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Sundance Film Festival narrows down host cities — from Atlanta to Santa Fe — for future years
Sundance Institute on Friday announced six finalists in its search for a new host location for the influential film festival. After 40 years in Park City, Utah, the festival is eyeing locations across the country for festivals starting in 2027 when its existing contract will be up for renewal. The snowy mountain town, along with Salt Lake City, will still be home to the 2025 and 2026 festivals, and the Utah cities are one of the six options for future festivals.
Escaped prisoner found in Georgia 30 years later, using the identity of a dead child
An Oregon fugitive that escaped from prison 30 years ago was arrested at his apartment on Tuesday afternoon in Macon, Ga. According to authorities, he had been living under the identity of a dead child. Steven Craig Johnson, 70, fled from a prison work detail at the Mill Creek Correctional...
'One big family': Georgia Republicans react to first Trump speech since assassination attempt
LISTEN: Georgia Republicans react to Trump's speech at the Republican national convention Thursday night. GPB's Sarah Kallis reports. Just days after an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, Georgia Republicans gathered at a Sandy Springs movie theater, just north of Atlanta, to watch the presidential nominee speak at the final night of the Republican National Convention.
Top U.N. court says Israel's occupation of West Bank, East Jerusalem is 'unlawful'
The top United Nations court in the Hague said Friday that Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem is 'unlawful' and called on Israel to cease its presence in the occupied territories, including dismantling Israel settlements there and paying reparations. The advisory decision by the International...
Federal lawsuit challenges constitutionality of blank check ‘leadership committees’
The Democratic Party of Georgia is challenging the constitutionality of a 2021 state law that allows Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and others to raise and spend unlimited campaign funds. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court and names only Kemp in his official capacity as governor as a defendant....
Lawsuit charges State Election Board with meeting illegally
ATLANTA — A nonprofit nonpartisan watchdog group filed a lawsuit Friday charging the State Election Board with violating Georgia’s Open Meetings Act after meeting last week without legally required public notice or a quorum. The three Republicans on the five-member board gave preliminary approval during a special meeting...
8 hot new love stories from a stellar lineup of Black authors
When the Essence Festival of Culture celebrated its 30th anniversary in New Orleans earlier this month, organizers showcased a stellar lineup of Black romance authors — from trailblazing pioneers like Beverly Jenkins and Brenda Jackson to newer stars Kennedy Ryan, Natasha Bishop and Danielle Allen. In spite of barriers, optimistic, swoony love stories by African American authors are an increasingly sought-after commodity, as we’ve been tracking, finding audiences outside of traditional pathways.
A newly discovered dinosaur may have spent part of its life underground
A new dinosaur discovery just hit the paleontology block — and this one was a burrower. Found in Utah by North Carolina State University researchers and paleontologists, the Fona herzogae was a small-framed, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in the Cenomanian age — about 100-66 million years ago. “If...
More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del./WASHINGTON — More Democratic lawmakers on Friday publicly called for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, including New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich, who is running for reelection is what is supposed to be a safe seat for the party. But Biden is planning to...
'Twisters' swirls an old-fashioned rom-com into an effects-happy action movie
I spent my boyhood in small Iowa towns. One afternoon my mother and I were on the back steps, gazing down across the highway at cornfields that seemed to go on forever. Suddenly, the air got eerily still. “Look,” mom said. A couple of miles away, a funnel cloud eased itself down and began winding across the countryside, luckily in the other direction. I sat there awed and transfixed, and have loved watching tornadoes ever since.
New parents, no time or energy for sex? Here's how to keep the romance alive
Congratulations! You’re parents now! How’s your sex life?. Chances are, not so hot. Between endless diaper changes, sleep deprivation, hormonal changes and general exhaustion, new parents don’t have a lot of time or energy for physical intimacy. And even though many doctors give the birthing partner the...
Macon graves linked to infamous Georgia murder were vandalized. Investigation underway
A gravesite in Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery containing the remains of a family killed in a grisly murder more than a century ago was vandalized earlier this month, and investigators are looking for the suspects. Headstones at the site — which has the remains of the nine members of...
Boston is shaking up its public art scene
The city of Boston announced Thursday a major, citywide campaign to reimagine public art. The Un-Monument initiative is funded with a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation — the largest Boston has ever received for public art programming. The initiative aims to bring residents, artists and groups together...
Russian court sentences U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison
MOSCOW — A Russian court convicted Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage Friday — sentencing the American to 16 years in a Russian prison colony in a closed-door trial denounced as a sham by the journalist’s newspaper and the U.S. government. Prosecutors had requested an 18-year sentence.
If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?
WASHINGTON — The Electoral College could help Democrats avoid a complicated situation in the event President Joe Biden withdraws from the race after his name is printed on ballots. States Newsroom reporters and editors in the network’s 39 states explored how a presidential candidate could be replaced on ballots...
How Biden’s campaign crisis looks from the inside. And, a tech glitch sows chaos
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. NPR's national political correspondent Sarah McCammon joins the newsletter today to break down the last night...
Stressed about politics? Here are 5 ways to take care of your mental health
The presidential election is taking a toll on the mental health of Americans. And that's according to recent surveys conducted before the attempt on one candidate's life and widespread calls for another to drop out of the race. In a poll by the American Psychiatric Association, nearly three-quarters (73%) of...
Climate hasn't been core to the GOP. These conservatives are trying to change that
Tucked into a hallway at the Republican National Convention, between booths promoting the Second Amendment and another selling official merchandise of the Trump Campaign, sat a sprawling display of the conservative legacy in environmentalism. Young conservatives ran back and forth asking convention goers with Nixon pins if they were familiar...
Drone strikes Tel Aviv, killing one. Houthis claim responsibility
TEL AVIV, Israel — A drone slammed into an apartment building near the Tel Aviv oceanfront before dawn Friday, killing one man and wounding at least 10 more civilians. The Houthi militia in Yemen said it carried out the attack, marking the first time the group has penetrated a major Israeli city.
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