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  • Arts & Life

Pink gives away 2,000 banned books at Florida concerts

The pop music icon is taking a stand against the libraries and classrooms around the U.S. that have removed books due to claims of inappropriate content related to sexuality, gender identity and race.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair and
  • Chloe Veltman
Justin Torres' novel <em>Blackouts</em> won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night.

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  • Books

Justin Torres wins at National Book Awards as authors call for cease-fire in Gaza

At one of literature's most prestigious awards ceremonies, nominated authors made a collective call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Arts & Life

Applications are now open for NEA grants to fund the arts in underserved communities

The National Endowment for the Arts' ArtsHERE initiative will support 95 regional cultural groups across the U.S.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Silvana Estrada performs onstage at 2022 Best New Artist Showcase during the 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas.

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  • Latin America

Silvana Estrada moves from fear to defiance in Latin Grammy-nominated 'Si Me Matan'

The Mexican singer's song, whose title means "If They Kill Me," is nominated for best singer-songwriter song at the 2023 Latin Grammys, which takes place Thursday in Seville, Spain.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • James Fredrick

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  • Music Interviews

The curious mind — and hard work — of bassist Christian McBride

The Grammy-winning bassist, bandleader and broadcaster talks about his love for music, family ties in the jazz world, and the thrill of sitting in with Wynton Marsalis as a teenager.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit on Nov. 4, 2023 in Kissimmee, Fla.

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  • Elections

Once Florida's favorite son, Floridians turn on DeSantis in his bid for president

Gov. Ron DeSantis won a decisive reelection in 2022, in a year when Republicans elsewhere didn't fare as well. But now that he's running for president, some in Florida wish he'd do his job at home.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
Veterans John Follmer, right, and Alejandro Rocha, left, do outreach on on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. They met Chris Brown, center, and offered to connect him with veterans services.

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  • National

The answer to veterans homelessness could be one of LA's most expensive neighborhoods

A massive VA campus in West Los Angeles is finally housing hundreds of vets, and may finally change the city's worst-in-the-nation status on veterans homelessness.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip walk in a United Nations Development Programme-provided tent camp in Khan Younis,Nov.15, 2023.

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  • Middle East

Israeli military drops leaflets in Gaza calling for further evacuations

The leaflets dropped this week ordered civilians in areas east of Khan Younis, which is in southern Gaza, to evacuate to "known shelters."

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Wildland firefighters on the Spring Creek Fire in Colorado on July 2, 2023.

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  • Politics

A massive pay cut for federal wildland firefighters may be averted. But not for long

A long running effort to permanently boost pay for thousands of federal wildland firefighters is finally gaining traction in Congress but fire managers warn it could be too little too late.

November 16, 2023
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
The Senate has approved a short-term spending bill to extend government funding into early next year.

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  • Politics

Senate passes stopgap spending bill, avoiding the threat of a shutdown

The Senate has approved a stopgap spending bill to fund the government into early next year.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Kelsey Snell
President Joe Biden arrives at San Francisco International Airport for the APEC summit on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Biden announces new agreements with China on fentanyl and resuming military talks

President Biden announced new agreements on fentanyl, AI and resuming military talks with China following his first meeting in a year with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the APEC summit.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
United Auto Workers members strike the General Motors Lansing Delta Assembly Plant on September 29, 2023 in Lansing, Michigan. xx% of GM workers have so far voted xx on ratifying the tentative contract agreement.

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  • Business

GM autoworkers' contract appears likely to pass over many workers' objections

Even with pay raises of 25% and other improvements on the table, a large share of General Motors autoworkers are voting to reject the contract reached after a nearly seven-week strike.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
An artistic depiction of the planet WASP-107b. Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest this hot gas giant has clouds made of sand.

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  • Space

Clouds made of sand make for a strange kind of rain on this hot planet

On Earth, clouds and rain are made of water. But the James Webb Space Telescope has found that on a planet called WASP-107b, the rain and clouds are made of sand.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Israeli troops operate on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in this photo released by the Israeli military. The Israelis say they found weapons belonging to Hamas, but did not provide details. Hamas denied the claim that it has been operating in or underneath the hospital.

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  • Middle East

Israeli troops enter Gaza's largest hospital and report finding Hamas weapons there

Hamas denounced the actions by the Israeli military. The group denied the assertion by Israel and U.S. officials that militants were embedded in Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • Greg Myre,
  • and 1 more
Batkid Miles Scott, center, received a key to the city from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, left, on Nov. 15, 2013.

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  • Arts & Life

10 years ago, Batkid was battling bad guys and cancer — now he's 15 and healthy

On Nov. 15, 2013, Miles Scott, a 5-year-old with leukemia, won hearts around the world when he became a superhero for a day with help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

November 15, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
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