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By Madison Beam Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — Standing ovations don’t happen often at Shreveport City Council meetings, especiall when it comes approving a building lease. But this is no ordinary building. It’s the city-owned Millennium Studios. And its new leasee will be Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson and his
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hosting nearly 100 lawmakers from around the country on Wednesday to work on how their states can try to reduce gun violence. The gun violence prevention office, the first of its kind, was launched this year by President Joe Biden. It has formulated
Continue ReadingBy LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press In 2023, Ayo Edebiri was everywhere. This year alone, the 28-year-old Emmy-nominated actor starred in “Bottoms,” “Theater Camp,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” guest-starred on “Abbott Elementary” and “Black Mirror.” She also returned for the second season of “The Bear,” the show that initially shot the stand-up comedian and
Continue ReadingBy LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Bowers grew up in Los Angeles, just a few minutes away from The World Stage performance space, and immersed in jazz. Music, he knew, was always his path. “I told them (my parents) when I was 12, I want to go to school for jazz
Continue ReadingBy LESLIE AMBRIZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Bowers grew up in Los Angeles, just a few minutes away from The World Stage performance space, and immersed in jazz. Music, he knew, was always his path. “I told them (my parents) when I was 12, I want to go to school for jazz
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fame didn’t come overnight for Charles Melton. The 32-year-old “May December” star, currently reaping praise and racking up awards and nominations for his scene-stealing performance alongside acclaimed Hollywood veterans Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, has dutifully been chipping away at his resume since he moved to
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Diamond, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has been unresponsive to overtures made in recent days to try to restart hostage negotiations, a source familiar with the efforts told CNN, as the US and other mediators try to resurrect talks that would see more hostages who were abducted on October 7 be released from
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will meet with families of all eight American hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel, a senior administration official told CNN. The meeting will take place at the White House with some joining virtually. A number
Continue ReadingBy Ed DiOrio Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — While many are wrapping up their holiday shopping, one Asheville man is worrying about something other than finding the perfect gifts. North Asheville resident Gino Mordocco recently received a phone call from what he thought was his bank. The phone
Continue ReadingBy Mark Thompson, CNN London (CNN) — Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a longstanding dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy. Italian prosecutors said last month that the company owed as much as €779 million ($840 million) in short-term rental taxes that it had failed to pay on behalf
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Morning lows once again dipped deep into the 40s and even some 30s. A weak area of low pressure is moving out of Nevada and slowly into the Four Corners States, but the cool air circulating around that low is still influencing our temps today. Highs today again will remain in the lower 70s, with
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — An editor says Myanmar’s military government has arrested two journalists with a local online news service in its latest crackdown on media freedom since seizing power nearly three years ago. The Dawei Watch editor says the computers and mobile phones of the reporters and their family members
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By Rob Frehse, CNN (CNN) — Police investigating the October killing of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll are now seeking charges in the case, a spokesperson for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said, nearly two months after she was found fatally stabbed outside her home. “We have a warrant request from the Detroit Police Department and it’s being
Continue ReadingBy Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — One of the most storied hotel companies in the United States has finally opened a new, $3.7-billion resort in Las Vegas — a resort 23 years in the making. Fontainebleau Las Vegas is the sister property of Fontainebleau Miami Beach, a sprawling and now iconic landmark that opened in
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Council says when President Joe Biden meets with the families of eight Americans presumed to be taken captive by Hamas he’ll guarantee them the U.S. “won’t stop trying to get them home.” The White House says Biden on Wednesday will hold his
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street inched up modestly Wednesday ahead of a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on interest rates. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrials each rose about 0.1% before the opening bell. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 climbed to its highest level
Continue ReadingBy SARAH RANKIN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he has reached a tentative agreement with the parent company of the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to move those teams out of D.C. to northern Virginia. Youngkin, a Republican, shared details ahead of Wednesday’s news
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer Wholesale inflation in the United States was unchanged in November, suggesting that price increases in the economy’s pipeline are continuing to gradually ease. The Labor Department reported that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — was flat from October to November after having
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Cabinet members have taken office after being sworn in by the country’s president. Wednesday’s ceremony in the presidential palace in Warsaw marks the end of eight tumultuous years of rule by a national conservative party, Law and
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN (CNN) — The spread of respiratory illnesses is well underway, as US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Mandy Cohen told Congress recently. She noted the rise of three particular viruses: flu, the coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV. Hospitalizations for these three viruses continue to
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