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'Endless Cookie' wins $50,000 audience award at Hot Docs Festival

'Endless Cookie' wins $50,000 audience award at Hot Docs Festival

An animated documentary about the relationship between an Indigenous and white pair of half-brothers has won the top prize at this year's Hot Docs Festival. "Endless Cookie" took home the $50,000 audience award at a ceremony on Sunday.
Here's why May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars Day across the galaxy

Here's why May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars Day across the galaxy

It didn't begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving “Star Wars” have an inescapable gravity.
Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio

Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro.
'Thunderbolts' kicks off the summer movie season with $76 million at the box office

'Thunderbolts' kicks off the summer movie season with $76 million at the box office

NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts" opened with $76 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, kicking off the summer box office with a solid No. 1 debut that fell shy of Marvel’s more spectacular launches.
Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again ,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that's happening.
In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable

In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable

BUEA, Cameroon (AP) — A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: “Death.
Did you steal the sign? German pop star asks his fans to return hometown symbol

Did you steal the sign? German pop star asks his fans to return hometown symbol

TOETENSEN, Germany (AP) — Did you steal the sign? German pop star Dieter Bohlen is asking his fans to return a sign spelling out the name of his hometown of Toetensen.
Lady Gaga rocks Copacabana Beach with a free concert for more than 2 million fans

Lady Gaga rocks Copacabana Beach with a free concert for more than 2 million fans

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lady Gaga gave a free concert Saturday night in front of 2 million fans who poured onto Copacabana Beach for the biggest show of her career. “Tonight, we're making history. (...
A roofless palace in Italy's Viterbo hosted the first and longest conclave

A roofless palace in Italy's Viterbo hosted the first and longest conclave

VITERBO, Italy (AP) — It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church, forging for the first time the word “conclave.
Life in the fast lane: Middle East’s first all-women supercar club smashes petrolhead stereotypes

Life in the fast lane: Middle East’s first all-women supercar club smashes petrolhead stereotypes

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — They socialized, shared stories and laughed together. Some are engineers, some are entrepreneurs, others are housewives. But these women all share a common passion: their love of supercars.
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