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• Why Iration’s new album, ‘Coastin” is just right for staying home during the coronavirus

  01-07-2020 17:09 via ocregister.com
  
  As the coronavirus pandemic shut down live concert events and people began quarantining at home, the Santa Barbara-based reggae-rock band Iration contemplated whether or not to release its new music.
  The bulk of its seventh studio album, “Coastin’,” which was recorded at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, was in the can by mid-spring. After a few weeks of serious deliberation, the band decided to go ahead with its July 10 release.
  “The first songs we put out were ‘Coa
  
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• Tesla axes most of Supercharger team in blow to other automakers

  01-05-2024 21:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Dana Hull, Ed Ludlow, Keith Naughton | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  Tesla Inc. eliminated almost its entire Supercharger organization, which has built a vast network of public charging stations that virtually every major automaker is in the process of tapping into in the US.
  The decision to cut the nearly 500-person group, including its senior director, Rebecca Tinucci, was made by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk in the last week, according to a person familiar with the matter. It comes in addition to
  
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• Key Bridge collapse: Port channel reopening on target, governor says

  01-05-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  A temporary shipping channel is expected to reopen at a greater depth to commercial vessel traffic at the Port of Baltimore around May 10, as salvage crews continue to work to free the Dali freighter from the wreckage from the Francis Scott Key Bridge, officials said Tuesday.
  The Dali struck a key support pillar of the bridge March 26, sending it plummeting into the Patapsco River and killing six construction workers who had been repairing potholes on the span.
  Since then, the mammoth cargo ship
  
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• Experts fear ‘catastrophic’ college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout

  01-05-2024 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By COLLIN BINKLEY | AP Education Writer
  WASHINGTON — The last thing standing between Ashnaelle Bijoux and her college dream is the FAFSA form — a financial aid application that’s supposed to help students go to college, but is blocking her instead. She has tried to submit it over and over. Every time, it fails to go through.
  “I feel overwhelmed and stressed out,” said Bijoux, 19. She came close to tears the last time she tried the form. “I feel like I’m
  
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• Former Google workers fired for protesting Israel deal file complaint claiming protected speech

  01-05-2024 20:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By Clare Duffy | CNN
  New York — Dozens of former Google workers filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday after they were fired or placed on administrative leave last month for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel’s government.
  The complaint accuses Google of retaliating against the workers for their “protected concerted activity, namely, participation (or perceived participation) in a peaceful, non-disruptive protest
  
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• ‘Women are scared and angry:’ The reality of the Florida’s new six-week abortion law sets in

  01-05-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  On Tuesday, the reality of Florida’s new six-week abortion ban hit the radar of pregnant women seeking care.
  At a Planned Parenthood clinic in West Palm Beach, doctors scrambled to provide abortions for anyone pregnant beyond six weeks. Women crowded into a waiting room, returning for a pill or surgical procedure. The men who brought them paced the parking lot or sat in cars watching for the women to emerge.
  Yet, even with the scramble, the clinic turned some women away, a glimpse into the
  
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• UC Irvine pro-Palestinian encampment makes preparations following clashes overnight at UCLA

  01-05-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  UC Irvine students at a pro-Palestinian encampment were preparing Wednesday morning, May 1, for possible counter-protestors to arrive on campus as a violent clash that occurred overnight at UCLA has raised fears.
  “We are getting prepared,” said Sarah Khalil, a student organizer. “We don’t want to be caught by surprise.”
  Supplies are stacked up at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up at UC Irvine in Irvine, CA on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orang
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting Speaker Johnson

  01-05-2024 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult showdown after Democratic leaders announced they would provide the votes to save the Republican speaker’s job.
  Speaking outside the Capitol, Greene ranted against Republican Party leaders at the highest levels and pushed back against their pub
  
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• 5 best things I ate at Disneyland’s Pixar Fest

  01-05-2024 20:32 via ocregister.com
  
  The return of Pixar Fest to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure brings a menu of new Pixar-inspired dishes ranging from a decadent Cars-themed devil food cake to a BBQ Potato Dog that’s equal parts Mr. Potato Head and Slinky Dog.
  Pixar Fest runs through Aug. 4 at the Anaheim theme parks with more than 100 Pixar-themed foods and drinks available throughout the seasonal event.
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• Musk firing Tesla Supercharger team undercuts Biden’s ‘big deal’ for EVs

