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Dorothy Gunther Pugh is well known in the Mid-South community as a dancer, choreographer, and founder of Ballet Memphis. After retiring from Ballet Memphis in 2019, she returned to her early love of art; her exhibition "Nature Yearns" runs Sunday, April 19, through Sunday, June 7, at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens.
Newly released court documents reveal evidence and witnesses planned in the upcoming civil lawsuit by the family of Tyré Nichols against the City of Memphis and its police department.
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The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 86-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody in Louisiana after she was detained earlier this month.
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The reforms signed by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele would apply to people convicted of committing or being an accomplice to crimes including homicide, femicide, rape and gang membership.
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Without qualified interpreters at doctors' offices, non-English speakers can face bad — even fatal — health outcomes. A hospital in rural Colorado is training its existing bilingual staff to address the service gap.
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The annual Whiting Award for Emerging Writers comes with $50,000 to support each winner's work. It's one of the largest prizes granted to promising new authors.
This exhibit will be available for viewing from April 1 through April 28 at the WKNO Digital Media Center.
Picking up trash in Mangrove forests has become a calling for one Florida man.
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From Memphis-Shelby County Schools to xAI, commitments have been made that politicians must keep in check.
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Political analyst Otis Sanford says the state's reaction to the MSCS audit and MPD's response to a protest may have been overly dramatic.
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- Spotty insurance coverage for GLP-1 drugs gets worse
- The authority of age vs. the buzziness of youth, in 'The Take'
- Abandoned allies: Syria's Kurds face an uncertain future
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Darel Snodgrass and Kacky Walton spotlight the Mid-South arts scene through engaging interviews with local artists, performers, and event organizers.
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Darel Snodgrass and Kacky Walton spotlight the Mid-South arts scene through engaging interviews with local artists, performers, and event organizers.
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Plan your weekly arts agenda with ARTSmemphis’ curated calendar of local events.
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Plan your weekly arts agenda with ARTSmemphis’ curated calendar of local events.
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The Pentagon is sending more troops to the Middle East, and the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports continues, in an attempt to pressure Iran into making a deal to end the war.
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President Trump once again threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and doubled down on a discredited probe of the central bank.
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The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons.
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The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Inside the peace talks happening across the Middle East, Iran war drives Europe toward fuel crisis, Eric Swalwell facing new sexual assault allegations.
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The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
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Israel is creating a large buffer zone in southern Lebanon for a prolonged military occupation, with low expectations that direct talks with Lebanon will lead to quick action on disarming Hezbollah.
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President Trump wants to do away with the filibuster in order to pass the Save America Act. But many Senate Republicans are reluctant, wary of what it would mean if they were to lose their majority.
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The Trump administration has said that enforcement of the FACE Act by the Biden DOJ represents "the prototypical example" of the weaponization of the law against conservatives.
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An Ohio man was convicted of cybercrimes involving obscene AI-generated images of women and children. But experts warn of the difficulties in going after such cases.
As fuel protests bring Ireland to a standstill and UK leaders decry price hikes driven by the Iran war, Europe -- barely recovered from the energy shock of the Ukraine war -- faces another crisis.
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