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Month: September 2024

Why Will Ferrell wanted a doc about his friendship with a trans woman to release before the election

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Will Ferrell is excited about his candid and enlightening new documentary “Will & Harper,” and has hopes that it can spark compassion and conversation. The project – about a decades-long friendship between Ferrell and former “Saturday Night Live” head writer Harper Steele, who comes out to him as trans,

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Movie producer apologizes to neighbors about graffiti at Hollywood Hills mansions

By Jasmine Viel Click here for updates on this story     HOLLYWOOD HILLS, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A movie producer apologized to his Hollywood Hills neighbors on Friday after vandals covered his abandoned mansions with graffiti. Owner John Powers Middleton delivered the apology in a statement, saying that what happened to his homes is unacceptable. Neighbors

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Family business learns how to provide work for migrant, “fills gaps we didn’t know how to fill”

By Gabriela Vidal Click here for updates on this story     COMMERCE CITY, Colorado (KCNC) — In the warehouse of a company called Colographic in Commerce City, migrant worker Marcos Adel Fidó Batista can be found crafting his purpose. “All migrants come here with a purpose,” he said. Colographic specializes in vehicle graphic and signage, and

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Marcellus Williams execution brings fresh scrutiny to Supreme Court’s death penalty approach

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court’s divided decision this week allowing Missouri to execute a man for a 1998 murder even though his conviction was contested by prosecutors has heaped renewed scrutiny on the court’s approach to the death penalty. Marcellus Williams, convicted in 2001 of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle,

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Former Trinity High star & UT shot put champion Eileen Vanisi dies awaiting triple-organ transplant

By Dawn White, Doug Myers Click here for updates on this story     EULESS, Texas (KTVT) — Eileen Vanisi, one of the most decorated Polynesian track and field stars in United States history, died this week while awaiting a triple-organ transplant, her sister announced Friday. Vanisi, a former three-time NCAA shot put champion at the University

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Latest talks between Boeing and its striking machinists break off without progress, union says

NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing Boeing factory workers who are currently on strike in the Pacific Northwest says contract talks “broke off” with the company after another bargaining session. A regional district of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said late Friday that Boeing “would not engage substantively” on a demand

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Asheville has been isolated after Helene wrecked roads and knocked out power and cell service

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Floodwaters pushed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated Saturday by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service, part of a swath of destruction across southern Appalachia that left an unknown number dead and countless worried relatives unable to reach

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Tech startup uses AI to keep tabs on the grid to prevent wildfires

By Mary Lee Click here for updates on this story     WALNUT CREEK, California (KPIX) — Every fire season, especially under dangerous fire weather conditions, homeowners brace themselves for destructive wildfires and prolonged power outages in their neighborhoods. Tim Barat knows all too well how monster wildfires can devastate a community. He remembers the exact moment

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Russia invokes its nuclear capacity in a UN speech that’s full of bile toward the West

Associated Press Russia’s top diplomat warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine. Lavrov’s speech was packed with condemnations of what Moscow sees as Western

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