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Poland holds a pivotal presidential runoff influenced by Trump, the far right and the war in Ukraine
Poland is set to hold a presidential runoff election on Sunday between two candidates offering starkly different visions for ...
Domingo Hindoyan to become music director of LA Opera for 2026-27 season
Domingo Hindoyan will succeed James Conlon as music director of the LA Opera and start a five-year contract on July 1, 2026. The appointment of the 45-year-old Venezuelan-Armenian, ...
California track-and-field championships draw limited protest over trans student’s participation
California’s high school track-and-field state finals will award one extra medal Saturday in events where a transgender athlete places in the top three, a rule change that ...
The country that made smoking sexy is breaking up with cigarettes
Brigitte Bardot lounged barefoot on a Saint-Tropez beach, drawing languorous puffs from her cigarette. Another actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, swaggered down the Champs-Élysées with smoke ...
A growing number of New Orleans fugitives’ friends and family arrested for aiding in jail escape
The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 14 people, many of them friends and ...
Trump and Putin hint at US-Russia trade revival, but business environment remains hostile
Hundreds of foreign companies left Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, including major U.S. firms like Coca-Cola, Nike, Starbucks, ExxonMobil and Ford Motor Co. But after more than three ...
Who is ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’? A historian searched for 25 years for the answer
It wasn’t going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb.” All Robert Friedrichs had to ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s next move: Energizing Democrats in South Carolina and California
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will seek to energize activists at Democratic state conventions in South Carolina and California on Saturday, as the party’s 2024 vice presidential ...
Madison Motivation: Jaguars begin Journey back to the top
The offseason is usually a crucial time for basketball teams as they figure out rosters, schedules and team chemistry, but this summer the Madison High School ...
ADOT warns drivers of increased military traffic through June due to training exercises
Through June, motorists traveling on Arkansas interstates and highways will notice an increase in military traffic as the National Guard conducts its annual training, ...
Panama will allow controversial mine to export already mined copper to fund maintenance
Panama will allow a controversial mine that was closed after months of protests to export more than 120,000 tons of already mined copper concentrate to pay the costs of ...
Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce
An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that DOGE-led cuts ...