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This week’s PBS Feature Album is Funeral For Justice, the new album by Mdou Moctar.Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, Funeral For Justice captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A vehicle traveling "at a high rate of speed" crashed into a gate at the White House complex late Saturday, killing the driver, a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said.There was "no threat" to the White House after the vehicle crashed into a barricade just before 10:30 p.m., officials said in a statement."Security protocols were implemented as officers cleared the vehicle and attempted to render aid to the driver who wa...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Locked in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet President Joe Biden scores competitively on key personal attributes -- leaving wide open the question of wholl prevail come Election Day, now six months away.Excluding people who say they wouldnt vote, Trump has 46% support, Biden 44%, in this national survey of more than 2,200 adults. (Nearly all the rest say theyd pick so...

People walk in a camp for displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip by the border with Egypt on April 28, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- As the Israel-Hamas war approaches the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gaza town of Rafa...

Heroines and Heroes Pops Concert The 70-piece Civic Orchestra of Tucson will present a free concert of "Pops" favorites including music from Frozen, Harry Potter, Sophisticated Ladies, Pirates of the Caribbean and more.

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Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A worse-than-expected jobs report on Friday offered the latest evidence of an economic slowdown that could help ease inflation and trigger interest rate cuts. The trend, however, threatens to downshift the nation’s brisk economic growth.Employers hired 175,000 workers last month, falling short of economist expectations of 240,000 jobs, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%, which remains near a ...

New Mexico State Police(NEW MEXICO) -- An urgent search is underway in Clovis, New Mexico, after police say a 10-month-old baby was abducted, two women were found dead with apparent gunshot wounds, including the childs mother, and the mothers 5-year-old child was found injured on the scene.Police issued an Amber Alert for the baby, Eleia Maria Torres, Friday which was still active Saturday morning.Torres has brown eyes and brown hair, is 28 inches tall, and weighs 23 pounds, according to officia...

Kevin Dietsch / Staff/Getty Images(TEXAS) -- Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy and accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities, the Justice Department announced.Prosecutors allege Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, began accepting the roughly $600,000 in bribes beginning as early as December of 2014 from an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijans government as well as a bank headquartered in Mexico City.While Cuellars...

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