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Colorado group falls short in effort to put anti-abortion measure on the ballot
Only one of two opposing abortion ballot measures may qualify for the Colorado ballot this fall. An anti-abortion initiative failed to gather enough signatures.
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Leverkusen, Atalanta, Roma y Marsella, semifinalistas en la Liga Europa
Liverpool naufragó en su intento por remontar una desventaja de tres goles y quedó apeado de la Liga Europa pese a vencer el jueves 1-0 al Atalanta en la vuelta de su duelo de cuartos de final.
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El Cuarteto de Nos se presentará finalmente en L.A. tras cuatro décadas de carrera
La banda uruguaya de rock alternativo más legendaria visita por primera vez el Sur de California
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Pro-Palestinian Columbia Student Protests Continue Despite Arrests, Suspensions 
Pro-Palestinian student protesters at Columbia continued to occupy part of the campus lawn after several were arrested Thursday.
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Swift breaks Spotify records for most-streamed album, artist in a single day
Swift broke her own records, Spotify said, and now owns the record for the top three most-streamed albums in a single day.
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Concluye la selección de los 12 jurados para el juicio a Trump en NY
Un jurado de 12 personas quedó establecido el jueves para el histórico juicio al expresidente Donald Trump en Nueva York, con lo cual el proceso está más cerca de las declaraciones de apertura y de testimonios impactantes durante algunas semanas.
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Dems, like Bob Casey, who backed Biden’s war on energy will pay for it this November
Energy is on the ballot this November, and the chickens are coming to roost for Democratic policymakers who’ve backed President Biden’s hostility toward our fossil-fuel industry.
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Man in critical condition after setting himself ablaze near Trump trial courthouse
Maxwell Azzarello, 37, threw pamphlets on the ground promoting various conspiracy theories before self-immolating, police said.
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The 5 tracks you need to hear from Taylor Swift's surprise 'Tortured Poets' companion
Released two hours after "The Tortured Poets Department" on Thursday night, Taylor Swift's second set of new songs contains a handful of highlights.
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The House GOP Is About to Jam Senate Dems on the TikTok Bill
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and TikTokTo the chagrin of middle-schoolers everywhere, the most extreme restrictions on TikTok are on a glide path to passage in Congress.The bill—which is now set to get a vote on Saturday and is expected to pass with strong bipartisan support—has animated distraught TikTok creators of all ages to call congressional offices and demand they oppose a ban on the popular video app.While the legislation is largely understood and referred to as a bill to ban TikTok, the truth is far more complex. The measure would not immediately ban TikTok. Rather, it would force its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S.-based entity within nine months of becoming law, giving the president the option of stalling the elimination of TikTok for another 90 days.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Uncovering the astrological easter eggs of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
In essence and ashes, this album is the smoking, stillborn delivery of a doomed love story.
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Ex-Augusta employee allegedly transported ‘millions’ worth of stolen Masters memorabilia — including Arnold Palmer Jacket
Former Augusta National Golf Club warehouse coordinator Richard Brendan Globensky has been accused of transporting millions of dollars of stolen memorabilia related to The Masters.
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10-Year-Old Allegedly Confesses to Randomly Killing Stranger When He Was 7
Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesA 10-year-old child in Texas nonchalantly confessed to killing a man when he was only 7 during a fight with one of his classmates, authorities said this week. The child, who has not been identified, said he shot and killed a sleeping stranger in 2022, providing an answer to a two-year-old murder investigation, police said. The strange turn of events began last Friday, when the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call from a principal at Nixon Smiley Independent School District, who said a 10-year-old child had threatened to kill another student on the bus ride home the day before. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Trump campaign, RNC aim to send 100,000 volunteer vote-counting monitors
The RNC announced an ambitious initiative to monitor vote processing in the 2024 presidential election.
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Opening statements set for Monday in Trump’s New York hush money trial
Some prospective jurors grew emotional during questioning Friday; the 12 jurors and six alternates picked said they can be impartial in judging Donald Trump.
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The Paradoxes of Modern Dating
A conversation with Faith Hill about daters’ competing desires for structure and serendipity
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Shoplifting is turning NYC into a ghost town, we have to fight back
New York City is suffering a retail catastrophe, with 11.2% of storefronts empty — nearly twice the 6% of 2019.
