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• Election results are bad news for the California High-Speed Rail project

  08-11-2024 18:46 via ocregister.com
  
  The changing of the guard in Washington, D.C. on January 20 will likely complicate the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plans to fund construction of its Early Operating Segment in the Central Valley. A new administration, hostile to California generally and rail funding in particular, will be less willing than its predecessor to offer additional grant funding. Rather than wait out the new administration and hope for better results in 2028, now would be a good time for the Authority,
  
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• Previews for Saturday’s inaugural CIF-SS girls flag football championships

  08-11-2024 22:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCIF-SS GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
  A preview of Saturday’s inaugural CIF-SS finals at El Modena High
  All games to be streamed live on NFHS Network
  DIVISION 1
  NEWPORT HARBOR (25-2) VS. ORANGE LUTHERAN (22-2), 4:45 p.m.
  Outlook: The top-two ranked teams in the nation collide for a historic section title and national bragging rights. The Lancers, No. 1 in MaxPreps’ national fall rankings, w
  
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• They moved in 2 weeks ago. Now the family home they inherited is gone in the Mountain fire

  08-11-2024 22:35 via ocregister.com
  
  The Bibby family watched the flames lick at their car doors as they drove away from the home they had just inherited in the hills of Camarillo. Ken and Brittanie had barely enough time to evacuate with their 15-month-old son,  mother and grandmother, and two dogs.
  That was pretty much all they had with them.
  The Bibbys had returned to California just two weeks prior, after over four years in Arizona. They were settling into the house that was left to them by Brittanie’s family.
  Around
  
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• The man behind the voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve got mail’ greeting dies at 74

  08-11-2024 22:32 via ocregister.com
  
  By John Seewer | The Associated Press
  Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74.
  He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather Edwards. The cause was complications from a stroke late last year, she said.
  Edwards taped his AOL greeting in 1989 into a recorder while sitting in the living room of his home. “You’ve got mail” became a pop culture catchphrase in
  
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• Toyota exec lashes out at US regulations promoting EV sales

  08-11-2024 22:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By Chester Dawson | Bloomberg
  Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American chief operating officer criticized US policies promoting speedy adoption of electric vehicles, calling them “de facto mandates” out of sync with consumer demand.
  Noting government support for EVs has been a hotly debated issue in the US presidential election, Toyota North America COO Jack Hollis said sales of all-electric vehicles should grow organically, without rules penalizing gas-powered car sales.
  “The
  
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• Trump’s win brings uncertainty to borrowers hoping for student loan forgiveness

  08-11-2024 22:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY
  Savannah Britt owes about $27,000 on loans she took out to attend college at Rutgers University, a debt she was hoping to see reduced by President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts.
  Her payments are currently on hold while courts untangle challenges to the loan forgiveness program. But as the weeks tick down on Biden’s time in office, she could soon face a monthly payment of up to $250.
  “With this new administration, the dream is gone. It’s
  
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• Goldman Sachs, Carlyle CEOs race to $50 million bonuses with Trump win

  08-11-2024 21:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By Sridhar Natarajan | Bloomberg
  Donald Trump’s return to the White House is already starting to tee up a deluge of bonuses in Wall Street’s corridors of power.
  At Goldman Sachs Group, the prospect that investment banks and buyout shops will again be among the top beneficiaries of Trump’s regulatory and tax agenda has sent its stock price soaring. If the gains hold over coming weeks, it will trigger a key threshold for David Solomon to eventually collect a special payout, which
  
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• Trump’s election may usher in leadership change at FBI

  08-11-2024 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lavished Christopher Wray with praise when he named him FBI director in 2017, introducing him as an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.”
  So much has changed in the seven years since.
  With Trump poised to reclaim the White House, Wray’s days as director may be numbered. Though the director’s job carries a 10-year term, Trump’s blistering and repeated criticism of his own appointe
  
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• Zuckerberg avoids personal liability in Meta addiction lawsuits

  08-11-2024 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  By Madlin Mekelburg | Bloomberg
  A federal judge again rejected a bid to hold Mark Zuckerberg individually liable in two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products.
  US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the cases, sided with the Meta chief executive officer on Thursday, finding that a revised complaint still wasn’t legally sufficient to proceed. The decision dismisses Zuckerberg as an individual
  
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• Who is Susie Wiles, Donald Trump’s new White House chief of staff?

