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Rebel Wilson’s ‘Bride Hard’ is a wedding movie that’s easy to break up withJun 19, 2025 5:30 am - Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get “Bride Hard,” which is a movie, for better or for worse. In this case, much, much worse.
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Pixar’s ‘Elio’ an intergalactic, existential adventure about lonelinessJun 19, 2025 5:30 am - Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life. He’s recently lost his parents, the only people who understood him and wanted him. So, in Pixar’s latest, he starts waging a campaign for aliens to abduct him.
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Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s deathJun 18, 2025 9:22 pm - DEDHAM, Mass. — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a ...
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Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rightsJun 18, 2025 8:00 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights. The justices'...
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The world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV could stop transmission — if people can get itJun 18, 2025 7:54 pm - The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions — although it’s unclear how many in the U.S. and abroad will get access to the powerful new option.
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Zombie pandemic rages on in soulful ‘28 Years Later’Jun 18, 2025 5:04 pm - “28 Years Later” is a more thoughtful movie than you’re likely to find at the multiplex this time of year. This is an unusually soulful coming-of-age movie considering the number of spinal cords that get ripped right off bodies.
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Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA lawJun 18, 2025 4:04 pm - WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security's trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security ben...
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Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rightsJun 18, 2025 9:29 am - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.
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Headlining Windy City Smokeout, Old Dominion isn’t sitting on record-breaking laurelsJun 18, 2025 8:55 am - When Old Dominion’s eighth group of the year victory broke the tie for consecutive wins at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, it changed the record books — but not their perspective. The band releases a new album in August and tours to Chicago’s Windy City Smokeout Friday, July 11.
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Singer R. Kelly alleges mistreatment after hospitalization and prison ‘murder plot’Jun 18, 2025 6:36 am - R. Kelly collapsed in prison and was hospitalized, attorneys said in court filings this week, adding the details to the singer’s extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison officials that he argues require temporary release on home detention. Government lawyers have dismissed the claims as a “fanciful conspiracy.”