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Giancarlo Esposito thought, at his lowest, about how his own murder might benefit his kids
Giancarlo Esposito, a.k.a. Gustavo Fring on 'Breaking Bad,' says when his life was at its lowest, he thought about plotting his own murder for the insurance money.
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Legal expert says Trump was 'rattled' after key hearing. She explains why
Criminal defense attorney Stacey Schneider says that former President Donald Trump was "rattled" following a Sandoval hearing in the New York hush money trial where he heard a recounting of his criminal history.
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Eric Braeden of 'Young and the Restless' nominated for first Daytime Emmy in 20 years
Eric Braeden, the actor whose character was intended to be killed off after a short run, has been central to 'The Young and the Restless' for more than 40 years.
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What Giants might do at safety in 2024 NFL Draft
Here is another spot in the Giants' defensive backfield that is not exactly full-stocked with proven talent ahead of the 2024 NFL Draft.
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NY attorney general opposes company holding Trump bond in civil fraud case
The New York attorney general filed the state's opposition to the company providing Donald Trump's $175 million bond, posted while his appeal is pending.
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David Zaslav and the Tinseltown Tycoons That Just Keep Getting Richer
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / GettyAs a money-losing Warner Bros. Discovery continues to slash its workforce and cut employee benefits, President and CEO David Zaslav took home just under $50 million last year, according to a proxy statement the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.Warner Bros. Discovery lost $3.13 billion last year, according to the proxy statement; it lost a whopping $5.36 billion in 2022.Still, Zaslav’s compensation package, which clocked in at triple the median pay of all S&P 500 CEOs, jumped 26.5 percent from 2022. It included a salary of $3 million; a cash bonus of $22 million; a stock award (tied to free cash flow, which doubled last year to $6.16 billion) of $23,078,769; and $1,623,777 under the heading “all other compensation”, for a total of $49,702,546.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Youngkin, Democrats head into Va. budget reset with unfinished business
Democrats stripped amendments from a host of bills and sent them back to the Republican governor, who so far has signaled willingness to negotiate on only one.
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Climate Watch: Protecting the Planet | How sustainable fashion reduces greenhouse gasses
In this episode of “Climate Watch: Protecting the Planet,” CBS News senior environmental correspondent Ben Tracy explores the innovative ways both people and companies are making fashion more sustainable ahead of Earth Day.
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New Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but transgender athletes aren't addressed
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law under new Title IX rules, but transgender athletes are not mentioned in the safeguards.
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How accurate is a new movie about the real-life spies who inspired Bond? We checked
Guy Ritchie's latest follows a group of British special forces who took on German U-boats during World War II — and helped inspire James Bond. Here's what's fact and what's fiction.
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Mets vs. Dodgers prediction: MLB odds, picks, bets for Friday
The New York Mets are cruising with four consecutive series victories after a sweep of Pittsburgh ahead of their flight out west.
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After fatal Newport Beach home invasion, 24-year-old faces burglary, robbery charges
Police have arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with a Newport Beach home invasion that occurred early Tuesday.
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Stephen A. Smith, Pat McAfee loving Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’: ‘Did it again’
Stephen A. Smith and Pat McAfee have applauded Taylor Swift's new era.
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What Jets might do at safety in 2024 NFL Draft
This is the weakest position on the Jets’ defense, but I don’t expect them to use one of their top two picks on this position.
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Sen. Bob Menendez's trial delayed
A judge granted a one week delay in the corruption trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez​ Friday, but the senator was not physically in court. He joined the proceedings by phone.
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Tips for buying a home as mortgage rates climb
Mortgage rates soared to their highest level of the year this week, according to Mortgage News Daily. Holden Lewis, a home and mortgage reporter for NerdWallet, joins CBS News with tips on buying a home.
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New York Post launches video series ‘Listen Up! The Music Beat With Chuck Arnold’
The New York Post launches an exclusive new video series today — “Listen Up! The Music Beat With Chuck Arnold.” Every Friday, resident music critic Arnold will bring his 30-plus years of knowledge in front of the camera with trusted critical commentary, exclusive music news and event coverage, and can’t-miss picks for the weekend. He...
