New York Amsterdam News
The Nets aspire for incremental gains in the midst of a rocky start
Coming into this season, the Nets’ outlook was a young squad lacking the necessities to compete on a nightly basis with the NBA's upper echelon teams. This would be another year of roster and culture reconstruction after finishing last season with a 26-56 record, 12th in the Eastern Conference.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
DOC NYC presents world premiere of 'Traces of Home'
The documentary “Traces of Home” by Colette Ghunim is a tender, fearless debut that unfolds like a mirror held up to memory itself. Blending vérité filmmaking, animation, and archival materials, the documentary traces Ghunim’s deeply personal journey to reconnect her parents with the homes they were forced to leave as children — her mother from Mexico, fleeing domestic violence, and her father from Palestine, displaced from his ancestral land.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Fossil fuels are poisoning Black America
It's by no means new news that there are myriad ways that extracting and burning fossil fuels — or making them into other products, like plastics — is bad for public health, and particularly so for Black and Brown Americans.
3 min |
November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
New York City reduces Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths for the first time since 2018
For the first time in six years, Black and Brown opioid overdose deaths decreased citywide in 2024, according to health department data released on Oct. 28.
4 min |
November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Mamdani wasting no time bringing new team in for new City Hall era
Now that Election Day has wrapped up, management at City Hall is in full transition mode with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani picking out his starting lineup team.
3 min |
November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
The Studio Museum in Harlem reopens, welcomes a new future while staying true to its roots
The Studio Museum in Harlem is back, bigger and bolder than ever.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Nokio, founding member of Dru Hill, talks upcoming Bronx performance Nov. 15
R&B group Dru Hill will bust out a slew of slow jams and classics at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx on Saturday Nov 15.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Shaggy recounts his relief mission to Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa and shares how you can help
As Hurricane Melissa intensified to a Category 5 storm pointing right at Jamaica, Shaggy knew he had to help; he just wasn't sure how. So he asked ChatGPT.
3 min |
November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
N.J. congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman announces retirement, leaving possible crowded primary
New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman today announced that she will retire at the end of her current term, the congresswoman announced on Nov. 10.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
DOI seeking public's assistance with reviewing how the NYPD polices protests
The NYC Department of Investigation has put out an open call for information about how the NYPD responds to protests and is using an online portal to gather more from people who have their own accounts of the incidents.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Grenada stalls on allowing U.S. to set up military radar near Venezuela
In the coming weeks, the small Eastern Caribbean nation of Grenada, which the U.S. had invaded back in 1983, has an important decision to make as Washington has asked it for permission to establish a military radar station at its main airport to monitor nearby Venezuela.
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November 13, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Small but mighty: Harlem's Christian Parish For Spiritual Renewal celebrates 70 years
Every Sunday morning, at 122nd and Seventh Avenue, the doors of the Christian Parish for Spiritual Renewal open for all to walk in and experience service.
7 min |
November 13, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'Hildegard' spends a year in mystic's life
['Hildegard,' from E1] and compelling “Hildegard,” based on a real-life 12th century abbess and present-day cult figure, St. Hildegard von Bingen. The opera, which had its premiere at the Wallis last week, is the latest in L.A. Opera’s ongoing collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects, which commissioned the work.
4 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Trump wants West Coast oil drilling. Does anyone else?
Santa Barbara that spewed an estimated 100,000 barrels of crude into the water and helped jump-start the modern environmental movement.
3 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Grizzly Bear sounds more mature, less tense
Eight years apart have given the middle-aged indie rockers time to reflect and feel lighter.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
AEG seeks to add hotel, residences to L.A. Live
Plan is in early stage as developer seeks land-use approval for a 49-story high-rise.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
House converges for vote on ending shutdown
Federal Aviation Administration that slowed operations at the nation’s biggest airports.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Detained British Muslim commentator agrees to leave U.S.
British political commentator Sami Hamdi is going to voluntarily leave the U.S. after spending more than two weeks in immigration detention over what his supporters say was his criticism of Israel. The Trump administration has accused him of cheering on Hamas.
2 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
IOC nears a decision on transgender athletes
Rules for those assigned male at birth come amid recent political discussion.
4 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Fire crews' Palisades concerns hidden
LAFD knew of complaints about Lachman blaze mop-up but said nothing, as victims for months questioned how the inferno started
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
But can you say that in Yautja, human?
Linguist who created the alien language of ‘Predator: Badlands’ has tips for learning it.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
A facade at national parks?
Camps and bathrooms stayed open, but behind the scenes, conservation and research services ended during shutdown
5 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'THE HUNGER GAMES' TAKES CENTER STAGE
The play, which adapts the first novel and film, opens at a theater designed as an interactive arena to amplify its brutality
8 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Don’t count on regime change to stabilize Venezuela
Maybe the hemisphere would be better off if Nicolas Maduro packed his bags and went into exile. Maybe not.
4 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Economists call president's plan for tariff dividend 'a terrible idea'
Experts warn proposal could cost double the revenue from duties and stoke inflation.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Apple's restraint in AI spending becomes a plus
Its rivals are coming under scrutiny as they invest large sums into the technology.
4 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Has Trump already lost the Latino vote?
The bloc swung massively left last week, more than erasing GOP gains
3 min |
November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
'Hildegard' makes opera out of a cult figure
Sarah Kirkland Snider paints a mystical moment in the 12th century abbess' life.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Serbs protest a real estate project linked to Jared Kushner
Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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November 12, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Specter of new conflict haunts World War I observances
Red poppy flowers were dropped onto soldiers, politicians and onlookers from across the world gathered in western Belgium on Tuesday to commemorate the end of World War I.
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