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‘The Fast and the Furious’ and Vin Diesel roll into Cannes for 25th anniversary

CANNES, France (AP) — The cast of “The Fast and the Furious” rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for a 25th anniversary celebration of the nitrous-boosting franchise.
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20 years after a 22-minute ovation, Guillermo del Toro and ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ return to Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — Twenty years ago, Guillermo del Toro premiered “Pan’s Labyrinth” at the Cannes Film Festival. He went in anxious. It was toward the end of the festival and many journalists had ...
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San Jose tech giant PayPal agrees to $30 million settlement with feds over DEI fund

The settlement comes as the administration of President Donald Trump has gone to war in his second term against diversity, ...
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunite on Day of the Dead in new Met Opera production

The opera, with libretto by playwright Nilo Cruz and music by Gabriela Lena Frank, imagines Kahlo’s spectral reunion three years after her death with Diego Rivera, the great Mexican muralist with whom ...
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Bald eagle hatchlings spotted in a Chicago park may be the city’s first for more than a century

Chicago Park District officials announced last week that bird-watchers observed nesting activity starting in February in Park 597 along the Calumet River on the city’s Southeast Side. The first eaglet ...
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Corleone crime family returns in a new ‘Godfather’ novel for 2027 release by Random House

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the last “Godfather” movie and more than 10 years since the last “Godfather” novel, the story of the Corleone crime family has a new chapter, presented for the first time ...
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Tom Steyer’s hedge fund past complicates his run as California’s anti-billionaire billionaire

Philanthropist Tom Steyer has cast himself as the progressive billionaire who vows to take on corporate power as he vies to ...
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From ‘The Hills’ villain to LA mayoral contender: Spencer Pratt’s viral video-fueled campaign

Pratt and his supporters are making a populist appeal to voters, emphasizing day-to-day concerns about life in Los Angeles and leaning on visceral imagery of drug use and homeless encampments from the ...
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Sheriff reports double number of ICE arrests at Sonoma County jail as tensions flare with activists

The annual forum highlighted increased ICE activity tied to the Sonoma County jail in the first year of President Donald ...
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Trump arrives in Beijing for talks with China’s Xi on Iran war, trade and US arms sales to Taiwan

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his hotly anticipated talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
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Expected closure of Everglades detention center is no accident given timing, environmentalists say

Environmental groups say that the timing of the expected closure of an immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades, likely in the next month or two, is no accident because it ...
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Utah woman who published a book on grief after husband’s death to be sentenced for his murder

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah mother who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband and was later found guilty of killing him finds out Wednesday how long she will spend in ...