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• Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone sets world record in Olympic Trials finale

  01-07-2024 06:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone poses for a photo after winning the women’s 400-meter hurdles final during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
  Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone reacts to winning the women’s 400-meter hurdles final during the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Team Trials, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
  Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone reacts to winning the women’s 400-mete
  
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• Rewards, points, miles: A primer on travel credit cards

  03-07-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Holly D. Johnson | (TNS) Bankrate
  Travel credit cards make it easy to earn rewards — usually offered in the form of points or miles — for certain types of purchases. You can typically redeem your travel rewards for the big expenses associated with your next trip such as flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages. Some issuers also let you redeem travel rewards for statement credits and other non-travel options.
  Some travel credit cards are associated with a specific airline o
  
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• Aiming to lower gas prices, feds boost supply in time for the 4th

  03-07-2024 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Anna Helhoski | NerdWallet
  Gas prices could be about to get cheaper, just in time for summer road travel, as about 42 million gallons of gasoline makes its way into the fuel market.
  In May, the Biden administration announced that the one million barrels of gasoline in the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve were up for sale. Contracts were awarded to five companies, and barrels were sold at an average of $2.34 per gallon. The gasoline was released to the contracted companies as of June 30.
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• Biden vows to keep running after his disastrous debate. ‘No one is pushing me out,’ he says

  03-07-2024 20:10 via ocregister.com
  
  By Seung Min Kim 
  WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Jeff Zients urged people during an all-staff meeting on Wednesday to tune out the “noise” and focus on the task of governing as senior aides scramble to contain the political fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance.
  Even as Zients acknowledged that the days since the Atlanta matchup between Biden and Republican Donald Trump have been challenging, the chief of staff stressed to White Ho
  
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• Travel: What I’ve seen on 33 cruises I’ve taken since the pandemic

  03-07-2024 20:04 via ocregister.com
  
  An argument can be made that people in general have become more needy, pushy and demanding than before COVID — that politeness and courtesy seem to be waning in what has become a “me-first” society.
  Well, there’s no debating that fact for this guy, not after what I’ve encountered on 33 cruises since the 15-month industry shutdown due to the pandemic only three years ago. That’s not to say everyone was Mister Rogers or Miss Manners on the 32 cruises I took befo
  
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• Deadly Hurricane Beryl brings storm surge, flash flooding to Jamaica as Category 4 storm

  03-07-2024 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Jamaica is bracing for a near-direct strike from Category 4 Hurricane Beryl on Wednesday, after the record-breaking storm left multiple people dead on islands in the eastern Caribbean.
  The Cayman Islands and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula are in Beryl’s path later in the week, and the southern Gulf coast of Texas, including Corpus Christi, was in Beryl’s forecast cone of uncertainty for late in the weekend.
  Hurricane Beryl could bring life-threatening storm surge from six to nine f
  
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• Analysis: Republicans are downplaying abortion, but it keeps coming up

  03-07-2024 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Julie Rovner | (TNS) KFF Health News
  For generations, the GOP campaigned on eliminating the right to an abortion in the United States. Now, torn between a base that wants more restrictions on reproductive health care and a moderate majority that does not, it seems many Republicans would rather take an off-ramp than a victory lap.
  And yet, they just can’t escape talking about it.
  The policy high point for abortion opponents — the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to strike down 
  
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• Trump’s immunity ruling sets up ‘mini trial’ before election

  03-07-2024 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Erik Larson | Bloomberg News (TNS)
  The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal charges over official conduct sets up a high-stakes “mini trial” later this summer over Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
  The timing of such a hearing will be consequential, with Trump’s campaign to return to the White House reaching a fever pitch and his rematch against President Joe Biden in the background. It will likely be the o
  
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• California’s Death Valley may tie daily record of 129F on Sunday

  03-07-2024 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  By Brian K Sullivan
  Furnace Creek, California, home of the visitor center at Death Valley National Park, will reach 122 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday, and temperatures will climb even further as the week goes on, according to Jenn Varian, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
  Saturday is expected to hit 127F and Sunday 129F, which would tie a record for the date. The all-time high in Death Valley is 134F set on July 10, 1913.
  Park visitors watch the sunset on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Dea
  
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• After 60 years of Rolling Stones concerts in Southern California, the fans tell all

  03-07-2024 19:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Almost exactly 49 years ago, Jim McGarry got his first chance to see the Rolling Stones.
  For exactly one song.
  It was July 9, 1975, and he and a Stones-loving buddy had driven from San Bernardino to the Forum in Inglewood to see their rock ‘n’ roll heroes.
  Inside a flask shaped like a pair of binoculars, they smuggled whiskey in for the first of five nights at the arena. Upon discovering their tickets were in the nosebleed seats, they decided to sneak down to the front of the floor s
  
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• Unelected state bureaucrats are planning to raise California’s gas taxes in secret

