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Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary
By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025
MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — When the scaffolding came down inside the unassuming hilltop church near Pittsburgh, it revealed a raging storm of biblical proportions. A wide-eyed Moses holds the Ten Commandments aloft in righteous fury, ready to shatter the tablets when his followers abandon God for a golden calf. Lightning sizzles and a tornado surges ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What it takes to clean industrial soot and grime from a Pittsburgh church’s murals
By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025
MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific analysis to seaweed extract to everyday tools — like cosmetic sponges and shish kebab sticks. That was the approach taken by a conservation team as they labored ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nintendo Switch 2 launch draws eager fans
By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores in Tokyo hours in advance to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch 2, being released around the world Thursday, is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. Nintendo ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nintendo Switch 2 launch, after an 8 year wait, draws big lines
By Canadian Press on June 5th, 2025
TOKYO (AP) — Eager customers lined up outside electronics stores hours in advance in Tokyo on Thursday to collect their pre-ordered Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. The much anticipated Switch2 is an upgrade to its eight-year-old predecessor with new social features meant to draw players into online gaming. The new consoles were sold through ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!British translator Karen Leeder and German writer Durs Grünbein win Griffin Poetry Prize
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
TORONTO — British scholar Karen Leeder’s translation of “Psyche Running” by Durs Grünbein has won the Griffin Poetry Prize. They were awarded the $130,000 literary prize at a ceremony in Toronto. Leeder is a professor of German language and literature at Oxford University, and the Griffin judges praise her translation as being “universal, lyrical, philosophical.” ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet in ‘Ballerina,’ a John Wick spinoff
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you can get pretty paranoid. You start to think everyone’s an assassin. The guy at the newsstand, the street musician, the subway rider, that nice neighbor in the elevator — ruthless contract killers, all. So perhaps it shouldn’t be too surprising that in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Congressional letter obtained by AP outlines drastic job cuts expected at Voice of America
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration appointee overseeing the Voice of America has outlined job cuts that would reduce employment at the state-run news organization from over 1,000 people to 81. The Voice of America, which has delivered news to countries all over the world for the better part of a century, has been largely ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Long-running Young Thug gang trial to end without any murder convictions
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — Three years after Atlanta rapper Young Thug and 27 others were indicted on gang and racketeering charges, followed by a long, problem-plagued trial, nobody will be convicted of murder. When Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced the indictment in May 2022, she said her office was cracking down on a violent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jury deliberations near in Weinstein sex crimes retrial
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinstein ’s sex crimes retrial are due to start deliberating Thursday, with dozens of witnesses, scores of documents and two days of closing arguments to sift through. The seven-woman, five-man jury will start its private discussions after getting legal instructions from the judge Thursday morning. Closing arguments concluded ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CBC’s Heather Hiscox to retire this fall, network adds reality show with people on autism spectrum
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
TORONTO — After two decades of waking up the nation, CBC News Network veteran Heather Hiscox is retiring and will step down as host of “CBC Morning Live” this fall. The longtime breaking-news anchor announced her departure Wednesday during an event at the public broadcaster’s headquarters, where execs presented their new slate of programming for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A woman testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs gave her night terrors by dangling her from a balcony
By Canadian Press on June 4th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A former graphic designer for Sean “Diddy” Combs testified Wednesday that he dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony while screaming profanities, leaving her so traumatized she still has night terrors nearly a decade later and would wake up screaming. Bryana ‘Bana’ Bongolan, 33, a friend of Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie, told ... Read More »
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