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    News Kenan Thompson of 'SNL' to host Sept. 12 Emmy Awards

    Veteran “Saturday Night Live” cast member Kenan Thompson will host next month's Emmy Awards. “Being a part of this incredible evening where we honor the best of the television community is ridiculously exciting, and to do it on NBC – my longtime network family – makes it even more special,”...
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    News New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition

    The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray's Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time" and Laura Poitras' documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin's battle...
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    News US inflation will likely stay high even as gas prices fall

    Americans may finally be catching a break from relentlessly surging prices — if just a slight one — even as inflation is expected to remain painfully high for months. Thanks largely to falling gas prices, the government’s inflation report for July, to be released Wednesday morning, is expected...
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    News Identical twin brothers selling next-door estates together for $54 million

    Two identical brothers in Southwest Ranches are making real estate history a family affair. They are teaming up to sell their next door French country-style estates for a total of $54 million. The two homes sit in their own gated compound on 11 acres of land near Flamingo Road and Stirling...
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    News FBI search at Trump Mar-a-Lago estate one of several probes

    The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate marked a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of the law enforcement scrutiny of the former president, but the Florida operation is just one part of one investigation related to Trump and his time in office. The potential legal peril from...
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    News Jury deliberations start in deadly motorcycle crash trial

    Jury deliberations in the New Hampshire trial of a truck driver charged with killing seven motorcyclists began Tuesday after closing statements raised questions about who was more “all over the place”: the trucker accused of swerving back and forth across the road or the eyewitnesses accused of...
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    News 'P-Valley' explores Black strip club culture, gay acceptance

    When Katori Hall first pitched the idea to convert her popular play about Black strip club culture into the television series “P-Valley,” the Pulitzer Prize winner was either quickly rejected after meeting with networks or denied before she could fully explain the concept. Hall struggled to...
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    News Veteran emissary Richardson hopeful for Griner, Whelan swap

    Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations, said Tuesday he was hopeful about the chances of a two-for-two prisoner swap that could result in Russia's release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul...
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    News Jill Biden helps National Geographic promote national parks

    Jill Biden is helping National Geographic promote its upcoming documentary series on U.S. national parks. The first lady introduces each installment of “America's National Parks,” a five-night series scheduled for broadcast on consecutive nights beginning Aug. 29. She introduces the series...
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    News Raging fire consumes 4th tank at Cuba oil storage facility

    Flames engulfed a fourth tank at an oil storage facility in western Cuba on Tuesday as the raging fire consumes critical fuel supplies on an island grappling with a growing energy crisis. Firefighters and specialists from Mexico and Venezuela helped fight the blaze in the province of Matanzas...
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    News Police ID suspect in deadly northeast Miami-Dade hit-and-run, offer reward

    Police announced Tuesday that they’ve identified a suspect in a deadly May hit-and-run crash in northeast Miami-Dade and are asking for the public’s help finding him. The crash happened in the early morning hours of May 23 on Biscayne Boulevard at the Northeast 114th Street intersection...
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    News 1/6 panel to interview Pa. governor nominee Mastriano

    Pennsylvania's Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano is appearing Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection as the panel probes Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Mastriano, who was outside the Capitol that day, helped...
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    News FBI searches Trump's Florida estate for classified records

    The FBI searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said, a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president...
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    News Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

    Issey Miyake, who built one of Japan’s biggest fashion brands and was known for his boldly sculpted pleated pieces as well as former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ black turtlenecks, has died. He was 84. Miyake died Aug. 5 of liver cancer, Miyake Design Office said Tuesday. Miyake defined an era in...
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    News India's parliament passes energy conservation bill

    On the heels of finalizing its updated climate targets, the Indian government took another step toward their climate goals by passing amendments to a 21-year-old energy conservation bill, which makes it easier to put a price on carbon emissions and encourages the use of non-fossil fuel sources...
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    News Israel-Gaza truce shines light on Palestinian hunger striker

    A Palestinian hunger striker who has refused food for the past 160 days and is wasting away in an Israeli jailhouse infirmary has suddenly been thrust into the center of efforts to firm up a Gaza cease-fire. Khalil Awawdeh is in the spotlight because the Islamic Jihad group sought his release...
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    News Major intersection closed after multi-vehicle crash in Fort Lauderdale

    The intersection of Broward Boulevard and Andrews Avenue has been shut down after a crash involving multiple vehicles, Fort Lauderdale police confirmed Tuesday morning. Cellphone video taken at the scene shows a yellow tarp covering what is believed to be a body in the grass near the road...
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    News Family reunites with their stolen dog after 5 years

    A German Shepard stolen from her home in Texas has been reunited with her family after five years. Sheba was stolen from her home in Baytown and ended up in the city of Borger, more than 600 miles away. She somehow ended up in a shelter that did not have a microchip reader but was placed with...
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    News In reversal, Brazil court reopens case of rainforest park

    After declaring the decision final, a state court backpedaled Monday and reopened a lawsuit that invalidates a protected area in Brazil’s Amazon. The judicial reversal is a setback for a cattle rancher dubbed the rainforest’s worst perpetrator. The Mato Grosso state prosecutors’ office...
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    News Invest 97L designated, but development odds dwindling

    The disturbance that rolled off the coast of Africa over the weekend was designated Invest 97L by the National Hurricane Center late Monday morning. Despite a favorable positioning within a broader region of background spin and rich tropical moisture known as the monsoon trough, the system is...
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