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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Marlene Lenthang |Meriam Bouarrouj
May 28, 2025, 2:25 PM EDTKevin Costner has been sued by a stunt performer on the set of “Horizon 2,” who claims she was put in an unscripted rape scene without warning or proper filming safety protocols.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Marlene Lenthang |Meriam Bouarrouj
NowNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country - Kenya - from a colonial subject to a democracy. Ngũgĩ …
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Mirna Alsharif |Meriam Bouarrouj
May 27, 2025, 9:57 AM EDT / Updated May 27, 2025, 9:59 AM EDTFormer gymnast Mary Lou Retton was charged with driving under the influence in West Virginia earlier this month, according to records filed in the Magistrate Court of Marion County. According to court records, the legendary Olympic gymnast was arrested on May 17. It is not clear at this time what happened before her arrest.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Mirna Alsharif |Meriam Bouarrouj |Jacob Cavaiani
May 25, 2025, 11:15 AM EDTA flight was diverted to Seattle after a passenger allegedly attempted to open exit doors midflight, according to Port of Seattle Police. The All Nippon Airways flight was traveling from Japan’s Haneda Airport in Tokyo to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on Saturday when a passenger became “unruly,” according to the airline, which did not provide any details. Online records show that Flight 114 departed from Tokyo at around 10:33 a.m. local time.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Mirna Alsharif |Meriam Bouarrouj
8 hours agoA Houston-bound plane was diverted to Seattle Saturday morning after a passenger allegedly tried to open an emergency exit mid-flight. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport officials told Fox Business the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, coming from Tokyo, was diverted to Seattle while passengers and the …
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2 weeks ago | 
today.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Jay Blackman |Meriam Bouarrouj |Caroline Radnofsky
A small plane crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood on Thursday morning, killing multiple individuals on the plane, officials confirmed. Addressing reporters at the site of the crash, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Assistant Chief Dan Eddy said that the plane struck about 15 homes, causing multiple homes and cars to catch fire. “I just walked it myself, and down the street itself, it looks like something from a movie,” Eddy said Thursday morning.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Rebecca Cohen |Meriam Bouarrouj |Rachael Guerra |Janhvi Bhojwani
May 21, 2025, 5:39 PM EDTA University of Buffalo graduate was chased across the stage by police at Sunday's commencement ceremony for carrying a prohibited item while he tried to collect his diploma: a baby. Video of the commencement for the College of Arts and Sciences shows the student, Jean-Paul Al-Arab, running quickly from backstage to cut the line of graduates and insert himself in the proceedings, all while holding a baby dressed in a matching royal blue cap and gown.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Mirna Alsharif |Meriam Bouarrouj
May 20, 2025, 4:57 PM EDTTwo University of Wisconsin-Platteville students died after a "targeted and isolated event" on campus Monday, officials said. The two 22-year-old students, Kelsie Martin and Hallie Helms, were the only people involved in the incident at an on-campus residence hall, the university said. UW-Platteville Police Department Chief Joe Hallman said that a 911 call came in briefly before 4 p.m. Monday about a situation at Wilgus Hall.
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3 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Angela Yang |Meriam Bouarrouj
One person has died and dozens were hospitalized after a tour bus crashed in the greater Los Angeles area early Sunday morning. The bus collided with an SUV, which was fully engulfed in flames by the time emergency responders arrived, according to the L.A. County Fire Department. Thirty-two people have been hospitalized, with two in critical condition. The Mother's Day tragedy occurred on the 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights, a city in the suburban San Gabriel Valley to the east of Los Angeles.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Mirna Alsharif |Meriam Bouarrouj
Columbia University announced Tuesday that it laid off 180 staff members working on federal grants impacted by the Trump administration's decision to revoke the university's funding. The administration cut $400 million in federal funding from Columbia in March, accusing it of "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students." It then issued a list of demands to the university, which it mostly acceded to, to start negotiations on restoring the funding.
