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Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayorOct 23, 2025 10:25 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor.
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US home sales accelerated in September to their fastest pace since February as mortgage rates easedOct 23, 2025 10:23 am - Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated in September as declining mortgage rates and a pickup in available properties on the market encouraged home shoppers.
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Taylor Swift, LL Cool J, Kenny Loggins and David Byrne are among Songwriters Hall of Fame nomineesOct 23, 2025 9:40 am - Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne are among the impressive list of nominees for the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame class, an eclectic mix of pop, hip-hop, folk and rock innovators.
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Vance criticizes Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, says the move was an ‘insult’Oct 23, 2025 8:27 am - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Thursday Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying it amounted to an “insult” and went against the Trump administration policies and efforts to ensure that the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holds in Gaza.
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Heat’s Rozier and Trail Blazers' Billups charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemesOct 23, 2025 8:21 am - Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said on Thursday.
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Broadway musicians reach labor deal, averting a strikeOct 23, 2025 6:48 am - The union representing Broadway’s musicians reached a tentative labor agreement with commercial producers on Thursday, averting a potentially crippling strike that would have silenced nearly two dozen musicals.
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Some tragedy, some romance, and a regretful helping of corn in ‘Regretting You’Oct 23, 2025 6:15 am - Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You,” a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the tears give way to smiles, quips and then full-on rom-com corniness feels a little awkward — and then just weird and annoying.
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Guillermo del Toro builds a handsome, grand ‘Frankenstein’ that is all his ownOct 23, 2025 6:00 am - Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. His version of “Frankenstein” is a story about stories, about fathers and sons, innocents and monsters, and the madness of creation.
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‘Bugonia’ is a darkly comic gut punchOct 23, 2025 5:30 am - The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has by now trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life, both savage and mundane. His latest, “Bugonia,” starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, is thrillingly, if tragically, tied to our reality. It might even be his best film.
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Josh O’Connor plays an artless thief in the artful ‘Mastermind’Oct 23, 2025 5:15 am - Not far into Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind,” a very different kind of art heist film starring Josh O’Connor, the title’s irony becomes painfully clear. This onetime art student, now a family man and unemployed carpenter, is the furthest thing from a mastermind.