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FILE - Taylor Swift performs at the Paris Le Defense Arena as a part of her Eras Tour concert in Paris, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

One Tech Tip: How to avoid Celine Dion ticket scams as she makes her grand concert comeback

John Leicester, The Associated Press 5 minute read 2:05 AM CDT

PARIS (AP) — Based on their experience of hosting Taylor Swift, the management team at the Paris venue for Celine Dion 's grand concert comeback is bracing to deliver devastating news to hundreds of her fans: ‘Sorry, you appear to have been scammed, your tickets are fake.’

The Grammy-winning star's long-awaited return to the concert stage after years away from touring has unleashed massive pent-up demand for tickets. It's a perfect storm for scammers who have wormed their way into fans' online communities and set up fraudulent ticketing websites to manipulate and rob fans of both their money and hopes of being able to say, “I was there.”

“Where there is massive demand and widespread excitement, fraudsters see a golden opportunity,” says Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity firm that works with the international police agency Interpol and others.

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German region votes in election that could bring first far-right state governor to power

Geir Moulson And Kerstin Sopke, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 1:11 AM CDT

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — An eastern German region voted Sunday in an election that could bring to power the first far-right state government in the nation’s post-World War II history.

The vote for the state legislature in Saxony-Anhalt, a region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin, has gained outsized prominence because it represents the best chance yet of a governor’s post for the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany, or AfD.

That would be the biggest prize in the party’s 13-year history, at a time when there’s widespread discontent with an unpopular national government that has yet to persuade voters it can get the country’s sluggish economy moving. It would be at least a symbolic blow to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose center-right party has led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years.

AfD is the biggest opposition party in Germany’s national parliament and is strongest in the formerly communist and less prosperous east, where Saxony-Anhalt is located. Its candidate for governor, Ulrich Siegmund, declares that “we will write history here.”

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FILE - The main stage is shown during the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2016. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Early Emmys ceremony could bring many trophies for ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Hacks’ and ‘Pluribus’

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Early Emmys ceremony could bring many trophies for ‘The Pitt,’ ‘Hacks’ and ‘Pluribus’

Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 2:12 AM CDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Top nominees “The Pitt,” “Hacks,” “Pluribus” and “Widow’s Bay” will have chances to stock up on Emmys Sunday at an early ceremony eight days before the main awards show and telecast.

The Television Academy hands out well over 100 primetime Emmys, and most of them will be presented this weekend in a pair of ceremonies at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. They were previously known as the Creative Arts Emmys but have now been rebranded as simply the first two nights of the 78th Emmy Awards.

The two nights will be edited together to air Sept. 12 on FXX and stream on Hulu the following day. The primetime Sept. 14 ceremony, also at the Peacock Theater and hosted by Mariska Hargitay, will air live on NBC and stream live on Peacock.

Bad Bunny won his first career Emmy Award Saturday for his Super Bowl halftime show, which was awarded home seven trophies.

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In this photo provided by the Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan's Prince Hisahito, right, visits the Science Museum of Map and Survey in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 13, 2026, ahead of his 20th birthday on Sept. 6, 2026. (The Imperial Household Agency of Japan via AP)

Prince Hisahito turns 20 as Japan’s government reinforces male-only succession rules

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Prince Hisahito turns 20 as Japan’s government reinforces male-only succession rules

Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press 3 minute read Yesterday at 8:14 PM CDT

TOKYO (AP) — Prince Hisahito turned 20 on Sunday as he faces growing attention as a future monarch in Japan following the government's unpopular revision to the Imperial House Law that reinforces male-only succession rules.

Hisahito, the nephew of Emperor Naruhito, is second in line to Japan's 1,500-year-old Chrysanthemum Throne and the youngest of 16 members of the rapidly shrinking and aging imperial family.

The child who loved animals and bugs, especially dragonflies, is now a sophomore majoring in biology at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo. He has been often spotted on campus with friends, sometimes carrying a bug-catching net or on his bicycle.

