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• Freeway rest areas are nifty –when they are open

  04-04-2025 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: I regularly travel the 10 Freeway between the Coachella Valley and the Arizona border. I have noticed that on a regular basis all of the rest stop areas are closed in both directions. Why can’t the state keep these open?
  – Dave Lazar, Cypress
  A: In California, if you need a pit stop, you often should think truck stop.
  Caltrans officials have told Honk over the years that rest stops are remote, so they can be difficult to get crews out to; the original water systems, some from the
  
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• Billionaires and CEOs bet on San Francisco’s cheap real estate

  16-04-2025 20:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Biz Carson | Bloomberg Markets
  In San Francisco’s financial district, the One Montgomery building evokes the opulence of America’s turn of the 20th century gilded age. With its Tuscan columns, marble staircases and bronze doors, the Renaissance Revival landmark once housed Crocker Bank, named after one of the tycoons who built the western portion of America’s first transcontinental railroad.
  These days, the property exemplifies the city’s shifting fortunes: Ghazi Shami
  
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• Editorial: California Legislature should drop latest attack on gig workers

  16-04-2025 20:12 via ocregister.com
  
  The point of gig work is independence. You set your own hours. It can be a full-time job, or part-time to pay for unexpected bills. It also means avoiding the rigid structure and rules of jobs controlled by union membership and collective bargaining agreements. 
  Such stifling regulations could strike under Assembly Bill 1340, by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, called the Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relations Act. The TNC companies affected are Uber and Lyft. The bill
  
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• Body cam footage, photos show conditions Gene Hackman, wife died in

  16-04-2025 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Authorities in northern New Mexico released police body camera video and other public records Tuesday in the investigation into the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. The two were found dead Feb. 26 in their Santa Fe home.
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• Newport Beach council majority not on board with tweaking housing element for ENC

  16-04-2025 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  A request to discuss removing the 1.5-acre former home of the Newport Bay Hospital from the cty’s housing element died Tuesday night, April 15, lacking majority support from the Newport Beach City Council.
  Councilmember Erik Weigand had asked for a straw vote of his colleagues and dozens of community members addressed the council in support.
  Weigand, representing the West Newport district where the property lies along 16th Street, had hoped to get support from the rest of the council
  
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• Vauhini Vara explores identity and AI in ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age’

  16-04-2025 19:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Vauhini Vara was not asked the following question, nor did the author provide the accompanying answer.
  Q: Vauhini, your new book “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age” takes an intriguing look at how our sense of identity is shaped by digital technologies. What inspired you to write this book?
  Vauhini Vara: I’ve been fascinated by the intersection of technology and identity for a long time. As we use the internet, we leave behind these digital traces—search history, soci
  
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• Wyoming Supreme Court to hear arguments over abortion bans struck down by a judge

  16-04-2025 19:52 via ocregister.com
  
  By MEAD GRUVER
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming abortion bans put on hold and struck down by a lower court judge, including the first explicit U.S. ban on abortion pills, will be argued Wednesday before the state’s Supreme Court.
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• These Easter eggs have been decorated by a small German community for thousands of years

  16-04-2025 19:51 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEFANIE DAZIO, FANNY BRODERSEN and MARKUS SCHREIBER
  SCHLEIFE, Germany (AP) — Anke Hanusch dips her tool into dark blue wax and dots it precisely on a yellow-dyed Easter egg in her hand. Back and forth, wax to egg, egg to wax, as the honeycomb pattern grows.
  The intricate motif means the egg will ultimately be a gift from a godparent to their godchild, to bestow diligence and a good work ethic upon the youngster.
  The tradition of decorating Easter eggs is part of the culture of the Slav
  
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• Powell says Federal Reserve can wait on any interest rate moves

  16-04-2025 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.
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• Fort Benning takes back its old name, but to honor a different soldier

  16-04-2025 19:35 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHARLOTTE KRAMON and RUSS BYNUM
  FORT BENNING (AP) — The Army has restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.
  A ceremony to make the name change official was held Wednesday at the base just outside Columbus. Roughly 70,000 soldiers, civilian workers and military family members are stationed at Fort Benning, which trains infantry troops and tank crews an
  
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• WHO member countries agree on a draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to try to avoid COVID-19 mistakes

  16-04-2025 19:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer
  LONDON (AP) — Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty” that sets guidelines for how the international community might confront the next global health crisis.
  After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty in 2021; ne
  
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• Vermont maple syrup makers face uncertainty amid Canada and China tariff chaos

  16-04-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SWINHART and PATRICK WHITTLE
  MORGAN, Vt. (AP) — Making maple syrup in New England’s fickle spring weather can be an unpredictable business. Now President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff policies are adding anxiety about an industry that depends on multinational trade.
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• BJ’s Restaurant introduces a Broccoli Cheddar Pizookie

  16-04-2025 19:17 via ocregister.com
  
  BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse’s latest Pizookie doesn’t sound like a dessert.
  The Huntington Beach-based restaurant chain will launch a limited-time item called the Broccoli Cheddar Pizookie on Thursday, April 17, according to a news release.
  The Pizookie, BJ’s signature dessert, is a warm deep-dish cookie topped with ice cream. BJ’s serves several, ranging from chocolate chip and sugar cookie to a hot fudge brownie and strawberry shortcake.
  The Broccoli Cheddar P
  
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• Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen goes to El Salvador to push for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release

  16-04-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATTHEW BROWN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen arrived in El Salvador Wednesday to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.
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• Israel says it will keep troops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. What does that mean?

