June 16th, 2025

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Trump pardons rapper NBA Youngboy, who was sentenced for gun-related charges

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, who was sentenced to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges, was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The rapper is among a number of high-profile people Trump pardoned this week, including a former New York congressman, a labor union leader and a reality TV star couple. ... Read More »

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Truckers’ protests in Iran grow and win support from prominent dissidents

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Truck drivers in Iran blocked roads and ports Wednesday as part of their strike protesting low salaries, high insurance rates, and a possible hike in fuel prices. The strikes, which began last Thursday in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, one of the country’s main transportation and shipping ... Read More »

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What to know about reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, who were pardoned by Trump

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, who were in prison after being convicted on federal charges of bank fraud and tax evasion, were pardoned by President Donald Trump and walked free Wednesday. The couple is best known for the long-running TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” which followed their family and luxurious ... Read More »

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Todd Chrisley released from prison after Trump pardons reality TV star

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Reality TV star Todd Chrisley was released Wednesday from federal prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for his defense lawyer said. The 57-year-old Chrisley, best known for the TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” was freed from a minimum-security prison camp in Pensacola, Florida, where he was imprisoned ... Read More »

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Mod Club relaunching with help from Live Nation, Daniel Caesar

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

TORONTO — Daniel Caesar has been enlisted to help bring back the Mod Club. Live Nation says the singer will help celebrate a rebrand of the popular Toronto music venue, which closed amid pandemic restrictions in 2020 and returned the next year as The Axis Club. The Mod Club Theatre launched in 2002, co-founded by ... Read More »

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Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Phoenician Scheme’ is as Wes Anderson as a Wes Anderson film can be

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

“They say you murdered my mother,” the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. “I feel the need to address this.” There’s something about the deadpan delivery and the clear-eyed manner that makes you sit up and take notice of Liesl, and even more of Mia Threapleton, who plays her in “The Phoenician Scheme.” (And ... Read More »

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Stylist says Cassie confided that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pressured her into sex marathons

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The singer Cassie was content celebrating her 29th birthday with drinks, drugs and karaoke with friends, but her boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs, had a different idea. The hip-hop mogul insisted on taking Cassie, his R&B protégé, to a Los Angeles hotel for another of his “freak-off” sex marathons, her friend and ... Read More »

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Philadelphia honors Quinta Brunson with key, mural at alma mater that inspired ‘Abbott Elementary’

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s mayor honored actor and producer Quinta Brunson with a key to the city Wednesday in a ceremony dedicating a separate mural at Brunson’s alma mater, which was the inspiration for her show “Abbott Elementary.” The producer, writer and comedian gazed at the shiny key handed to her by Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle ... Read More »

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Movie Review: A deeply disturbing portrait of grief in gory horror ‘Bring Her Back’

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

Beware the quirky foster mother who introduces herself as a bit of a weirdo. That’s how Laura (Sally Hawkins) cheerily greets the newly orphaned teenage siblings Andy and Piper in the new horror “Bring Her Back,” which opens in theaters Friday. The comment, more telling than the kids realize at the time, comes after Laura ... Read More »

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them, died Wednesday at 87. Derek Warker, ... Read More »

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R&B singer Cassie gives birth to third child as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex trafficking trial continues

By Canadian Press on May 28th, 2025

Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer and actor known simply as Cassie, has welcomed her third child, a son. The news arrived Wednesday in the midst of the ongoing Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial, at which Cassie is an essential witness. She finished testifying earlier this month while visibly pregnant over four emotional days on ... Read More »

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