While he mostly concentrates on his studies, Hisahito started taking on some official duties. He attended a palace banquet for Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in May, prayed for the atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima and joined a teenagers' camp in the southwestern Japanese city in August.

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FILE - Women, with children on their backs, carry out chores in Epworth, Zimbabwe, on Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli, File)

Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives

Farai Mutsaka And Dan Ikpoyi, The Associated Press 6 minute read Preview

Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives

Farai Mutsaka And Dan Ikpoyi, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 1:53 AM CDT

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents' mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom.

Meanwhile, a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) away in Zimbabwe, learning a language her parents feared she would never speak.

“Mhoroi,” Nyashadzashe Machingura says cheerfully with a pronounced Canadian accent while greeting in Zimbabwe's vernacular Shona.

The scenes capture a new generation of interest and entrepreneurship around African languages once pushed to the margins by decades of colonialism. Often seen as secondary to English, French and Portuguese, they are enjoying a renaissance that is also creating business opportunities.

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FILE - Women's rights activist Robin Morgan attends a Women's Liberation conference in New York on May 28, 1970. (AP Photo/Ed Ford, File)

Robin Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

Robin Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:45 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and second-wave feminist, has died. She was 85.

Morgan, who was still working on new books and poems, died Saturday in New York after suffering a series of health problems in recent weeks, said her son, Blake Morgan. Her death came just days after that of her close friend and fellow activist Gloria Steinem.

During the 1960s and ’70s, Morgan embodied and inspired historic changes in how women lived and thought. As she was happy to point out, the onetime “Ideal American Girl” and adored “Little Robin Morgan” was a rule breaker and justice seeker with a notable list of achievements, along with a prison record and an FBI file.

Morgan was at the center of some of the defining moments of what came to be called second-wave feminism, expanding upon the achievements of the suffragists a half-century earlier. In 1968, she was among the organizers of the first protest against the Miss America pageant, joining fellow activists in tossing their bras (soon mythologized as burning) into a “Freedom Trash Can.” The 1970 essay anthology she edited, “Sisterhood is Powerful,” is considered one of the essential texts of the modern women’s movement.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is seen, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Kennedy Center renews call for Trump-backed shutdown after part of a ceiling collapses

Steven Sloan, Gary Fields And Russ Bynum, The Associated Press 3 minute read Preview

Kennedy Center renews call for Trump-backed shutdown after part of a ceiling collapses

Steven Sloan, Gary Fields And Russ Bynum, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 12:56 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A chunk of ceiling fell inside a main hallway of the Kennedy Center, according to a spokesperson who said the damage underscores the need to shut down the historic arts venue for renovations sought by President Donald Trump.

No one was injured when a piece of the ceiling inside the Kennedy Center's grand foyer collapsed Friday evening, said Roma Daravi, the center's vice president for public relations.

Photos provided by the center showed a large hole in the high ceiling and debris littering the red carpet in part of the hallway that connects the Kennedy Center's three main performance auditoriums. The damage occurred during stormy weather in Washington.

The Kennedy Center's Trump-aligned board is fighting in court to move forward with plans to add Trump's name to the building's facade and to close the center for two years as it undergoes $250 million in renovations.

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A swimmer remains near the shore as a motorboat passes commercial vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US military hits 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying Navy warships were targeted with missiles

Toqa Ezzidin And Cara Anna, The Associated Press 3 minute read Preview

US military hits 3 Iranian oil tankers after saying Navy warships were targeted with missiles

Toqa Ezzidin And Cara Anna, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:26 AM CDT

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”

The strikes — a day after President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small potatoes” — keep up a new tilt back toward fighting after six months of on-again, off-again war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28. Both sides have sought to inflict both military and economic pain, and negotiations have collapsed.

The military’s statement said a U.S. aircraft carrier and a destroyer evaded “multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks” while patrolling in the region and no U.S. personnel were hurt. It said two Iranian oil carriers were “permanently disabled” and the third, unladen one, was destroyed.

