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• FBI found violent, antisemitic leanings in background of Florida man who helped plan Costa Mesa Planned Parenthood firebombing

  14-05-2024 02:25 via ocregister.com
  
  A Florida man who helped a U.S. Marine and another man from Orange County build a Molotov cocktail they used to firebomb a Planned Parenthood in Costa Mesa two years ago was obsessed with violence and previously had threatened to commit mass shootings, court documents show.
  Xavier Batten, 21, of Spring Hill, Florida, pleaded guilty in January to one count each of possessing an explosive device, a felony, and intentionally damaging an abortion provider, a misdemeanor.
  Judge Cormac J. Carney sente
  
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• Iceland volcano erupts again, shooting lava into the sky

  29-05-2024 22:17 via ocregister.com
  
  By Marco di Marco | Associated Press
  GRINDAVIK, Iceland — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Wednesday for the fifth time since December, spewing red lava that once again threatened the coastal town of Grindavik and led to the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa.
  The eruption began in the early afternoon following a series of earthquakes north of the town of 3,800 people that was largely evacuated in December when the volcano came to life after centuries of dormancy
  
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• Why most EVs in the US are still being shipped to the same few states

  29-05-2024 22:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By Kyle Stock | Bloomberg
  As the US car market swiftly and steadily goes electric, the Volkswagen ID.4 remains near the front of an increasingly crowded field. Americans bought nearly 6,200 of them in the first three months of this year.
  But if you want an ID.4 in South Dakota, you better act fast — only three in the state are unspoken for. The same is true in Arkansas and Mississippi, according to the latest data from CarGurus Inc., a listing platform that captures most US new car invento
  
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• The Audible: On the late Bill Walton, Ty Lue and Dave Roberts

  29-05-2024 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: Lots of words have been written and spoken – including by the both of us – following the passing of Bill Walton on Monday at age 71. I referred to him as a “force of nature,” but that may just have scratched the surface. And the amazing thing about the last couple of days and the reaction to a death that was untimely – and, to those of us not in the know, unexpected – was that there were so many different ways in which his impact was measured: B
  
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• Here’s how to stay safe when visiting national parks this summer

  29-05-2024 21:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Mia Taylor | TravelPulse (TNS)
  At Death Valley National Park, summer temperatures can reach as high as 130 to 134 degrees.
  For some travelers, that would be reason enough not to visit. But for others, it’s the exact motivation for a trek to Death Valley during the summer: The novelty of experiencing temperatures you’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere around the globe.
  “Some folks are seeking out what they consider to be a rare experience,” Nichole Andler, a park ranger w
  
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• Amtrak offering Auto Train sale, free kids fares

  29-05-2024 21:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Kristen Hess | (TNS) TravelPulse
  As part of Amtrak’s summer sale, adult travelers can book coach class aboard the Auto Train for as low as $75. In addition, children under 12 can ride free on both coach class and first-class private rooms.
  Currently, the sale is valid from May 21 through July 24 on any booking made to or from Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida, on May 24 through Sept. 2, at least three days in advance. Auto Train is an 855-mile scheduled daily train service for passeng
  
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• Israel says offensive in Gaza could last for seven months

  29-05-2024 21:36 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mike Schwartz and Christian Edwards | CNN
  The war in Gaza will likely continue through at least the end of the year, an Israeli official warned Wednesday, seeming to dismiss the idea that fighting would end after the military offensive against Hamas in Rafah.
  Israel’s national security adviser, Tzachi Hanegbi, said the year 2024 has been “defined as a year of combat” by Israel’s war cabinet.
  “We are now in the fifth month of 2024, which means we expect another se
  
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• Smaller, tighter Juárez-style burritos come to Anaheim

  29-05-2024 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  The problem, if there is one, with the typical burrito found in the United States is its size. For the skinny on a solution, head to Omar De la Vega and Juan Del Rio’s new spot in Anaheim.
  Busting at the seams, most burritos — especially those found in Southern California, San Francisco’s Mission District or even your nearest Chipotle — come crammed with fillings. Beans. Carne. Chicken. Rice. Crema. Cheese. Guacamole. More beans. More cheese. Salsa. Egg. Lettuce. Pork. Fr
  
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• Santa Margarita, Orange Lutheran baseball teams to meet again in CIF regional playoffs Thursday

  29-05-2024 20:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Jake Lavin hit a three-run home run and Logan deGroot added two RBIs for Santa Margarita in a 7-1 win over Rancho Bernardo on Tuesday in the first round of the CIF Southern California Regional Division I baseball playoffs.
  The Eagles (22-9-1) will play Orange Lutheran (26-7) in the semifinals Thursday at 4 p.m. at Hart Park in Orange. Santa Margarita beat Orange Lutheran in two of their three league games this season.
  Santa Margarita junior Brennan Bauer pitched a complete game Tuesday. He
  
