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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, April 12

  12-04-2025 23:17 via ocregister.com
  
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  Huntington Beach 6, Edwardsville (IL) 3
  HB: J. Grindlinger 2-3, 2RBI.
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• Novavax says its COVID-19 shot is on track for full FDA approval after delay

  23-04-2025 19:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Novavax’s closely watched COVID-19 vaccine is on track for full approval after additional discussions with the Food and Drug Administration, the company said Wednesday.
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• Home buyers may face surprise credit hit from student loans

  23-04-2025 19:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Spring and summer are traditionally hot months for homebuying, but some would-be buyers with student loan debt could encounter unexpected trouble.
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• A little-known federal agency is at the center of Trump’s executive order to overhaul US elections

  23-04-2025 19:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
  ATLANTA (AP) — Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.
  The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has operated in relative anonymity since, but is now central to President Donald Trump’sexecutive order seeking to overhaul elections. One of the commission’s boards will mee
  
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• The world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates

  23-04-2025 18:48 via ocregister.com
  
  By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates as part of an effort to make it easier for people and governments to hold companies financially accountable, like the tobacco giants have been.
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• Stagecoach 2025: Get ready to be bowled over by barbecue

  23-04-2025 18:43 via ocregister.com
  
  People at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival know what they like, smoked meat, and Adrian Garcia plans to deliver it this weekend in Indio.
  “No matter where you’re at, I’ve got barbecue everywhere,” said Garcia, culinary director and food and beverage director at Goldenvoice Festivals, which puts on the show.
  It will take place Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27 at the Empire Polo Club with headliners Luke Combs, Jelly Roll and Zach Bryan.
  All three days are sol
  
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• A set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction

  23-04-2025 18:40 via ocregister.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A set of the first four editions of William Shakespeare’s collected works is expected to sell for up to 4.5 million pounds ($6 million) at auction next month.
  Sotheby’s auction house announced the sale on Wednesday, Shakespeare’s 461st birthday. It said the May 23 sale will be the first time since 1989 that a set of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Folios has been offered at auction as a single lot.
  This photo issued by Sotheby’s on Wednesday April
  
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• Antisemitic incidents slow worldwide from post-Oct. 7 spike, but remain higher than before Gaza war

  23-04-2025 18:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By MELANIE LIDMAN
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Antisemitic attacks have increased dramatically since the war in Gaza began, though the numbers declined slightly last year from a peak reached immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, according to an annual report about global antisemitism from Tel Aviv University.
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• Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

  23-04-2025 18:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press
  NEW YORK (AP) — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, conversation inevitably turned to current events and the Trump administration.
  “It seemed obvious that we needed to look back to the country’s core documents,” Ward said. “And that we wanted to get them out quickly.”
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• $50 million prize funded by Musk foundation goes to carbon-removal company that helps Indian farmers

  23-04-2025 18:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press
  A company that spreads crushed rock on farmers’ fields to help draw climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been awarded a $50 million grand prize in a global competition funded by Elon Musk’s foundation.
  Mati Carbon was among more than 1,300 teams from 88 countries that participated in the four-year XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, launched in 2021 to encourage deployment of carbon-removal technologies. Many scientists believe remov
  
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• Tennessee board recommends that governor pardon country star Jelly Roll

  23-04-2025 18:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By JONATHAN MATTISE and TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Board of Parole on Tuesday recommended a pardon for country music star Jelly Roll, a Nashville native who has spoken openly about his criminal record and what it has taken to overcome it. The board’s action leaves the final decision on a pardon up to Gov. Bill Lee.
  The rapper-turned-country singer wants to be able to travel internationally to perform and share his message of redemption, afte
  
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• Israeli strike in Gaza kills 23 as Arab mediators seek long-term truce

  23-04-2025 18:22 via ocregister.com
  
  By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
  DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab mediators worked on a proposal to end the war with Hamas that would include a five-to-seven-year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, officials said Wednesday.
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• Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order

  23-04-2025 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By PETER SMITH
  As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles (69 kilometers) to Washington.
  He arrived by evening on April 16 outside the White House, carrying a sign that called for for “Reparations Now.”
  This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath
  
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• EVs, tariffs in the spotlight as Chinese automakers take leading role at Shanghai auto show

  23-04-2025 18:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By ELAINE KURTENBACH
  SHANGHAI (AP) — Leading automakers are showcasing their latest designed-for-China and the world models at the Shanghai auto show this week, fighting not to be edged aside in the world’s largest car market while watching for U.S. President Donald Trump’s next steps in his trade war.
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• Chargers to face Lions in Hall of Fame preseason game on July 31

  23-04-2025 18:08 via ocregister.com
  
  Antonio Gates is headed to Canton, Ohio, this summer for his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the Chargers will be traveling right along with him when they play in the annual Hall of Fame exhibition game against the Detroit Lions, the Hall announced on Wednesday.
  Enshrinement week is set for July 31 to Aug. 3.
  The Chargers’ preseason game against the Lions is scheduled for July 31 at 5 p.m. (PDT).
  Fans can buy tickets starting Monday at 7 a.m. (PDT) at https://www.profoot
  
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• What Universal Studios Great Britain could look like

  23-04-2025 18:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Detailed concept art and published reports about coming attractions for a new Universal Studios theme park in the United Kingdom offer plenty of tantalizing clues about the potential rides, shows and lands planned for the multibillion-dollar park.
  Universal Studios has announced plans to open its first European theme park in 2031 in Bedford, located about an hour north of London by train. Universal plans to begin construction in 2026.
  Universal Studios Great Britain will include themed lands bas
  
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• US Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois says he won’t run for sixth term

