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• Recipes: Make these colorful vegetable dishes for Passover

  02-04-2025 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  For Passover, the holiday of springtime, it is customary to showcase vegetables, especially green ones, on the menu. This year we’re preparing an aromatic broccoli and cauliflower tajine and a variety of salads, including a colorful green salad with papaya and pecans.
  Wheat flour is strictly forbidden during this eight-day holiday, which begins Saturday, April 12. In many households, like those of our families when we were growing up, noodles, rice and other grains are also not allowed. To
  
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• Deliberations begin in UK trial of men accused of felling Sycamore Gap tree

  09-05-2025 01:30 via ocregister.com
  
  By BRIAN MELLEY
  LONDON (AP) — Jurors in the case of two men charged with cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree that once stood along the ancient Hadrian’s Wall in northern England did not reach a verdict Thursday after several hours of deliberations.
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• Suit challenges new rules on children in federal custody who crossed into US

  09-05-2025 01:16 via ocregister.com
  
  By VALERIE GONZALEZ
  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents, saying the changes are keeping families separated longer and are inhumane.
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• Agent: Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani could have landed a 15-year contract

  09-05-2025 01:15 via ocregister.com
  
  By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
  INGLEWOOD — Shohei Ohtani could have pursued a 15-year contract through age 44, agent Nez Balelo said Thursday, explaining the two-way superstar didn’t want to risk a decline in his skills while under the big deal.
  Balelo pulled back the curtain that shrouds Ohtani a bit when he spoke at Sportico’s Invest West conference featuring decision-makers in sports, entertainment and finance at the Clippers’ new Intuit Dome.
  The $700 million, 10-yea
  
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• Officials plan to revamp the US air traffic control system. Here’s a breakdown by the numbers

  09-05-2025 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By JOSH FUNK
  The Trump administration on Thursday announced an ambitious three-year plan to replace the United State’s aging air traffic control system.
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• Fryer: Keaton Robar’s comeback going well as CIF-SS track meets approach

  09-05-2025 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Her track season was just getting started when Newport Harbor senior Keaton Robar noticed something wasn’t quite right.
  Robar, who has the ability to excel at any race from 200 meters to 5,000 meters, began experiencing pain in her left thigh in late February.
  “It felt like muscle fatigue,” Robar said Monday. “Or some sort of knot that needed to be stretched. And then over the next couple of weeks the pain grew, then every step I took was painful and so I started thinking
  
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• Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC

  09-05-2025 00:50 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.
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• UCLA medical school sued for allegedly using race-based admissions policy

  09-05-2025 00:49 via ocregister.com
  
  An organization that opposes diversity initiatives in medicine sued UCLA‘s medical school Thursday, alleging in Los Angeles federal court that the school still employs a race-based admissions process despite a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that such programs for college admissions are unconstitutional.
  The proposed class-action lawsuit brought by Do No Harm against the David Geffen School of Medicine contends that UCLA continues to practice “race-conscious” admissions under th
  
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• Tom Girardi suffers medical ’emergency,’ will be absent from court hearing

  09-05-2025 00:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Convicted former legal heavyweight Tom Girardi suffered a medical emergency and was expected to be hospitalized for several days, meaning he would be absent from a court hearing Thursday in downtown Los Angeles initially set to discuss his mental health.
  The 85-year-old defendant was taken from the memory-care facility where he lives to a hospital emergency room by paramedics on Wednesday, and ultimately admitted to the hospital, according to Samuel Cross, one of Girardi’s attorneys, who f
  
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• Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya

  09-05-2025 00:26 via ocregister.com
  
  By RENATA BRITO and FATMA KHALED
  CAIRO (AP) — Reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya, a country with a documented history of serious human rights violations and abuse of migrants, have spotlighted the difficulties they face in the lawless North African nation.
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• Melania Trump hosts White House event commemorating Barbara Bush stamp

  09-05-2025 00:13 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the White House’s East Room on a rainy Thursday, first lady Melania Trump and members of the Bush family gathered to unveil a U.S postage stamp bearing the portrait of former first lady Barbara Bush.
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• Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