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Taylor Swift’s new album leaked, but it was only half the story
The day before Taylor Swift’s released “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” 17 of its songs were scattered across the internet.
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Israel and Iran’s conflict enters a new, dangerous phase
A crowd carrying a model of Iran’s first-ever hypersonic missile, Fattah, past a mosque during a gathering to celebrate the IRGC UAV and missile attack against Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024 | Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Israel launched strikes in response to Iran’s retaliatory attack. Here’s what we know. Israel carried out a strike against Iran on Friday but, for now, appears to have averted opening a dangerous new phase of the wider conflict in the Middle East. Israeli drones reportedly struck near the central city of Isfahan Friday morning in retaliation for Iran’s assault on Israeli territory last week. Iran’s attack, which involved more than 300 drones and missiles, was itself a response to an Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus, Syria, that killed several members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), including Gen. Mohammed Reza Zahedi. The scale of Friday’s attack is still becoming clear; the Iranian regime reported that the offensive involved small swarms of drones, potentially launched from inside Iran, which targeted both Isfahan and the northern city of Tabriz. Israel, for its part, does not typically confirm military operations, but the US, Israel’s staunch ally, commented on the attack Friday, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisting that the US military was not involved. The tit-for-tat attacks risked major escalation between the regional adversaries amid the war in Gaza, in which more than 33,000 people have been killed since October, and in which ceasefire talks continue to stumble. That conflict has raised the temperature across the region, with Iraqi and Syrian militias attacking US military outposts in those countries and Yemeni Houthis attacking vessels and disrupting trade in the Red Sea. Iran and Israel have long engaged in rhetorical — and physical — back-and-forth. But the direct attacks of the past few weeks have been different: Not only did they come amid a period of high tensions due to the war with Hamas, but both sides showed a willingness to cross lines they’ve shied away from previously, raising the limit of what’s acceptable in their decades-long conflict. For now, Iran is downplaying the extent of the damage from the attack, and both Iran’s attack last weekend and Israel’s Friday seem to indicate a willingness to keep the scope of this particular exchange limited. However, there’s no clear offramp to ongoing tension, either, especially as ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel continue to stall out. A new phase in 40 years of hostilities Israel and Iran once had close economic and strategic ties; Iran imported Israeli arms and Israel bought Iranian oil prior to the Iranian revolution in 1979. Both countries also had close ties with the US and prioritized fighting the Soviet Union and the spread of communism as part of their foreign policy, according to the US Institute for Peace. The Islamic Revolution changed all that, since Shia hardliners saw Israel as an interloper in Muslim lands and the US as its enabler. Now, “Israel and Iran have been engaged in a multidimensional cold war against one another for a long time,” Ali Vaez, Iran program director at the International Crisis Group, told Vox in October. In recent years, there’s been an escalation in military operations, though more on the Israeli side than from Iran. “In the past few years, if you look at the covert operations Israel has conducted against Iran — and overt operations that it has conducted against Iranian personnel and assets in Syria — it really hasn’t [been] that much of a tit-for-tat,” Vaez said. Israel has waged cyberattacks against Iranian infrastructure, like the massive Stuxnet attack against Iran’s Natanz nuclear material enrichment facility and targeted assassinations of military commanders and nuclear scientists. Groups affiliated with and to some degree directed by Iran — mostly Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and militant groups in Syria and Iraq — have engaged with both Israel and the US over the years, with Hezbollah trading rocket fire with Israel over the southern Lebanese border and Syrian and Iraqi militias targeting US military installations in those countries. A new and different phase of hostilities began after the April 1 assassination of Zahedi and six other IRGC personnel in Damascus. Zahedi had been an important leader in the Quds Force, which oversees the Iranian military’s coordination with Hezbollah, Syrian and Iraqi militias, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza. Israel has targeted high-level Iranian officials before, but this attack was on an Iranian diplomatic site in the Syrian capital, which is supposed to be protected territory. Iran launched its retaliatory attack last week, sending more than 300 drones and missiles toward sites in the Golan Heights and the Negev Desert, where a major Israeli air base and nuclear research facility are located. That attack failed to do significant damage — US and UK air defenses, as well as the Israeli missile defense system and