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THE RANCHO ALAMITOS football team is one of four area high school teams still unbeaten (GGUSD photo).

Tens of thousands of volunteers showed up at beaches, harbors, parks, trails and lakes on Saturday, Sept. 19, ready to clean — a chance not just to give back, but also to tackle the trash that has collected between inland communities anhttps://www.ocregister.com/2026/09/17/surfboards-made-of-cigarettes-documentary-on-trashy-boards-shines-light-for-coastal-cleanup-day/d the coast before El Niño storms wash in down waterways and into the…

Southern California bosses grew their staffs to record levels this summer, even though job creation is running at almost half the pace we’ve seen in the past.

The scale of the downtown area is overwhelming. Massive skyscrapers rise from the banks of the Chicago River as it meanders toward Lake Michigan. The El bangs along rickety tracks in its endless loop around downtown. Of all the major metropolitan areas in our country, Chicago may be the most impressive.

Lisa Fasone and her partner had always dreamed of having two children. When Fasone became pregnant in 2021, everything seemed to be falling into place. They welcomed their daughter in February 2022. 

When Cody Turcotte arrived to fight a wildfire scorching homes in Spokane, Washington, last month,there weren’t enough people at the scene to control it. His team of five engines joined just two others that had been battling the blaze alone for hours, as its flames rapidly spread.

Cuba’s power grid collapsed once again on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity for at least the sixth time since President Trump cut off fuel to the island in January.

Washington — President Trump said Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, the latest move by his administration to target media outlets over their reporting. 

Thousands of people in Yemen are fleeing across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the African country of Djibouti as the war in the Middle East expands and the Iran-backed Houthi militia fights Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces.Nearly 3,000 people, more than half women and children, have fled Yemen in less than a week amid intensified fighting…