  01-05-2024 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  By Craig Trudell | Bloomberg
  Elon Musk has upended a deal the White House saluted early last year to open Tesla’s electric-vehicle chargers to other automakers, dealing a blow to President Joe Biden’s EV agenda.
  Musk decided in the last week to eliminate almost the entire Supercharger team at Tesla, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News on Tuesday. The CEO hasn’t publicly confirmed the move or offered a rationale, but has said the company will slow the expansion
  
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• Takeaways from the start of week 2 of testimony in Trump’s hush money trial

  01-05-2024 20:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ, COLLEEN LONG and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (Associated Press)
  NEW YORK (AP) — The first week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial was the scene-setter for jurors. This week, prosecutors are working on filling in the details of how they say he pulled off a scheme to bury damaging stories to protect his 2016 presidential campaign.
  Related ArticlesNational Politics | Trump’s comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to d
  
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• Fed says interest rates will stay at 2-decade high until inflation cools further

  01-05-2024 20:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By Christopher Rugaber | The Associated Press
  The Federal Reserve on Wednesday emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn’t plan to cut interest rates until it has “greater confidence” that price increases are slowing sustainably to its 2% target.
  The Fed issued its decision in a statement after its latest meeting, at which it kept its key rate at a two-decade high of roughly 5.3%. Several hotter-than-expected reports on prices and
  
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• What marijuana reclassification means for the United States

  01-05-2024 20:20 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jennifer Peltz and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannabis, but wouldn’t legalize it for recreational use.
  The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III.”
  So what does that mea
  
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• California passed a law to stop ‘pay to play’ in local politics. After two years, legislators want to gut it

  01-05-2024 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By BY YUE STELLA YU | CalMatters
  Described by its author as the “most significant political reform” in decades, a 2022 law designed to limit businesses’ and contractors’ attempts to sway local elected officials with campaign contributions cleared the California Legislature without a single “no” vote.
  Two years later, some of the same legislators who backed the measure want to water it down — and they have the backing of developers and labor unions.
  Sen.
  
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• Jail threat hangs over Trump as he returns to the campaign trail

  01-05-2024 19:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By Adriana Gomes Licon, Scott Bauer and Michelle L. Price | Associated Press
  WAUKESHA, Wis. — Donald Trump on Wednesday is using a one-day break from his hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order.
  His remarks are being closely watched after he received a $9,000 fine for making public statements about people connected to the case. In imposing the
  
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• Police arrest dozens of Cal Poly Humboldt protesters, journalist

  01-05-2024 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  In the early hours of Tuesday morning, about 25 people were arrested after a convergence of over 100 police officers in riot gear arrived at the Cal Poly Humboldt Gaza occupation. The riot police arrived around 2:30 a.m. No injuries were reported by the university or a legal observer on Tuesday.
  Around 9 p.m. Monday a police car playing a prerecorded message arrived, warning protesters they were in an unlawful assembly and those remaining could be subject to projectiles and chemicals. For the ne
  
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• Netanyahu juggles cease-fire, split cabinet as Blinken visits

  01-05-2024 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By Galit Altstein, Bloomberg News
  As the U.S. Secretary of State worked toward a Gaza cease-fire on a visit to Israel Wednesday, a major Tel Aviv newspaper offered a front-page summary of his challenge: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with key cabinet colleagues and the headline “Who’s in charge here?”
  On one side was hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir saying if Israel doesn’t invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Netanyahu “understands perfec
  
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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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• More public colleges admit high schoolers even before they’ve applied

  01-05-2024 19:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Elaine S. Povich, Stateline.org
  For some ninth-graders near Fresno, California, the invitation — years before they’ll don a cap and gown — comes out of the blue: You’ve been accepted to Fresno State, the letter says.
  Public universities across the country increasingly are sending such acceptance letters even before students apply to college. In more than a third of states, at least one public university now uses “direct admission” programs that automat
  
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• Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs

  01-05-2024 19:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jim Robbins, KFF Health News
  For decades, concerns about automobile pollution have focused on what comes out of the tailpipe. Now, researchers and regulators say, we need to pay more attention to toxic emissions from tires as vehicles roll down the road.
  At the top of the list of worries is a chemical called 6PPD, which is added to rubber tires to help them last longer. When tires wear on pavement, 6PPD is released. It reacts with ozone to become a different chemical, 6PPD-q, which can be ext
  
