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WASHINGTON — A framework agreement to end the U.S. war with Iran is all but settled, pending sign-off from the presidents of the two warring sides, President Donald Trump said Friday, projecting optimism that a deal ...Read more

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — With all evacuation orders lifted and the threat of a catastrophic blast averted, city and county officials are working another problem: How much will the response to the malfunctioning chemical ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Washington federal judge blocked the Kennedy Center board from closing the decades-old performing arts venue and ordered President Donald Trump’s name to be removed from the building.

The board of ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a Friday evening post, President Donald Trump backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette’s campaign, the highly sought after endorsement in the race for the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor.

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WASHINGTON — The White House has repeatedly sent conflicting messages on the prospects for a deal with Iran, highlighting President Donald Trump’s struggles to find an off-ramp to a conflict now in its fourth month.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County Democratic election judge says she was assaulted by a Republican election judge while working at her polling place for the primary runoff election Tuesday morning.

When the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue ...Read more

SEATTLE — A ninth worker killed in a Longview paper mill implosion has been recovered from the site, officials said Friday.

The tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill likely killed 11 ...Read more

Britney Spears has broken her silence on an "interesting year" following her arrest for reckless driving in March.

The 44-year-old singer was arrested in the evening of 4 March near her home in Ventura County, California,...Read more

Mary Bonnet has confirmed her departure from Selling Sunset, saying she made the decision to leave because she wasn't happy with the "direction" the reality show was going in.

The 45-year-old has been an important cast ...Read more

Kim Petras has "rarely" met men that have "openly wanted to date" her.

The German singer-songwriter started identifying as a female aged two, began hormone therapy at 12 and was dubbed "the world's youngest transsexual" ...Read more

KPop Demon Hunters director Maggie Kang has promised the sequel to the smash hit movie will be "fresh, surprising and original".

The first film became the most‑watched movie in Netflix history when it debuted last year,...Read more

Kane Parsons, the director of critically-acclaimed horror thriller Backrooms, has said he's "certainly" planning sequels.

The 20-year-old helms the movie, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, which tells the story of the furniture ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "House of the Dragon" Season 3 will see Rhaenyra Targaryen take back King's Landing — but the war is far from over.

HBO on Friday released the final trailer for the upcoming season of its epic fantasy, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s moves to rename the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump and close the center for two years — and gave two weeks for ...Read more

ROME — Fresh off the glow of his summit with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, Mayor Brandon Johnson signaled Friday that Chicago could be due for another street or landmark christened after a pontiff.

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It was a busy week in music.

The announcement Wednesday of a concert series honoring the country’s 250th anniversary prompted a swift reaction, and it wasn’t from zealous fans. Within hours of the lineup reveal, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A reported sighting of a mountain lion has shut down a few local roads in Santa Monica as authorities look for the dangerous cat and warn residents to stay indoors.

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Louisiana’s Republican legislature gave final approval to a new congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two Black-majority districts and would likely lead to a one-seat GOP pickup in the November election ...Read more

DENVER — A new law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis will restrict artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, regulating the technology amid concern about its role in several suicides by young people.

The measure, which ...Read more