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Prince William has offered a positive assessment of his wife’s health in one of his few statements about Kate’s condition since she announced that she was undergoing treatment for cancer. William was on a solo tour of St. Mary’s Community Hospital on the Isles of Scilly on Friday. He traveled to the archipelago off England's southwestern coast to break ground for a new building that will include inpatient treatment beds and a maternity suite. Hospital administrator Tracy Smith told reporters that... Читать дальше...

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By late spring, homebuying season is in full swing. And right when all the good listings start popping up, so does summer wanderlust — especially if you were cooped up all winter.

House hunting can be exhausting, especially in today’s competitive market. So if you need a vacation, are you throwing away your shot at success?

Karen Wilder, a real estate agent with Mott & Chace Sotheby's International Realty in Charlestown, Rhode Island, doesn’t think so. Читать дальше...

Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial narrowed their focus to checks and phone records as they laid the groundwork for jurors to hear eventually from their star witness: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney. With the third week of the testimony drawing to a close Friday, the case that ultimately hinges on the issue of record-keeping returned to deeply technical testimony. It's a sharp contrast from Stormy Daniels’ dramatic, if not downright seamy, account of an alleged sexual encounter... Читать дальше...

A court in Romania’s capital has extended geographical restrictions against online influencer Andrew Tate. He's awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal extended by 60 days the restrictions stipulating that Tate, 37, may not leave the country. Tate had requested that he be able to leave Romania provided he stayed within Europe’s ID-check-free Schengen zone, which Romania partially joined in March. One of Tate’s lawyers says they will appeal the decision.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a $500 million fundraising campaign Friday to ensure long-term, global support for its Oscar prizes, museum, educational programming and screenings in view of its 100th anniversary in 2028. Academy officials announced the campaign at a press conference in Rome alongside the leadership of Cinecitta, the Italian public film company behind many of Italy’s Oscar-winning movies. The aim was to underscore the global thrust of the Academy’s initiative. Читать дальше...

Tegan and Sara kick off the series, and Chaka Khan plays the finale Aug. 25.

U.S. officials pledged new spending and other efforts Friday to help track and contain an outbreak of bird flu in the nation's dairy cows. The outbreak of the virus known as Type A H5N1 has spread to 42 herds in nine states. The new funds include $101 million to continue work to prevent, test, track and treat animals and humans potentially affected by the virus. And they include about $28,000 each to help individual farms test cattle and bolster biosecurity efforts to halt the spread of the virus. Читать дальше...

Bidders will fight with their dollars next week for personal relics and a sword used by Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman at an auction house in Columbus, Ohio. The president of Fleischer's Auctions said a conservative estimated sales price for the saber is between $40,000-$60,000 and Sherman's entire collection could sell as high as $300,000. Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September 1864 helped President Abraham Lincoln win a second term, ensuring that his fight to preserve the Union would continue. Читать дальше...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — XBiotech Inc. (XBIT) on Friday reported a loss of $10 million in its first quarter.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian authorities arrested President Dina Boluarte’s brother and her lawyer on Friday over influence-peddling accusations, a day after the South American country’s government disbanded a police unit that assisted prosecutors in investigating the president’s inner circle.

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Authorities in Argentina say at least 60 people were injured in Buenos Aires when a passenger train struck an empty box car on the tracks and derailed. It was a rare collision that has fueled questions about basic safety. The train was on its way from Buenos Aires to the northern suburbs when it was derailed around 10:30 a.m. on a bridge in the trendy neighborhood of Palermo. Authorities say it was not immediately clear why the empty boxcar had been on the rails. Dozens of injured people were treated at the scene and taken to hospitals... Читать дальше...

The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a 30-year-old woman in the 2017 death and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store clerk. Bailey Boswell was convicted in 2020 in the death of 24-year-old Sydney Loofe. Boswell’s co-defendant and boyfriend at the time of the killing, 58-year-old Aubrey Trail, was convicted of the same charges in 2019. He was sentenced to death in 2021. Prosecutors say Boswell met Loofe on the dating app Tinder and lured her to the apartment where she was strangled. Читать дальше...

A cyberattack on the Ascension health system across the U.S. diverted ambulances, caused patients to miss medical visits and blocked online access to their records. A spokesperson for Ascension says it detected what it called unusual activity Wednesday on its computer network systems, and its electronic records system was offline. Ascension is a non-profit Catholic health care system headquartered in St. Louis with 140 hospitals in 19 states and the District of Columbia. In Wichita, Kansas, local... Читать дальше...

The animatronic wonder has been in the park since 1965.

The SF bartender was best known for his 13 years at Smuggler's Cove.

It was the barking that saved Rippy, a mutt that fell deep into a working rock quarry. Rescue workers rappelled off a cliff at the Specialty Minerals quarry in Connecticut to rescue the 30-pound terrier mix. Rippy's owner reported him missing in North Canaan on May 4. Days later, an animal shelter got a report of barking coming from the pit. A drone search yielded nothing. Then when quarry workers took a lunch break the next day, barking could be heard again. Quarry managers said firefighters were needed, and their rope team came to the rescue.

A 75-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a British police officer who was shot dead during an armed robbery of a travel agency in northern England nearly two decades ago. Piran Ditta Khan, who was convicted last month, was believed to have been the mastermind behind the attempted robbery. He is the last of the seven men involved to be convicted. Judge Justice Nicholas Hilliard told him in Leeds Crown Court on Friday that he will have to spend a minimum term of 40 years in prison... Читать дальше...

In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle. It sparked 13 minutes of applause at the Zurich Opera House, with only one or two boos. Noseda, conducting Wagner’s epic for the first time just after his 60th birthday, invited the entire Philharmonic Zurich on stage for curtain calls Thursday night. Homoki avoided a strict adherence to Wagner’s original instructions, using... Читать дальше...

Authorities have arrested a man who they believe killed a University of Georgia law student more than two decades ago. Twenty-three-year-old Tara Louise Baker was found dead in 2001 by firefighters who responded to a fire at her Athens apartment. Investigators on Thursday announced that 48-year-old Edrick Lamont Faust has been charged with murder in the slaying of the first-year law student. Officials have not said what led investigators to Faust or explain whether he and Baker knew each other. It... Читать дальше...

Some universities are vowing to provide information about how much university endowment money is invested in companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war amid calls from pro-Palestinian protesters. As part of that effort, the University of Minnesota disclosed this week that about $5 million of its $2.27 billion endowment investments are tied to Israeli-based companies or U.S.-based defense contractors. To protesters it's a first step. More than a dozen students spoke Friday to the university’s Board of Regents, demanding further action. Читать дальше...

The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations. The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinian sponsored resolution on Friday by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. The United States vetoed a widely backed council resolution on April 18 that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine... Читать дальше...

The U.N. says heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 110,000 people to flee north. With nothing entering through the crossings, the World Food Program will run out of food for distribution in southern Gaza by Saturday, a U.N. official said. The United States is deeply opposed to Israel's plans for a full-scale invasion of Rafah and is stepping up pressure by threatening to withhold arms. Читать дальше...

Search crews have uncovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City. Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera says teams uncovered the bodies Friday morning and were preparing to bring them off the mountain via helicopter. The men, ages 23 and 32, were killed in a snowslide Thursday morning in the area of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City. The Utah Avalanche Center says the men were climbing... Читать дальше...

In her first Eras Tour concert since the release of “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift shook up her setlist. At Thursday night’s show at the La Défense Arena in Paris, fans were treated to the inclusion of new songs from the record-breaking album released in April. According to fan videos and news outlets, Swift performed “But Daddy I Love Him,” “So High School,” “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” from the new release. Читать дальше...