A Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been avoided and schools are open Tuesday after the district and the Service Employees International Union reached a tentative agreement. SEIU Local 99, which represents about 30,000 aides, bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers, said the deal with the district, LAUSD, includes a 24% wage increase.The tentative agreement also increases work hours to ensure thousands of workers have health care benefits, rescinds layoffs for hundreds of IT technicians and expands health care benefits for teacher assistants and others, according to SEIU Local 99.LAUSD said it will keep working with the union to finalize…

Director Luca Guadagnino is defending Timothée Chalamet after his recent controversy surrounding his comments on ballet and opera. In a recent interview, the Call Me By Your Name director gave his thoughts on the response to the Wonka star saying that “no one cares” about the “ballet or opera.” “I am not on social media and don’t understand how one [single] comment can become a planetary polemic,” Variety reports Guadagnino said to Italian daily La Stampa. Guadagnino continued by affirming Chalamet’s love of cinema, although stating that we must “unite the arts,” instead of separating them. “Maybe Timothée could have spared himself,” he continued.…

Published on 14/04/2026 – 12:30 GMT+2 The EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) brought travel “chaos” to airport border control over the weekend, with queues of up to three hours and reports of stranded passengers missing flights. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Following a series of delays and phased preparations, the biometric border control system was officially introduced across the Schengen area on Friday 10 April, and is now in place across 29 European countries. Applying to non-EU travellers entering any of the Schengen states for short stays of up to 90 days within a 180-day period, the system replaces manual passport stamping with…

Selena Gomez celebrated the kickoff of Demi Lovato’s latest tour, marking their first public reunion in nearly a decade. “I am in tears, [Demi Lovato],” Gomez, 33, wrote via her Instagram Story on Monday, April 13. “This was hands down one of the best shows. Oh and the VOCALS? Psh *blown away*.” In addition to her rave review, a photo showed the two former Disney Channel costars sharing a hug backstage, with Gomez including a heart emoji over the image. Gomez posted several other photos from opening night of Lovato’s It’s Not That Deep Tour at the Kia Center in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The predawn Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman’s San Francisco home has signaled a volatile new era of anti-tech extremism, sparking fears among federal authorities that this could ignite a wave of copycat strikes against high-profile executives.San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office will aggressively pursue charges against suspect Daniel Moreno-Gama, citing a dangerous escalation in the debate surrounding artificial intelligence.”My office will prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law,” Jenkins said. “This should also be a moment where our nation reflects on the often…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A recent webinar hosted by some of the top teachers’ unions in the United States that pushed a curriculum focused on the upcoming May Day protests is prompting education experts and watchdogs to sound the alarm about alleged political indoctrination inside classrooms.The Chicago Teachers’ Union and the National Education Association collaborated with the Zinn Education Project on an April 2nd seminar referred to as a “curriculum build” to “bring “social justice into the classroom” ahead of May Day, the traditional May 1st holiday that has long been embraced by communist and socialist…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Azzi Fudd is reuniting with her old UConn Huskies teammate, Paige Bueckers, as the Dallas Wings took her first overall in the 2026 WNBA Draft on Monday night.And Fudd comes in with a historic payday in the league.After a new collective bargaining agreement was inked between the league and the players’ association last month, Fudd is set to make $500,000 in her rookie year – a massive pay bump compared to the $78,831 Bueckers earned last season as the WNBA Draft’s first overall selection. This comes as the salary cap for WNBA…

SAN FRANCISCO — Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California announced Monday he will resign from Congress following sexual assault and misconduct allegations that prompted loud bipartisan calls for him to step down.The decision caps a swift political fall for the seven-term lawmaker, who had been seen as one of the leading candidates in California’s gubernatorial race before dropping out Sunday after the allegations surfaced, claims he has continued to deny.The San Francisco Chronicle, followed by CNN, first reported allegations that Swalwell had sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him. CNN also reported that three other women…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 14, 2026 and it’s time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: Good morning, Broadway fans! Get ready to dive into the latest buzz from the theatre world as we bring you some delightful highlights from yesterday’s top stories on BroadwayWorld. Explore the life of a Broadway conductor and see how the music comes alive on stage. Catch Matt Manuel’s backstage scoop from “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” and discover the news about the new and improved BroadwayWorld My Shows app.…

Published on 14/04/2026 – 10:44 GMT+2•Updated 11:06 The President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has warned of a “much more serious economic impact” on the EU if the war in the Middle East escalates after diplomatic efforts between the US and Iran to reach a deal fell flat. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Speaking to Euronews on Monday, Odile Renaud-Basso, who has led the multilateral development bank since 2020, said that while the current scenario in the Middle East risks curbing growth and increasing inflation in the economies in which the EBRD operates, the economic repercussions of a drawn-out war…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Relief is on the way for House Speaker Mike Johnson, as the GOP clings to a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives.Republican Rep.-elect Clay Fuller of Georgia is expected to be sworn in by Johnson on Tuesday, one week after Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, in the crucial southeastern battleground state.The seat, in northwest Georgia, was left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit…

Brian Hooker, whose wife Lynette disappeared during a nighttime boat ride in the Bahamas earlier this month, was released from custody Monday night, five days after being detained.Brian Hooker, 59, was arrested by Bahamian authorities last Wednesday for questioning about his wife’s disappearance, his attorney, Terrel Butler, told CBS News. Hooker has denied any wrongdoing. He declined to answer questions from CBS News when a reporter approached him the day before his detention. Lynette Hooker, 55, has not been found. The Royal Bahamas Police Force said last week that search and rescue operations had turned into search and recovery. A search warrant for…

New York Stage & Film has unveiled its 2026 Summer Season at Marist University and Bardavon Presents, kicking off with a Benefit Reading of The Maltese Falcon on Friday July 10 at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, NY. In addition to the creative teams with public-facing projects, the 2026 Summer Season will host a range of artists-in-residence including individual artists and groups such as the Indigenous Voices of the Northeast and The Drama League. This season will also celebrate the Filmmakers’ Workshop and recipients of the Founders’ Award, Pfaelzer Award, and the Dasha Epstein Award; all to be announced at a…

The world’s richest nations are withdrawing aid funds for poorer countries at a rate never seen before, according to a new study. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT In 2025, the second consecutive year of decline, official development assistance (ODA) by member states dropped by 23.1% from 2024 to just over €149 billion, the OECD has reported. Leading the retreat, the US led by President Donald Trump slashed its aid budget by an unprecedented 57%, accounting for the lion’s share of the global shortfall. Together with cuts from other major donors, namely France (-10.9%), Germany (-17.4%), Japan (-5.6%) and the UK (-10.8%), they account…