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'Veep' actress gets (real) White House honor

It will be the recognition that her bumbling character in "Veep" always longed for when actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Tuesday is awarded the nation's highest honor for artistic contribution by President Joe Biden at the White House.. Best known for her "Veep" role as the frustrated, ignored vice president who ends up in the main job -- throwing the White House into ever more hilarious crises -- Louis-Dreyfus has "blazed a trail for women in comedy," the statement said.

Tue, Mar 21, 2023 1 mins read

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Duran Duran to reunite with original guitarist Andy Taylor

Duran Duran, the British band who led the New Romantic movement in the 1980s, are to reunite with guitarist Andy Taylor for a new project.. "The new recordings will feature extended Duran Duran family and friends, old and new, including our former bandmate Andy Taylor who will join us on guitar for a few tracks," they said.

Tue, Mar 21, 2023 1 mins read

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Electro-pop master M83: 'We're losing the mystery in music'

Anthony Gonzalez, the man behind M83, the group that helped define electro-pop, fears for a music industry that increasingly wants artists to be influencers. . - 'An escape hatch' - The entertainment industry feels increasingly like a rat race, Gonzalez added. 

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 2 mins read

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Three found guilty of murdering US rapper XXXTentacion

A Florida jury on Monday found three young men guilty in the shooting death of the rising rap star known as XXXTentacion in 2018.. After a week of deliberations, a jury in Fort Lauderdale found three defendants guilty of first-degree murder and armed robbery.

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 1 mins read

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'Ted Lasso' actors visit White House to promote mental health

The cast of hit comedy series "Ted Lasso" was meeting President Joe Biden on Monday to promote mental health awareness, but the actors' message was briefly eclipsed by a disgruntled journalist's live-television outburst in the White House briefing room.. That caring message -- building off the mental health challenges that the Lasso character faces in the series -- was, however, derailed briefly when a journalist began heckling.

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 2 mins read

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Media mogul Murdoch, 92, engaged for fifth time

Conservative media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will tie the knot for the fifth time, at the age of 92 years, he said Monday in an interview with his own newspaper, the New York Post.. He and his second wife, Anna, a newspaper reporter, were together more than 30 years before divorcing in 1999.

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 1 mins read

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'Ted Lasso' cast to visit White House to promote mental health

Actors from the smash-hit comedy series "Ted Lasso" will meet President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday to discuss the importance of mental health, the administration said Sunday.. The president and First Lady Jill Biden "will welcome Jason Sudeikis and the cast of Ted Lasso to the White House to discuss the importance of addressing your mental health to promote overall well-being," the White House said in a statement.

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 1 mins read

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UN migration agency can't meddle in domestic debates, says boss

The UN's migration agency should not get itself dragged into domestic policy debates, its chief Antonio Vitorino told AFP, as he seeks a second term leading the organisation.. Vitorino was elected to the IOM leadership by member states in 2018, becoming only the second non-American to lead the agency in seven decades.

Mon, Mar 20, 2023 3 mins read

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'Shazam!' sequel tops N.America box office but lacks magic

"Shazam!. The original "Shazam!"

Sun, Mar 19, 2023 1 mins read

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How AI could upend the world even more than electricity or the internet

The rise of artificial general intelligence -- now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley -- will bring change that is "orders of magnitude" greater than anything the world has yet seen, observers say.. This is the first time we're able to create intelligence itself and increase its amount in the universe," he told AFP. Change, as a result, will be "orders of magnitude greater than every other technological change we've ever had in history."

Sat, Mar 18, 2023 4 mins read