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Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and visit Argentina in November

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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will retrace his steps as a missionary priest when he returns to Peru in November in his longest trip to date that will also take him to Uruguay and Argentina, where his Argentine predecessor Pope Francis never returned. The Vatican on Monday published the detailed itinerary for Leo’s first visit to Latin America as pope. The Nov. 6-17 trip will be a homecoming for the U.S.-born pontiff who also has Peruvian citizenship and spent two decades there as a priest and bishop. As he showed during his four-nation Africa trip in April, the 71-year-old Leo has no ...

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Trumbull County WHAT: Trumbull Career & Technical Center board meeting Sept. 10 The board: • Approved an agreement with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office for a school resource officer at a cost of $83,000. • Approved an agreement for the certified nursing association program students for supervised nursing aide experiences at Otterbein Senior Living Skilled Nursing facility and concurrent in-service for high school Health Science Academy students preparing for certified nursing assistant certification also at the facility. • Approved the landscaping program’s trip to ...

Attorney: Man shot by ICE officer is detained with a bullet still in his back

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to a spokesperson for the man’s attorney. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in the Texas capital of Austin on Sunday before he was shot during a traffic stop, said Fabiana Melendez Ruiz, a spokesperson for immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch. Ruiz said that Perez called his wife around 12:30 p.m. Sunday ...

Sound of Music museum opens where the von Trapp story met Hollywood

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SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — An Austrian museum is alive with “The Sound of Music,” a first-ever venue devoted to the classic 1965 singalong movie starring Julie Andrews. The Sound of Music Salzburg museum, situated in an Austrian city famed for music and perhaps best known as the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opened Sunday. The attendees included Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of Georg and Agathe von Trapp, whose family story inspired the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and Hollywood blockbuster. She continues to give guided tours of movie sites in Salzburg today. “It is ...

Taylor Swift will become the most awarded artist in MTV VMAs history

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NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift will once again break records. At the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, she will receive the inaugural Artist Director Honors, becoming the most awarded artist in VMA history. Currently, Swift is tied with Beyonce for the title of most-awarded musician in VMA history. They have 30 each. (Eminem is the male artist with the most VMAs, with 15.) The new award, which according to the VMAs is meant to recognize artists “whose work behind the camera has expanded the possibilities of music video and advanced the art of visual storytelling,” will bring ...

Fed official says Iran war pushed her toward supporting rate hike

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that the renewal of combat in the Middle East in August was a key reason she supported raising borrowing costs last week, when she also penciled in a second rate hike for later this year. Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in an interview with The Associated Press that she agreed with the Fed’s decision Wednesday to lift its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to about 3.9%. She also expects that the Fed will keep rates unchanged next year, she added. “I did not see the inflation ...