  09-05-2025 00:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By LOLITA C. BALDOR
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify, under a new directive issued Thursday.
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• CIF-SS Division 1 swimming prelims: Top-9 qualifiers for Saturday’s finals

  09-05-2025 00:05 via ocregister.com
  
  WALNUT — Here are the results from the CIF-SS Division 1 swimming prelims at Mt. SAC on Thursday. The top-9 finishers qualify for the finals Saturday at noon.
  BOYS SWIMMING
  CIF-SS Division 1 prelims
  At Mt. SAC
  Top 9 advance to Saturday’s noon finals
  200-yard medley relay — 1. Loy 1:31.11; 2. MC 1:32.57; 3. SM 1:32.73; 4. MD 1:33.56; 5. Nor 1:33.68; 6. Wood 1:33.73; 7. Port 1:34.16; 8. Uni 1:34.89; 9. Los Al 1:35.37
  200 free — 1. Maksymowski (Nor) 1:36.76; 2. Mastandrea (L
  
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• Founder of crypto platform Celsius Network is sentenced to 12 years in prison

  08-05-2025 23:53 via ocregister.com
  
  By LARRY NEUMEISTER
  NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison after a prosecutor labeled him a predator who “preyed on hope” by enticing vulnerable customers to risk their life savings for a supposedly safe investment.
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• Surprisingly, the AB 379 solicitation debate has led to a more just outcome

  08-05-2025 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Everyone has been up in arms about Democrats in the state legislature refusing to include a provision in Assembly Bill 379 that would make it a felony to solicit a 16- or 17-year-old for sex – understandably so, it seems like a straightforwardly good idea and yet another example of California’s politicians failing at even simple tasks. 
  According to State Senator Scott Wiener, it’s not as straightforward as that because, “Sending an 18-year-old high school senior to
  
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• Cancer before age 50 is increasing. A new study looks at which types

  08-05-2025 23:44 via ocregister.com
  
  By CARLA K. JOHNSON
  Cancer before age 50 is rare, but increasing, in the United States and researchers want to know why.
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• Energy Star, efficiency program that has steered consumer choice, targeted in cuts

  08-05-2025 23:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By MICHAEL PHILLIS and ALEXA ST. JOHN
  An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly refrigerators, dishwashers and other electronics and save money on electric bills, consumer and environmental groups said.
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• US infant mortality dropped in 2024. Experts partly credit RSV shots

  08-05-2025 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  By MIKE STOBBE
  NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau.
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• Can Steve Hilton flip California Republican?

  08-05-2025 23:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Democracy means political competition. But California Republicans haven’t won a statewide race in two decades. No wonder we’ve had tax increase after tax increase. 
  Steve Hilton aims to change that by winning the governorship in 2026. The former Fox News host and Silicon Valley executive is campaigning to reduce the immense size, cost and waste of the state government. He would succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. 
  In an interview, my first question was how Hi
  
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• Global violence will rise without investment in peace

  08-05-2025 23:15 via ocregister.com
  
  On March 17, accompanied by armed FBI agents and police, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used the threat of violence to dismantle an American symbol of peace. This hostile takeover of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) defied the organization’s independent status and location in a private – not federal – office building. DOGE allegedly threatened to end $190,000,000 worth of federal contracts held by USIP’s former security firm, Inter-Con, unless t
  
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• Seal Beach increases parking rates at three beach lots

  08-05-2025 23:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Visitors to Seal Beach may have to fork over a few extra bucks to park at beach lots.
  The city of Seal Beach earned approval from the California Coastal Commission on Wednesday, May 7, to hike parking fees at the 1st Street, 8th Street and 10th Street parking lots.
  The fees will go from $2 per hour, with a daily maximum of $10, to $3 per hour, with a daily maximum of $15.
  After 6 p.m., the rate will be a $4 flat fee at the public lots. A signage plan is in place.
  The city needed the Coastal
  
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• Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Friday, May 9, 2025

  08-05-2025 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Eddie Wilson, Kevin Modesti and Mark Ratzky. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, May 9, 2025.
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• Want to feed the hungry? You can mail it in, kinda, on Saturday, May 10

