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The Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury makes housing recommendations, a new mural celebrates community in Seaside, employees protest at Dominican Hospital, and more.
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The Carmel Bach Festival's artistic director Grete Pedersen explores the "Nature of Sound" in KAZU's Green Room.
- New Canon Theatre reimagines "Romeo and Juliet" in the turbulent 1960s
- Watsonville musician George Kahumoku, Jr. brings Hawaiian music and culture to Santa Cruz.
- I Cantori di Carmel brings "Carmina Burana" to the Great Outdoors of the Central Coast
- Bedrooms frozen in time: Carmel filmmaker discusses Oscar-winning documentary
- WATCH: Local art students celebrate their work on display at Salinas Valley Health
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Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4th in Lampedusa, Italy, one of Europe's busiest migrant landing points. He will pray with migrants and honor those who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
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Foreign dignitaries are gathering in Iran for a week of funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than four months after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes.
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Detroit and Windsor, Canada have shared a fireworks tradition for generations. At the start of summer, thousands of people still gather on both sides of the border to celebrate together.
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President Trump ushered in America's 250th anniversary with a darkly political speech that swerved from the typically apolitical, unifying speeches past presidents have given to mark Independence Day.
