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Month: June 2024

Baby woodpeckers saved from storm damage

By Caroline Cummings Click here for updates on this story     LEXINGTON, Minnesota (WCCO) — Severe storms that tore through the town of Lexington this week forced an evacuation for four tiny residents. Community service officers with Centennial Lake police were called to a neighborhood after the storm — not to help the homeowner, but baby

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Vietnam national security police confirm arrest of prominent writer Truong Huy San for Facebook post

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Vietnam have announced that they have charged prominent journalist and historian Truong Huy San with violating a national security law because of writing he had posted on Facebook. State media, citing the Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security said San, better known

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Graffiti with images and messages referencing Ukraine appear on Paris buildings near Parliament

PARIS (AP) — Unusual spray-painted images and messages with references to Ukraine have appeared on the streets of Paris as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden in the French capital. It’s unclear who sprayed the graffiti that has appeared on buildings in central Paris near the Parliament complex and various government

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What to stream this week: ‘House of the Dragon,’ ‘Origin,’ Snoopy and Paul McCartney

By The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album from Paul McCartney & Wings, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in his first TV role as a prosecutor accused of murder in “Presumed Innocent,” and actor Andrew McCarthy sets out to reconnect with some of this fellow Brat Pack alum. “Origin,” Ava DuVernay’s stirringly

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Opinion: Apple can still get back to its golden age

Opinion by Jeff Yang (CNN) — Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just days away, and as usual, the technorati are buzzing about what might be unveiled at the company’s annual bleeding-edge technology event: An updated iPhone operating system with a heavy AI focus? New Mac hardware? A “One More Thing” wildcard?  Naturally, Apple has locked down the details of the revelations it

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Opinion: ‘Hit Man’ does what ‘Double Indemnity’ couldn’t

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — “I’m rotten to the heart,” Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) confesses with breathless bitterness in Billy Wilder’s classic 1944 noir, “Double Indemnity.” Eighty years ago this month, Wilder and Stanwyck established Phyllis as the archetype of the femme fatale — a misogynist fever dream of seductive, heartless femininity. This week, Richard Linklater’s

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