  08-11-2024 21:42 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With her selection as President-elect Donald Trump ‘s incoming White House chief of staff, veteran Florida political strategist Susie Wiles moves from a largely behind-the-scenes role of campaign co-chair to the high-profile position of the president’s closest adviser and counsel.
  She’s been in political circles for years. But who is Wiles, the operative set to be the first woman to step into the powerful role of White Ho
  
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• Silky Sullivan’s Irish Pub in Fountain Valley will remain open until Nov. 25

  08-11-2024 21:17 via ocregister.com
  
  People who want to have a final meal and last look at Silky Sullivan’s Irish Pub at its current location will have more time to drop by as the restaurant will stay open a little longer. The 40-year-old Fountain Valley institution is now set to serve its final meal on Monday, Nov. 25.
  “We’re looking to plan on reopening, though, our focus right now is getting out of here,” said Bill Madden, one of Silky Sullivan’s owners.
  Although his longstanding restaurant-slash-un
  
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• Feds allocate $2.5 million for Fullerton Police Station restoration

  08-11-2024 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  The city of Fullerton will receive $3.5 million in federal funding for infrastructure, including the rehabilitation of its historic police station and renovation of a well to ensure clean drinking water.
  Many consider Fullerton’s police station, a Spanish Colonial Revival building with terra cotta roofing and a courtyard adorned with glazed ceramic tiles, to be a jewel of the city. But, it’s falling apart.
  Deterioration is visible at the Fullerton Police Station in Fullerton on Wedne
  
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• USC President Carol Folt to retire at end of academic year 

  08-11-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  USC President Carol Folt, who took over the university nearly five years ago to bring stability following a sweeping admissions scandal but came under fire last year like many other U.S. academic leaders during pro-Palestinian campus protests, announced Friday that she will retire as president in July at the end of the academic year.
  “Serving as the twelfth president of the University of Southern California is one of the greatest privileges of my life,” Folt wrote in a message Friday
  
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• Angels SS Zach Neto undergoes right shoulder surgery

  08-11-2024 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Angels shortstop Zach Neto underwent surgery this week on his right shoulder, which may cause him to miss the start of the season.
  General manager Perry Minasian said Friday that Neto tried to rehab the injury for the first month of the offseason but was still feeling some discomfort, leading to surgery.
  Minasian would not elaborate on how much of the season that Neto might miss.
  Neto was injured on a slide late in the season, but he returned to action.
  The Angels have newly acquired Scott Kinge
  
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• Iowa at UCLA football: Who has the edge?

  08-11-2024 20:33 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA (3-5, 2-4 Big Ten) vs. Iowa (6-3, 4-2 Big Ten)
  When: 6 p.m. Friday
  Where: Rose Bowl
  TV/radio: Fox (Ch. 11) /570 AM
  Line: Iowa by 6.5
  What’s at stake? UCLA is coming off consecutive victories for the first time this season, winning two Big Ten Conference games on the road. But the Bruins have yet to win at home in 2024, so a victory in front of the home crowd would go a long way in turning this season’s narrative around. After a 1-5 start, a UCLA win against Iowa on Fri
  
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• Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress

  08-11-2024 20:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By Fred Clasen-Kelly, Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News (TNS)
  KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients.
  There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years after catching COVID-19, still is too weak to drive.
  Louvenia McKinney, 77, arrived complaining about shortness of breath.
  Ponzella McClary brought her 83-year-old mother-in-law, Lula, who has memory issues and had recently taken a fall.
  
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• From surprise guests to viral moments: the best of Camp Flog Gnaw ahead of its 10 year anniversary

  08-11-2024 20:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, returning to Dodger Stadium on November 16-17, is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary. What started as a collection of ideas in a notebook belonging to Tyler Gregory Okonma, aka Tyler, The Creator—Los Angeles’ own rapper, producer, and creative powerhouse—has evolved into one of the city’s most eagerly awaited festivals.
  In 2012, Tyler debuted Camp Flog Gnaw as the OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) Carnival, in a parking lot at The No
  
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• AVP set to crown inaugural league champions in Carson

  08-11-2024 20:03 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The inaugural AVP League Championship will take place this weekend at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, as the league’s top four teams battle for the title. In order of seeding, the New York Nitro, Dallas Dream, Miami Mayhem and San Diego Smash will compete in single-elimination playoffs.
  Each of those four teams had to navigate a slew of innovations in the league’s first season.
  Men’s and women’s duos were paired together to represent eight re
  
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• As nuns disappear, many Catholic hospitals look more like megacorporations

  08-11-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAMANTHA LISS, KFF Health News, TNS
  ST. LOUIS — Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association.
  Nuns founded and led those hospitals in a mission to treat sick and poor people, but some were also shrewd business leaders. Sister Irene Kraus, a former chief executive of Daughters of Charity National Health System, was famous for coining the phrase “no margin
  
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• Letter: The American people prevailed over the leftist media and radical elites

  08-11-2024 19:41 via ocregister.com
  
  What a wonderful feeling watching the radical left-wing Biden administration, the media machine and the liberal Hollywood Elite receive a crushing blow by President Donald Trump.
  Their bogus lawsuits, nonstop attacks on the former president, and ridiculous assaults by Democratic pundits and late-night TV hosts are now in ashes.
  The post-election finger pointing is pure enjoyment for me and so many others; must see TV.
  This election was a mandate driven by voters who believe in common sense over
  
