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'Afraid and unsafe': Downtown Sacramento businesses react to mass shooting
Businesses near 10th and K streets in downtown Sacramento, normally a center of nightlife, have been impacted in several ways following the city's horrific mass shooting.
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Boris Johnson: UK Prime Minister says transgender women should not compete in female sports
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that transgender women should not compete in female sports in comments he said he knew could be seen as "controversial."
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Randy Spelling Talks Aaron Spelling, Sister Tori, Addiction, Religion
Randy Spelling grew up in a 56,000 square foot Holmby Hills mansion dubbed “Spelling Manor,” and listed at the time as the largest home of record in Los Angeles County. The son of Hollywood royalty, the late mega-television producer Aaron Spelling and his wife Candy, and younger brother of 1990s 90210 television star, Tori Spelling, Randy struggled to find his own identity within a matrix of excess.
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Fifth Annual National Fried Chicken Festival Presented by Raising Cane’s Returns October 1-2
After Two-Year Hiatus, Festival Celebrating America’s Favorite Food Returns to New Venue on New Orleans Lakefront
The organizers of the fifth annual National Fried Chicken Festival presented by Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers have announced the return of the event for 2022, taking place October 1-2 at the New Orleans Lakefront.
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Footage of Prince as an 11-year-old is unearthed by a Minnesota news station
A CNN affiliate station in Minneapolis stumbled upon a rare gem -- archival footage of the late, great icon Prince at 11 years old, supporting public school teachers on strike.
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'Benjamin Franklin' offers Ken Burns' latest deep dive into US history
There's something comforting about Ken Burns' PBS documentaries dealing with subjects that predate video, since the filmmaker, unlike most of the industry, eschews dramatic reenactments in favor of a low-tech approach. Enter "Benjamin Franklin," four hours devoted to the Founding Father, capturing all the facets of a man described as "the most famous American in the world" during his time.
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Chris Rock's brother Kenny says the slap 'eats' at him
Chris Rock's brother would like to see Will Smith stripped of his new best actor Oscar. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kenny Rock discussed his feelings about his brother being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky makes appearance at the Grammys
The President of Ukraine brought a touching moment to the 64th annual Grammy Awards Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a speech that began "The war. What's more opposite than music."
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Jon Batiste privately married Suleika Jaouad before her bone marrow transplant
Jon Batiste quietly married Suleika Jaouad, his longtime girlfriend, in February. Jaouad, who is the author of the cancer memoir "Between Two Kingdoms," said the event happened right before she was scheduled for a bone marrow transplant. She had been diagnosed with leukemia for the second time.
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The horrors of Putin's invasion of Ukraine are increasingly coming to light
Vladimir stands on the edge of a mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv. He holds his hands to his head, then raises them up to the sky in anguish.
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Fact check: In series of false claims, Republican Rep. Lisa McClain says Trump caught Osama bin Laden
Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, a freshman Republican member of Congress, made a series of false claims in a short speech at former President Donald Trump's rally outside Detroit on Saturday -- notably including an assertion that Trump, who has endorsed her for re-election, was the president who caught terrorist Osama bin Laden.
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Of course Donald Trump endorsed Sarah Palin
Without Sarah Palin, there is no Donald Trump. So it makes perfect sense that the former President threw his support behind the former Alaska governor's House candidacy Sunday night.
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Jamie Dimon: The war in Ukraine will slow the economy and it could 'easily get worse'
Jamie Dimon is worried about the powerful shockwaves set off by the combination of high inflation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Are upper middle class and affluent shoppers starting to feel the pinch from higher prices and geopolitical concerns? If so, what does that mean for the rest of American consumers?Amid America's Great Resignation, millions of workers continue to leave their jobs. In February, 4.4 million employees quit, according to the Labor Department, and the unemployment rate dropped to a pandemic-era low of 3.6% in March.
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GOP-led states sue over decision to end Trump-era pandemic restrictions at the US border
Three Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration seeking to stop it from ending Trump-era pandemic restrictions that effectively blocked migrants from entering the US.
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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr says moments of silence won't solve gun violence
Following Sunday's mass shooting in downtown Sacramento, California, that left six people dead and a dozen injured, the head coach of one of the NBA's most-watched teams has renewed his call for stronger gun control laws.
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Has Joe Budden Heard of Desi Raines?
Even if you haven’t been listening to the Joe Budden Podcast, if you were on social media a while back you heard his comment about the men in R&B. On an episode of “The Joe Budden Podcast”, Budden said that he believes all the new generation male R&B artists are “trash.”
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The Ensemble Theatre celebrates its 45th Anniversary Season with “Single Black Female”
The Ensemble Theatre continues its 45th Anniversary Season with the production of Single Black Female by Lisa B. Thompson. The Theatre welcomes back who was last seen in The Lawsons: A Civil Rights Love Story.
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Local Houston HIV Advocacy Organization, the Normal Anomaly Initiative, to Receive Donations From Lil Nas X “Baby Registry”
The Normal Anomaly Initiative, Inc., a Houston-based nonprofit dedicated to assisting Black, queer+ people with overcoming barriers and ending stigmas and problematic narratives, today announced that rapper Lil Nas X’s Montero baby registry raised nearly $500,000 for grantees of Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s COMPASS Initiative® COMPASS grantees, organizations on the frontlines working to address the growing HIV epidemic in the Southern U.S.
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Hometown Hero Bun B Will Serve as the 35th Annual Art Car Parade Grand Marshal
Fresh off his H-town Takeover, Bun B Will Lend Some Formidable Star Power to the 35th Annual Art Car Parade When 250 Mobile Masterpieces Come Roaring Back into Downtown Houston on April 9
The 35th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend presented by Team Gillman (April 7-10) announced Bun B as the grand marshal of the 2022 parade, slated to roll through downtown on Saturday, April 9. Bun B follows in the footsteps of luminaries such as Cheech Marin, Dan Aykroyd, J.J. Watt, The Art Guys, Annise Parker, Kinky Friedman, Lynn Wyatt and George Clinton, to name a few.
