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3 weeks ago in Sports, Trending

Roger Federer is coming back to play at the US Open, but not interested in coming back to pro tennis

Roger Federer is actually nervous about his tennis. The man who won five straight U.S. Open championships during the height of his dominance of the sport is set to play again in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night for the first time since 2019.

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Dolly Parton Is Exploring Avatar Concerts So Fans Could See Her Perform Long Into the Future

Dolly revealed in an interview published Monday, August 24, that she’s in the early stages of exploring avatar performances that…

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Dan + Shay’s New Album Started With Grief—and Became Their Most Personal Record Yet

Dan + Shay have made plenty of songs for weddings. Their new album is about what happens after the wedding.…

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Cole Swindell Wrote a Song About His Dad’s Old Bronco—Then His Brothers Actually Found It

Sometimes you write a country song about a memory. Sometimes your family goes out and finds the memory. That’s essentially…

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Megan Moroney’s Fans Created a Concert Dress Code—and Nobody Actually Told Them To

Apparently there is a dress code for a Megan Moroney concert. There’s just one strange detail. Megan never created one.…

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Reba McEntire Has Been Doing This for 50 Years—and She’s Still Figuring Out Ways to Keep It Interesting

Fifty years into a career, you would think Reba McEntire had earned the right to put things on cruise control.…

3 weeks ago in Country Music News

Luke Combs Is Bringing His Stadium Tour Back to New England

New England country fans may want to put a reminder in the phone for Friday morning. Luke Combs is bringing…

3 weeks ago in Lifestyle

3-year college degrees grow more popular in the US, saving time and cash. But critics aren’t sold

Condensed college programs have exploded in popularity. As of this spring, 26 U.S. states have a college that offers at least one reduced-credit, three-year bachelor's, according to the nonprofit research group RAND. Advocates say these programs are a solution to the college affordability crisis and a godsend for non-traditional students.

3 weeks ago in Entertainment, Trending

What to know about the first week of a trial in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur

In the first week of testimony at the trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur, the night of Sept. 7, 1996, has been run and rerun many times — through police who were at the scene, through the people near the hip-hop superstar, and through the recorded words of the suspect, Duane "Keffe D" Davis.

3 weeks ago in Sports

Gauff beats Pegula for 2nd Cincinnati Open title; France’s Fils beats American Tiafoe in men’s final

Coco Gauff defeated fellow American Jessica Pegula, 6-2, 6-4, to capture her second women's Cincinnati Open title on Sunday, and Arthur Fils of France defeated American Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 1-6, 6-0, in the men's final for his first Masters 1000 title.

3 weeks ago in Sports

Klay Thompson joins Heat, set to team up alongside newly acquired Giannis Antetokounmpo

Klay Thompson has signed his deal with the Miami Heat, who waited patiently for weeks to see if they would get the chance to add the sharpshooter to their reworked roster.

3 weeks ago in Sports

Yordan Alvarez’s Triple Crown bid will have to survive a major challenge from the AL East

As the season winds down, Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez will have to worry about two sets of spoilers. The first is the more traditional type — teams that will try to beat the Astros in key games and deny them a spot in the postseason. The other includes individual spoilers — players who could prevent Alvarez from making history as baseball's next Triple Crown winner.

3 weeks ago in Local

Friends & family remember Charlie St. Clair

Following word of his passing over the weekend the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association released a statement thanking hospital staff in Ohio for their compassion and care, while elected officials like Sen. Jeannie Shaheen and Gov. Kelly Ayotte issued statements following his passing.

3 weeks ago in Entertainment, Trending

‘Spider-Man’ tops box office in fourth weekend; ‘The Odyssey’ becomes Nolan’s highest-grossing film

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" fought off a slew of newcomers, including a comedy, a horror franchise, a Jason Statham action movie and a family pic, to maintain its first-place spot at the box office in its fourth weekend in theaters. "The Odyssey" also became Christopher Nolan's highest grossing movie ever, both domestically and internationally.

3 weeks ago in Local

Ayotte faces off agaisnt NASCAR Hall of Famer Martin to benefit New Hampshire public schools

NASCAR retuned to New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday and during the fun Governor Kelly Ayotte faced off against racing legend Mark Martin all to benefit New Hampshire public schools

3 weeks ago in Local

Two-alarm fire heavily damages Nashua home

Fire officials say the blaze ended up heavily damaging a 2½-story single-family home on Lynde Street early Saturday morning.

3 weeks ago in Local

Manchester man charged out of weekend standoff

Police say Roberto Diaz has been charged out an incident which began when police first responded to a report of a stray bullet passing through a nearby apartment on Agnes Street.

4 weeks ago in Sports

Fernando Mendoza throws a pick-6, struggles in 1st half of Raiders’ 22-20 preseason win over Texans

Top pick Fernando Mendoza is finding out quickly that he has a lot of work to do as he begins his NFL career. Mendoza struggled in his second preseason game, throwing an interception that Houston returned for a touchdown before the Las Vegas Raiders rallied late for a 22-20 victory over the Texans on Thursday night.

4 weeks ago in Lifestyle

Fall books: Fiction takes the spotlight in bookstores during the midterm season

Midterm election news will fill the headlines this fall, but, among book buyers, fiction will likely have top billing.

4 weeks ago in Local

House votes to censure Spillane for online comments

In a vote of 195 to 93 lawmakers voted to censure Rep.James Spillane, R-Deerfield, after he called a House member "retarted."

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5 days ago in National, Trending

US marks 25 years since the Sept. 11 attacks

Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al-Qaida attacks on symbols of U.S. might and prosperity.

6 days ago in National, Trending

Anthropic researcher resigns with warning about the dangers of AI development

An Anthropic researcher said he is resigning from the company over concerns the artificial intelligence firm and its competitors are not acting responsibly in AI development, echoing concerns raised inside and outside of the industry about the technology's potential to elude human control.

1 week ago in National

Cyclospora outbreak followed years of declining FDA foreign inspections

A nationwide outbreak of cyclospora tied to contaminated lettuce has heightened safety concerns about imported food, while underscoring a longer-term trend: U.S. regulators are conducting fewer international inspections to catch contaminated produce before it lands on American plates.

2 weeks ago in National

Mistrial is declared in Lindsay Clancy child killings case after jury deadlocks

A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in a case that sharply divided many Americans over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible for killing her three young children.

2 weeks ago in National, Trending

Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92

Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became one of the most visible symbols and potent voices of the U.S. women's movement and a fierce advocate for feminist causes for over six decades, has died. She was 92.