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Penélope Cruz, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Salles and Bowen Yang are 2025 Academy Museum Gala honorees

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Bruce Springsteen will take the stage as both performer and a guest of honor at one of Hollywood’s most prominent fundraising events, the Academy Museum Gala. The 75-year-old rock legend is being honored alongside actors Penélope Cruz and Bowen Yang and filmmaker Walter Salles at the Oct. 18 celebration hosted

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Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope

By MARK THIESSEN and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Lauren Adams, general manager for KUCB public radio in Unalaska, Alaska, didn’t have much time to reflect on Congress, 4,000 miles away, stripping federal funding for public media this week. She’s been too busy working. Sirens blared in the Aleutian Islands community Wednesday

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell looks at a phone during a Senate Banking

Powell defends $2.5 billion Fed renovation in a point-by-point response to the Trump administration

By Bryan Mena, Lucy Bayly and Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell responded by letter Thursday to a senior Trump administration official who accused the head of the central bank of mismanaging an “ostentatious overhaul” of its Washington, DC, headquarters. Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, suggested

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A Georgia Republican governor candidate questions legality of rival’s $10M campaign loan

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Republican candidate for Georgia governor asked a state ethics body Thursday to determine whether his GOP rival illegally lent $10 million to a campaign committee to evade restrictions under state campaign finance law. Attorney General Chris Carr’s campaign lawyer asked the Georgia Ethics Commission for a

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Men deported by US to Eswatini in Africa will be held in solitary confinement for undetermined time

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s third-country program are being held in solitary confinement in various prisons for an undetermined time, a government spokesperson said. Thabile Mdluli, the Eswatini government spokesperson,

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Sports Betting Line

By The Associated Press MLB Friday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at CLEVELAND -134 Athletics +114 Baltimore -124 at TAMPA BAY +106 Detroit -120 at TEXAS +102 at SEATTLE -126 Houston +108 National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE San Diego -154 at WASHINGTON +130 at N.Y METS -162 Cincinnati +136 at ARIZONA -126 St.

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Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire

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Trump administration ends 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth.

Trump administration ends 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth have officially ended operations, meaning people contacting 988 for help no longer have the option to “press 3” to reach counselors specifically trained to respond to the needs of this group. The lifeline included a subnetwork for LGBTQ+

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Prodded by lawsuits, North Carolina seeks to tighten voter ID records for roughly 200,000 people

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina election officials on Thursday launched an online database of voter registration records for 103,000 people being asked to add their driver’s license numbers or partial Social Security numbers to the state’s records, a move critics worry could disenfranchise some voters. The State Board

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US Justice Department wants no prison time for ex-officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid

By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is recommending an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid should serve no prison time, an abrupt about-face after spending years prosecuting the former detective. Brett Hankison is the only officer who fired his weapon

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President Donald Trump “would not recommend” a special prosecutor to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein case

Trump ‘would not recommend’ special prosecutor to investigate Epstein case, White House says

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump “would not recommend” a special prosecutor to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday — despite some GOP calls to do so. “The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That’s how he feels,” Leavitt told

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Key players in Syria’s latest eruption of violence, from the Druze and Bedouin to government forces

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of the country’s yearslong civil war. The violence underscored the difficulties facing the Syrian new government struggling to consolidate

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