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Marcia Lucas, who won an Academy Award for editing the original 1977 ‘Star Wars,’ died Wednesday from metastatic cancer in Rancho Mirage, California, according to a family attorney. She was 80.
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Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday that hands Republicans an extra House seat and leaves the state with just one majority-Black district. Senators voted Friday to accept the House’s version of Senate Bill 121, which passed 66-35 on Thursday. The bill, by Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, now goes to Gov. Jeff Landry,…
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Anthropic said Thursday it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model while also preparing to release its Mythos models to all customers in the coming weeks. Mythos is the AI lab’s large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have raised concerns among executives and world leaders about its impact.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into writer E Jean Carroll, who successfully sued President Donald Trump twice for sexual assault and defamation, CBS News reported. The probe centers on whether Carroll committed perjury in a 2022 deposition when she said she received no outside funding for her civil lawsuit.
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The U.S. military carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site that posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official. Iran’s Fars news agency separately reported three explosions east of Bandar Abbas at around 1:30 a.m. local time.
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The U.S. military struck Iranian missile launch sites and boats attempting to lay mines near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, U.S. Central Command confirmed. The strikes occurred while a ceasefire between the two countries remains technically in effect.
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Shots were fired near the White House on Saturday, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed, while President Trump was inside the building. https://x.com/fbidirectorkash/status/2058318050240184514?s=46 Secret Service officers immediately locked down the press briefing room, preventing journalists from leaving. The Secret Service said on X it was “aware of reports of shots fired near 17th Street and Pennsylvania…
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President Trump announced Friday afternoon that a peace agreement with Iran has been ‘largely negotiated,’ involving the United States, Iran, and a coalition of Middle Eastern and South Asian nations. Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be opened as part of the deal.
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A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Changzhi city, Shanxi province, killed at least 82 people, Xinhua reported Saturday, after 247 workers were initially trapped underground following the blast Friday evening. The death toll represents a sharp revision from early reports, which cited only eight fatalities.
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A federal judge in Nashville dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Friday, ruling the prosecution was selective and vindictive. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw found that without Abrego Garcia’s successful lawsuit challenging his deportation to El Salvador, the government would not have brought the case.
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President Trump announced Thursday that he would not attend his son Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding to Bettina Anderson, citing unspecified government obligations. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, saying ‘circumstances pertaining to Government’ required him to stay at the White House.
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is resigning to support her husband, Abraham, through a diagnosis of what she described as ‘an extremely rare form of bone cancer,’ Fox News Digital reported Friday. Her last day at ODNI is expected to be June 30.
