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Can a rom-com be honest about money? Celine Song’s smart ‘Materialists’ gives it a goJun 12, 2025 5:30 am - The problem with so many rom-coms is how often we’re asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life’s realities. Celine Song’s “Materialists” is something else entirely. Economic reality drives the narrative.
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Trump’s plan to begin ‘phasing out’ FEMA after hurricane season burdens states, experts warnJun 11, 2025 7:55 pm - SAN DIEGO — President Donald Trump's plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more respo...
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What to know about the protests over Trump’s immigration crackdown in LA and other citiesJun 11, 2025 6:49 pm - LOS ANGELES — Downtown Los Angeles bustled Wednesday with dog walkers and commuters as it returned to business as usual after the first night of curfew meant to tamp down...
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About 500 National Guard troops in LA are trained to accompany agents on immigration raidsJun 11, 2025 6:48 pm - WASHINGTON — About 500 of the National Guard troops deployed to the Los Angeles protests have been trained to accompany agents on immigration operations, the commander in...
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An Omaha food plant owner says he followed the rules for hiring immigrants. It was raided anyway.Jun 11, 2025 6:38 pm - OMAHA, Neb. — The owner of an Omaha food packaging company says his business has been unfairly hamstrung by federal immigration officials, who raided the plant and arrest...
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Jury convicts Harvey Weinstein of top charge in split verdict at #MeToo sex crimes retrialJun 11, 2025 4:34 pm - NEW YORK — Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Wednesday of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial but acquitted of another, and jurors were as ye...
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10 songs to celebrate the life, legacy of Beach Boys’ Brian WilsonJun 11, 2025 4:18 pm - The musical world lost a giant with news Wednesday that Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, had died. He was 82. To celebrate Wilson's life and legacy, here are just a few songs that made the man.
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Indiana Jones’ whip, Kane’s Rosebud sled and Culkin’s ‘Home Alone’ snow cap are going up for auctionJun 11, 2025 3:12 pm - Many of movies’ most sought-after props are going up for auction, including the Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane,” Macaulay Culkin’s knit snow cap from “Home Alone” and a whip wielded by Harrison Ford during the Holy Grail trials of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”
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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer’s poet laureate, dies at 82Jun 11, 2025 11:59 am - Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.
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Trump says US gets rare earth minerals from China in trade deal, tariffs on Chinese goods go to 55%Jun 11, 2025 8:00 am - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade deal and that tariffs on Chinese goods will go to 55%.