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• LAFC shut out in road loss to Houston

  06-04-2025 05:29 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — Jack McGlynn scored his first goal of the season, and Blake Gillingham had his first shutout in MLS on Saturday night to help Houston beat Los Angeles FC 1-0 for the Dynamo’s first win of the season.
  McGlynn scored in the 58th minute to give the Dynamo their first lead since early in the second half of Houston’s season-opening 2-1 loss to FC Dallas. The 21-year-old, in his first season with the club after spending his first four MLS seasons with the Philadelphia Union
  
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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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• 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.
  Related ArticlesProtesters arrested, 1 subdued with stun gun at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hallHarvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will sufferTop Trump officials will hold talks with European
  
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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.
  Related ArticlesThe Trump administration can’t end billions in grants for climate-friendly projects, a judge saysTrump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sportsTrump says he’s jo
  
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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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• The EPA can’t end grants from $20 billion Biden-era fund 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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• Trump tries to defy the courts

  16-04-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  There’s so much wrong with the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran super-max prison that it’s hard to know where to begin. But we should start with basic human decency.
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement admits in a sworn statement that it deported the Maryland man because of an error — yet the administration refuses to return him home.
  If the government makes a heinous error, it should take every measure to right the wrong.
  
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• First look inside Star Trek: Red Alert at Universal’s Fan Fest Nights

  16-04-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Trekkies who dream of climbing aboard a transport shuttle to the USS Enterprise and touring the captain’s bridge before beaming back down to Earth will have their greatest wish fulfilled during a new after-hours fan event at Universal Studios Hollywood.
  Fan Fest Nights will run on select evenings between April 25 and May 18 at the Hollywood theme park.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. S
  
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• First look inside Dungeons & Dragons at Universal’s Fan Fest Nights

  16-04-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Heroes and adventurers will get to face off against Xanathar the Beholder on a quest to recover a stolen relic when they step inside a real-life Dungeons & Dragons game during a new after-hours fan event at Universal Studios Hollywood.
  Fan Fest Nights will run on select evenings between April 25 and May 18 at the Hollywood theme park.
  Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. Subscribe here.
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• Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports

  16-04-2025 16:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.
  The lawsuit follows weeks of feuding between the Republican administration and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills that ha
  
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• Is Spotify down? Thousands of users report problems with music streaming app

  16-04-2025 16:10 via ocregister.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify appeared to be experiencing a widespread technical issues Wednesday morning — with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer.
  As of around 10 a.m. ET, Downdetector showed more than 48,000 outage reports for Spotify worldwide. Many of those users reported having problems loading the app or playing songs.
  “We’re aware of some issues right now and are checking them out!” Spotify’s status accoun
  
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• Olympics spotlight once again will shine on Orange County area

  16-04-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange County regularly sends more athletes to the Summer Olympics than most countries do, and they often return from faraway lands – or waters, of course – with shiny medals.
  And with resort destinations, more than 40 miles of coastline and 3.2 million residents, the OC area seemed like an obvious choice to play host to some of the 2028 Olympics that nominally belong to a county to the north but realistically will be Southern California’s games.
  That became official Tuesday wh
  
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• Frumpy Mom: Oops moments when traveling

  16-04-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I’ve been a travel junkie all my life. It may have started as a child, when our family bounced around to various Air Force bases while my dad was in the service, before he returned to the ranch and resumed his life as a cowboy.
  But, regardless of the reason, I’m hopelessly addicted to strange places, getting lost, airline food, jet lag, unfamiliar beds, balky toilets, mystery meals, intense humidity, mosquitos, the friendly TSA, never actually knowing what time it is and using hand g
  
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• Trump says he’s joining Bessent and Lutnick for trade negotiations with Japanese at the White House

  16-04-2025 15:23 via ocregister.com
  
  By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s joining some of his top economic advisers on Wednesday for negotiations at the White House over tariffs and trade with a top Japanese official who is traveling to Washington for the talks.
  The Republican president said in a post on his social media platform that he’ll attend the meeting alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, to
  
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• Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on big ticket items ahead of tariffs

  16-04-2025 15:09 via ocregister.com
  
  By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press Retail Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. shoppers increased their shopping last month, fueled by a spending spree on big ticket items from gadgets to cars before President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs started kicking in.
  Retail sales rose 1.4% in March, after rising 0.2% in February, according to the Commerce Department. Retail sales fell 1.2% in January, hurt in part by cold weather that kept more Americans indoors, denting sales at car
  
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• RFK Jr.’s mixed message about the measles outbreaks draws criticism from health officials

  16-04-2025 14:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As measles outbreaks popped up across the U.S. this winter, pediatricians waited for the nation’s public health agency to send a routine, but important, letter that outlines how they could help stop the spread of the illness.
  It wasn’t until last week — after the number of cases grew to more than 700, and a second young child in Texas had died from a measles infection — that the Centers for Disease Control and Prev
  
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• China appoints a new trade negotiator during tariff fight with the US

  16-04-2025 13:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press
  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China appointed a new trade negotiator Wednesday in the midst of its tariff fight with the U.S.
  The government said Li Chenggang replaces Wang Shouwen, who participated in negotiations for the 2020 trade deal between the China and the U.S.
  The world’s two largest economies have been steadily increasing tariffs on each other’s goods. China faces 145% taxes on exports to the U.S., while dozens of other countries were g
  
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• A US pastor abducted in South Africa has been rescued after a police shootout

  16-04-2025 13:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHELLE GUMEDE, Associated Press
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An American pastor who was kidnapped last week by armed and masked men during a sermon in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa was rescued on Tuesday after three of his abductors engaged in gunfire with officials and were killed, police reported Wednesday.
  The 45-year-old American citizen, Josh Sullivan from Tennessee, has been based in the Motherwell township branch of the Fellowship Baptist church since 2018 alongsid
  
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• World shares slip as tech shares are hit by fresh AI chip controls

  16-04-2025 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press Business Writer
  BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly lower Wednesday as stocks of Nvidia and other technology companies were walloped by tighter U.S. controls on exports of advanced computer chips used for artificial intelligence.
  The future for the S&P 500 was down 0.8% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3%.
  Chip maker Nvidia’s shares fell 5.9% in premarket trading after it said the U.S. had imposed stricter controls
  
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• Nvidia drags Wall Street down as United Airlines says it’s impossible to predict this year’s economy

  16-04-2025 13:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By STAN CHOE, Associated Press Business Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia is pulling Wall Street lower on Wednesday after it said new restrictions on exports to China will chisel billions of dollars off its results.
  The S&P 500 was down 0.9% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 180 points, or 0.4%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, while the slide for Nvidia and other stocks in the chip industry dragged the Nasdaq composite down a market-leading 1.7%.
  
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• California will sue to stop Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs

  16-04-2025 13:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By SOPHIE AUSTIN, Associated Press/Report for America
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his state will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have set off a global trade war.
  The suit will argue that Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China or a 10% tariff on all imports is unlawful. The act enables a president to fr
  
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• Kings hold off Kraken, tie franchise record with 48th win

  16-04-2025 07:59 via ocregister.com
  
  SEATTLE — The Kings built a four-goal lead then nearly squandered it all while tying a franchise record in their penultimate game of the regular season.
  Samuel Helenius scored twice, David Rittich made 28 saves, and the Kings spoiled the Seattle Kraken’s home finale with a 6-5 victory on Tuesday night, matching the 2015-16 Kings’ team record for single-season wins (48).
  The Kings (48-24-9, 105 points) are already locked into a best-of-seven first-round playoff series against th
  
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