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In 2021, Dawnie Walton published her debut novel “The Final Revival of Opal & Nev.” The book not only received rave reviews, but it also drew praise from high-profile readers like former President Barack Obama, National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates and Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman, among them. After that kind of success, you…
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Former Cleveland President Gabe Paul once quipped that “a manager really gets paid for how much he suffers.” If that’s still the case, Tony La Russa deserves a raise. No one has suffered quite like the Chicago White Sox manager, who still was the talk of baseball Friday one day after “the walk.” Not since…
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By Denis Slattery | New York Daily News ALBANY — An upstate New York congressional candidate with a long history of controversial remarks is once again in hot water after saying that Adolph Hitler is “the kind of leader we need today.” In an audio clip unveiled Thursday by Media Matters for America, a left-leaning watchdog…
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By Amanda Seitz | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.” White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often…
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If you didn’t know better, you would think Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra already has the answer. But as the Heat have learned over these past two seasons, assumptions are a tangled web with Victor Oladipo. As the team headed into its offseason, Spoelstra noted, “You’re going to see a totally different Vic next year…
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After so many things went right for Rich Strike to win the Kentucky Derby, he’ll likely need even more good fortune at the Belmont Stakes with so much stacked against him. Rich Strike won’t go off at odds of more than 80-1 this time, but even after bypassing the Preakness to run in the final…
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A Las Vegas man charged with killing one man and injuring five others at a Laguna Woods church made his first in-person appearance in an Orange County courtroom on Friday, June 10, nearly a month after allegedly carrying out a rampage that authorities say was driven by years-long hatred of Taiwanese people. David Wenwei Chou…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The Register’s All-County boys golf teams for 2022. PLAYER OF THE YEAR Daniel Heo, Cypress, Sr. Daniel Heo didn’t arrive at the CIF/SCGA SoCal Championships with visions of hoisting the first-place trophy. It was a feat that he even made it to Brookside…
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Six Flags has launched a new streamlined annual pass program that can be used at Magic Mountain, Discovery Kingdom and other Six Flags amusement parks and water parks around the country with the option to add a limited dining plan. The new four-tiered Six Flags annual pass replaces the former Six Flags program that was…
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By Thomas Tracy and Ellen Moynihan | New York Daily News NEW YORK CITY — They Might Be Giants lead guitarist and singer John Flansburgh was hospitalized with serious injuries following an Upper East Side car crash sparked by a drunk driver, police said Friday. Flansburgh, 62, was taking a car service back to his…
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