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Custom fireworks and standby firefighters: How the Vatican makes its smoke signal

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Experts say the process requires "two custom fireworks", smoke test rehearsals and Vatican firefighters on standby.
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Colombia's wind farms bring promise and pain for indigenous group

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The South American country is turning to wind power, but some local people are unhappy.
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Trump announces plans for 100% tariffs on all foreign movies

  • News source: Nnamdi Egwuonwu | NBC News
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President Donald Trump announced plans Sunday to implement a 100% tariff on movies made in other countries that are imported to the United States, decrying other nations for offering financial incentives meant to “draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.”

"Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat," Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to foreign films as "messaging and propaganda."

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NIH closes experimentation labs accused of brutally killing thousands of beagles for 40+ years

  • News source: FOX News
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus.

The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head
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Trump to tap new national security advisor in 6 months; calls Waltz move ‘upgrade’

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he plans to appoint a new national security advisor in about six months, telling reporters the former advisor, Mike Waltz, did not resign, but was instead tapped for an upgraded position as the administration’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump spoke with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday night, where he was asked about several topics, including the trade deals, Mexican cartels and the national security advisor position.

One reporter asked the president about Waltz’s exit as the national security...
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Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison

  • News source: BBC News - World
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President Trump says the famous island prison off San Francisco is to be reopened to house "ruthless and violent" offenders.
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Trump says he won't seek a third term

  • News source: BBC News - World
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"This is not something I'm looking to do," the US president says about speculation he may try to find a way to run again in 2028.
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Trump says non-US movies to be hit with 100% tariffs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The president blamed foreign-made movies for the American film industry's "very fast death".
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When is Sean 'Diddy' Combs' trial and what is he charged with?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The rap mogul denies sex trafficking and racketeering charges, plus dozens of other lawsuits alleging abuse.
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Long-distance romance and closure from husband's death - your memories of Skype

  • News source: BBC News - World
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As Microsoft shuts it down, we’ve spoken to people whose lives were impacted by the tools.
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Trump says he will impose 100% tariffs on movies produced outside U.S.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump on Sunday announced movies as the latest target for tariffs because the U.S. movie industry "is DYING a very fast death."

In a Truth Social post, the president said he's authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to begin the process of imposing a 100% tariffs "on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands."

It wasn't immediately clear how the tariffs would be applied.

Mr. Trump said the incentives that other countries are offering filmmakers and studios...
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Trump says he wants Alcatraz prison to be rebuilt and reopen

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump said Sunday he is directing his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on an island near San Francisco, California.

In a post on his Truth Social site, Mr. Trump wrote that, "For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone...
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27 lives per kilometre: How Russia took record losses in Ukraine in 2024

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Last year was the deadliest for Russian forces since the start of the full-scale war with at least 45,287 killed.
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Netanyahu vows response after Houthi missile hits near Israel's main airport

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage appeared to show a plume of black smoke rising from an area near the airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
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President Trump says he will direct agencies to reopen Alcatraz

  • News source: Andrew Mendez
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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he is ordering the reopening of Alcatraz, a shuttered prison on an island in the San Francisco Bay.

The president said he will be directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reopen and "enlarge" the prison.

Trump cited violent crime and a need to protect the American public for the move and plans to use the notorious island to "house America’s most ruthless and violent Offender."

"We will no longer...
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