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Rose Byrne poses at a 2025 press conference in Berlin for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.
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Education and Community Culture
'It's one of my dreams,' Rose Byrne says of her comic turn on Broadway
Ann Marie Baldonado
Byrne is one of the few actors to receive both an Oscar and a Tony nomination in the same year —for the indie film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and for Fallen Angels on Broadway.
The Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman, Washington. Abortion pills will be offered in advance for future use at Planned Parenthood clinics in Washington state and Hawaii.
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Policy and Politics
Abortion pills "just in case"? Planned Parenthood will offer them in two states
Selena Simmons-Duffin
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Richard Carvell

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People walk past damage from Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Federal forecasters predict 8 to 14 named storms, including tropical storms and hurricanes, will form in the Atlantic in 2026.
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Forecasters expect slightly fewer hurricanes than usual this year, but the risk of destructive storms is still high
Jenny Staletovich, Rebecca Hersher
Forecasters expect 8 to 14 storms will form in the Atlantic between June 1 and November 30. But the danger is more serious than the numbers suggest.
The father of Hussein Jaber, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, on May 12, cries during the funeral ceremony in Sidon the following day.
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After the sirens: Lebanon's first responders swing between duty and grief
Diego Ibarra Sánchez
SpaceX's latest version of it's mega rocket Starship goes through testing as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Wednesday, May 20, 2026.
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Campaign signs sit next to a road in Rockport, Maine. Graham Platner is expected to be the Democratic nominee and would face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the general election.
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The property once owned by Jeffrey Epstein and that he called the Zorro Ranch outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in March.
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Three years ago, this garden near the Kansas City metro area was a lawn. Now it's full of Midwest native plants — like the Ohio spiderwort and mountain mint pictured here —that attract plenty of pollinators.
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