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Target is ending its DEI goals as workplace inclusion gets a strong opponent in the White HouseJan 24, 2025 12:33 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity...
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Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell himJan 24, 2025 12:31 pm - FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pa...
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Marlee Matlin, a trailblazer for deaf actors, opens up in a new documentaryJan 24, 2025 8:54 am - Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.” The film kicked off the 41st Sundance Film Festival Thursday.
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Don’t book a seat for 'Flight Risk'Jan 24, 2025 8:39 am - “Flight Risk” sounds like the setup for a joke: What do you get when you put a U.S. Marshal, a fugitive and an unhinged pilot in a small plane? We don't know but get out your barf bag. Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace star in this truly forgettable thriller-comedy.
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Trump orders release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination recordsJan 23, 2025 8:26 pm - DALLAS — President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which...
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Trump pardons anti-abortion activists who blockaded clinic entrancesJan 23, 2025 4:09 pm - CHICAGO — President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Trump called it “a great ho...
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Questlove film traces 50 years of musical history on ‘Saturday Night Live’Jan 23, 2025 3:49 pm - The startling “cold open” for a documentary about 50 years of “Saturday Night Live” music is proof that a musician — a specific kind of musician — had to put it together. “Ladies and Gentlemen ... 50 Years of SNL Music” airs Monday on NBC.
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Trump tells Davos elite to invest in US or face tariffsJan 23, 2025 2:50 pm - President Donald Trump used an address Thursday to the World Economic Forum to promise global elites lower taxes if they bring manufacturing to the U.S. and threatened to impose tariffs if they don’t.
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Trump’s inheriting a solid economy, making it harder to lower borrowing costs or inflationJan 23, 2025 2:45 pm - President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep.
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A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenshipJan 23, 2025 2:42 pm - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.