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• Obama takes the stage at rally in Anaheim

  08-09-2018 10:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama took to the stage on Saturday, Sept. 8 at an invitation-only rally in the Anaheim Convention Center, an event aimed at helping seven California Democratic Congressional candidates win Republican seats in November.
  The rally began at 10:15 a.m. Obama appeared shortly after noon, standing at a podium labeled #TakeitBack.
  Former President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally to support seven Democratic California congressional candidates at the Anaheim Convention Ce
  
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• First look at Disneyland steakhouse coming to Downtown Disney

  12-11-2024 23:00 via ocregister.com
  
  A Michelin-starred chef will bring his old school Italian-American New York City restaurant to Downtown Disney when he opens a new steakhouse at the Anaheim outdoor shopping mall next to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
  New York City celebrity chef Joe Isidori will open the Arthur & Sons Steak and Bourbon steakhouse and Pearl’s Roadside BBQ barbecue joint on the footprint of the former Tortilla Jo’s location in Downtown Disney.
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• Lakers’ Anthony Davis says his eye is ‘fine’, plans to play Wednesday

  12-11-2024 22:40 via ocregister.com
  
  EL SEGUNDO — Lakers star big man Anthony Davis said after Tuesday’s practice that his left eye is “fine” and that he’ll be available for Wednesday’s home game against the Memphis Grizzlies.
  ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported that Davis had his eye examined by an ophthalmologist Monday, with Davis saying he was cleared to play.
  “Nothing happens next,” Davis said, with his left eye notably red. “I go about my days like I would any other day.
  
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• Orange County boys athlete of the week: Anthony Abad, Sonora

  12-11-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County boys athlete of the week:
  Name: Anthony Abad
  School: Sonora
  Sport: Football
  Year: Senior
  Noteworthy: He rushed for 311 yards and four touchdowns on 35 carries in the Raiders’ 41-25 win over Alemany in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 9 playoffs. Abad (5-9, 175) this season has rushed for 1,920 yards and 25 touchdowns. He is averaging 8 yards a carry. Sonora (6-5) plays Quartz Hill (8-3) in the CIF-SS quarterfinals Friday at La Habra High.
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• Foothill football coach Doug Case not ready to ‘graduate’ after special playoff win

  12-11-2024 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowFoothill football coach Doug Case achieved a goal on his bucket list last month by participating in his team’s Senior Night activities.
  Accompanied by his wife Sonja, Case joined about 40 seniors and was recognized before a home game. Case, who announced in the summer that he will retire after this season, gladly posed for photographs after his turn.
  “It was pretty cool,” he said. &ldquo
  
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• Angels sign catcher Travis d’Arnaud to 2-year deal

  12-11-2024 22:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The Angels added veteran catcher Travis d’Arnaud on a two-year, $12 million deal, giving them a more experienced backup to pair with starter Logan O’Hoppe.
  General manager Perry Minasian said the Angels haven’t decided what they will do with Matt Thaiss, the backup catcher last season. They could keep three catchers, because Thaiss can also play first and third, or they could trade him.
  D’Arnaud, 35, hit .238 with 15 homers and a .739 OPS in 99 games with the Braves last
  
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• Holiday flights are cheaper this year — here’s how to book smart

  12-11-2024 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  By Laurie Baratti, TravelPulse (TNS)
  The end-of-year holidays are fast approaching and, whether you’re planning a traditional trip back to the family homestead or an escape to a sun-drenched beach, having the inside track on when and how to book your holiday travel can save you substantial amounts of stress and money. But the windows for snagging flight deals for the upcoming holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s, are by and large closed by the end of O
  
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• Violent attacks on Jews in Amsterdam should horrify the civilized world

  12-11-2024 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Recent scenes from Amsterdam were horrifying. Violence continued this week throughout the typically placid city after pro-Palestinian rioters violently attacked Jewish fans of the soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv. Palestinian supporters allege Israeli soccer fans instigated the riots, but news reports suggest it was orchestrated in advance via social media.
  Rioters burned trams and participated in what one Dutch official called a “Jew hunt.” In the latest news, the Israeli airline El Al
  
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• Don’t throw out expired COVID-19 tests, FDA says

  12-11-2024 21:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Morayo Ogunbayo | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  You probably have a cabinet full of rapid COVID-19 tests you’ve accumulated. The expiration dates have come closer and closer, with some tests even reaching them.
  The Food and Drug Administration, however, has said those expiration dates are subject to change, providing a list of the tests that have had their dates extended.
  COVID-19 rapid antigen tests allow people to check for SARS-CoV-2 infections without help from professionals.
  