  16-04-2025 19:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSEPH KRAUSS
  The Israeli defense minister says his country’s troops will stay in “security zones” in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.Israel says it needs to hold on to the zones to prevent similar attacks, but the takeovers appear to meet the dictionary definition of military occupation.
  The acquisition of territory by force is universally seen as a vio
  
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• Older Arizona voters are closely watching Trump’s tariffs — and their retirement accounts

  16-04-2025 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN J. COOPER
  SUN CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Susan Hemphill said she’s always been frugal with her spending. But the recent volatility in the stock market caused by President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs and an escalating trade war with China have made her even more cautious.
  These days, Hemphill is staying closer to home in Sun City, Arizona, a 55-and-older community near Phoenix. No more day trips to Sedona, the retired union organizer said, fighting tears as sh
  
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• UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people

  16-04-2025 19:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government.
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• UCLA gymnastics, back in the NCAA Championships, wants to ‘take it all’

  16-04-2025 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UCLA athletics staff piled into Yates Gym on Monday morning, pom poms in hand. The group assembled for a thunderous 8-clap as a sendoff for the Bruins gymnastics team as it prepares for the NCAA championships.
  The team huddled afterward for a chant even more powerful. At the end of it all, a singular voice shouted: “Who’s winning nationals?”
  “BRUINS,” the team shouted in reply. @haleymsawyerThe UCLA athletics staff came to gymnastics practice
  
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• The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson

  16-04-2025 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain.
  From a mother who lost her first-born baby, a son who never got to know his father, and a young man so badly injured that he still struggles to breathe, three decades have not healed the wounds from the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.
  The bombers
  
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• Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating deportation order

  16-04-2025 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  by ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador.
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• Protesters arrested, 1 subdued with stun gun at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall

  16-04-2025 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By JEFF AMY
  ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came to a town hall in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday night to deliver full-throated support of President Donald Trump, and she wasn’t letting the protesters faze her — not even the one who was wrestled to the ground by police and subdued with a Taser.
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• Enter the Matrix with Lilly Wachowski at the Academy Museum in LA

  16-04-2025 18:10 via ocregister.com
  
  It seems like a simple question forl Lilly Wachowski: How did she and sibling Lana Wachowski dream up the idea of 1999 cyberpunk classic “The Matrix” involving a future world where our minds and bodies are enslaved for the benefit of machines?
  She pauses.
  “Well. That seems like a simple question,” Wachowski says, and laughs. “I mean, it’s hard to look back through the lens at a certain purchase of your life when you’re looking backwards and looking down
  
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• Harvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will suffer

  16-04-2025 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, AP Education Writer
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy.
  The feud between the Republican administration and the nation’s wealthiest college will be closely watched across higher education as the White House uses federal funding as leverage to pursu
  
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• Top Trump officials will hold talks with Europeans on the Russia-Ukraine war

  16-04-2025 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW LEE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, will travel to Paris this week for talks with European allies on U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
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• Mortgage rates jump most since October, denting home demand

  16-04-2025 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By Vince Golle | Bloomberg
  US mortgage rates jumped last week by the most since October on the back of heightened volatility in the Treasury market, causing a pullback in financing applications for home purchases and refinancing.
  The contract rate on a 30-year mortgage increased 20 basis points in the week ended April 11 to 6.81%, the highest since February, according to Mortgage Bankers Association data released Wednesday. Rates on adjustable and 15-year fixed mortgages also climbed.
  The jump i
  
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• Here are 10 things you can do for Earth Day in Southern California

  16-04-2025 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  Earth Day returns on April 22 and during the global environmental movement people are asked to think about nature and our planet and what they can do to help the world. That could include volunteering to clean up parks or beaches, or just learning more about nature and what you can do to help the planet.
  So with Earth Day coming up, here are 10 things you can do in honor of Earth Day.
  Akoma Unity Center’s Earth Day Family Fun Celebration
  10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, April 19 at 1367 North Cal
  
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• Kaiser strike by Southern California mental health workers drags on. A hunger strike just ended

  16-04-2025 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly six months into their labor dispute against Southern California Kaiser Permanente, eight mental health care workers banded together last week in an organized five-day hunger strike to highlight their cause.
  “Kaiser’s trying to starve us out, that’s clear — so, give them what they want,” said Adriana Webb, a member of the National Union of Healthcare Workers who chose to subsist solely on water and electrolytes from Monday morning through Friday evening. &ldqu
  
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• How labor killed a bill to let California wildfire victims sue Big Oil for climate change

  16-04-2025 17:33 via ocregister.com
  
  By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters
  Oil companies had their hackles up this year after Sen. Scott Wiener introduced a controversial bill that would allow victims of wildfires and other climate disasters to sue them for causing climate change.
  Facing potentially billions of dollars in losses, Big Oil had a lot to lose.
  But oil companies took a back seat last week when it came time to persuade environmentally friendly lawmakers to kill the legislation.
  Instead, Big Oil’s most influential allies in
  
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• Iran confirms that the 2nd round of nuclear talks with the US will be in Rome

  16-04-2025 17:28 via ocregister.com
  
  By JON GAMBRELL and NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran confirmed Wednesday that the next round of nuclear talks with the United States will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would be held.The announcement by Iranian state television came as Iran ‘s president formally approved the resignation of one of his vice presidents who served as Tehran’s key negotiator in its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, just a
  
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• The Trump administration can’t end billions in grants for climate-friendly projects, a judge says

  16-04-2025 17:11 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press
  A federal judge says some nonprofits awarded billions for a so-called green bank to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects cannot have their contracts scrapped and must have access to some of the frozen money. The ruling is a defeat for President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, which argues the program is rife with financial mismanagement.
  The order late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “gives us a chance to
  
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