Tag: ap
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‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ hits The Colorado Springs School as senior actor lands spot at NYU Tisch
There’s an unspoken rule at North Shore High School: know your place. For Regina George and the Plastics, that place is firmly at the top. In their kingdom of classrooms and a lunch cafeteria, power comes dressed in pink, and loyalty is as fragile as the latest rumor. For everyone else, including newcomer Cady Heron,…
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Earth Day celebrations, outdoor festivals and live music across Colorado this week
‘THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ’: The Sangre de Cristo Arts Center brings L. Frank Baum’s classic to life at Pueblo Memorial Hall (1 City Hall Place) with a vibrant musical production featuring colorful costumes, lively choreography and familiar characters along the yellow brick road, 2 p.m. Sunday, Pueblo, $27.34-$32.40; pueblomemorialhall.com. LA PRIMAVERA FESTIVAL: The Museum…
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Official: Europe is running dangerously low on jet fuel
PARIS — Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies, the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of…
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Trump says he’s optimistic war in Iran will end soon
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration expressed optimism on Wednesday about reaching a deal to end the war with Iran, while also warning of increasing economic pressure against Tehran if it remains defiant. President Donald Trump has said he believes the war he launched with Israel in late February is nearly over, even as a shipping blockade…
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US military says it will blockade Iran’s ports as ship traffic appears to halt in Strait of Hormuz
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military announced it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports on Monday, tempering President Donald Trump ‘s earlier vow to entirely block the strategic Strait of Hormuz as early reports indicated that ships had stopped crossing the waterway. The move came after marathon U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended…
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Artemis II astronauts return from moon with a splashdown to close out a record-breaking lunar voyage
HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by…
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First lady denies any connection to Epstein
WASHINGTON – First lady Melania Trump on Thursday denied having any relationship with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reviving a highly sensitive issue that her husband has repeatedly sought to downplay. She denied online speculation that Epstein had introduced her to Donald Trump, saying she met her husband at a New York City party in 1998. “I…
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Changes likely coming to Selective Service rules
Young American men could be automatically registered for the military draft as soon as December, replacing decades of self-registration to save taxpayer money and reverse declining sign-up rates. According to a report by the BBC, a newly proposed federal rule would bypass the traditional system that requires men to register themselves within 30 days of their 18th…
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Thousands more U.S. troops heading to Middle East
WASHINGTON — Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush deployed Tuesday and is slated to go to the Middle…
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Colorado muralist turns blank walls into vibrant art
Twenty-five feet in the air, balanced on metal planks and surrounded by the echo of an empty half-court gym, artist Kristen Zimmerman steadies her brush. Around her, more than 1,500 square feet of wall curves around her client’s in-house basketball court. With each stroke of her paintbrush, black-and-white portraits of legendary athletes begin to emerge.…