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• Justice Samuel Alito won’t recuse from cases on Trump, Jan 6, amid flag controversy

  29-05-2024 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over flags that flew over his homes.
  In letters to members of Congress on Wednesday, Alito said his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year.
  Neither incident merits his recusal, he wrote.
  “I
  
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• How UCLA softball leveled up to return to the Women’s College World Series

  29-05-2024 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA softball is back in the Women’s College World Series after a turnaround season – and also after dealing with some trauma from its 2023 season, which ended with back-to-back losses in the NCAA Regionals.
  “It’s never going to disappear, but to let it weigh on you and live in that is a choice. And we’ve let that weight go,” Bruins coach Kelly Inouye-Perez said. “It’s about this year’s seniors. It’s about this team.”
  The sixth-se
  
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• Alito won’t recuse from cases on Trump, Jan 6, amid flag controversy

  29-05-2024 20:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting calls to step aside from Supreme Court cases involving former President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 defendants because of the controversy over flags that flew over his homes.
  In letters to members of Congress on Wednesday, Alito said his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year.
  Neither incident merits his recusal, h
  
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• 4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more

  29-05-2024 20:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Amy Maxmen and Céline Gounder | (TNS) KFF Health News
  Measles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of this year, the number of cases was about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected— mainly children — have been hospitalized.
  It’s going to get worse, largely because a growing number of parents are decid
  
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• As key deadlines loom, Newsom and California lawmakers have dozens of deals to make

  29-05-2024 20:38 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s time for the folks in California’s Capitol to play let’s-make-a-deal – or actually, many deals.
  With scarcely two weeks remaining until the June 15 constitutional deadline for passing a new state budget and less than a month for ballot measures to be finalized for the November election, there are dozens, or even hundreds, of individual issues to be resolved.
  Most are to be found in the much-revised 2024-25 budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled earlier this month.
  Ac
  
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• Ron Hart: Which party is the real ‘threat to democracy?’

  29-05-2024 20:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Biden got confused again in a recent speech. He was distracted by (his handlers said) an “unfamiliar noise.” The only thing that might have been would be applause. 
  If you look closely at Biden’s eyes while he stumbles through speeches these days, you can see the “check engine” light flashing. 
  Of course, he felt cornered after his awkward moment, and instinctively used that focus group-tested Democrat phrase, “Trump is a threat to democracy!”&
  
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• Mental health begins in infancy, child development experts tell parents

  29-05-2024 20:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Did you know babies can get depressed?
  Andria Goss, associate vice president of clinical and community services at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school for social work, early childhood education and child development programs, said people are astonished when they learn and appreciate that fact.
  “Babies experience everything as a bodily feeling: If a parent is stressed, depressed and/or anxious, the baby is picking up on that,” she said. “Imagine a mom who has her own stress
  
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• Katella High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  29-05-2024 20:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Friends Nick Moreno, Caesar Arredondo and David Gamboa, from left, stand together as they get ready to file into the stadium for their commencement ceremony in Anaheim on Friday, May 24, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer)
  Members of Katella High School’s class of 2024 sit on the field at Handal Stadium at Western High School in Anaheim for their graduation ceremony, while giant letters spell out “Congratulations,” on Friday, May 24, 2024. (Photo by Jeff A
  
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• Caifanes love to perform. That’s why the band’s drummer hopes to die onstage

  29-05-2024 20:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Alfonso André, drummer of the legendary rock en español group Caifanes, is on the phone from his home in Mexico City, laughing as he says he hopes to die on stage. “When it’s my time, I would love to go in the middle of a huge drum solo.”
  But first, André has work to do. Three and a half decades after the band’s inception, the members of Caifanes are in their late 60s. They never envisioned they’d still be touring the globe as their hair turned
  
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• Disneyland will close another attraction, restaurant and Galaxy’s Edge entrance

  29-05-2024 20:11 via ocregister.com
  
  Construction work on the new Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ride will force Disneyland to close another attraction, shutter a popular restaurant and restrict access to a returning nighttime spectacular and three themed lands just as the busy summer season begins.
  The ever-expanding scope of construction work on the west side of Disneyland will grow even wider in early July as crews put the finishing touches on the conversion of Splash Mountain into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.
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• Scottie Scheffler has charges dropped after arrest outside PGA Championship

  29-05-2024 20:09 via ocregister.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world’s top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship.
  Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell asked a judge Wednesday afternoon to drop the four charges against Scheffler, who was not required to be in the courtroom. The prosecutor said his team reviewed the case in a “thorough and expeditious manne
  
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• California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws

