“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead. Buzz: As house hunters grapple with record-high home prices another financial blow hits — a sudden rise in mortgage rates pushed the average 30-year rate to 4.42% this week. It’s a stunning jump that harks back to the sharp loss in…
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It all started with a fire. The Australian bush burned red and the undergrowth glowed like lava as kangaroos fled through the night, their coats covered in soot. Later, volunteers would apply bandages to the scorched feet of bewildered koalas. Meanwhile, in Orange County, Justine Makoff’s son was working as a busboy. Not yet 20,…
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Winston Vickers might have one of the most suspenseful screen feeds in the state: His team has installed dozens of strategically placed cameras in the Orange County backcountry to track where mountain lions roam. As we speak, he is waiting for a mountain lion to approach the deer carcass one of the four biologists on…
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What if the worst thing you can imagine actually holds the seeds of opportunity for positive change? That’s what Scott Green saw amid the pandemic, when everything was closed up tight as a clamshell. Nonprofits across the region, which depend on galas and other in-person happenings to fund their work, were suddenly forced to try…
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When Iosefa Joey Alofaituli walks through the Oak View neighborhood in Huntington Beach, he doesn’t see the so-called “Slater Slums,” as some still call the area. Many associate the high-density community of apartment complexes, which has housed generations of Latino families, with crime and blight. But Alofaituli instead sees a tight-knit community burgeoning with opportunity…
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The body of a young San Diego man who was kidnapped in Tijuana, Mexico, nearly two years ago has been recovered, his mother said. News of the recovery of the body of Miguel Anthony Rendon, who was 19 when he disappeared, came from the FBI several weeks ago, said his mother,…
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Amid Vladimir Putin’s inhumane assault on Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged U.S. President Joe Biden to be “the leader of the world” in a speech to Congress last week. Zelensky’s call to President Biden underscores an important truth: this conflict is much bigger than Russia versus Ukraine. Putin’s war is characteristic of the undying…
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By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and DAVID KEYTON MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — As Russia launched its war in Ukraine last month, exhausted and frightened refugees streamed into neighboring countries. They carried whatever they could quickly grab. Many cried. They still do. The United Nations says that more than 3.6 million people have fled Ukraine since the war…
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The Miami Dolphins began the 2022 offseason with more cap space than any other team in the NFL, but two weeks into the roster’s renovation the team was forced to waive two veterans to make room for this week’s two massive signings. Miami released veteran offensive lineman Jesse Davis and receiver Allen Hurns a day…
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It was a memorable Sept. 11 last year for Newport Harbor High product Connor Seabold, who made his major league debut for the Boston Red Sox. Seabold, thrilled to finally be in spring training following the 99-day lockout by Major League Baseball team owners, is hoping to crack the pitching rotation for the Red Sox…
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