Articles filed under Associated Press
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Biden talks election, economy and Middle East in surprise news briefingOct 04, 2024 8:30 pm - WASHINGTON — After 1,080 days as president, Joe Biden on Friday decided to pop in and take questions in the White House briefing room for the first time, striding in with...
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Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’Oct 04, 2024 9:36 am - Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. The story of how she refused to budge is included in her memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens."
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Book Review: ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ is fan service for readers of Gladwell’s 2000 bookOct 04, 2024 9:23 am - In “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering,” Malcolm Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it wasn’t really necessary either.
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‘Saturday Night’ is thinly sketched but satisfyingOct 04, 2024 8:19 am - We are at the apex of “Saturday Night Live” appreciation. So it’s maybe appropriate that Jason Reitman’s big-screen ode, “Saturday Night,” should arrive, amid all of the tributes, to remind us of the show’s original revolutionary force.
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Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election lossOct 04, 2024 7:44 am - Days before rioters roamed the halls of the U.S. Capitol threatening to “hang Mike Pence,” Donald Trump told his vice president that people are going to “hate your guts” and “think you're stupid” if he failed to stop the 2020 election certification.
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Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artistOct 04, 2024 7:23 am - A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.
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Israeli airstrikes rock southern suburbs of Beirut and cut off a key crossing into SyriaOct 04, 2024 6:59 am - Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight, hitting suburbs of Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment.
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Harris and Trump battle for labor support as dockworkers suspend strikeOct 04, 2024 6:56 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the union stronghold of Flint, Michigan, on Friday as she battles with Donald Trump for working-class voters who could tip the scales in this year's election.
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Helen Mirren tells a story of evil and hope during WWII in ‘White Bird’Oct 04, 2024 6:27 am - It’s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness. In the new film “White Bird,” the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France shelters a young Jewish girl, whose friends and family have all been taken away.
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Spinning its wheels: ‘Folie à Deux’ reckons with ‘The Joker’Oct 03, 2024 12:56 pm - If there’s one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips’ divisive 2019 original “Joker” and his new follow-up, it’s that these movies are best when they dance.