Jordanian forces, took out the vast majority of the projectiles. But it was notable for its scale and directness. Vaez told Vox last week, “The Iranians concluded that the risk of not responding outweighed the risk of responding.” Hardliners within the Iranian government — a group Iran’s leaders are heavily dependent on amid weakening public support for the government — had publicly criticized the lack of response to multiple previous assassinations and escalatory actions attributed to Israel. With respect to Israel’s latest attack, however, it seems as though there’s no immediate response planned on Iran’s part. Iranian official sources refused to even pin the attacks on Israel in an interview with Reuters. What happens now? Iran cannot afford a full-on war with Israel and the US — and it certainly couldn’t win one. “From what I’ve seen, Israel was trying to send a message without escalating,” Jon Alterman, Middle East director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Vox. “And the message was, ‘You might be able to throw 300 missiles and drones at Israel, but we can shoot them all down, and we can penetrate all your air defenses, including some of your most sophisticated ones — and there’s nothing you can do about it.’” But even if Iran doesn’t decide to retaliate and escalate, the overall bar for this conflict is now set higher. Cyberattacks and assassinations are no longer the status quo; drone attacks might be. “We’ve crossed the line of direct attacks on each other’s territory but not consequential attacks on each other’s territory,” Alterman said. The increase in hostilities also increases the risk of miscalculation and misinterpretation, especially since Iran doesn’t have diplomatic ties with Israel or the US; those conversations go through intermediaries such as Oman, Qatar, and Switzerland. Though the US has cautioned Israel that it would not engage in any response to last weekend’s attacks and has reportedly been insistent that any retaliation be measured and proportional, that’s different from using meaningful leverage to encourage Israel to de-escalate, Brian Finucane, senior adviser to the US program at the International Crisis Group, said. “If the US is interested in de-escalating and preventing a wider war — which it has said since October — then it needs to factor in not just deterring adversaries, but reining in its partners.”
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Kings vs. Pelicans prediction: NBA play-in tournament odds, picks, best bets
And now, with a sixth meeting on the horizon and a postseason appearance on the line, the Pelicans face the daunting task of clinching a playoff berth without their star Zion Williamson.
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Kelly Oubre stirs up Celebrity Row beef ahead of Knicks-76ers series
The 76ers forward took a moment on Friday to chirp Madison Square Garden’s vaunted Celebrity Row before Game 1 at the arena on Saturday. 
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The 6 best wireless earbuds with spatial audio in 2024
For the most immersive listening experience, choose wireless earbuds with noise cancellation and spatial audio.
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Australian conductor Simone Young shoots for the stars with the NSO
French pianist Lise de la Salle joined the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for a program of works by Mozart, Strauss and the late Kaija Saariaho.
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Tell The Post: How will the changes to race and ethnicity data collection affect you
What do you think about these changes? Will it change how you identify yourself? Tell us through this form.
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Ken Griffin’s Citadel rips Truth Social exec Devin Nunes in short-selling feud
The war of words was triggered by a letter that Nunes sent to the Nasdaq Stock Market in which he accused Citadel Securities of "market manipulation."
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Deion Sanders not worried about mass exodus from Colorado in transfer portal
There is a mass exodus occurring in Colorado, but coach Deion Sanders claims to have no worries about his Buffaloes.
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Why was Trevor Bauer listed as a victim in a fraud case unrelated to MLB suspension?
A woman who accused Trevor Bauer of sexual assault was indicted by a grand jury on two felony charges. What does this mean for Bauer and his MLB future?
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Swiftie couple recreates Taylor Swift album covers
Charlie Bird — the "major Swiftie" of the two — had the idea after the singer announced her new album "The Tortured Poets Department" at the Grammys.
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VW workers vote on union in Tennessee — a key test for organized labor
If the UAW prevails, the Chattanooga factory would be the only unionized foreign commercial carmaker in the U.S.
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5 Maryland teens shot, 2 critically injured during senior skip day
Hundreds of teens had skipped school to meet in the park for a water gun fight, police said.
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Five hurt, two critically, in Pr. George’s park shooting, police say
Eight people shot, none killed, is two separate shootings, in D.C. and Prince George’s County.
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