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Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third timeJun 19, 2025 11:34 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
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Juneteenth celebrations across the US commemorate the end of slaveryJun 19, 2025 11:18 am - Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday to mark the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas. The events include one in Galveston — the holiday's birthplace — where former President Joe Biden was expected.
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ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businessesJun 19, 2025 10:23 am - Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.
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Tariff threats, wars will slow but not collapse global luxury sales in 2025, new study showsJun 19, 2025 10:16 am - Global sales of personal luxury goods are ”slowing down but not collapsing,” according to a Bain & Co. consultancy study released Thursday.
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SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodes, but no injuries reportedJun 19, 2025 8:39 am - A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky.
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Zelenskyy calls for more pressure on Russia after deadly Kyiv missile strikeJun 19, 2025 7:52 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said a Russian missile strike on a nine-story Kyiv apartment building was a sign that more pressure must be applied on Moscow to agree to a ceasefire, as Moscow intensifies attacks in the three-year war.
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Iranian missiles hit a hospital and wound over 200. Israel threatens Iran's top leaderJun 19, 2025 7:50 am - Israel's defense minister overtly threatened Iran's supreme leader on Thursday after the latest missile barrage from Iran damaged the main hospital in southern Israel and hit several other residential buildings near Tel Aviv. Israel meanwhile struck a heavy water reactor that is part of Iran's nuclear program.
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Rebel Wilson’s ‘Bride Hard’ is a wedding movie that’s easy to break up withJun 19, 2025 5:30 am - Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get “Bride Hard,” which is a movie, for better or for worse. In this case, much, much worse.
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Pixar’s ‘Elio’ an intergalactic, existential adventure about lonelinessJun 19, 2025 5:30 am - Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life. He’s recently lost his parents, the only people who understood him and wanted him. So, in Pixar’s latest, he starts waging a campaign for aliens to abduct him.
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Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s deathJun 18, 2025 9:22 pm - DEDHAM, Mass. — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a ...