Will Smith confronted Chris Rock on the Oscars stage after the comedian made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. Will Smith then cursed at Rock from his seat.
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25 years ago today, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate techno-religious cult who committed suicide were found inside a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
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Helen Keller was born in 1880 near Tuscumbia, Alabama, and became deaf and blind at the age of 19 months due to an unknown ailment.
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Tears roll down the cheek of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during an impassioned speech by Sen. at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. ( Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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BREAKING: Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer at the age of 84, her family said Wednesday.
President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996.
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BREAKING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration made a formal determination that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine. Blinken says the assessment was based on a “careful review” of public and intelligence sources.
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Federal funding has been approved to begin removing some of the hundreds of thousands of derelict lobster traps left behind on the floor of the Long Island Sound, a “ghost fishery” that continues to trap and kill marine life.
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The country has no power for 7 1/2 hours a day, forcing children to study under homemade kerosene oil lamps, fishermen to limit fishing and shops and industries to limit production and business.
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MUST READ: This is a harrowing look at what 's journalists who stayed inside Mariupol as the Russian's closed in. The kind of behind-the-scenes story that the general public rarely gets to see.
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Each airstrike and shell that relentlessly pounds Mariupol — about one a minute at times — drives home the curse of a geography that has put the city squarely in the path of Russia’s domination of Ukraine.
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Car audio culture, as expensive as it can be, is regaining strength in Venezuela as the country’s economy continues to morph.
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BREAKING: A Moscow court extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, the Russian state news agency Tass said. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February after authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges.
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Pandemic restrictions have sucked much of the energy out of a cosmopolitan city known for its neon lights and dense crowds.
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From the first winners Wanderers FC, to Leicester City in 2021, every year brings exciting contests and the promise of giant-killing upsets as lower league under-dogs take on the top teams, all vying to lift the trophy.
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50 years ago today, “The Godfather,” Francis Ford Coppola’s epic gangster movie based on the Mario Puzo novel and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premiered in New York.
Actor Al Pacino and actress Jill Clayburgh attend the world premiere in New York on March 14.
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BREAKING: A suspected gunman who has been stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, has been arrested in the nation's capital, police say.
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Two months after the Berlin Wall fell, another powerful symbol opened its doors in the middle of Moscow: a gleaming new McDonald’s.
But now, McDonald's is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion. apne.ws/GKYwJEs
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A record-breaking NASA astronaut has spent nearly a year in space and will soon ride a Russian capsule home in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.
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. photographers capture scenes of devastation in Irpin, near Kyiv, and around Ukraine as Russian shelling reduces areas under attack to rubble.
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#OTD in 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry.
A marker is unveiled, Oct. 8, 1940, at Mulberry Grove Plantation near Savannah, Ga., where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
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AP images of a pregnant woman being rushed to an ambulance after Russia bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol where she was meant to give birth shocked the world.
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Incredible pictures by of the atrocious Russian bombing of the children's and maternity hospital in Mariupol #UkraineRussianWar #Ukraine #photography #Mariupol #photojournalism
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was curated by AP photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City.
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BREAKING: The CDC plans to extend the nationwide mask mandate on public transportation to April 18, a U.S. official says. Health officials will devise new guidelines for when masks should be required on transit systems after that date.
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The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is deepening after two weeks of war.
Food, water and medicine are growing increasingly scarce as Russian forces intensify their shelling in cities across the country. apne.ws/zJRjIi1
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A drought has gripped Chile for 13 years and the flowers that fed Carlos Peralta’s honeybees around the central town of Colina have grown increasingly scarce.
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McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coke, Pepsi join exodus out of Russia. McDonald’s was one of the first U.S. fast food companies to open a store in Russia, a sign that the Cold War had thawed. apne.ws/WFEU6tg
Thousands of Russians line up at the first McDonald’s in Moscow, 1990.
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Today is International Women’s Day.
Participants in an International Women's Day demonstration march along Broadway in New York, March 12, 1977, after assembling at 34th Street, with plans to march to Union Square. | Photo Ray Stubblebine
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Pop up kitchens in Kyiv, soldiers carrying an evacuee in a wheelchair and civilians walking a rickety plank near a destroyed bridge. Here's a look at Ukraine's worsening humanitarian crisis as captured by AP photographers.
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BREAKING: Shell says it will stop buying Russian oil and natural gas as well as shut down its service stations and other operations in the country amid international pressure for companies to sever ties over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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#OTD in 2006, American photographer Gordon Parks died in New York.
Gordon Parks, right, directs the filming of "The Learning Tree” in December 1968. Working as a still photographer on the set is Parks' son, Gordon, Jr., left.
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