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US envoy visits aid site in Gaza run by Israeli-backed group that has been heavily criticizedAug 01, 2025 3:17 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy on Friday visited a food distribution site in the Gaza Strip operated by an Israeli-backed America...
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Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash caseAug 01, 2025 3:13 pm - MIAMI — A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by TrumpAug 01, 2025 3:07 pm - WASHINGTON — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure...
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Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is transferred to a prison camp in TexasAug 01, 2025 2:48 pm - WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case gener...
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Astronauts launch to the space station after sidelined by Boeing's troubled StarlinerAug 01, 2025 2:41 pm - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from ...
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Matt Rogers talks bringing zeitgeisty Las Culturistas Awards to TV for the 1st timeAug 01, 2025 2:28 pm - The last Teen Choice Awards aired in 2019. MTV canceled its MTV Movie & TV Awards show after 2023. Enter the Las Culturistas Culture Awards, now in its fifth year — and coming to television for the first time at 8 p.m. Tuesday on Bravo.
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Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment reportAug 01, 2025 1:52 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday called for the firing of the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.
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Now playing in movie theaters: 73 minutes of cat videos, for a good causeAug 01, 2025 11:16 am - The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline — silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic — that’s playing at the Wayfarer Theaters in Highland Park.
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Wall Street slumps and bond yields sink following weak hiring numbers and new tariffsAug 01, 2025 10:15 am - Stocks slumped and Treasury yields fell sharply Friday after a weak report on hiring and the latest gyrations in U.S. trade policy shook Wall Street.
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Julia Whelan has narrated 600 audiobooks and counting. So why isn’t she paid like it?Aug 01, 2025 8:06 am - Chances are, you’ve heard Julia Whelan’s voice. She’s the award-winning narrator behind more than 600 audiobooks by a long list of bestselling authors. Whelan’s first novel, 2018’s “My Oxford Year,” has been adapted to a Netflix film starring Sofia Carson.