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• Kings need to show more against Avalanche in Colorado

  12-11-2024 21:52 via ocregister.com
  
  From the NHL city nearest the Canadian Rockies to the front yard of the American Rockies, the Kings left Calgary for Colorado on their mountainous two-step of a road trip.
  They fell 2-1 in Calgary, in a game wherein they didn’t get their first shot until more than 11 minutes into the match and immediately surrendered a two-on-one rush against. That was a microcosm of an effort in which the Kings had little fire against the Flames for much of the night.
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• Certifying this year’s presidential results begins quietly, in contrast to the 2020 election

  12-11-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press
  ATLANTA (AP) — Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.
  Georgia is the first of the presidential battleground states to start certifying, with local election boards scheduled to vote throughout th
  
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• STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall in US

  12-11-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.
  The numbers represented some good news about sexually transmitted diseases, which experienced some alarming increases in past years due to declining condom use, inadequate sex education, and reduced testing and treatment when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
  Last year, cases of the most inf
  
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• 19-year-old arrested in fatal shooting of boy, 16, in Anaheim park

  12-11-2024 21:47 via ocregister.com
  
  A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of shooting to death a 16-year-old boy at an Anaheim park over the weekend.
  The shooting occurred Sunday evening, Nov. 10, in the parking lot area of John Marshall Park, at 2001 W. La Palma Ave. The boy was confronted by a group of suspects when one pulled out a handgun and shot him, Anaheim police said.
  It was unclear if the boy was alone when he was approached. The teen, whose name was not released, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died at a
  
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• How to go cashless while also avoiding credit card debt

  12-11-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kimberly Palmer and Sara Rathner, NerdWallet
  Consumers broke up with cash during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it doesn’t appear that they’re rushing to reconcile.
  Before the pandemic, Steffen Kaplan, a social media and visual consultant in the New York area, preferred using cash to credit cards. When we spoke in September 2020, he said cash helped him avoid overspending, but the coronavirus changed his spending habits.
  “I don’t carry cash around with me anymore,” K
  
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• 8 Downtown Disney shops and restaurants announce opening dates

  12-11-2024 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Downtown Disney will open a bunch of new retailers and restaurants just in time for the Christmas shopping season as the Anaheim outdoor mall begins wrapping up another round of construction while work continues on other projects.
  Disneyland announced opening dates and timeframes for eight shops, restaurants and bars in Downtown Disney.
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• Cal State Fullerton experts expect a slowdown from the current economic upsweep

  12-11-2024 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Even Cal State Fullerton’s esteemed economists, Anil Puri and Mira Farka, acknowledge being a bit perplexed when trying to make sense on why the U.S. economy hasn’t slipped into a recession, given the uncertainty stemming from a litany of occurrences.
  These include an aggressive rate hike, high inflation, rising geopolitical risks, a banking panic and a contentious presidential race.
  “The script was so dark, few expected the U.S. economy to remain unscathed,” the economis
  
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• NCAA hits USC football with 1-year probation for coaching violations

  12-11-2024 21:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — USC football has been placed on one year’s probation, the NCAA announced Tuesday, after an investigation found the program violated NCAA rules around analysts engaging in on- and off-field coaching activities in 2022 and 2023.
  The investigation, conducted through the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Infractions, found that head coach Lincoln Riley “violated head coach responsibility rules,” the NCAA wrote in a release. Riley, however, will not be subject
  
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• San Diego is getting a new nonstop flight to a major overseas destination

  12-11-2024 21:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Starting in May of next year, San Diego’s international airport will get its third nonstop to a major European destination — Amsterdam.
  Operating the three-times-a-week flight between San Diego and Amsterdam will be KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, beginning May 8. The new route, announced Tuesday, marks San Diego’s first new nonstop to Europe in two years. Lufthansa Airlines currently offers a daily flight to Munich, and British Airways flies twice a day between San Diego and London.
  
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• Why Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham covered the debut ‘Buckingham Nicks’ LP

  12-11-2024 20:34 via ocregister.com
  
  From the moment Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham started to sing and play at the Troubadour one night at the end of September, the audience listened in rapt attention.
  The occasion? One of the first full performances of the two singer-songwriters’ new collaboration, the album “Cunningham Bird,” a track-by-track reimagining of “Buckingham Nicks,” the 1973 debut of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.
  At the time, it earned the on-and-off lovers an invitation to joi
  
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• Two Sabrina Carpenter pop-ups are coming to Los Angeles

  12-11-2024 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Fans who feel like there are miles, time and mountains between them and pop star Sabrina Carpenter will get their chance to get a little closer to something short and sweet.
  A “Short n’ Sweet” Café pop-up is coming to West Hollywood’s Verve Coffee Roasters located at 8925 Melrose Avenue. The event, which also popped up in Chicago and New York, draws inspiration from her latest album. It will be open from Nov. 15 through 17, around the same dates as her performances
  