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• Vintage surfboards give insight into sport’s past at “The Big One”

  08-11-2024 19:40 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s a gathering to celebrate surfing’s rich past, but also a way to keep its history alive and relevant for the next generation of board riders.
  The Vintage Surfboard Collector Club will hit the Hobie Surf Shop in Dana Point on Sunday, Nov. 10, with hundreds of boards and other surf memorabilia dating back decades on display and up for sale.
  The surf club meets a few times a year at various locations from Santa Barbara to San Diego, but each November hosts “The Big One,”
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm adds a few new surprises this Christmas holiday season

  08-11-2024 19:38 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Merry Farm returns this holiday season with a lineup of Christmas shows, an ice skating spectacular, live music and a visit from Santa Claus that transforms the park into a winter wonderland with a nightly forecast of soapy snowflakes.
  Knott’s Merry Farm kicks off on Nov. 22 and runs through Jan. 5 at the Buena Park theme park with a host of holiday shows, entertainment, food, merchandise and decor.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and intere
  
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• Dan Albano’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Nov. 8

  08-11-2024 19:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOCVarsity’s Dan Albano votes weekly in the Orange County football Top 25 poll.
  Here is how he voted this week for the Top 25 and his “Next 10” teams:
  ALBANO’S TOP 25 BALLOT
  1. Mater Dei (9-0) idle Friday, Nov. 8
  2. Mission Viejo (10-0) idle
  3. Orange Lutheran (7-3) idle
  4. JSerra (6-4) idle
  5. Santa Margarita (4-6) vs. Inglewood
  6. Servite (6-4) at Sierra Canyon
  7. San Juan Hills (
  
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• Trump 2.0 will alter global climate fighting efforts. Will others step up?

  08-11-2024 19:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Donald Trump was elected president and withdrew the United States from an international climate agreement. Other countries, states, cities and businesses picked up some of the slack.
  But numerous experts worry that a second Trump term will be more damaging, with the United States withdrawing even further from climate efforts in a way that could cripple future p
  
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• In an Israeli settlement named after Trump, residents see opportunity after the election

  08-11-2024 19:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By SAM MCNEIL
  RAMAT TRUMP, Golan Heights (AP) — Israeli residents of “Trump Heights” are welcoming the election of their namesake, hoping Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency will breathe new life into this tiny, remote settlement in the central Golan Heights.
  During his first term, Trump became the first and only foreign leader to recognize Israel’s control of the Golan, which it seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel thanked him by rebranding th
  
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• The US election was largely trouble-free, but a flood of misinformation raises future concerns

  08-11-2024 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and DAVID KLEPPER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A relatively trouble-free presidential election was good news for those working to restore faith in the system. Less encouraging was a flood of misinformation that sought to undermine trust in voting and sow chaos, something experts say is likely to get worse in the years ahead.
  The most significant test for officials on Election Day was a series of bomb threats reported in five battleground states, some of which forced polling pl
  
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• How Cowboy Bebop LIVE takes fans across the galaxy with a funky jazz ensemble

  08-11-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Corey Paul’s dream of leading a live funky jazz ensemble that nodded to the intergalactic noir-western series “Cowboy Bebop” seemed like a far-out fantasy. Now it’s a reality, and the show’s hitting venues across Southern California this November.
  In the early aughts, Paul was an avid viewer of Toonami, a Cartoon Network programming block focused mainly on broadcasting Japanese animations. Some of its early weekly showings featured popular animes such as “Sail
  
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• Republicans make major gains in control of state governments

  08-11-2024 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  By KEVIN HARDY, Stateline.org, TNS
  OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Before the election results began rolling in, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly took the stage, confident that Democrats could break the long-held Republican supermajority that has thwarted many of her legislative priorities.
  “If we do that, you will not only make my life better, you will make the life of every Kansan better,” Kelly told supporters Tuesday.
  But despite the governor’s optimism and the efforts of her $2 million
  
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• California’s tax revolt still alive as Proposition 5 goes down to defeat

  08-11-2024 18:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Many election contests in California are not final as ballots are still being counted, but it appears that Proposition 5, which would have made it easier to raise property taxes, is going down in flames. This is great news for California homeowners.
  Here are some observations about this welcome taxpayer victory. First, the opposition campaign, led by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association initiative committee Protect Proposition 13, No on 5, was well organized. Our effort to educate voters as t
  
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• Trump victory spurs worry among migrants abroad, but it’s not expected to halt migration

  08-11-2024 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARÍA VERZA, FERNANDA PESCE and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election instantly changed calculations for millions of migrants or potential migrants across the globe.
  But perhaps not in the way Trump imagined.
  Trump has pledged to reduce immigration. But by narrowing the already limited legal pathways into the U.S., migrants will just recalibrate their plans and resort in greater numbers to hiring smugglers,
  
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