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The balikbayan box: The way Filipino Americans have sent love all the way back home

PHOENIX | Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These care packages that held goodies from the U.S. were seen as an expression of support during hard economic times — as well as one of […]

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Colorado GOP governor primary: Establishment favorite vs. MAGA candidates

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at cpr.org. The first of the three believes the state Capitol is awash in pedophiles. The second says he helped kill a man when he was just 7 years old, though there is no evidence of the crime. The third has […]

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Girls Tennis: 2026 All-Colorado League teams

Aurora Central and Gateway honorees as well as those from Englewood, Fort Lupton, Jefferson, Skyview and Thornton on the 2026 All-Colorado League girls tennis teams.

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Saturday forum in Aurora offers in-depth look at local Democratic primary candidates

AURORA | Brother Jeff Fard’s Free Think Zone and the Aurora Sentinel will host a daylong candidate forum Saturday focused on giving local voters a closer look at Democratic candidates ahead of the June primary election. The Arapahoe County Democracy Fest is slated from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Community College of Aurora’s […]

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Movie Review: Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ is a wild, surrealist social satire

Boots Riley holds nothing back in his audacious, surrealist social satire “I Love Boosters.” The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social consciousness that’s impossible not to admire for its wacky, bold vision, with teleporting, high fashion snobbery and pyramid schemes. Here is a movie where we get Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie […]

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Cambodian villagers honor guardian spirits to pray for rain and good fortune

PHUM BOEUNG, Cambodia | Hundreds of Cambodians on Thursday morning honored their village’s guardian spirits by holding a colorful centuries-old ceremony to pray for good fortune, rain and prosperity. The “He Neak Ta” ritual has been celebrated annually for several hundred years by the villagers in Phum Boeung, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of […]

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French artist JR begins his giant ‘cave’ art inflation over Paris’ oldest bridge

PARIS | The oldest bridge in Paris has begun to vanish this week, as the artist JR — who is known as the “French Banksy” — began inflating a giant “cave” over the Pont Neuf. The monumental, rocky illusion is swallowing the 17th-century landmark, which has carried Parisians across the Seine for more than 400 […]

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‘Minotaur,’ about murder and corruption in Putin’s Russia, jolts the Cannes Film Festival

CANNES, France | Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev sent shock waves through the Cannes Film Festival with a soberly damning crime film about murder and corruption in Russia, set against the conscription of young men into President Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine. “Minotaur,” which debuted Tuesday night at the French festival, was one of the most […]