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• First look at Porto’s restaurant and bar coming to Downtown Disney

  12-11-2024 20:22 via ocregister.com
  
  The oft-delayed Porto’s Bakery coming to Downtown Disney will feature a table service restaurant and a full bar — a pair of firsts for the Cuban sweets and treats foodie phenom that was announced two years ago but has been stalled ever since.
  Concept art of the new Porto’s offers the first look at the eatery taking over the former La Brea Bakery location on the east end of the outdoor shopping mall next door to Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
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• Haiti’s main airport and capital frozen a day after a plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON and MEGAN JANETSKY
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main airport remained closed Tuesday, a day after gangs shot a landing airplane and injured a flight attendant when violence erupted as the country swore in its new prime minister in a politically tumultuous transition.
  Life in much of Haiti’s capital was frozen after the wave of violence, which came to a head when gangs shot a Spirit Airlines airplane Monday, forcing the airport to shut down. Photos and vid
  
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• FAA prohibits US airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot a Spirit Airlines flight.
  The bullets hit the plane when it was about to land Monday in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, hitting a flight attendant. It was part of a wave of violence that erupted in Haiti as the country swore in its new prime minister after a politically tumultuous process.
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• FAA prohibits US airlines from flying to Haiti and UN suspends flights after plane was shot by gangs

  12-11-2024 19:57 via ocregister.com
  
  By EVENS SANON
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot a Spirit Airlines flight and the United Nations said it will suspend flights, “obviously limiting the flow of humanitarian aid and humanitarian personnel into the country.”
  The bullets hit the plane when it was about to land Monday in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince, injuring a flight a
  
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• Biden helped propel billions into U.S. transportation. Trump’s administration could roll back that historic momentum.

  12-11-2024 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Whether it’s for planes, trains or automobiles, transportation projects in California have built a reputation for being slow and expensive.
  That’s why it was big news when Golden State railroads were injected with nearly $280 million in federal grant funding last month — just a sliver of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s multibillion-dollar, multiyear effort to spur transit construction projects after decades of underinvestment.
  On Oct. 29, the Federal Railroad Admi
  
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• Recipe: Endive ‘boats’ are the perfect vessels for tasty appetizers

  12-11-2024 19:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Belgian endive leaves are an inviting vessel to hold a wide assortment of flavorful fillings. I like to call these appetizers “boats,” and stuff them with a mix of parsley, green olives, toasted walnuts or pecans, and feta cheese.
  Pomegranate molasses adds a lovely sweet-sour spark to the mix. It’s sold at Middle Eastern markets and in many natural food stores. If unavailable, substitute balsamic vinegar.
  Endive Boats with Green Olives, Parsley and Walnut Salad
  Yield: About 24
  
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• Trump spends first week as president-elect behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago

  12-11-2024 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JILL COLVIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For a man who loves the spotlight, Donald Trump has been conspicuously out of view since his triumph in last week’s presidential election.
  There have been no rallies, no press conferences, no speeches. Instead, Trump has spent most of his first week as president-elect behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, where he’s working the phones, reconnecting with foreign leaders and building his new administrat
  
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• Can the collection agency harass me like this? Ask the lawyer

  12-11-2024 19:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: We have an ongoing dispute with our credit card company. We keep getting letters and emails from a collection agency, with a deadline to pay or they will grab our wages and hurt our credit. Is the collection agency legally allowed to threaten us time and again?
  G.E., El Segundo
  Ron Sokol
  A: The Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the California Rosenthal Act each proscribe certain conduct by debt collectors. The Rosenthal Act is a bit broader because it applies to original creditor
  
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• US says it will not limit Israel arms transfers after some improvements in flow of aid to Gaza

  12-11-2024 19:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE, JULIA FRANKEL and SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says Israel has made good but limited progress in increasing the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza and it will not limit arms transfers to Israel as it had threatened to a month ago if the situation had not improved.
  State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said Tuesday the progress to date must be supplemented and sustained but “we at this time have not made an asse
  
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• What is the 4B movement and why are some women in America paying attention to it?

  12-11-2024 18:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Maria Salette Ontiveros | (TNS) The Dallas Morning News
  After President-elect Donald Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day, online search trends reveal a surge of interest in a new movement in the United States.
  The 4B movement, which aims to “decenter men” from women’s lives, began as a feminist initiative in South Korea and has since gained traction on platforms like TikTok and X.
  The term 4B movement went
  
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