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Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desertAug 28, 2025 7:12 am - When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
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Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfireAug 28, 2025 7:09 am - In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman make a love story very dark in ‘The Roses’Aug 28, 2025 5:30 am - “The Roses” begins in a marriage therapist’s office, where Theo Rose has something interesting to say about his longtime wife, Ivy: “I would rather live with her than a wolf.”
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Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper ‘Caught Stealing’ an affectionate ode to ’90s New YorkAug 28, 2025 5:30 am - Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, “Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of New York. This terrific caper, starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side man inadvertently drawn into a nightmarish crime world, is a period movie set in 1998.
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Perez leads Royals to 12-1 rout of White Sox and moves into 3rd place on franchise RBI listAug 27, 2025 10:12 pm - CHICAGO — Salvador Perez hit a leadoff homer and a two-run double in Kansas City's eight-run fifth inning as the Royals pummeled the White Sox 12-1 on Wednesday night. Pe...
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US Open foes Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko get into a tense back-and-forth after matchAug 27, 2025 9:13 pm - NEW YORK — U.S. Open opponents Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko got into a face-to-face argument on the Court 11 sideline right after Townsend won their second-round ...
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Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley leaves himself off the US team for Bethpage BlackAug 27, 2025 9:02 pm - U.S. captain Keegan Bradley went down the list of six names to fill out his Ryder Cup team, one by one, the suspense building whether he would call his own name and becom...
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National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping dutiesAug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
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College football Week 1: Three top-10 games so early in season is a first; Texas-Ohio St is topperAug 27, 2025 8:19 pm - Until this year, there had never been three top-10 matchups so early in a college football season. The excitement for Texas-Ohio State in Columbus on Saturday has been bu...
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Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights ActAug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.