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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Grab physical DVDs while you still can. Netflix mailed its last red-enveloped DVD last month. Now Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray discs at the end of the 2023 holiday season, too. Best Buy says that streaming has made DVDs obsolete and it can
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY Associated Press AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — Conservative former businessman Christopher Luxon will be New Zealand’s next prime minister after winning a decisive election victory. People voted Saturday for change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern. The exact makeup of Luxon’s conservative
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Three generations of Lynda Jackson’s family have worked in Detroit’s auto plants, and three generations have been union members. Her father moved from Alabama to Detroit in the 1960s to work at Chrysler. Her uncles, stepmother and cousins all worked at Ford, General Motors and Chrysler (now
Continue ReadingBy ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposed gag order aimed at reining in Donald Trump’s incendiary rhetoric puts the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in a tricky position: She must balance the need to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings against the First Amendment rights
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — Lexi Thompson delivered star-power moments built for a stage like Las Vegas, and when she poured in a pair of long birdie putts Friday, she was on the cusp of history. Thompson was 4 under with seven holes to play. In her sights was a chance to become the first woman
Continue ReadingKHIAM, Lebanon (AP) — Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah who was killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, was laid to rest in his hometown in a funeral procession attended by hundreds of people. Draped in a Lebanese flag, Abdallah’s body was carried on a stretcher Saturday through the streets of his southern town of Khiam,
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The community was invited to make a splash at this year’s Floating Pumpkin Patch in Palm Springs. From pumpkin painting to taking a dip in the pool, organizers hoped to keep attendees excited for the upcoming Halloween holiday. The event was set to take place at the Palm Springs Swim Center on Saturday from 1:00
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in the Polish capital on Saturday detained a man who climbed the top of a monument and reportedly threatened to blow himself up. Large numbers of police and special counterterrorism officers sealed off a large square where the man had shouted something through a megaphone for hours. An Associated Press
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris is evacuating all visitors and staff and closing early Saturday because it received a written threat. It said the move was linked to the government’s decision to put France on high alert after a fatal school stabbing by a suspected extremist. The Louvre communication service said no
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — The nervous 11-year-old showed up at Peter Mutabazi’s doorstep around 3 a.m., wearing blue pajamas and a gray Batman blanket over his shoulders. He carried a duffel bag holding a sweater, a pair of sneakers and not much else. A social worker had called Mutabazi hours earlier to tell
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza on Saturday after the Israeli military ordered nearly half the population to evacuate south and carried out limited ground forays ahead of an expected land offensive a week after Hamas’ bloody, wide-ranging attack into Israel.
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The Palm Springs Public Library Foundation was set to host its 2nd Annual Pride on the Page Book Festival on Saturday. Organizers said the event would host ten panels of LGBTQ+ and affirming authors and allies for book discussions. Attendees were asked to register for the FREE event on Eventbrite. Registrants were to receive a
Continue Reading By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. More than 1,000 years ago, carvers in what is now Denmark set their chisels to rock to etch runestones — monuments to Viking leaders naming their deeds and achievements. Two
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Large numbers of police and special counterterrorism officers sealed off a large square in the Polish capital on Saturday after a man climbed the top of a monument and threatened to blow himself up, the Polish news agency PAP reported. The incident took place at Pilsudski Square, the site of a
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ethical concerns are casting a shadow over President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection amid investigations into his son Hunter and an impeachment inquiry, with a poll showing that 35% of U.S. adults believe the president himself has done something illegal. An additional 33%
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW LEE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Saturday for protecting civilians in the Gaza Strip and Israel as he intensified his diplomatic outreach across the Middle East and beyond for an international response to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from expanding. Blinken
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El eclipse solar anular del anillo de fuego de este sábado alterará las condiciones climáticas en la superficie de la Tierra a medida que se desarrolle en el cielo. Los cambios en la temperatura, la velocidad del viento y la humedad ocurren cuando la luna cruza frente al sol durante un
Continue Reading By Sam Kiley, CNN (CNN) — It is with a weird retrospective guilt that I have to admit: Hamas once saved me from a kidnapping in Gaza. The militant group behind massacres and abductions, the slaughter of civilians, and the cynical endangerment of their own people, stopped an Islamist gang seconds before they were about
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two-way standout Travis Hunter returned from a lacerated liver that sidelined him for three games and played the roles of both hero and goat in Colorado’s 46-43 collapse against Stanford on Friday night. Hunter led the Buffaloes with 13 catches for 140 yards and two
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — Doctors, researchers and laypeople have come a long way in the understanding of concussions. Once comic fodder depicted as cartoon characters seeing stars, the condition is finally getting the attention it deserves, with strict concussion protocols in place in amateur and professional organized sports. According to the US Centers
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