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An Apple TV+ animated special shows how Franklin, the first Black <em>Peanuts</em> character, meets Charlie Brown and friends in <em>Snoopy Presents:</em> <em>Welcome Home, Franklin.</em>

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  • Television

The first Black 'Peanuts' character finally gets his origin story in animated special

The origin story of the first Black Peanuts character is streaming on Apple TV+.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Barry Gordemer
The Security Council meets before voting on a resolution concerning a cease-fire in Gaza at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday. The resolution was vetoed by the U.S.

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  • Middle East

The U.S. has again vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza

Tuesday's vote marked the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. The Arab nations behind the plan hoped to show broad support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
A man named Frank sits in his tent with a river view in Portland, Ore., in 2021. A lawsuit originally filed in 2018 on behalf of homeless people in the Oregon city of Grants Pass is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court in April.

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  • Law

How far can cities go to clear homeless camps? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide

Lower courts have said it's unconstitutional to punish people for sleeping outside if no shelter is available. Cities say these rulings have paralyzed their efforts to manage growing tent encampments.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Ludden
Tulalip Tribes Police arrest a suspect from another tribe on drug charges. One charge — possession of drug paraphernalia — wouldn't apply to non-Native suspects in Washington state

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  • National

Tribal courts can't prosecute non-Native drug suspects. Tribes say it's a problem

As the fentanyl crisis ravages Native American communities, some of their leaders want tribal police and courts to go after non-tribal dealers. But they can't without getting permission from Congress.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
<em>The Bachelor</em> producers Jason Ehrlich, Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner answered questions at the TV Critics Association's winter press tour.

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  • Television

I asked about race on reality shows at the TV critics press tour. It didn't go well

What's ahead for the TV industry in 2024? Original series are down 14% but it still feels like too much TV. Executives and streaming services are feeling the squeeze post strikes. Race issues persist.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Eric Deggans

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  • Book Reviews

'Splinters' is a tribute to the love of a mother for a daughter

In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Leslie Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Ilana Masad
Julian Assange supporters hold up a banner that says "Free Assange No U.S. Extradition" outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in Dec. 2022.

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  • News

Assange starts last fight against U.S. extradition; Egypt builds wall near Gaza border

WikiLeaks founder Assange's latest battle to avoid extradition to U.S. Egypt builds buffer in anticipation of a Palestinian refugee spillover. Louisiana's legislature begins special session on crime.

February 20, 2024
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is shown making a statement to the media gathered outside the High Court in London, Dec. 5, 2011.

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  • World

WikiLeaks founder Assange starts final legal battle to avoid extradition to U.S.

Julian Assange's lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge on Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges.

February 20, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Dakota Johnson in <em>Madame Web</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

We try to untangle 'Madame Web'

Madame Web, the latest Spider-Man-adjacent film that stakes out its own corner of the Spider-Verse. Dakota Johnson plays a New York paramedic who sees glimpses of the future. She bonds with three young women who are being hunted by a mysterious and remorseless supervillian. It has gotten pilloried by critics and has been ruthlessly mocked by a series of memes. But is it as bad as all that?

February 20, 2024
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  • Glen Weldon,
  • Jordan Crucchiola,
  • and 5 more
Haiti's President Jovenel Moise sits with his wife Martine during his swearing-in ceremony at Parliament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2017. A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Moïse issued a final report that indicts his widow, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti's National Police, Léon Charles, among others.

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  • World

Wife of assassinated Haitian president is indicted in his killing

A judge in Haiti probing the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the ex-chief of Haiti's National Police, Léon Charles.

February 20, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The logo for Capital One Financial is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, July 30, 2019. Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation's biggest lenders and credit card issuers, according to a news release issued by the companies Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.

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  • Business

Capital One is acquiring Discover in a deal worth $35 billion

The companies are teaming up, in part, to expand their payment network. Discover is the smallest of the four U.S.-based payment networks, which also include Visa, American Express and Mastercard.

February 19, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a factory on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR

If the Russian president continues to burn through his reserves of oil and gas money, ordinary people will become a threat to his power, according to one outspoken activist.

February 19, 2024
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 1 more
<em>Civil War</em> imagines a second civil war has broken out in the United States. Kirsten Dunst stars as a journalist in the film, which comes out April 12.

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  • Movie Reviews

Here are 6 movies to see this spring

Usually around this time, Hollywood is talking about how to keep its box office momentum going. This year, January was so lackluster that studios had to jump-start moviegoing from scratch.

February 19, 2024
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Arica Lynn Souza and her children Ayla, 3, left, and Silas, 4, on the porch of the family home where they are staying temporarily after losing their Lahaina townhome in the wildfires.

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  • National

Maui fire survivors struggle to find long-term housing, half a year after the blazes

Thousands of people are still displaced and living in limbo six months after the wildfires on Maui. The disaster has deepened a housing crisis and is taking a toll on fire survivors.

February 19, 2024
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
This 2019 photo provided by the National Park Service, shows a mountain lion known as P-47 in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area west of Los Angeles. A cougar attacked five cyclists in Washington state over the weekend.

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  • Animals

Cougar attacks five mountain bikers on a trail in Washington state

Cougars are solitary animals rarely seen in the wild, but on Saturday, five people were attacked by one on a trail in Washington. No one died, but at least one of the cyclists was hospitalized.

February 19, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
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