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Mystery as YouTube creator’s finance livestream appears on White House website
By Canadian Press on December 19th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The livestream of a YouTube content creator talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website, raising questions about whether the site was hacked. The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. It’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oscar contender ‘The Secret Agent’ capitalizes on the rise of Brazilian cinema
By Canadian Press on December 19th, 2025
SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s — not because he is an activist or revolutionary, but because he stands up to a business ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Louvre reopens fully after staff vote to suspend strike
By Canadian Press on December 19th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre in Paris reopened fully on Friday after staff voted to suspend a strike that had disrupted access to the world’s most visited museum, management and unions said. The decision was taken during a general assembly of museum workers, who voted unanimously to pause the strike to allow the museum to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!James Cameron rejects ’51st state’ talk as he brings ‘Avatar’ home to Canada
By Canadian Press on December 19th, 2025
TORONTO — James Cameron doesn’t mince words when it comes to Canada’s sovereignty. “The Trump administration doesn’t understand that we will not ever be the 51st state,” the filmmaker said while in Toronto. “We’ll fight to the last man up here — and the last six-pack.” After circling the globe on a press tour, Cameron ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump gave an unusually partisan White House address. Should networks have given him the TV time?
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
ATLANTA (AP) — When Donald Trump delivered the first White House address of his second presidency Wednesday night, all major U.S. networks beamed his image and voice onto their airwaves, cable feeds and online platforms. Americans ended up watching the Republican president stand in the Diplomatic Reception Room and deliver 18 minutes of aggressive, politically ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In recorded message, Rob Reiner urged resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah event
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to “be resilient” during difficult times. Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death Sunday at their home in Los Angeles, law enforcement officials said. Their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump’s handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that made Democrats fume, saying the board had overstepped its legal authority. Congress named the center after President John F. Kennedy in 1964, after his assassination. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In recorded message, Rob Reiner urges resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah event
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to “be resilient” during difficult times. Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death Sunday at their home in Los Angeles, law enforcement officials said. Their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tennessee governor pardons country star Jelly Roll, who has sought redemption from criminal past
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s governor pardoned country star Jelly Roll on Thursday for his criminal past in the state, acknowledging the Nashville native’s long road back from drugs and prison through soul-searching, songwriting and advocacy for second chances. The rapper-turned-singer whose legal name is Jason Deford has spoken for years about his redemption arc ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Romanian court sentences US rapper Wiz Khalifa to 9 months for drug possession
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country. Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after allegedly smoking cannabis ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump’s handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
By Canadian Press on December 18th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, saying it was because of the “unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. ... Read More »
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