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Oscar winner Morricone���s lost opera debuts in Naples after 30 years 12/12/2025 02:44pm • NAPLES, Italy (AP) ��� At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy���s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films. On Friday night, Naples��� Teatro San Carlo staged Ennio Morricone���s only opera, ��� What we learned in the first two episodes of Taylor Swift's Disney+ Eras Tour docuseries 12/12/2025 11:45am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,��� Taylor Swift told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney+ docuseries, ���The End of an Era.��� ���It feels insane.��� Swift spoke to the small New York crowd on Tuesday ��� a year and one day since she Somali flag flown outside Vermont school building over Trump 'garbage' slur brings threats 12/12/2025 11:31am • WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) ��� A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota���s Somali community as ��� garbage." The Winooski School District began to display New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Jewish holiday, months before they were killed 12/12/2025 10:22am • TEL AVIV (AP) ��� New footage of six Israeli hostages shows them celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah while being held captive in a tunnel in Gaza, several months before they were killed. Israel said all six were killed last August by Hamas, shortly before Israeli troops arrived. The videos an Attacks by insurgents in Mozambique are compounding a displacement crisis, especially for children 12/12/2025 10:14am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have launched new attacks in recent weeks, beheading civilians, burning villages and leaving children orphaned and forced to seek help alone, the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations say. The spike in violence Bestselling British writer Joanna Trollope dies at 82 12/12/2025 09:35am • LONDON (AP) ��� British writer Joanna Trollope, whose bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England, has died, her family said Friday. She was 82. Trollope���s daughters, Antonia and Louise, said the writer died peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire, southern Reddit challenges Australia's world-first law banning children under 16 from social media 12/12/2025 12:09am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia���s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world���s most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.���s suit filed in the Hig Immigration crackdown leaves teens to care for siblings after parents get detained 12/12/2025 12:05am • KENNER, La. (AP) ��� Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home this week when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her. The 38-year-old Hondu Lightning chase Jacob Markstrom on the way to routing the Devils 8-4 12/11/2025 09:47pm • NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ��� Nick Paul, Darren Raddysh and Pontus Holmberg each scored in the opening eight minutes to chase Jacob Markstrom, and the injury-depleted Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the New Jersey Devils 8-4 on Thursday night. The Lightning have strung together consecutive victories following Fairfax Co. middle school eyeing 14th straight Science Olympiad state title 12/11/2025 07:50pm • After seventh grader Chloe Kim finished taking a practice test as part of the Science Olympiad team, she researched some of the questions she got wrong. Then, she added new information to her cheat sheets, with the hope of improving her understanding. For the events Kim participates in, the c The Latest: Senate rejects legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits 12/11/2025 07:41pm • The Senate on Thursday rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. The failed Democratic bill would have extended the COVID-era subsidies for three years The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appears in court for 1st time as a judge weighs media access 12/11/2025 07:28pm • PROVO, Utah (AP) ��� The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case. Prosecutors have charged Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 shooting of t How Clutter Affects Mental Health 12/11/2025 07:00pm • Clutter takes on many forms -- physical, digital or even mental and emotional. "Clutter refers to having more items than we need or can reasonably use, causing them to occupy too much space, both physically and emotionally," says Patrice Le Goy, an international psychologist, licensed marriage and f How Nonprofit Student Loan Lenders Can Help You Save Money 12/11/2025 07:00pm • When the federal student loans program undergoes significant restructuring in 2026, more parents and students will likely find themselves shopping around for private lenders to help finance higher education. Gone are the days when graduate students and parents of undergrads could borrow up to the fu Moving Your Senior Parents Into Your Home: What to Consider 12/11/2025 07:00pm • Multigenerational households are not as common here in the U.S. as they are in some other parts of the world, but the idea is gaining steam, according to Pew Research Center analysis of Census data. According to their analysis, in 2021, about 18% of the U.S. population lived in a multigenerational h