  03-07-2024 18:51 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m not saying anything we don’t already know when I say California’s gas prices are too darn high. It’s a secret everyone knows, and now the supermajority wants to make things even worse with a “secret gas tax.”
  The governor’s administration and California Air Resources Board (CARB) – the unelected body of regulators that he appoints and controls – is considering the adoption of two items that would have the complete opposite effect. In fact
  
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• Galaxy takes on LAFC at the Rose Bowl with first place on the line

  03-07-2024 18:50 via ocregister.com
  
  In the short history of the El Trafico series between the Galaxy and LAFC, the teams have usually been separated by a wide margin the Western Conference standings.
  The Galaxy has finished ahead of LAFC only once in 2021. Last season, the widest gap appeared as LAFC finished third and the Galaxy was 13th.
  The margin this season is still to be determined, but heading into Thursday’s showdown at the Rose Bowl, the Galaxy expects to be in the race this season.
  “All the players, we mark o
  
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• Major wins for Trump and stark pullback on regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term

  03-07-2024 18:49 via ocregister.com
  
  By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile.
  The decisions reflected a deep and sometimes bitter divide on a court in which conservatives, including three justices appointed by Trump, have a two-to-one advant
  
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• Mark Cavendish sets Tour de France record with 35th career stage win

  03-07-2024 18:28 via ocregister.com
  
  SAINT-VULBAS, France — Mark Cavendish broke Eddy Merckx’s long-standing record for most career Tour de France stage wins with his 35th victory on Wednesday.
  The 39-year-old Cavendish sprinted for the win in the fifth stage of the Tour, pulling away some 100 meters from the line despite being bunched in. He crossed the line ahead of Jasper Philipsen and then jumped into the arms of a teammate.
  Two-time champion Tadej Pogacar retained the race leader’s yellow jersey, but the day
  
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• Woman killed at Fashion Island in Newport Beach was a New Zealand resident

  03-07-2024 18:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The woman who police say died after she was run over by a car during an attempted robbery at Fashion Island in Newport Beach on Tuesday, July 2, was a 68-year-old New Zealand resident.
  The three suspects who fled following the attempted robbery were ultimately arrested in Cypress and South Gate, police said on Wednesday, July 3, and booked into jail on suspicion of murder, robbery with a firearm and conspiracy, Newport Beach police Sgt. Steve Oberon said.
  The suspects are:Leroyernest Joseph McCr
  
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• Ron Hart: Biden gets a cold, Trump gets immunity

  03-07-2024 18:21 via ocregister.com
  
  Well, the first presidential debate took place. As agreed, there was no live audience. And, as it turned out, there was only one live candidate.
  It is shocking to Democrats, who only watch liberal legacy corporate media, that Biden is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. Their media have hidden and covered for this slow trainwreck of a man for years now. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN viewers were shocked. Joe is slow? Clutch my pearls, I had no idea! 
  I tuned into CNN after the debate for its pan
  
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• John Stossel: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t much better than Joe Biden or Donald Trump

  03-07-2024 18:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Last week, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked me to moderate what he called “The Real Debate.”
  Kennedy was angry with CNN because it wouldn’t let him join its Trump-Biden debate.
  His people persuaded Elon Musk to carry his Real Debate on Twitter. They asked me to give RFK Jr. the same questions, with the same time limits.
  I agreed, hoping to hear some good new ideas.
  I didn’t.
  As you know, Joe Biden slept, and Donald Trump lied. Well, OK, Biden lied at lea
  
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• BeachLife founders set to open new festival-affiliated seafood restaurant this summer

  03-07-2024 18:05 via ocregister.com
  
  While the annual BeachLife Festival isn’t set to return to Redondo Beach until next year, the founders of the South Bay’s largest music event are giving people a taste of something new this summer.
  The BeachLife Grotto, a new restaurant that’s offering a menu inspired by international seafood dishes, is set to open in late July.
  “We decided to open a restaurant and now we have BeachLife Grotto, which is basically the everyday experience of the beach life from a food and b
  
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• Lakers adding Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks as assistants on JJ Redick’s staff

  03-07-2024 18:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The Lakers wanted to have at least a couple of former NBA head coaches on coach JJ Redick’s first coaching staff.
  And the franchise is reportedly close to making that happen.
  The Lakers are hiring Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks as the top assistants Redick’s staff, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Wednesday morning.
  McMillan was most recently the Atlanta Hawks head coach (2021-23), previously being the head coach for the Indiana Pacers (2016-20), Portland Trail Blazers (2005-
  
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• Wimbledon: Coco Gauff, feeling no pressure, reaches 3rd round