The U.S. statement said the tankers were part of a shadow network helping to fund Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and its armed proxies in the region.

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Putin and Zelenskyy agree to pause strikes on Kyiv and Moscow during talks with US envoys

The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 10:54 AM CDT

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

"(Russian President Vladimir) Putin has ordered that no strikes be carried out against Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight today,” presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s Tass news agency. He said the decision was tied to Witkoff and Kushner's planned visit to the Ukrainian capital, which Kyiv has said will take place on Sunday.

Peskov also confirmed that Kushner and Witkoff would meet Putin during their Moscow visit on Saturday, but said there was “no talk of new ideas” to end the conflict.

The envoys' trip comes as both sides escalate aerial attacks, some 4 1/2 years after the Kremlin's invasion of its neighbor. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was prepared to halt strikes on Moscow until Monday. He said he spoke on Saturday afternoon with the U.S. delegation after their arrival in Moscow.

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A drone view shows a damaged residential building along the swollen Trishuli River in the aftermath of flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods

Shristi Kafle And Sheikh Saaliq, The Associated Press 2 minute read Preview

Rescuers in Nepal pull 2 people alive from the debris 10 days after devastating floods

Shristi Kafle And Sheikh Saaliq, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:38 AM CDT

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.

The man was rescued from a hydropower tunnel, according to a social media post by the country’s prime minister’s office, bringing the total to three workers pulled alive from the Trishuli hydropower project. Two Nepalese workers were rescued on Friday.

Nepal's army said a joint rescue team of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster experts rescued the man from a 225-meter (about 740-foot) tunnel and that he was undergoing a health assessment. Images showed him being evacuated by helicopter, with an army medic checking on him during the flight.

A photo released by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed two rescuers carrying the man out of the tunnel.

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Performance artist Zoe Ziegfeld who plays the part of a snake charmer poses for a portrait with a snake during auditions to select a snake for a part in an adaptation of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,

Even snakes have to audition for the opera at the Met. Princess the boa constrictor got the part

David R. Martin And Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

Even snakes have to audition for the opera at the Met. Princess the boa constrictor got the part

David R. Martin And Jeffrey Collins, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:47 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Pretty much everyone on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York must audition — even the snake who will briefly take center stage in an upcoming adaptation of a Mozart classic.

In charge of deciding who gets the s-s-s-s-starring reptilian role is Zoe Ziegfeld, a carnival performer-turned-opera actor cast as the snake handler in the Met's version of “Così fan tutte," inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s.

Ziegfeld takes each snake, lets it slither and wrap around, then hoists the animal over their head, rehearsing what they will do under the bright lights at center stage for each performance. Ziegfeld looks each one in the eye, almost face-to-face as they evaluate the snake's demeanor.

“I need to know that the animal is comfortable with people and with what we are doing,” Ziegfeld said.

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Dolly Parton, top, on Nov. 11, 1982 in Nashville and Gloria Steinem on Feb. 17, 1970 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Anthony Camerano, File)

For feminists, the deaths of Parton and Steinem days apart deliver a double dose of grief

Laurie Kellman And Bill Barrow, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

For feminists, the deaths of Parton and Steinem days apart deliver a double dose of grief

Laurie Kellman And Bill Barrow, The Associated Press 7 minute read Friday, Sep. 4, 2026

One shaped and delivered the language of feminism. The other rejected the label but showed how feminism can be done: with a microphone dusted in rhinestones, and without apology.

Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton embodied two towering versions of the same idea: that women should know themselves well enough to make their own choices about matters intimate and societal. Their deaths eight days apart sent a double dose of grief around the world and across generations as many women (and some men!) asked who would take their places at the forefront of women's rights.

Steinem, overtly political, went undercover as a Playboy bunny to deliver an exposé, founded Ms. Magazine and spent the rest of her life urging women to support each other. Parton, on the other hand, defined herself as a larger-than-life daughter of the American South who told stories with music and included everybody — but refused to play politics or call herself a feminist.

