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Paula Abdul accuses 'American Idol' producer of sexual assault

The singer and actor's lawsuit against Nigel Lythgoe is the latest in a string of high-profile cases filed right before portions of California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act expire.

December 30, 2023
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English actor Tom Wilkinson poses for photographers on the red carpet ahead of the Royal and World Premiere of the film <em>The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel</em> in London on Feb. 17, 2015.

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  • Obituaries

Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for 'The Full Monty' and 'Michael Clayton,' dies at 75

Wilkinson died suddenly at home on Saturday, his family confirmed. His wife and family were with him, they said in a statement.

December 30, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
Maurice Hines, seen in 2005, appeared alongside his younger brother Gregory Hines during the first part of his career.

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  • Obituaries

Broadway actor, dancer and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

Maurice Hines, who started tap dancing at the age of five, starred alongside his late brother Gregory Hines in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club.

December 30, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Shelly Romo spent hours in the rubble to find her wedding ring in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires back in August. After retrieving it and getting it restored, Romo said she never takes her ring off.

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  • National

Maui wildfires ruined personal treasures. A local jeweler is repairing items for free

The August wildfires on the Hawaiian island erased troves of irreplaceable items — photographs, urns and mementos. One local jewelry store has been trying to help recover what the fires destroyed.

December 30, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Airstrikes hit refugee camps in Gaza as U.S. approves new weapons sales to Israel

Israeli warplanes struck two urban refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new $147.5 million emergency weapons sale to Israel.

December 30, 2023
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  • Games & Humor

'Wait Wait' for December 30, 2023: Happy Holidays from Wait Wait!

To celebrate the holidays, we hand out the greatest gift of all: interviews with Geena Davis, Weird Al, Karen Allen and fifth-generation lobsterman Jacob Knowles!

December 30, 2023
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Workers set up sand bags in front of a beachfront property in anticipation of high surf hitting the shore on Friday in Ventura, Calif.

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Powerful Pacific swell brings the threat of more dangerous surf to California

The ocean was less violent Friday but the National Weather Service warned that another round of extremely dangerous surf conditions would return Saturday.

December 30, 2023
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Michael Cohen arrives at New York Supreme Court for former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial on Oct. 25, 2023 in New York. Cohen says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a New York judge.

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  • Law

Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney

Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer says he passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

December 30, 2023
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Book Reviews

11 books to look forward to in 2024

The first few months of the year are stacked with exciting and interesting reads. Get ready for big swings from old pros and exciting new debuts.

December 30, 2023
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  • Andrew Limbong
Smoke from wildfires turned the skies orange behind New York's Chrysler Building in June 2023. The smoke affected millions across the central and eastern U.S.

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  • Climate

Wildfire smoke this year woke up places unaccustomed to its effects. Now what?

Wildfires worsened by climate change spewed smoke over much of North America this year. It's a new reality Americans haven't yet processed: how dangerous the smoke is for human health.

December 30, 2023
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  • Alejandra Borunda
Google agreed on Thursday to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit claiming that it continued spying on people who used the "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar "private browsing" modes in other browsers — to track their internet use.

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  • Business

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'

The class-action lawsuit said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using 'incognito mode.' Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.

December 30, 2023
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Herlin Riley performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 30, 2011.

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  • Music

Herlin Riley: master of drums in the cradle of jazz

With a long career playing among jazz and R&B greats, he remains one of the most in-demand drummers in New Orleans.

December 30, 2023
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  • John Burnett
Rigoberto Urán crosses the finish line of stage 12 of the 110th Tour de France, July 13, 2023, in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, France.

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  • World

For Colombia's most beloved cyclist, winning isn't the point

Rigoberto Urán has never won the Tour de France or Olympics gold. But he's still a superstar. "I think lots of people identify with me because they want to win but don't quite make it," he says.

December 30, 2023
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  • John Otis
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  • Arts & Life

'All Thing Considered' staff shares their most memorable stories from 2023

Some of the All Things Considered staff whose voices you don't always hear on air share their favorite stories that aired on the show this year.

December 29, 2023
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  • Mia Venkat and
  • Sarah Handel

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  • Book News & Features

Public libraries reveal their most borrowed books of 2023

Not all libraries track checkouts, and there isn't one definitive national list. But this year lots of people checked out Lessons in Chemistry, Prince Harry's memoir Spare, and Colleen Hoover's books.

December 29, 2023
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