  23-04-2025 18:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dick Durbin, whose tenure as one of Illinois’ longest serving U.S. senators has also been a testament to the power of seniority in the chamber, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term next year, setting up a scramble among potential successors vying for a politically coveted six-year term.
  “The decision of whether to run for re-election has not been easy. I truly love the job of being a United States Senator. But in my heart, I know it’s time to pass the torch. So, I
  
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• 84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

  23-04-2025 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By ISABELLA O’MALLEY
  Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced Wednesday.
  It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non-governmental organizations and others. And it’s not clear
  
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• Los Angeles Archbishop will celebrate memorial Mass for Pope Francis

  23-04-2025 17:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Southland Catholics will get a chance to honor the late Pope Francis on Friday during a memorial Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
  The Mass, at 12:10 p.m. Friday, will come ahead of Francis’ funeral in Rome, L.A. Archbishop José H. Gomez announced Tuesday.
  The L.A. Mass will be “in thanksgiving for the life and ministry of Pope Francis,” Gomez said in a statement.
  Gomez will lead the Mass and be joined by auxiliary bishops and other
  
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• Alexander: If it’s a rock fight, the Lakers can sling ’em, too

  23-04-2025 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — This one wouldn’t ever hang in the Louvre, especially the fourth quarter.
  But what’s the old line? They don’t ask how, but how many. And the Lakers, who were embarrassed by the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series on Saturday, atoned for that atrocity Tuesday night – atoned enough, anyway, to send the series to Minneapolis tied, 1-1.
  The Lakers’ 94-85 Game 2 victory featured a fourth quarter in which both teams staggered
  
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• Trump administration is still resisting the judge’s orders in Abrego Garcia deportation case

  23-04-2025 17:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By BEN FINLEY
  The Trump administration on Wednesday continued to resist a federal judge’s orders to produce information about the steps it has taken, if any, to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
  Drew Ensign, a deputy assistant attorney general, filed a sealed motion asking for a stay of the judge’s order to provide sworn testimony and documents about the U.S. government’s efforts to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
  The request comes
  
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• IRS turmoil: Leadership churn, worker exodus and threats to groups’ tax-exempt status roil agency

  23-04-2025 17:04 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The height of tax season was the height of turmoil at the IRS.
  The agency shuffled through three acting directors over the course of a week. It’s preparing to lose tens of thousands of workers to layoffs and voluntary retirements. And President Donald Trump is weighing in on which nonprofits should lose their tax-exempt status, an incursion into the agency’s typically apolitical stance that threatens to further erode trust i
  
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• Huntington Beach’s nonprofit power grab

  23-04-2025 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  On a normal city council, the idea of requiring nonprofits to sign contracts addressing their responsibilities and liability issues when they provide public services would seem noncontroversial, depending of course on the details of those agreements. But Huntington Beach’s City Council is far from normal, so its plan has ignited understandable pushback.
  A recent staff report explains that for several years “certain ‘nonprofits’ and other organizations and individuals have
  
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• Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker

  23-04-2025 16:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press Technology Writer
  Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business.
  They’re concerned about what happens if the ChatGPT maker fulfills its ambition to build AI that outperforms humans, but is no longer accountable to its public mission to safeguard that technology from c
  
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• Trump is crushing America’s AI leadership. We still have time to fix it.

  23-04-2025 16:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Earlier this month, a House Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing to delve into innovation and competition in the AI sector.  While Subcommittee Members agreed on a need for guardrails with AI, disagreement over the real threats to and from America’s AI sector, including how much and what kind of regulation is appropriate to allow the industry to grow remain.
  At the hearing, I made clear that the greatest threats to America’s AI industry come from this Administration’s pol
  
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• Californians aren’t buying the EV mandate

  23-04-2025 16:16 via ocregister.com
  
  When California approved a phased ban on gas-powered cars, the state appeared to be riding the crest of an electric vehicle revolution. It was the height of the pandemic. Gas prices were climbing, long commutes had vanished, and from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, affluent progressives were snapping up Teslas in what looked like a stampede toward a zero-emission future.
  Five years later, the momentum has stalled. After years of exponential sales growth for zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), registrati
  
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• How the fall of Saigon cultivated a culinary legacy in Orange County — and beyond

  23-04-2025 16:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Fifty years after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the diaspora it set in motion continues to shape the American gastronomic landscape, especially in Orange County, home to the world’s largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.
  While the initial wave of South Vietnamese immigrants carved out a thriving Little Saigon district in Garden Grove and Westminster — a welcome development in a region that was then less welcoming of newcomers — a new generation of Vietnamese-
  
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• International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court

  23-04-2025 16:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press
  ATLANTA (AP) — Anjan Roy was studying with friends at Missouri State University when he got an email that turned his world upside down. His legal status as an international student had been terminated, and he was suddenly at risk for deportation.
  “I was in literal shock, like, what the hell is this?” said Roy, a graduate student in computer science from Bangladesh.At first, he avoided going out in public, skipping classes and mostly keeping hi
  
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• Frumpy Mom: OK, OK, so some of you were right

  23-04-2025 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  This is difficult for me to admit, because I’m almost never wrong. In fact, I made a habit of pointing out to people how much better their lives would be if they only took my advice, because it’s nearly always sage, wise, correct, judicious, practical and experienced.
  However, once in a while, there is the rare occurrence that I happen to be wrong, and I admit this freely. I want to make clear that it occurs very seldom, but in this case, well, OK. I was wrong.
  I went grudgingly to P
  
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• Law firms fighting Trump to ask judges to permanently block executive orders

  23-04-2025 15:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two major law firms are expected to ask separate judges on Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s executive orders that were designed to punish them and hurt their business operations.
  The firms — Perkins Coie and WilmerHale — have said the orders imposed in March are unconstitutional assaults on the legal profession that threaten their relationships with clients and retaliate against them based either on
  
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