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• The 150th Kentucky Derby is Saturday – here’s what you need to know

  01-05-2024 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Twenty horses stampeding 1¼ around Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May. The Kentucky Derby turns 150 years old this year, extending its run as America’s longest continuously held sporting event.
  The 2-minute race features a dash out of the starting gate, especially for the horses breaking from posts 15-20 whose jockeys want to angle them in to save ground. There’s a scramble for positioning going into the first turn before the field stretches out on the backside. The
  
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• Trump’s comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack

  01-05-2024 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALI SWENSON (Associated Press)
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented the possibility that Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time in a week the former president has invoked the ongoing campus protests to downplay past examples of right-wing violence.
  Speaking in the hallway outside a Manhattan courtroom where his criminal hush money trial is ta
  
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• Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

  01-05-2024 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER (Associated Press)
  PHOENIX (AP) — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he’s moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana.
  Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has made a number of election year moves intended to appeal in particular to younger voters. His move toward reclassif
  
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• Nearly 50 years later, Asian American and Pacific Islander month features revelry and racial justice

  01-05-2024 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By TERRY TANG (Associated Press)
  It has been almost 50 years since the U.S. government established that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and their accomplishments should be recognized annually across the nation.
  What started as just one week in May has evolved over the decades into a monthlong tribute of events in cities big and small. The nature of celebrations also evolved. Asian American and Pacific Islander or Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Herita
  
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• A woman might win the presidency of Mexico. What could that mean for abortion rights?

  01-05-2024 18:41 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ (Associated Press)
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency on June 2, would she rule with gender in mind?
  The question has been raised by academics, humans rights organizations and activists ahead of the voting that will likely elect Mexico’s first female president for the term 2024-2030.
  Out of three candidates, the frontrunner is Claudia Sheinbaum, who has promised to keep President Andrés Manuel López Obrad
  
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• 33 free fun things to do in Southern California in May

  01-05-2024 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Yes, the sun is finally out, so let’s go and enjoy it!
  Here’s our list of fun things to do in May that are really free! (And really fun.)
  FREE ON CERTAIN DATES
  The Queen Mary’s historic Observation Bar, featuring its Art Deco lounge, reopened to the public on Friday, May 19, 2023, in Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
  The Queen Mary, Long Beach (Tuesdays): Enjoy free ship admission on Tuesdays in May during the “Meet me at the Mary&rdqu
  
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• California’s population growth: ‘We’re back!’

  01-05-2024 17:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Three years ago, as COVID-19 ravaged the nation, California’s population did something it had not done in the state’s recorded history: It fell.
  At the time, the state, the most populous in the nation, had just under 40 million people. The decline, while a blow, was not unexpected. Growth had been slowing for some time. The Trump administration had put the brakes on legal immigration. The pandemic was cutting a brutal swath through the state, particularly among seniors. As remote-wor
  
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• San Juan Capistrano’s Arroyo Birdhouse Park re-opens after renovations

  01-05-2024 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  San Juan Capistrano‘s newly renovated Arroyo Birdhouse Park is ready for new nests.
  The city reopened the park last week after taking it over from the community in November to update birdhouses and enhance the landscape. The park, a local fixture for decades, is known for its eclectic birdhouses, handmade statues and various mementos contributed by residents over the years.
  The newly-redone Arroyo Bird Park next to the San Juan Creek Trail in San Juan Capistrano, CA, on Tuesday, April 30,
  
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• California’s endless housing conflicts grow

  01-05-2024 17:41 via ocregister.com
  
  New fronts constantly open in California’s political guerrilla war between state and local officials over housing.
  The Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have issued a steady stream of laws and regulations aimed at forcing the state’s nearly 500 cities to embrace housing development, particularly apartments for low-income families.
  Communities that shun such housing, saying it degrades the bucolic ambience of their neighborhoods, respond by dragging their feet, challenging the state&
  
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• Fans react to the Bee Guy at Dodgers game

  01-05-2024 17:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Tuesday’s Dodgers game against the Diamondbacks was delayed by nearly two hours after a bee colony took over the netting near home plate at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
  Related: Diamondbacks sting Dodgers’ bullpen for extra-inning win
  But for many fans watching from both at home and in person there was plenty of anticipation about what to do about the bees.
  Enter beekeeper Matt Hilton.MVP has arrived pic.twitter.com/yLeB6KDH8Z
  — Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) May 1, 2024H
  
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