  29-05-2024 20:02 via ocregister.com
  
  California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws.
  The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20.
  Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “We saw the inequities. … we had a responsibility to do more.”
  Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, unions usually get what they want.
  CNN announced, “Half a million California fast food workers will now earn $20 per hour!”
  Gullible leftists at the Center for American Progre
  
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• Clippers sign long-term deal with Tyronn Lue as head coach

  29-05-2024 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers coach Tyronn Lue, considered by many as one of the NBA’s elite coaches, signed a new contract that is expected to keep him with the organization for the next several years, the team announced Wednesday.
  Terms were not released, but The Athletic reported that Lue’s new deal is a five-year, $70 million contract, making him one of the highest paid coaches in the league. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported the signing.
  Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr (two-year,
  
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• Clippers sign long-term deal with Ty Lue as head coach

  29-05-2024 19:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Clippers coach Tyronn Lue, considered by many as one of the NBA’s elite coaches, signed a new contract that is expected to keep him with the organization for the next several years, the team announced Wednesday.
  Terms were not released, but The Athletic reported that Lue’s new deal is a five-year, $70 million contract, making him one of the highest paid coaches in the league. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported the signing.
  Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr (two-year,
  
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• Bolsa Grande High Graduation 2024: Our best photos of the ceremony

  29-05-2024 19:55 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the graduating seniors busts out laughing as she joins the Processional as Bolsa Grande High School students celebrate their graduation ceremony in Garden Grove on Tuesday, May28, 2024. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)
  Daniel Munoz holds up his diploma as Bolsa Grande High School students celebrated their graduation ceremony in Garden Grove on Tuesday, May28, 2024. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing Photographer)
  Bolsa Grande High School students walk by a line of American flags during th
  
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• How Michael Crichton’s widow Sherri got James Patterson to finish ‘Eruption’

  29-05-2024 19:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Novelist Michael Crichton never talked much about his works in progress, says his widow Sherri Crichton.
  But she could sometimes pick up clues.
  “I knew of a volcano story,” Sherri Crichton says. “That would probably come up in our conversations when we were on one of the many beautiful hikes in Kauai. He would give me fun facts about volcanic activity and the evolution of different volcanoes all over the world.
  “He was always spitballing in his head where he was in his st
  
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• A woman’s lungs were filled with cancer; doctors worried if treatment was ethical. How she lived.

  29-05-2024 19:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Cyndia Sanchez is back teaching cycling classes after a devastating bout with cancer that filled her lungs with tumors so numerous that if it were a different type of cancer, aggressive treatment wouldn’t be called for.
  But Sanchez was fortunate. After she lay intubated for three months, her athletic frame grew skeletal and she breathed blood into her respirator, chemo worked for her.
  Doctors say it’s because of the rare form of cancer she had, which started in her uterus and spread
  
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• Verizon invests $100 million in wireless connectivity from space

  29-05-2024 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Loren Grush | Bloomberg
  AST SpaceMobile shares surged as much as 46% after Verizon Communications Inc. said it will invest $100 million in a partnership with the satellite communications company to provide wireless connectivity from space.
  AST announced a similar partnership with AT&T Inc. two weeks ago. Now with both deals in hand, the Midland, Texas-based company said it will be able to provide 100% coverage of the continental US from smartphones to its future planned satellite system.
  
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• Travel: There’s more to Nassau in the Bahamas than a nice beach

  29-05-2024 19:18 via ocregister.com
  
  If you’re much of a traveler, by now you’ve seen ads or at least heard about the Atlantis Paradise Island mega-resort in the Bahamas with its tall pink towers, 14 pools, 141-acre water park, marine mammal habitat, 21 restaurants, casino, bars, golf course and miles of beaches. This signature resort in Nassau put the Bahamas on the tourism map.
  But there’s much more to Nassau that is not Atlantis. The island nation off Florida’s east coast has a long and rich history that
  
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• ConocoPhillips buying Marathon Oil for $17.1 billion

  29-05-2024 19:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By Michelle Chapman | The Associated Press
  ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $17.1 billion as energy prices rise and big oil companies reap massive profits.
  The deal is valued at $22.5 billion when including $5.4 billion in debt.
  Crude prices have jumped more than 12% this year, and the cost for a barrel rose above $80 this week. Oil majors put up record profits after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and while those numbers have slipped,
  
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• 13 acts coming to Southern California casinos in June

  29-05-2024 18:55 via ocregister.com
  
  June is packed with big names in entertainment heading to Southern California casinos, including several stand-up comedians, political commentators, rock stars, Latin acts and more.
  Be sure to check the official websites for the latest event information.
  Standup comedian and actress Heather McDonald (pictured at the 17th Annual Golden Trailer Awards on May 04, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California) will perform at Pechanga Resort Casino on Saturday, June 1. (Photo by Rich Polk, Getty Images)
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