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Nicolas Cage finds fame to be highly overrated in chillingly funny 'Dream Scenario'Nov 16, 2023 5:00 am - “Dream Scenario” — ★ ★ ★ Quick: What's a good adjective for Nicolas Cage's screen presence? Mercurial, perhaps? Volcanic? Volatile? How about mundane, schlubby, ave...
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Hearing will take place in religious leaders' lawsuit challenging Missouri abortion banNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis judge on Thursday will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban on the grounds that lawmakers who passed the measure impos...
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Man who attacked Pelosi's husband convicted of federal assault and attempted kidnapping chargesNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO - A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked ...
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Police and protesters clash outside Democratic HQ during demonstration over the Israel-Hamas warNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Police and protesters clashed outside Democratic National Committee headquarters on Wednesday night during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war betwe...
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Internet, phone networks collapse in Gaza, threatening to worsen humanitarian crisisNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip - Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a po...
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Take heart, it looks like China could send new pandas to the U.S.Nov 16, 2023 12:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Chinese President Xi Jinping signaled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them "envoys of friendship between the Chinese and Am...
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Congress approves temporary funding and pushes the fight over the federal budget into the new yearNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Ending the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays, Congress gave final approval to a temporary government funding package that pushes a co...
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Russian artist who protested Ukraine war gets 7 years in prison in latest crackdown on free speechNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - TALLINN, Estonia - A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with anti-war messages, sentencing her to seven years...
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Xi-Biden meeting seen as putting rocky relations back on course, though main differences remainNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan - Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their four-hour meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chi...
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Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report saysNov 16, 2023 12:00 am - Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in de...