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• Trump needs a better game plan for cutting government

  06-04-2025 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For those of us who are calling balls and strikes on the Trump administration, the idea of creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to slash wasteful spending seems like a potential home run. The federal government is out of control, with its $36-trillion debt and its alphabet soup of agencies. But instead of scoring runs, DOGE is causing immense political pushback.
  The project, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has been heavy on theatrics and light on precision. Seeing Musk jump around
  
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• Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists say

  16-04-2025 21:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, AP Science Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual path around two brown dwarfs, whipping around at a right angle. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles.
  The brown dwarf pai
  
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• Data: Retail therapy is common — how to curb it

  16-04-2025 21:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Rosie Cima, NerdWallet
  Having a tough week? Have you considered spending some money on yourself? You’d be in good company.
  Three in 10 (30%) Americans say they’ve spent money on items to improve their mood in the past 12 months, according to a recent NerdWallet survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll. Some research indicates it may be effective — buying stuff you don’t need can make you feel better, providing a distraction, escape or sense of control.
  But those ben
  
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• Anaheim Mayor Aitken right to reset stadium talks

  16-04-2025 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken’s letter this month to Angels’ owner Arte Moreno to jump start an “open and honest conversation” about the future of Angels baseball and the city-owned Angel Stadium was a commendable act of leadership. Given the fraught relationships and scandals—including the recent sentencing of former Mayor Harry Sidhu on federal charges related to the aborted stadium sale—it’s about time.
  But before we look at the ongoing mess surroundi
  
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• Public health risks of urban wildfire smoke prompt push for more monitoring

  16-04-2025 21:18 via ocregister.com
  
  By Katharine Gammon, KFF Health News
  When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burning homes, buildings, and cars, but it was unclear how much risk the public faced. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers.
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• Albano’s Diamond Club: Orange County softball standouts last week

  16-04-2025 21:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowDan Albano’s Diamond Club outstanding softball players last week, April 7-12:
  Alyssa Grajeda, Santa Margarita, Sr., 3B
  The BYU commit went 2 for 4 with a home run and four RBIs in an 8-7 victory against Orange Lutheran. The performance helped the Eagles hand the Lancers their first loss in the Trinity League since 2022.
  Maddison Payne, La Habra, Jr., P
  Payne held El Dorado to five hits and struck ou
  
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• OpenAI picks labor icon Dolores Huerta and other philanthropy advisers as it moves toward for-profit

  16-04-2025 20:58 via ocregister.com
  
  By MATT O’BRIEN
  OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the artificial intelligence company’s philanthropy as it attempts to shift itself into a for-profit business.
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• The State Department closes the office that flags disinformation from Russia, China and Iran

  16-04-2025 20:45 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has shut down its office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreading.
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• Randy’s Donuts is selling Peeps-topped Easter treats

  16-04-2025 20:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Easter Raised Donuts have made their annual return to Randy’s Donuts shops through Easter Sunday, April 20.
  The sweet treats are frosted in pastel spring colors and topped with sprinkles, M&Ms and a Peeps marshmallow bunny.
  They are premium doughnuts and cost about $3.95 each. They are available in all shops, according to a news release.
  ALSO SEE: Easter 2025: Where to find buffets, ham dinners and sweets
  Randy’s Donuts was founded in Inglewood, where the giant doughnut on top of
  
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• Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say

  16-04-2025 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  By FATIMA HUSSEIN
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision.
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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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