“Dolly taught us to dream big. Gloria taught us to speak up," wrote DeMond B Nason, a New York City singer. “Both reminded us that a woman could walk into a world that told her who she was supposed to be — and simply decide to become something else.”

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In this photo taken with a smartphone, people opposed to a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Missouri asks US Supreme Court to allow use of new Trump-backed congressional districts in midterms

Lindsay Whitehurst And David A. Lieb, The Associated Press 3 minute read Preview

Missouri asks US Supreme Court to allow use of new Trump-backed congressional districts in midterms

Lindsay Whitehurst And David A. Lieb, The Associated Press 3 minute read Friday, Sep. 4, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow the use of new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump in the fast-approaching midterm election.

The appeal comes after Missouri's highest court blocked the new map and ordered a statewide vote in November on whether to keep or reject it.

It's part of a national redistricting battle that Trump launched last year. Missouri’s new congressional boundaries were drawn to help Republicans win an additional seat and hold onto their slim House majority in November's midterm elections.

The Missouri Supreme Court weighed in after redistricting opponents submitted over 300,000 petition signatures seeking to put the map to a vote of the people. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected the petition on primary Election Day, asserting that Missouri's constitution doesn't allow referendum petitions on congressional redistricting. He successfully defended his decision in a lower court, but on Thursday lost in front of the state's highest court.

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FILE - The Pentagon is seen from the air, July 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview

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Judge refuses to block Pentagon from firing Stars and Stripes staffers over CBS interview

Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press 3 minute read Friday, Sep. 4, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet's need to maintain its editorial independence.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President Donald Trump. ruled that the journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their First Amendment free speech rights. He said Stars and Stripes' editorial independence “is not at stake here.”

"Plaintiffs argue that their termination will chill the protected expression of themselves and others at Stripes," McFadden wrote. “Plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate a chill here.”

Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and Middle East reporter Lara Korte sued last Thursday in Washington, D.C., to challenge their firings by the Pentagon, which partially funds the news outlet.

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A large box of pre-assembled mail-in ballots at the Wake County Board of Elections on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Ramey)

Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms

Nicholas Riccardi And Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press 3 minute read Preview

Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms

Nicholas Riccardi And Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press 3 minute read Friday, Sep. 4, 2026

A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms, putting another major obstacle in the way of the administration as the first states begin sending out mail ballots.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani granted a preliminary injunction, replacing a temporary order she had granted blocking the Postal Service’s plan.

The Trump administration has already asked the Supreme Court to lift Talwani's temporary order, and will likely appeal her latest order as well.

The administration is running out of time to make big changes in voting procedures. North Carolina began sending out its first mail ballots Friday and more states will swiftly follow.

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FILE - The 18th-century painting

Argentine court clears return of Nazi-looted portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir

Sergio Farella And Almudena Calatrava, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

Argentine court clears return of Nazi-looted portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir

Sergio Farella And Almudena Calatrava, The Associated Press 4 minute read Friday, Sep. 4, 2026

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A long-lost Italian portrait looted from a prominent Jewish art dealer during World War II was set to be returned to his heir after an Argentine court on Friday approved a deal under which the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official agreed to give up her claim rather than face trial.

The agreement paves the way for the long-sought return of “ Portrait of a Lady ” to Marei von Saher, the sole surviving heir of Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, whose celebrated collection was sold under duress to Nazi officials after Adolf Hitler’s Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940.

Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the late high-ranking Nazi official Friedrich Kadgien, and her husband, Juan Carlos Cortegoso, were charged with aggravated cover-up last year after authorities said they hid the 18th-century painting despite knowing it was being sought by Argentine and international investigators.

Under the agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, the couple agreed to give up any claim to the work and consent to its return to von Saher in exchange for avoiding a criminal trial and spending two years under court supervision. During that time, they must make payments to a hospital in Argentina's coastal city of Mar del Plata, where they live, and keep authorities informed of their whereabouts.

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