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Saipan, placid island setting for Assange’s last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has ...
UK fans wonder if Taylor Swift will say ‘So long, London’ after Eras Tour
LONDON — Taylor Swift fans enjoy parsing the singer-songwriter’s lyrics for references to her romantic life and insights into her ...
U.S. doctors perform kidney transplant on awake patient in milestone – National
A medical team in the United States has performed a rare kidney transplant during which the patient was awake throughout ...
California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers ...
Donald Sutherland, the towering actor whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘Hunger Games,’ dies at 88
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor whose wry, arrestingly off-kilter screen presence spanned more ...
Expanded Kentucky Bourbon Trail to feature both age-old distilleries and relative newcomers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Bourbon Trail is maturing, like the fine whiskeys it showcases. A new-look Bourbon Trail unveiled ...
Nurses in Oregon take to the picket lines to demand better staffing, higher pay
More than 3,000 nurses at six Oregon hospitals spent a second day on the picket lines Wednesday carrying signs that ...
Photos offer a glimpse of Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee
MANCHESTER, Tenn. — The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is underway in Tennessee, bringing tens of thousands of fans to ...
R.E.M. reunite at Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony
NEW YORK — A comet must have landed at the 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The members of ...
GOP women who helped defeat a near-total abortion ban are losing reelection in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A near-total abortion ban was defeated in South Carolina with the help of the only three Republican ...
