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LOS ANGELES — Before her film “Traces of Home” played to a sold-out crowd at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre as part of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, director Colette Ghunim led the audience ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS - People who own property near George Floyd Square are upset that the city notified them they are picking up part of the tab for an overhaul of streets and infrastructure in a part of Minneapolis drastically ...Read more

CHICAGO — A nearly $56 billion state spending plan is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature approved it in the early-morning hours of another overtime spring session.

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LOS ANGELES — What was the moment from the season finale of “The Pitt” that finally broke you?

Was it the shot of the day-shift staff watching the Fourth of July fireworks from the hospital roof, the sound of “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than 20 years after Michael Jackson was acquitted on charges of child molestation — and two months since the global superstar’s record-breaking biopic skirted any mention of abuse allegations — a...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – U.S. Sen. Tina Smith took to the Senate floor this week to take a final stand against additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, even though she knew her opposition ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ben Gibbard remembers late 2023 as a time of competing realities.

Onstage, the frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service was thriving as his two bands toured together to mark the 20th ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Dearly beloved, we will gather in downtown Minneapolis to serenade Prince.

It’s Prince Week again, time for concerts and celebrations at Paisley Park, his home and Minneapolis, his hometown. The ...Read more

Texting while driving. Bullying people on social media. Buying into the latest conspiracy theory. Passing off AI-generated work as your own.

That may seem like a random list of 21st-century vices. But I’d ...Read more

In May 2026, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration filed suit against Character Technologies Inc., the company behind the popular chatbot platform Character.AI. A state investigation found that a chatbot ...Read more

The state of New York could meet its goal of building 46 gigawatts of large-scale solar by midcentury, but not without making difficult choices in how land is used across the state.

That’s the overall finding ...Read more

Gillian Anderson "wasted a lot of hours" worrying about getting older.

The 57-year-old actress opened up to Harper's Bazaar magazine about how she's adjusted her outlook on ageing over the past few years, and stopped ...Read more

Rick Springfield became an American citizen so that his wife can make financial decisions when he dies.

The Australian-born singer got his US citizenship back in 2006, and joked to People that he did so because he "wanted...Read more

Heather Locklear thinks Lorenzo Lamas was a gift from God.

The 64-year-old actress first met the 68-year-old actor while posing for Playgirl magazine in 1983 but they recently reconnected and the Melrose Place star couldn...Read more

Ralf Schumacher has got married.

The former Formula 1 driver - who revealed he was in a same-sex relationship in July 2024 - announced in February that he and partner Etienne Bousquet-Cassagne had got engaged, and on ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran have made little progress in talks over an interim peace deal this week, with the sides seeing their worst clashes since an April ceasefire began and fighting continuing in Lebanon.

Skirmishes continued ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, marking his inaugural overseas trip of the year after recently hosting Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Beijing.

Xi will travel to Pyongyang ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a nearly $70 billion reconciliation bill for immigration enforcement early Friday morning after rejecting repeated attempts by members of both parties to prohibit or restrict a Justice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee approved its fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act late Thursday after a series of politically charged debates about the Iran war, Pentagon acquisition rules, ...Read more

CHICAGO — From most cookies dunked in milk at one time to most sweet corn kernels eaten in 3 minutes with a toothpick, the Chicago area has seen its fair share of attempts at setting niche food-related world records. The...Read more