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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now CLAREMONT — Mater Dei girls tennis coach Debbie Shaffer predicted a close match with Westlake in the CIF-SS Open Division final on Friday. Shaffer was right, but the Monarchs and Warriors pushed their duel into the extremely close category. Westlake knocked off No.…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, Nov. 10 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. FRIDAY’S SCORES GIRLS TENNIS CIF-SS PLAYOFFS Finals OPEN DIVISION Westlake 9, Mater Dei 9 (Westlake wins by game,…
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By TARA COPP WASHINGTON — The B-21 Raider took its first test flight on Friday, moving the futuristic warplane closer to becoming the nation’s next nuclear weapons stealth bomber. The Raider flew in Palmdale, California, where it has been under testing and development by Northrop Grumman. The Air Force is planning to build 100 of…
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Fullerton leaders flipped the (ceremonial) switch on an energy project they say will be saving the city millions of dollars. The city contracted with NORESCO, which does projects improving energy efficiency of aging facilities, to upgrade building systems and add new solar energy infrastructure and electric vehicle chargers at city facilities. New solar panels stand…
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By STEPHEN GROVES and KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON— With just a week left to avert a government shutdown, new House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing his first big test as he tries to win House Republican support for a short-term funding plan — a task that looks increasingly difficult amid stubborn divisions in the party over…
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Recently I facilitated an anti-bullying workshop for immigrant students who live in Orange County.  It’s one of the most popular programs run by Project Atom, a nonprofit that helps immigrants in high school and college mentor younger new arrivals. It’s exactly the kind of support I wish I’d had when I arrived in Westminster as a 10-year-old…
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Nina Metz | Chicago Tribune (TNS) Union negotiators representing TV and film actors have agreed to a new contract with the studios, putting an end to a strike that began in July. The entire membership will have to vote to approve it before it’s official. But with the Writers Guild of America ending its own…
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Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham’s visit to the Rose Bowl will serve as a reunion with UCLA true freshman quarterback Dante Moore this week. Dillingham had been in pursuit of Moore back when he was coaching at Florida State and continued to recruit the quarterback when he became the offensive coordinator at Oregon in 2022.…
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PORTLAND, Oregon — The play hadn’t worked all last week in practice, so Austin Jones’ reaction to the call was fairly understandable. “I was like, ‘Oh, here we go’” the USC running back said. Knotted at 21 in the second quarter of a breakneck game with Washington, Jones lined up to the direct left of…
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell often tells the story of a letter that his father, a foot soldier in World War II, wrote to his mother while he was stationed in Eastern Europe in 1945, as the United States was liberating the region from Nazi rule. “I think the…
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