Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Orange County’s top committed football recruits from the Class of 2026, as of May 5, 2025: Name, School, Position, Height, Weight, College Jayden Crowder, Santa Margarita, CB, 5-11, 170, Cal Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, Mater Dei, WR, 6-2, 180, Ohio State Dash Fifita, Santa Margarita,…
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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 Monday, May 5 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday. MONDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL…
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By ALAN SUDERMAN In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president’s meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the president. Related Articles Trump team’s $500 million bet on old vaccine technology puzzles scientists Detained Tufts student seeking…
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By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — A new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened at least seven people in six states, health officials said Monday. Related Articles Photos: Best and worst looks from the 2025 Met Gala Novelist Percival Everett and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins among Pulitzer winners in the arts Don’t have…
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By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology and was just one of more than 200 such efforts. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.…
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By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical re-imagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned…
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This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, May 5. Notable this week: Huntington Beach swept Edison in three games to clinch an eighth straight league championship. … Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita clinched playoff berths in the Trinity League. … Villa Park swept a two-game series against Foothill in the Crestview…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme. “I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues to be colonized,…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their priorities as they open the conclave Wednesday to choose a new leader of…
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By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Let the year’s biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday with a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to the menswear theme: Emma Chamberlain and other women in pinstripe gowns. Chamberlain and Zuri Hall were among those who wore sleek, sexy gowns that play…
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