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Music industry backs bill to limit use of rap lyrics in federal court amid Young Thug indictment
Paras Griffin/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Top music industry leaders, including the Recording Academy, are backing legislation introduced in Congress on Wednesday that would limit the use of rap lyrics as evidence by federal prosecutors [Read More…]
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Jan. 6 committee deepens probe into Trump cabinet: Sources
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is working to secure testimony from a growing number of officials in former President [Read More…]
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Six arrested in stray-bullet killing of 13-year-old South Carolina girl
Sheila Paras/Getty Images, FILE (CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C.) — A 13-year-old girl is dead and six people are under arrest after police alleged the suspects unleashed a barrage of gunfire with an assault weapon into her [Read More…]
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At least three dead in Kentucky flood, one of the ‘most devastating’ in state history
BanksPhotos/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Rescues are ongoing in Kentucky amid “one of the worst, most devastating” floods in the state’s history, Gov. Andy Beshear said. A flash flood emergency was issued overnight as [Read More…]
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Two dead in Oregon as heat wave bakes Pacific Northwest
David Ryder/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The severe heat in the Northwest has now turned deadly, with the Oregon state medical examiner reporting two suspected heat deaths on Wednesday. With temperatures expected to stay in [Read More…]
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76 million-year-old dinosaur fossil sells at auction for $6.1 million
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A skeleton of one of history’s most ferocious predators sold at auction for just over $6 million to an unknown buyer on Thursday. Sotheby’s had announced earlier this month [Read More…]
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Boy partially paralyzed in Highland Park shooting is asking mom if he’ll walk again
Jason and Keely Roberts pose with four of their six children, including their 8-year-old twins, Luke and Cooper. – Roberts Family photo (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts, who was enjoying a Fourth of [Read More…]
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White House went public with Griner, Whelan offer to reassure Americans; Russia says no deal yet
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration’s unusual decision to publicize its offer to Russia to free Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan — the basketball star and former Marine whom the U.S. says are [Read More…]
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Families of US citizens held abroad call for Biden administration to do more
Courtesy Li family (NEW YORK) — In September 2016, Kai Li stepped off a plane from the United States to his native China to visit relatives and attend a memorial for his late mother. He [Read More…]
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Rare pink diamond unearthed in Angola may be largest found in 300 years
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — A rare pink diamond has been unearthed in Angola and is claimed to be one of the largest ever recovered in the world. The 170-carat precious stone, called the “Lulo Rose,” [Read More…]
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Who is Viktor Bout, the convicted arms dealer held in a US prison?
Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shortly after U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers finally arrested him in a hotel in Thailand in 2008, Viktor Bout turned to one of the agents escorting [Read More…]
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US has put ‘substantial proposal on the table’ to get Griner, Whelan out of Russia
ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a sharp reversal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that he will hold a call with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “in the coming days,” which [Read More…]
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw on the “juicy” twists and turns in Apple TV+’s ‘Surface’
Apple TV+ Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Sophie, a woman who wakes up after a terrible accident with memory loss in Apple TV+’s new thriller series Surface. However, as the show progresses, Sophie learns she has [Read More…]
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Television legend Norman Lear to celebrate his 100th birthday with ABC special
ABC Norman Lear, the legendary producer of TV classics like All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, turned 100 years old on Wednesday, and ABC is going to throw him a party. The [Read More…]
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“OOH WEE!” ‘Rick and Morty’ returns for season six on September 4
Adult Swim “WUBBA LUBBA DUB-DUB!” The absurdist, Emmy-winning animated series Rick and Morty will make its anticipated return for season six on Adult Swim on Sunday, September 4 at 11 p.m. The show, co-created by [Read More…]
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“Our actions matter” — Candace Cameron Bure buries the hatchet with JoJo Siwa
ABC – Netflix Candace Cameron Bure has broken her silence on JoJo Siwa‘s claim on TikTok that the Full House alum was the “rudest” celebrity they’d ever met. Bure, taking to Instagram on Tuesday, says [Read More…]
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Lea Michele pays tribute to late ‘Glee’ costar Cory Monteith
Michael Buckner/Getty Images For Chrysalis Lea Michele kicked off her An Evening With Lea Michele: Life in Music tour with a tribute to her late boyfriend and Glee co-star, Cory Monteith. During her first stop [Read More…]
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Top gun CEOs testifying on Capitol Hill, blame ‘erosion of personal responsibility’
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Leading gun manufacturing executives testified Wednesday morning before a House panel investigating the role of the firearms industry in the nation’s high rates of gun violence, [Read More…]
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Federal Reserve set for another dramatic rate hike
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Economists expect a major rate hike from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, the latest in a series of borrowing cost increases as the central bank tries to slash near-historic inflation [Read More…]
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Instagram causes eating disorders, depression in young girls, new lawsuits claim
Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Instagram is accused in two new lawsuits of spurring eating disorders and mental health problems ranging from anxiety and depression to addiction and suicide attempts in teenage [Read More…]