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Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

WASHINGTON (AP) — To President Donald Trump, the Kennedy Center is a “tired, broken, and dilapidated” building in urgent need of repair. To artists like Jane Fonda and Billy Porter, it’s a protest site symbolizing the administration’s effort to reshape the nation’s cultural institutions.

For the Kennedy Center’s new leadership, it’s a gargantuan structure corroded by water damage so severe that steel in some places is tissue-thin.

Away from the political controversy that has consumed the iconic performing arts venue for the better part of Trump’s... Read More

US stocks rally to records, but Brent oil also tops $100 on worries about the Iran war

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market set more records after GE Vernova and other big companies joined the parade reporting fatter profits for the start of the year than analysts expected. But caution still hung over Wall Street Wednesday, and oil prices rose on uncertainty about what will happen in the war with Iran. The S&P 500 rallied 1% and topped its prior all-time high set on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite set its own record after climbing 1.6%. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil briefly topped $102.

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Pope tells inmates 'you are not alone' during Equatorial Guinea prison visit at end of Africa tour

BATA, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Pope Leo XIV told inmates at one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious prisons on Wednesday that they are not alone, as he delivered a message of hope during a visit that drew attention to prison conditions, human rights abuses and injustices that campaigners have denounced for years here.

Leo’s visit to the prison in the Central African port city of Bata followed in the tradition of Pope Francis, who frequently met with inmates on his foreign visits to give them a message of hope.

But Leo’s stop, at the end of his four-nation African... Read More

Chemical leak at a West Virginia plant kills 2 people and sends 19 more to hospital, officials say

INSTITUTE, W.Va. (AP) — A chemical leak at a West Virginia silver recovery business killed two people and sent 19 others to the hospital, including one in critical condition, authorities said.

The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant in Institute as workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility, Kanawha County Commission Emergency Management Director C.W. Sigman said.

A chemical gas reaction occurred at the plant involving nitric acid and another substance, Sigman said, speaking at a news briefing. He added that there was "a violent... Read More

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, girl who singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating wounds

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the 14-year-old girl singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating injuries, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday.

Her death was ruled a homicide in the report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office that had been blocked from release for months.

A judge had ordered the report sealed in November at the request of law enforcement after the girl's dismembered and decomposed body was found in a pair of bags in the trunk of a Tesla parked in the Hollywood Hills in September. But... Read More

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Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

US stocks rally to records, but Brent oil also tops $100 on worries about the Iran war

Pope tells inmates 'you are not alone' during Equatorial Guinea prison visit at end of Africa tour

Chemical leak at a West Virginia plant kills 2 people and sends 19 more to hospital, officials say

Celeste Rivas Hernandez, girl who singer D4vd is charged with killing, died from penetrating wounds

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