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Oppenheimer movie dominates SAG Awards, while Streisand wins lifetime prize

Oppenheimer dominated at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Saturday, as several winners paid tribute to last year's actors' strike. Barbra Streisand was given a lifetime achievement prize.

San Diego artist Bhavna Mehta's "Poliovirus 1" is a 2020 work of embroidery and beads on a 1984 X-ray. The work is part of "Script/Rescript," an exhibition on view at SDSU Art Gallery through Dec. 8, 2022.

Artists rewrite the script on disability

"Script/Rescript" is a new exhibition at SDSU Art Gallery featuring ten visual artists with disabilities from across the country and Mexico. The works celebrate rescripting the medicalized narrative of disability.

Martika Ramirez Escobar's inventive fantasy "Leonor Will Never Die" will have a San Diego premiere at the San Diego Filipino Film Festival.

San Diego Filipino Film Festival returns for second year

Festival will showcase 69 shorts, features and documentaries from around the globe and across the U.S.

Flaco sits in a tree in New York's Central Park on Feb. 6, 2023.

'A fabulous ambassador' Flaco, the beloved New York owl, died after building collision

Flaco, who fled the Central Park Zoo, thrived in New York City on his own for about a year before his death.

Dr. João Goulão, director-general of the General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, is widely credited with shifting Portugal's addiction response toward a focus on health care and treatment. Overdose deaths have plummeted.

How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed

Portugal cut drug deaths by 80%, using free health care and addiction treatment. The U.S., meanwhile, focused on drug busts and tough crime laws. Overdose deaths keep rising catastrophically.

Former Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell made headlines for the $800,000 in cash stuffed in shoeboxes found when he died. For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy. But the account that maintained his birthplace as a museum will soon run dry.

Opinion: Welcome to Payola World!

Illinois has a chance to enshrine its long history of corruption.

An outpost of The Second City has opened in Brooklyn. Above, the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan skyline are pictured at sunset.

The Second City, named for its Chicago location, opens an outpost in New York

The improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.

Ibrahim Hassouna, 30, a Gaza social media influencer known as Kazanova, has the phrase "my mom" tattooed on his wrist in Arabic. Most of his family was killed in a Feb. 12 Israeli military operation to rescue hostages.

A Gaza influencer built a following with feel-good videos. Now he mourns his family

The Instagram influencer known as Kazanova built an audience of 440,000 followers with positive videos to lift spirits in Gaza. Most of his family was killed in an Israeli hostage rescue operation.

Clockwise from top left: lawyer Liudmyla Lysenko in Kyiv; restaurant co-owner Iryna Savchenko in Kramatorsk; tour guide Artem Vasyuta in Odesa; homemaker Nataliya Kucherenko in the Sumy region; obstetrician Iryna Kulbach in Dnipro; and architect Max Rozenfeld in Kharkiv.

After 2 years of war in Ukraine, 6 cities hold out hope under fire

In the 80% of Ukraine that remains in Kyiv's hands, two years of full-scale war with Russia have brought grief, destruction and, despite all, optimism.

"It's a great day in South Carolina when I can come home," Nikki Haley delivered her signature line with a hometown twist to supporters. Republican presidential candidate and former UN Ambassador Haley steps off of her campaign bus ahead of an event on Feb. 13 in her hometown of Bamberg, S.C.

They say you can't go home again. Nikki Haley can but it doesn't guarantee votes

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is struggling in her home state's Republican primary polls, but residents say she has broad support in her hometown of Bamberg.

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