By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.S. cities vied to host the nation’s premier independent film festival.
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The Sundance Film Festival is Boulder bound, leaving its home of four decades in Park City, Utah, for a new chapter in neighboring Colorado. Organizers announced their decision Thursday after a yearlong search in which numerous U.S. cities vied to host the nation’s premiere independent film festival.
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SJSD, you don’t ‘get it’ With all due respect to the SJSD Board and district administrators: You simply don’t understand or “get it.” How many of you have spent a week or two at our local public high schools? I suspect that none of you have taken this time to evaluate our three high schools.
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The United States will enhance its military alliance with the Philippines as it aims to “reestablish deterrence” to counter “China’s aggression” in the Indo-Pacific region, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday during a trip to Manila. The efforts reflect the strength of the US-Philippines’ “ironclad alliance,
Continue ReadingPor Jennifer Hansler, CNN El Gobierno de Donald Trump restableció temporalmente la financiación a una iniciativa que rastrea presuntos crímenes de guerra rusos después de haber cortado su asistencia, según una fuente del Congreso familiarizada con el asunto. El financiamiento para el Observatorio de Conflictos en Ucrania fue restaurado por seis semanas, dijo la fuente
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Just days after OpenAI launched its most advanced AI image generator to date, a social media trend imitating the work of Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli is demonstrating both the technology’s power and the copyright concerns it raises. The latest update to GPT-4o, released Tuesday, features many practical advancements,
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The trouble with running a school bond issue comes the day after the election. If voters reject the proposal, then school officials and board members are in the awkward position of walking back all those previous statements about inadequate facilities or education being at a crossroads.
Continue ReadingPor Jimena De La Quintana, CNN en Español Frente al hospital en Lima donde su esposa está hospitalizada, Eduardo Rossel cuenta: “Hoy es el cumpleaños de mi esposa, cumple 46 años”. “Hemos celebrado todos los años, cada año ella siempre agradecía a Dios”, dice sobre Rosa Castro, una técnica en enfermería que, según le dijo
Continue ReadingPor Mariya Knight, CNN El presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, sugirió que Ucrania sea puesta bajo una “administración temporal” mientras las dos naciones trabajan para alcanzar un acuerdo para resolver el conflicto en curso. La administración se establecería para llevar a cabo elecciones democráticas confiables, continuar las conversaciones de paz y firmar documentos “confiables y
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — A former police officer who fatally Tasered a 95-year-old Australian woman after she refused his orders to drop a knife has been spared jail, with the victim’s family decrying the sentence as a “slap on the wrist.” Kristian White was found guilty of manslaughter after shocking
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By PHILIP CROWTHER, KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump pushes to take over the Danish territory. The pointed remarks came as Vance visited U.S. troops
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By JILL COLVIN and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were two years ago, the latest indication that President Donald Trump’s tariff threats and talk of taking over a neighboring ally are souring a critical economic and military relationship.
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By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Democrats, with few electoral outlets for their outrage at President Donald Trump’s dramatic restructuring of the federal government, are pouring millions of dollars into two special elections in Florida. That’s where Democratic candidates are trying to accomplish the improbable by flipping a pair of
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By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, urged a federal judge on Friday to move their client’s case out of Louisiana, describing his imprisonment there as a “Kafkaesque” ploy to chill free speech. “The longer
Continue Reading NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student the Trump administration is trying to expel from the U.S. because of his role in campus protests against Israel, are expected to appear Friday before a judge in New Jersey as they fight for his release from federal custody. Khalil, 30, was arrested
Continue Reading NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student the Trump administration is trying to expel from the U.S. because of his role in campus protests against Israel, are expected to appear Friday before a judge in New Jersey as they fight for his release from federal custody. Khalil, 30, was arrested
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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press EVERETT, Mass. (AP) — For years, the mayor of a Boston suburb dreaded Wednesdays. That was the day when a local weekly would publish shocking allegations that he was on the take, sexually harassing women or under investigation by the FBI. Friends trashed Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria on Facebook over
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By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law. The order, signed without public fanfare and announced late Thursday, appears to touch most of the
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By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 3 Evening” game were: 1, 5, 7 (one, five, seven) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Kansas Pick 3 Evening” game were: 6, 8, 8 (six, eight, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Iowa Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 2, 5, 9 (zero, two, five, nine) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writer The Trump administration has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, the Department of Justice said Thursday. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the department’s Civil Rights Division to investigate
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea were almost contained, authorities announced Friday, after rain and cooler temperatures helped fire crew put out the blazes that have killed 28 people and razed vast swaths of land since last week. In
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By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Noted economist Arthur Laffer warns in a new analysis that President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could add $4,711 to the cost of a vehicle, adding that the proposed taxes could weaken the ability of U.S. automakers to compete with their foreign counterparts. In the
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 3 Evening” game were: 0, 6, 8 (zero, six, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday’s drawing of the “Missouri Show Me Ca$h” game were: 3, 5, 11, 15, 28 (three, five, eleven, fifteen, twenty-eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday’s drawing of the “Nebraska Pick 5” game were: 7, 13, 20, 21, 30 (seven, thirteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy Todd Symons and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will fight for his job in a tightly contested election campaign expected to be dominated by cost-of-living concerns, the country’s relationship with China and jitters over the fast-changing global order under US President Donald Trump. The election pits an incumbent who
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Missouri Pick 4 Evening” game were: 0, 6, 7, 7 (zero, six, seven, seven) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — The University of Michigan will immediately end its diversity, equity and inclusion program after months of discussion about potential rollbacks to the initiatives, which galvanized hundreds of students, staff and faculty to protest last year. The university will close its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and the office
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