off their three-game week with a win.
  “This group has a great mentality, really kind of understands systematically what we’re trying to do,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney s
  
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• Our highest courts are about to release some earth-shaking opinions

  18-06-2024 23:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Our highest courts are about to release some earth-shaking opinions.
  On Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m., the California Supreme Court will announce its decision in Legislature v. Weber. This is the lawsuit filed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature to try to have a qualified initiative, the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act, removed from the November ballot so voters can’t pass it.
  The initiative would make it harder to raise state and local taxes. In oral argu
  
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• Juneteenth celebrates ‘turning point’ in Black, American history

  18-06-2024 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  For Pastor Rob Shropshire, it is important to stop for Juneteenth and take the day to focus on and celebrate Black freedom and community joy.
  “If you don’t have it off, you take it off out of honor and respect for the day,” said Shropshire, who is organizing a Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration at Cal State San Bernardino with his nonprofit, Love4Us. “Juneteenth is on June 19, not the 15th, not the 18th. We have to celebrate it on that day, and we do it because we lo
  
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• Anouk Aimée dies at 92; Oscar-nominated actress starred in ‘A Man and a Woman,’ ‘La Dolce Vita’

  18-06-2024 23:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Leicester and Jake Coyle
  PARIS — Anouk Aimée, the radiant French star and dark-eyed beauty of classic films including Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman,” has died. She was 92.
  Aimée’s agent, Sébastien Perrolat said in an text message to The Associated Press that Aimée died Tuesday morning “surrounded by her loved ones.” He did not give a cause of death.
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• Old school Arby’s closes on Sunset Boulevard

  18-06-2024 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  It wasn’t exactly the Hollywood sign, but Arby’s giant 10-gallon hat was something of a landmark on Sunset Boulevard.
  When a farewell message went up under the hat thanking Hollywood for 55 great years, people noticed.
  Arby’s on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood hosted a publicity stunt for the FX series”Baskets” in May 2018.(Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)
  Zach Galifianakis serves customers during an event for FX’s “Baskets” at Arby’s on May 29
  
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• Swanson: Why Paul George and the Clippers might be breaking up

  18-06-2024 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Now that the Boston Celtics’ championship is out of the way, we can finally get to what you’ve all been waiting for: NBA free agency.
  The league has poured a little accelerant on this year’s fun and decreed that for the first time teams can begin negotiating with upcoming free agents on their own rosters the day after the last game of the NBA Finals. That means free agency technically began Tuesday.
  So let’s talk about the Clippers and Paul George – even though, in
  
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• LAUSD board votes to create a policy to ban use of cell phones by students

  18-06-2024 22:59 via ocregister.com
  
  The Los Angeles Unified School District board passed a plan on Tuesday, June 18 to develop rules to ban cell phones on all LAUSD campuses for the entire school day, due to concerns over the distractions that the devices can pose and the mental health impacts of phone and social media overuse.
  The 5-2 vote does not automatically mean the ban will be imposed in LAUSD, but instead instructs district staff to consult with parents, students, labor representatives and other stakeholders and develop pr
  
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• Blink-182’s Travis Barker is inviting fans along for morning run ahead of the band’s July show

  18-06-2024 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  The hedonistic philosophy of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll might be how some rockers live on tour, but Blink-182’s drummer, Travis Barker, just wants to take a little morning run with his fans.
  Travis Barker’s Run Travis Run: A Run & Wellness Experience is coming to the Kia Forum in Inglewood on Saturday, July 6, ahead of their One More Time Tour stop at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood later that evening.
  The event will begin at 9 a.m. and offer Blink fans and fitness enthu
  
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• Unruly air travelers remain a disturbance in the skies, FAA says

  18-06-2024 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Allyson Versprille | (TNS) Bloomberg News
  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has reaffirmed its commitment to crack down on unruly airplane passengers after tracking more than 900 cases of travelers causing in-flight disturbances so far this year.
  According to the regulator, there have been 915 cases of unruly passengers from the beginning of January through June 9, including 106 cases involving intoxicated travelers.
  “Travelers will pay for misbehaving,” the FAA
  