  03-07-2024 17:57 via ocregister.com
  
  LONDON — Coco Gauff likes No. 1 Court at Wimbledon.
  It’s where she beat Venus Williams back in 2019 when Gauff made her Wimbledon debut at age 15.
  On Wednesday, Gauff beat qualifier Anca Todoni 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the third round at the All England Club.
  “This is the court where I first started here at Wimbledon. Court 1 is always a special place for me to play on,” the 20-year-old Gauff said in her on-court interview.
  The victory also allows Gauff, the No. 2 seed, to
  
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• Democrats in Congress are torn between backing Biden for president and sounding the alarm

  03-07-2024 17:56 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEPHEN GROVES
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has reverberated across the Democratic Party, forcing lawmakers to grapple with a crisis that could upend the presidential election and change the course of American history.
  The Democratic president has signaled he has no intention of dropping out of the race against Donald Trump despite the halting and uneven debate delivery that threw a spotlight on questions about Biden’s age and capacity to
  
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• Santa Ana turns vacant asphalt stretch into relaxing spot for residents

  03-07-2024 17:49 via ocregister.com
  
  Salvador Esqueda, a 40-year resident of Santa Ana, attends the opening ceremony of King Street Urban Greening Project on Monday, July 1, 2024. Bright red mosaic flowers by community artist, Marina Aguilera, framethe entryway to the 10,000 square feet park. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  The Artesia Pilar King Street Urban Greening Project park features a moasic entryway, a stormwater capture system, and artwork by community artist Marina Aguilera in Santa Ana. Officials an
  
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• How Missy Elliott decided to do her first headlining tour after nearly three decades of stardom

  03-07-2024 17:46 via ocregister.com
  
  Nearly three decades after Missy Elliott burst into the spotlight with her debut album “Supa Dupa Fly,” the hip-hop icon is finally setting out on her first-ever headlining tour this summer.
  We’ll pause while that sinks in, because, frankly, it’s such an unexpected thing to hear that at first it feels like it can’t possibly be true.
  “I’ve had people argue with me: ‘No, no, no, you’re wrong,’” says Mona Scott-Young, Elliott’s
  
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• To save spotted owls, US officials plan mass killing of another owl species in West Coast forests

  03-07-2024 17:45 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATTHEW BROWN
  To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday was expected to release its final plan to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington state and California. The Associated Press obtained details in adva
  
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• Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain considering joint annual pass

  03-07-2024 17:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain season passholders can’t use their passes to get into both parks following the merger of parent companies Cedar Fair and Six Flags — but that could soon change.
  Six Flags — as the newly merged company is known — is considering new season passes that would provide access to all 27 amusement parks and 15 water parks in the expanded chain.
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• Newsom, Harris suddenly become post-Biden rivals

  03-07-2024 17:09 via ocregister.com
  
  For more than 25 years, as they climbed the political ladder of politics in California and the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris have acted like friendly colleagues, assiduously avoiding conflict.
  They shared a mentor in former San Francisco Mayor and state Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. They shared campaign consultants. They’ve never butted heads, each always running for offices the other was either willing to bypass or ineligible to hold (Harris was San Francisco
  
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• Supreme Court lets cities deal with their homeless crisis

  03-07-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  As cities struggled to deal with escalating homelessness, the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals did what it often does: made matters worse. In its 2018 Martin v. Boise decision, the court said cities cannot enforce anti-camping measures unless they have sufficient shelter space. Rousting the homeless, the court found, is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
  As a result, Western cities lost their ability to keep parks and civic
  
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• The big problems with policing by AI

  03-07-2024 16:50 via ocregister.com
  
  In the ongoing fight for a better, fairer criminal justice system, truly admirable are the victims of terrible, government-promoted unfairnesses who refuse to back mere half-measures aimed at a fix.
  Such is the case with Robert Williams of Detroit, who has come to California to lobby against a well-intentioned bill in the California Legislature crafted to help contain police use of facial-recognition technology, which often fingers the wrong people as suspects — especially when they are Bl
  
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• LeBron James to re-sign with Lakers for reported 2-year, $104 million deal

  03-07-2024 16:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LeBron James and the Lakers have agreed to terms on a two-year, $104 million contract that would keep the league’s all-time leading scorer in Los Angeles for his 22nd NBA season.
  The deal, which was first reported by The Athletic, will include a player option for the 2025-26 season and a no-trade clause.
  James, who declined his $51.4 million player option for 2024-25 on Saturday to become an unrestricted free agent, could’ve signed a three-year deal for approximately $162 million but
  
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• Tustin hangar fire: State legislature passes resolution asking for continued federal assistance

  03-07-2024 16:26 via ocregister.com
  
  The California State Legislature is calling for continued federal assistance for Tustin in the aftermath of last year’s hangar fire, where cleanup costs have reached $88 million.
  In a resolution that just passed out of the state Assembly, California leaders ask the U.S. Congress and the president to continue to support funding in federal budgets for the remediation of the north hangar fire site. So far, the Navy, which owns the land, has committed $88 million to repay the city for cleanup
  
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