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For LGBTQ+ People, America’s Promise of Refuge Is Fading
People hold flags in solidarity with immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and the LGBTQ+ community on Feb. 4, 2017, in Manhattan. —Bryan R. Smith—AFP via Getty Images Sentiments toward the United States may be shifting among LGBTQ+ people, a report published Saturday shows—with the change registering both at home and abroad. For decades, the U.S. was…
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‘They sound exactly the same’: Trump plot to rename ICE torn apart by critics
Online critics are laughing at Trump’s convoluted plot to throw off the press by renaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a Saturday morning Truth Social post, Trump floated a plan to rename ICE to the “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” or NICE. He wrote that it would “totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters…
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‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2 Recap: What to Remember Before Season 3
“House of the Dragon” is back and the Targaryen civil war is reaching new bloody heights. The third season of the show is set to pick up on the Season 2 cliffhanger, as the Blacks and the Greens rally their allies to converge on land and sea alike. Before queueing up the new episodes, it…
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Crippling impact of Paramount-Warner deal on Los Angeles workforce revealed
Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery could lead to devastating bloodshed for Hollywood’s economy, according to a new report from Los Angeles County. The merger between the two legacy studios puts about 2,500 jobs in the county and 6,000 globally at potential risk, the County Department of Economic Opportunity calculated. Corporate, tech…
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Taylor Swift’s pal Este Haim shares her wedding advice for pop star ahead of Travis Kelce nuptials
Este Haim is filling a blank space with the perfect piece of advice. Ahead of Taylor Swift’s upcoming nuptials to Travis Kelce, her close friend revealed what she recommends soon-to-be brides do on their special day. “Have as much fun as possible. Just enjoy it,” Haim, who recently married entrepreneur Jonathan Levin, told People. “I…
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Claude Guillemot, Ubisoft Co-Founder, Dies at 69 in Twin-Engine Plane Crash
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in a twin-engine plane crash in La Baule, France, on Friday alongside one other passenger. He was 69. “Ubisoft was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and chairman of Guillemot Corp., in an accident,” the video game company shared in a statement,…
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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over continued fighting in Lebanon
TYRE, Lebanon — Iran dealt two quick blows to the interim agreement with the United States on Saturday, angered by Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon, saying it had closed the Strait of Hormuz and announcing that while its negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks, not much is likely to happen there. Key mediator Pakistan, meanwhile, said…
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Extreme heat expected again at the Grand Canyon after 3 hikers die in heat-related incidents
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park are being warned about extreme heat that will plague the popular destination early next week after a recent increase in heat-related incidents in the inner canyon, including the deaths of three hikers. The National Weather Service issued an extreme-heat watch at the Grand Canyon for…
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Trump floats new plan to impose his own tolls on Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to muse about who gets to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — and landed on an answer that put the United States, and himself, at the center of it. In a post Wednesday, Trump declared there would be “NO TOLLS in the Hormuz Strait…
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Longtime family-owned California dessert shop named best in the US
A Northern California dessert shop scored the sweetest treat after the longtime family-owned market was named the Best Pie Shop in the entire United States. Ikeda’s California Country Market – with locations in Auburn and Davis – landed the top prize in USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards for pie shops. “What began as…