VP search comes down to its last days…
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VP search comes down to its last days…

NEW YORK (AP) — The future Republican vice presidential candidate’s plane is currently parked in an undisclosed hangar, an empty spot on its fuselage where a decal featuring his or her name will soon be placed. Fundraisers have been planned. All that’s left: an announcement from former President Donald Trump unveiling his pick. Senior advisers […]

Entertainment giant Paramount agrees to a merger with Skydance
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Entertainment giant Paramount agrees to a merger with Skydance

NEW YORK (AP) — The entertainment giant Paramount will merge with Skydance, closing out a decades-long run by the Redstone family in Hollywood and injecting desperately needed cash into a legacy studio that has struggled to adapt to a shifting entertainment landscape. It also signals the rise of a new power player, David Ellison, the […]

SHOCK REPORT: Bolsonaro signed off on plan to poison Lula…
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SHOCK REPORT: Bolsonaro signed off on plan to poison Lula…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged FORM PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge. Prosecutor-General Paulo […]

TEXAS DIRTY: Lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General after investigation…
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TEXAS DIRTY: Lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General after investigation…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton teetered on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusations that the state’s Republican majority had largely met with silence until now. In an unanimous decision, a Republican-led House investigative committee that spent months quietly looking into Paxton recommended impeaching… […]

TUESDAY: Alec Baldwin trial begins…
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TUESDAY: Alec Baldwin trial begins…

Nearly three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the film “Rust,” Alec Baldwin is going on trial over her death. Here are the essential things to know. What charge does Alec Baldwin face? A photograph of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is displayed during a vigil in Albuquerque […]

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63
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Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on three of the biggest blockbusters of all time, “Titanic” and two “Avatar” films, has died. He was 63. Landau’s family announced his death Saturday. No cause of death […]

TEXAS BRACES FOR BERYL…
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TEXAS BRACES FOR BERYL…

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday but was expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A hurricane warning was declared for a stretch of the state’s coast from […]

Hamas clears way for possible ceasefire in Gaza…
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Hamas clears way for possible ceasefire in Gaza…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Hamas has given its initial approval of a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel commit up front to a complete end to the war a Hamas official and an Egyptian official said Saturday. The apparent compromise by the militant group, which […]