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Kennedy Center cancels LGBTQ+ Pride events to align with new priorities after Trump fired center’s leadership

The Kennedy Center has canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ people for the World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a change in focus and the Trump administration firing the center’s leadership. Multiple artists and producers involved in the center’s Tapestry of Pride schedule said their events had been quietly canceled or transferred…

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AOC claims ‘We are one’ after years of being criticized for playing identity politics

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., posted a campaign-style video on social media this week that sparked rumors about her political future. But conservatives quickly struck up a different conversation when she claimed, “We are one,” after years of criticism for playing identity politics.  “Don’t let them trick us into thinking we are enemies. Don’t let them…

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Hegseth looks to reform DoD complaint processes to ’empower leaders to make tough decisions’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo on Friday calling for a review of Military Equal Opportunity and DoD civilian Equal Employment Opportunity programs. The secretaries of each military department are required under the memo to assess the programs in place within their own departments. In a video posted on X announcing the memo, Hegseth…

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Labor secretary warns states of illegal immigrants collecting unemployment benefits

States that allow illegal immigrants to collect unemployment benefits could lose federal funding, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said Friday.  In a letter to all governors, Chavez-DeRemer urged them to comply with President Donald Trump‘s directives to ensure that tax dollars aren’t used to benefit those in the U.S. illegally.  “Our nation’s unemployment benefits exist solely…

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Indian officials say troops exchanged fire with Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir

Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their highly militarized frontier in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, Indian officials said Friday, as tensions soared between the nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists. India has described the massacre in which gunmen killed 26 people, most of them Indian, as a “terror attack”…

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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now

‘Companion’ Stream it on Max. The less you know about Drew Hancock’s whip smart thriller-comedy, the harder its sinister detours will hit. At first glance, Iris and Josh (Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid) are a model couple. But Iris isn’t just Josh’s girlfriend: She’s also his emotional support companion robot (and sex partner) who is…

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Trump admin demands crackdown on illegal immigrants taking advantage of benefit

The United States Department of Agriculture is demanding that states ensure illegal immigrants are not using food stamps. The department wants states to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order from February that seeks improved methods to check that those in the country illegally do not receive federal benefits, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…

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Lorde Returns With a Nostalgic Breakup Anthem, and 9 More New Songs

Ashley Monroe featuring Marty Stuart, ‘The Touch’ Understatement, so rare in current country production, burnishes “The Touch,” a song that promises lasting love. “As long as we’re together, it’s more than enough,” Ashley Monroe sings over Marty Stuart’s lone acoustic guitar, which is virtually the only accompaniment for the first half of the track. Harmonies…

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UC Berkeley target of Trump admin foreign-funding investigation

The Trump administration is cracking down on colleges that don’t report big foreign donations, with UC Berkeley the latest target following a Department of Education review of the California university’s foreign funding disclosures found that it “may be incomplete or inaccurate.” Education Secretary Linda McMahon ordered the agency’s legal team on Friday to take back…

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U.K. Folk Bands Use Centuries-Old Ditties to Discuss Prison Abolition, Trans Rights and the Gig Economy

Think of English folk music and maybe thoughts come to mind of villagers lamenting lost loves or sailors bellowing tales of adventure at sea. But when the rising British folk band Shovel Dance Collective performs, its members want their listeners to think of more contemporary concerns. At the band’s shows, the singer Mataio Austin Dean…

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‘We are one’: AOC campaign video swirls 2028 presidential rumors

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has crisscrossed the United States with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, and Americans are speculating if the New York Democrat is launching a shadow campaign for president.  Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign account posted a video on X this week that invigorated those rumors as the four-term Democrat from New…

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‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Revenge of the Killer Nerd

“The Accountant 2” is a blithely nonsensical, enjoyably vulgar follow-up to “The Accountant” (2016) about a numbers whiz played by Ben Affleck, who has impeccable marksmanship and shaky people skills. Like the first movie, the sequel embraces violence without apology, slathers the screen with (fake) blood and unleashes a small army of stunt performers who…

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DOGE announces elimination of more ‘wasteful’ contracts

Slash and burn.  Contracts and grants worth hundreds of millions of dollars were terminated over several days, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday, including one aimed at providing “problem-solving” services. Federal agencies have eliminated 269 “wasteful” contracts with a “ceiling value of $845M and savings of $255M,” according to a DOGE post on…

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