Angelina Jolie joins producing team for Broadway-bound musical ‘The Outsiders’
By MARK KENEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Add Angelina Jolie to the growing list of celebrities dipping their toes into producing on…
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Poland to double troops number at border with Belarus, accuses it of organizing illegal migration
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pland’s government will deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard…
Continue Reading4 LGBTQ+ retirement hurdles (and what to do about them)
By KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet In many ways, retirement planning for someone in the LGBTQ+ community follows the basic tenets of anyone’s retirement…
Continue ReadingShipping company ordered to pay $2.25M after discharging oily bilge off Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The owner of a Greek oil tanker that discharged nearly 10,000 gallons of oily bilge water into the ocean has been ordered…
Continue ReadingDonald Trump wants his election subversion trial moved out of Washington. That won’t be easy
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and his legal team face long odds in their bid to…
Continue ReadingWildfire on Maui kills at least 6, damages over 270 structures as it sweeps through historic town
By AUDREY MCAVOY, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) — A wildfire tore through the heart of the…
Continue ReadingTop US and EU lawmakers say West is too soft on Serbia when it comes to easing Kosovo tensions
By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Senior lawmakers from the United States and Europe are calling for a change in the Western…
Continue ReadingA Finnish man places 26.5 pounds of dynamite in a friend’s vehicles and claims it was a joke
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Finnish man reportedly stored 12 kilograms (26.5 pounds) of dynamite in two cars belonging to a friend, saying it…
Continue ReadingHundreds flee, building destroyed as grass fire spreads to trees near Texas apartments
CEDAR PARK, Texas (AP) — A grass fire near Austin, Texas, spread into trees near an apartment complex and condominiums, destroying one of the…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s parliament is dissolved to pave way for elections as Imran Khan seeks release from prison
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, a first…
Continue ReadingHip-hop and justice: Culture carries the spirit of protest, 50 years and counting
By AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop has been an integral part of social and racial justice movements. It’s also been…
Continue ReadingWomen battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction
By SHAR0N JOHNSON and NARDOS HAILE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Female rappers have been a part of hip-hop since its debut. Women have fought to…
Continue ReadingThe NBA has been playing to a hip-hop beat for nearly 50 years
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AND ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writers Just as a movie soundtrack helps viewers follow the action of the narrative through each plot…
Continue ReadingHow hip-hop went from being shunned by big business to multimillion-dollar collabs
By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The signs of hip-hop’s influence are now everywhere from Pharrell Williams becoming Louis…
Continue ReadingHip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there’s pride, still hard times
By NOREEN NASIR Associated Press BRONX, NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop was born in the Bronx, rising from the ashes of a borough ablaze with poverty,…
Continue ReadingHip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way
By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop was born in the break — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted…
Continue ReadingEdmunds compares: 2023 Mazda CX-50 vs. Honda CR-V
By CHASE BIERENKOVEN Edmunds The Honda CR-V has consistently been one of the most popular small crossover SUVs on sale in America. It’s also highly…
Continue Reading‘Monumental’ data breach exposes names of entire Northern Ireland police force
By Christian Edwards and Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — A “monumental” data breach has exposed the names and rank of all 10,000 serving…
Continue Reading41 dead in new Mediterranean migrant shipwreck tragedy
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Forty-one people reportedly died in a migrant shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa,…
Continue Reading5 things to know for August 9: Storms, Ohio, Economy, Biden, Ukraine
CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A lottery ticket sold in Florida won Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing for the $1.58 billion jackpot. This…
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