  08-05-2025 22:54 via ocregister.com
  
  The Orange County Food Bank is hoping to boost its stores a bit by urging county residents to participate in the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive.
  The idea is simple: Sign up to give to the program online. Then, on Saturday, May 10, leave a bag of non-perishable food out for your mail carrier. They’ll haul it away and eventually that donation will be used to help feed needy people in Orange County.
  Launched in 1993, the annual event has grown into the nation’
  
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• OC tutor convicted of molesting 2 students at after-school program

  08-05-2025 22:45 via ocregister.com
  
  A 53-year-old man was convicted on Wednesday, May 8, of sexually assaulting for more than a half-decade two boys he was tutoring at an Orange County after-school program.
  An Orange County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than five hours before finding Zeta “Jimmy” Dhanapanth guilty of a dozen counts of felony lewd acts with a minor under 14, as well as a single count of possession of child pornography.
  Dhanapanth met the two boys — who were 8 and 9 when the abuse b
  
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• Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South Side

  08-05-2025 22:31 via ocregister.com
  
  Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area.
  In his first words as Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost announced “peace be with you,” invoking a message of dialogue and care for those in need from Vatican City on Thursday.
  “When I heard the news of the new Holy Father at that moment, at least here in Chicago, the sun came out,” said the R
  
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• Horse racing notes: Decision due on Journalism’s Preakness status

  08-05-2025 22:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANITA LEADERS
  (Through Sunday)
  Jockeys / Wins
  Umberto Rispoli / 9
  Antonio Fresu / 9
  Juan Hernandez / 8
  Tiago Pereira / 8
  Armando Ayuso / 8
  Hector Berrios / 7
  Trainers / Wins
  Phil D’Amato / 9
  Bob Baffert / 6
  John Sadler / 6
  Steve Knapp / 5
  Leonard Powell / 4
  George Papaprodromou / 4
  UPCOMING STAKES
  SANTA ANITA
  Saturday
  • $100,000 Siren Lure Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 6 furlongs on turf
  Sunday
  • $100,000 Cinema Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile on turf
  LOS ALAMITOS
  Satur
  
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• Democrats block stablecoin bill as they raise concerns about Trump’s crypto ventures

  08-05-2025 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ALAN SUDERMAN, Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency, after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections and airing concerns that it could help President Donald Trump enrich himself.
  The bill, which would regulate how stablecoin issuers operate in the U.S., had previously won some Democratic support. But it failed 49-48 on a procedural vote Thursday after Democrats said
  
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• Local Catholics, leaders praise ‘historic,’ ‘significant’ election of Leo XIV, the first American Pope

  08-05-2025 22:16 via ocregister.com
  
  The world held its breath on Thursday as it was revealed that Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who served in Peru, was named the next leader of the Catholic Church — and the first Pope of the Americas. Southern California Catholics and leaders from around the world reacted with joy — and awe — at the historic election of the first pope from the United States.
  Following Catholic tradition, the 69-year-old Prevost took the papal name Leo XIV.
  Originally from C
  
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• Lakers’ LeBron James on knee injury: ‘There was a pain I hadn’t felt before’

  08-05-2025 22:02 via ocregister.com
  
  In his first at-length public comments about the knee injury he suffered in the Lakers’ season-ending loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on April 30, LeBron James acknowledged he likely would’ve missed the remainder of the matchup if the Lakers were able to extend the series past five games.
  The Lakers star suffered a Grade 2 medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee during the fourth quarter of the Game 5 loss to the Timberwolves, an MRI from May 1 revealed.
  James said that
  
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• Disneyland’s new ‘World of Color’ and 8 things you need to know

  08-05-2025 21:48 via ocregister.com
  
  The Happiest Place on Earth will lean into the theme of happiness with a new “World of Color” water show hosted by Joy from “Inside Out” that will draw inspiration from Walt Disney’s opening day dedication speech at Disneyland in 1955.
  The new “World of Color Happiness” water show will debut on May 16 at Disney California Adventure as part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary celebration.
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