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Month: December 2023

Behind the scenes: Palm Springs International Film Festival programmers selection

As the Palm Springs International Film Festival releases its 2024 lineup, we’re giving you a festival preview. News Channel 3 will provide a behind-the-scenes look into the film festival’s program selections, speaking with festival programmers about the rationale guiding their selections.  The SAG-AFTRA strike caused disruptions in the film industry in 2023, but PSIFF programmers

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$25 million Massachusetts Lottery winner returns to lucky store; “She won again”

By NEAL RILEY Click here for updates on this story     BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The winner of a $25 million scratch ticket prize in the Massachusetts Lottery isn’t done trying her luck. “Billion Dollar Extravaganza” jackpot player Desiree Fortini-Craft returned last week to the West Roxbury store where she bought her winning ticket, and added

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Tuberville is ending blockade of most military nominees, clearing way for hundreds to be approved

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced Tuesday that he’s ending his blockade of hundreds of military promotions, following heavy criticism from many of his colleagues about the toll it was taking on military families and clearing the way for hundreds of nominations to be approved soon. Tuberville’s blockade of

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Wisconsin governor signs off on $500 million plan to fund repairs and upgrades at Brewers stadium

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that spends half-a-billion in taxpayer dollars to help the Milwaukee Brewers cover stadium repairs over the next three decades. The governor signed the bill Tuesday at American Family Field. The team says the 22-year-old baseball stadium’s glass outfield doors,

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Midwest mystery: Iowa man still missing, 2 weeks after semi holding baby pigs was found on highway

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It has been two weeks since David Schultz’s semi-truck was found on a rural highway in northwest Iowa, its trailer still filled with baby pigs he was transporting. Searchers have scoured 100,000 acres near the highway in the days since the 53-year-old man disappeared without

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Tucker Carlson’s former top producer at Fox News accused of sexual assault

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Tucker Carlson’s top producer, who left Fox News along with the far-right host to work on his X show, is accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in an alleged incident that occurred more than a decade ago. Andrew Delancey, a former Fox News employee, filed a lawsuit against Justin Wells, the former executive producer of “Tucker Carlson

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House Speaker Johnson is insisting on sweeping border security changes in a deal for Ukraine aid

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy will be their “hill to die on” in negotiations over President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion package for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and other security needs. Johnson delivered

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Vice President Harris breaks nearly 200-year-old record for Senate tiebreaker votes, casts her 32nd

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke a nearly 200-year-old record for casting the most tiebreaking votes in the Senate when she voted Tuesday to advance the confirmation of a new federal judge in Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, called

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