By The Associated Press Beatles fans will be feeling some “real love” for this: New content from the iconic band is coming this fall on screen, in music and in print. “The Beatles Anthology” will be returning “in its ultimate form,” according to a release issued Thursday. The famed 1995 “Anthology” music documentary, recounting the
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Venice Film Festival offers an embarrassment of auteur riches this year. The 82nd edition, which kicks off on Wednesday, has films from Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sofia Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Luca Guadagnino, to name a few. Even Charlie Kaufman
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By MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was the result of interbreeding between the two distinct groups. The child, described in
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook late Monday, in a move viewed as a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over the independent institution. Trump said in a letter posted on his Truth Social platform Monday that
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By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, Aug. 22 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:05 a.m. FS2 — AFL: Melbourne at Collingwood 11 p.m. FS2 — AFL: Adelaide at North Melbourne 2 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 — AFL: Geelong at Richmond 5:30 a.m. (Saturday) FS2 — AFL: Sydney at West
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By LEX DOIG, JAEHEE KIM and ADRIAN MANCERA COTA / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis,
Continue Reading All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Atlanta 23 13 .639 — New York 22 14 .611 1 Indiana 19 16 .543 3½ Washington 16 20 .444 7 Chicago 9 26 .257 13½ Connecticut 8 27 .229 14½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Minnesota 28 7 .800 — Las Vegas 23 14
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Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away RS RA DIFF Toronto 74 54 .578 — — 6-4 L-1 42-21 32-33 625 572 53 New York 69 57 .548 4 +2 8-2 W-5 37-25 32-32 655 544 111 Boston 68 59 .535 5½ +½ 3-7 L-3 41-25
Continue Reading All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Toronto 74 54 .578 — New York 69 58 .543 4½ Boston 69 59 .539 5 Tampa Bay 61 67 .477 13 Baltimore 59 68 .465 14½ Central Division W L Pct GB Detroit 76 53 .589 — Kansas City 66 62 .516 9½ Cleveland 64
Continue Reading All Times EDT East Division W L Pct GB Philadelphia 74 53 .583 — New York 67 60 .528 7 Miami 60 67 .472 14 Atlanta 58 69 .457 16 Washington 52 75 .409 22 Central Division W L Pct GB Milwaukee 80 48 .625 — Chicago 73 55 .570 7 Cincinnati 67 61 .523
Continue Reading All Times EDT AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Div Miami 1 0 1 .750 48 41 0-0-0 1-0-1 0-0-0 1-0-1 0-0-0 New England 2 1 0 .667 78 72 1-0-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 2-1-0 0-0-0 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 42 41 0-0-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 0-0-0
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By MIKE CATALINI and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, died on Thursday. He was 89. Born in 1936 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dobson launched a radio show counseling Christians on how to
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (AP) — James Dobson, whose conservative Christian ministry Focus on the Family long fought abortion and gay rights, has died.
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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump took a field trip Thursday to the U.S. Park Police operations facility in Washington, where he addressed about 300 National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials and praised his military crackdown on crime and immigration in the city. The White House said there have been 630 arrests,
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Just three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke to reporters after the central bank had kept its key interest rate unchanged for a fifth straight meeting and said the job market was “solid.” His assessment was important because if the job market is healthy,
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer There’s only so much directing you can do when you send your lead actor, who is holding several bags of goldfish, in water, on a roller coaster with a 35 mm camera strapped to the front. You just have to trust. “Splitsville” director and actor Michael Angelo Covino knew
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By WAFAA SHURAFA, SALLY ABOU ALJOUD and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel’s terms.
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the Texas House’s approval of a new map to create more conservative-leaning seats in that
Continue ReadingOVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — SelectQuote, Inc. (SLQT) on Thursday reported net income of $12.9 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company said it had net loss of 2 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 17 cents per share. The company
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The death of a French streamer during an extended broadcast has prompted soul-searching and controversy as a government minister said Raphaël Graven had been “humiliated and mistreated for months” on air and a judicial investigation delves into alleged abuse. Graven, 46, also known as Jean Pormanove, died
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian man suspected to be one of the coordinators of undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022 was arrested in Italy on Thursday, authorities said. The 49-year-old was detained in the early hours in San Clemente, a village
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By WILSON McMAKIN Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has denied involvement in a series of massacres in eastern Congo which were detailed in a report published by a rights group Wednesday. Lawrence Kanyuka, spokesperson for the M23 military, called the Human Rights Watch report “fake and a falsification of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Kansas Daybook for Thursday, Aug. 21. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Thursday, Aug. 21. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Iowa Daybook for Thursday, Aug. 21. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Missouri Daybook for Thursday, Aug. 21. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
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By SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war. The aerial assault on a part of Ukraine
Continue Reading TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final St. Louis 7 Tampa Bay 4 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Athletics 8 Minnesota 3 Final Kansas City 6 Texas 4 Final Houston 7 Baltimore 2 Final Boston 6 N.Y. Yankees 3 ___ NATIONAL LEAGUE Final Milwaukee 4 Chicago Cubs 1 Final L.A. Dodgers 9 Colorado 5 Final Washington 9
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