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Actor Mark Hamill on the set of <em>Star Wars</em>.

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  • Movies

This is not the 'Star Wars' you thought you knew

The Star Wars available to the public to stream is not the same film that was shown in 1977. But in the U.K., audiences had a rare chance to see it.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Protesters stand off against California National Guard soldiers at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles during a "No Kings" protest on Saturday.

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  • USPS

An appeals court backs Trump's control of the California National Guard for now

The ruling maintains a block on a lower court's order that found President Trump was using the Guard in LA illegally in his immigration crackdown.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Fitzgerald and
  • Larry Kaplow
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Washington.

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  • Politics

Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president

President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.

June 20, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had tied the disbursement of transportation grant funds for roads, highways, bridges and development of other transportation projects, to a state's cooperation with ICE. But on Thursday, federal Judge John McConnell issued a preliminary injunction against the policy.

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  • National

Federal judge says Trump administration can't block state funding over immigration

The ruling comes ahead of a grant application deadline on June 20, which would have required states to agree to enforce the Trump administration's immigration agenda or lose transportation funding.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
The Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation promotes reconciliation, healing, and repair through arts, education, and cultural programming.

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  • National

A former plantation becomes a space for healing, art and reparative history

Through a powerful blend of creative interpretation and ancestral memory, an Alabma town reckons with its past and begins to write a new chapter of shared truth.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Brianna Scott
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams in <em>28 Years Later.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Horror, a documentary, or kids, there are only good choices at the movies this weekend

This weekend at the movies, you can see films about a raging virus and another about a lesson in childhood friendships. What's not to like?

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Smokes rises from a building of the Soroka hospital complex after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran in Be'er Sheva, Israel on Thursday.

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  • Middle East

Trump to decide on Iran action 'within two weeks,' White House says

Meanwhile several sites across Israel sustained direct hits by Iranian missiles and Israeli leaders warned they would intensify attacks on "strategic targets" in Iran.

June 19, 2025
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  • Rebecca Rosman
The TikTok app logo appears in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020.

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  • Business

Trump pushes back TikTok's sell-by date for a third time

Last year, Congress banned the app in the U.S., citing national security concerns and demanding it spin off from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. Trump has again paused enforcement of the ban.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Anti-ICE protesters face off with Homeland Security officers and Marines outside the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Monday evening

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  • USPS

As courts review military in L.A., immigration enforcement accelerates

Immigration enforcement speeds up in L.A. regardless of military presence

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
Edith Edmunds, 99, pictured with one of her completed Underground Railroad Code quilts.

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  • National

On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Chinese students wait outside the U.S. Embassy for their visa application interviews, in Beijing on May 2, 2012.

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  • National

U.S. will review social media for foreign student visa applications

The U.S. State Department said it is restarting the process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review.

June 19, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf
Airmen look at a GBU-57, or a Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on May 2, 2023.

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  • National Security

The U.S. could use 'bunker buster' bombs in Iran. Here's what to know about them

Iran's most fortified nuclear facility, called Fordo, is buried deep inside a mountain. Only the U.S. has the 30,000-pound bombs — often referred to as "bunker busters" — capable of reaching it.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Margarita Rojas Mena, in Mojaudó, stitched up the photograph of the community school, wounded by bullets from an armed confrontation.

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  • Global Health

Photos: How torn pictures and trusted herbs create healing in Colombia

Conflict has sewn trauma in the western region of Colombia. Doctors Without Borders is working with local healers and health care professionals to come up with ways to help heal the psychic wounds.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Diane Cole
Before NPR's Ben Abrams was a journalist, he worked as a chef in Atlanta.

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  • News

How Juneteenth and Black America helped shape U.S. cuisine

Food and cooking play a big role in Juneteenth celebrations. The barbecues and fish fries woven into Black culture helped shape American cuisine.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ben Abrams and
  • Brittney Melton
When the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline launched in 2022 it included a pilot to offer specialized support to LGBTQ+ kids. The Trump administration is ending that.

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  • Health

Trump administration cuts specialized suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.

June 19, 2025
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
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