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Vincent Pastore, a veteran actor who played mobsters and tough guys, and was best-known for playing Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.

Bob McGowan, who had managed Pastore since his run on The Sopranos, told the Associated Press that he learned of his death Saturday from another client and actor on the show, Vincent Curatola.

He said that Pastore had been found in his home on New York’s City Long Island after not being heard from for a few days.

McGowan said he’d been trying to reach Pastore about a possible job.

“He was the most loyal client and he always gave to charity,” McGowan said, “and he was the kind of guy who would help anybody, which is rare in my business.”

Pastore appeared in movies dating back to the 1980s and had roles in big movies including Goodfellas and Awakenings, both in 1990.

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A shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon left multiple people dead and others injured, police said.

The shooter was among the dead, Twin Falls police chief Matthew Hicks said in a news conference. Police were still trying to determine the shooter’s identity and motive.

“We believe the threat to the community is over,” Hicks said.

He added that he did not yet know exactly how many were killed or wounded, and officials were still in the process of notifying next of kin. “It was a very chaotic scene.”

Before the news conference, Twin Falls county commissioner Brent ReinkLane Koehn, 34, said he was at a stoplight near the In-N-Out when he saw a person with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive-thru. A man with a pistol started firing at the shooter.

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The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.The Italian government on Friday imposed border checks with Spain in response to an influx of tens of thousands of migrants in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta.

These air and sea border controls will remain in place for August, according to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has promised to cut down on illegal immigration, called the decision an “extraordinary measure” that was taken to safeguard the country’s national security.

The move will impact flights and maritime transport and temporarily suspends Spain’s Schengen border-free rights, an agreement that allows citizens of European member states to move freely among 29 countries.

These air and sea border controls will remain in place for August, according to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has promised to cut down on illegal immigration, called the decision an “extraordinary measure” that was taken to safeguard the country’s national security.

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One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity efforts.

The changes at the National Jamboree, which ends Friday, reflect shifts made by Scouting America since the organization became a target of Defense SecretaryHegseth threatened to end the Pentagon’s century-old partnership with Scouting America if it did not make changes including refocusing away from diversity initiatives. The organization, previously known as Boy Scouts of America, rebranded in 2024 to emphasize inclusion and the growing number of girls in the scouting ranks. Pete Hegseth over what he calls “woke” policies. Some scouts who had planned to attend the event in West Virginia said they backed out because Scouting America scrapped the inclusion initiatives it previously celebrated.

Hegseth threatened to end the Pentagon’s century-old partnership with Scouting America if it did not make changes including refocusing away from diversity initiatives. The organization, previously known as Boy Scouts of America, rebranded in 2024 to emphasize inclusion and the growing number of girls in the scouting ranks.

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For most students, the General Secondary Education Certificate, known as Tawjihi in Palestine, marks the end of school and the start of a new chapter.

It is usually a time of celebration, relief and hope for the future.

In Gaza, nearly three years into Israel's genocide, the milestone has taken on a different meaning. For thousands of Palestinian students, simply surviving long enough to sit the exams and see the results announced became an achievement in itself.

For Saba Rabah, who topped Palestine's scientific stream with an average of 99.9 percent, the result fulfilled a childhood dream.

But the moment she had imagined for years was overshadowed by the absence of her father, who was killed in an Israeli strike on a neighbouring building in al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

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US President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters that the "Board of Peace" will be the one to collect Hamas's weapons as the group begins to disarm, even though the board itself had announced that a Palestinian technocratic body will assume that role.

The details matter because the statements marked the first on-camera opportunity for the president to build confidence in the Board of Peace announcement - an organisation for which he is chairman for life.

"As Hamas disarms as part of this plan, who do you see is taking possession of those weapons that they have? Does that go to the new government?" a reporter asked Trump during his cabinet meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

"It's going to be run by the Board of Peace. This Board of Peace has been amazing. It's led by some amazing people," the president responded.

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Russia launched a mass ballistic missile attack on Kyiv early Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring 15 others as repeated explosions shook the Ukrainian capital.

Among the wounded were two boys aged 13 and 17, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. All 15 injured residents were taken to city hospitals. The casualty figures remained preliminary as emergency crews continued searching damaged buildings.

AFP journalists in Kyiv reported that “more than 10 explosions were heard in a row,” with the force of the blasts triggering car alarms across the city.

Klitschko had urged residents to remain in shelters as ballistic missiles approached the capital.

The attack caused fires and destruction across the Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Darnytskyi and Holosiivskyi districts.

In the Solomianskyi district, a strike set fire to a six-story non-residential building. Cars burned in a parking area, while people were trapped inside a damaged five-story residential building and a fire broke out in its courtyard.

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The long legal battle to erase the debts of nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges is finally coming to an end, after a recent court ruling in a lawsuit that has spanned three presidential administrations.

The class-action suit, originally filed against the first Trump administration seven years ago, centered on a federal rule known as borrower defense. The rule is supposed to allow borrowers to petition the U.S. Education Department to erase their debts if a school has lied to them — about things like their job prospects, their credits' transferability or their likely salary after graduation.

During Trump's first term, thousands of borrowers who claimed they had been ripped off by predatory schools waited years to have their borrower defense claims reviewed. Finally, advocates sued, arguing that, under then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the department had deliberately and illegally stopped processing claims and wrongfully denied others without considering the merits of their cases.

The suit has endured long enough to bear the names of three different education secretaries: from Sweet v. DeVos in 2019 to Sweet v. Cardona during the Biden administration, and now Sweet v. McMahon for Trump's second term.

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