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• New cruise line dining experiences make you forget you’re on a cruise

  18-06-2024 21:45 via ocregister.com
  
  The cruise dining experience often takes advantage of the ship being at sea, with vast windows or al fresco seating overlooking the ocean beyond.
  A recent trend, though, has seen cruise lines investing in designs meant to transport the diner away from the vessel.
  One of the newest ventures is sticking them on a train. Royal Railway – Utopia Station is a featured restaurant coming on board Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas when it debuts this summer in Port Canaveral.
  Cruisers will
  
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• Psychedelic Furs & The Jesus and Mary Chain are slated for SoCal shows this November

  18-06-2024 21:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain will co-headline the YouTube Theater in Hollywood Park on Nov. 9. The two groups will also perform at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside on Wednesday, Nov. 6 and at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in San Diego on Friday, Nov. 8.
  Tickets for the shows, which include a guest performance with former Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls drummer Frankie Rose, go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com.
  British post-punk group The Psy
  
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• McDonald’s ending test run of AI-powered drive-throughs with IBM

  18-06-2024 21:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By Wyatte Grantham-Philips | The Associated Press
  Ever get your McDonald’s order mixed up at an AI-powered drive-thru? The experiment behind the fast food giant’s current automated order taker will soon be coming to a close.
  McDonald’s confirmed Monday that it decided to end a global partnership with IBM, which has been testing this artificial intelligence technology at select McDonald’s drive-throughs since 2021.
  That doesn’t mean you’ll never encounter some
  
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• Dollar Tree left lead-tainted applesauce on store shelves for weeks after recall, FDA says

  18-06-2024 21:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jonel Aleccia | The Associated Press
  Dollar Tree failed to effectively recall lead-tainted applesauce pouches linked to reports of illness in more than 500 children, leaving the products on some stores shelves for two months, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
  The FDA sent a warning letter to Dollar Tree this month and placed Negasmart, the Ecuadorian distributor of WanaBana apple cinnamon pouches, under import alerts following the October 2023 recall of the products found to be c
  
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• New fathers should be screened for postpartum depression too, study says

  18-06-2024 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Joel Gratcyk remembers the moment he finally broke. 
  He pulled his car off to the side of the road, tears streaming down his face. His newfound fatherhood was supposed to be one of the happiest times of his life. Instead, he was sinking deep into a heavy sadness while his infant son sat in the back seat.
  It was all too much. The stress, the lack of sleep, the lingering fear that he wouldn’t be a good parent.
  “I just knew, at that moment, I needed help,” Gratcyk, 42, recall
  
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• Researchers find link between moms’ experience of racism and kids’ aging

  18-06-2024 20:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Mothers’ experiences of racism showed up in their children’s bodies, with altered patterns of aging – though scientists cautioned they aren’t sure if their findings will translate into future health problems for the kids.
  Two Colorado researchers looked at 205 pairs of mothers and children from non-white ethnic groups living in Massachusetts, in cooperation with scientists elsewhere. When mothers reported they’d experienced more types of racial discrimination, such
  
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• What women should know about their investing power and needs

  18-06-2024 20:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
  The investing information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. NerdWallet, Inc. does not offer advisory or brokerage services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell particular stocks, securities or other investments.
  Jessica Spangler, author of the newly released “Invest Like a Girl,” realizes that her book’s title might raise questions for some readers.
  “I think there’s an irony when it comes to
  
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• John Phillips: It’s open season on pedestrians in Los Angeles

  18-06-2024 19:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Last week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to have more illegal guns on the streets, more unsafe drivers on the road, and more dangerous criminals running free with no way for the police to apprehend them.  And the vote was 13-0.
  All in the name….of equity!
  With the vote, the council authorized a study that aims to limit how often motorists are pulled over for low level traffic infractions and shift the responsibility of enforcement from uniformed police officers to unarmed city w
  
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