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Where election results stand at the end of the week, a weekend birding opportunity, a former Pacific Grove restaurant manager’s reflections on his deportation, and more in this week's local news roundup.
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Grammy-winning slack-key guitarist and singer George Kahumoku, Jr. has been making music for years. He's also a sculptor, farmer, and preserver ofHawaiian culture and heritage. He's lived most of his life in Hawaii, but he moved to Watsonville about a year ago. Now, he'll be performing at a Hawaiian cultural event taking place at the Chaminade Resort & Spa in Santa Cruz this weekend.
- 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
- Japanese American women artists are at the heart of "Pictures of Belonging."
- The Watsonville Film Festival focuses on art as resistance
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The U.S. men's national team chose to play a pair of highly-ranked, super competitive teams in the final lead-up to the World Cup: Senegal and Germany. The matches showed the U.S. is ready. -
In South Africa and Mozambique, health care providers say cancellation or redirection of U.S. PEPFAR funding under the Trump administration have already endangered vulnerable people and cost lives. -
New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger brains do. -
This summer brings remakes of Cape Fear and Little House on the Prairie, plus brand new seasons of The Bear, Ted Lasso, House of the Dragon and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. -
Every year, we highlight essential Broadway workers not eligible for Tonys. This year, we look at the world of Broadway merch, which is a lot more than T-shirts, mugs and refrigerator magnets. -
Negotiations between the union representing the workers, the hospitality group at the Los Angeles stadium and FIFA are set to continue Monday. -
Young Indians frustrated by unemployment and exam scandals are rallying behind an unusual symbol: the cockroach. NPR's Diaa Hadid reports from New Delhi.
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At the National World War II Memorial, historian Alex Kershaw has found an unlikely way to keep D-Day alive: live social media posts timed to the events of June 6, 1944.
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Armenia is trying to move closer to Europe and the West, a move that's creating tension with Russia. Journalist Lucy Martirosyan reports from Yerevan ahead of an important election.
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Results are still coming in from the mayoral primary in Los Angeles. LAist reporter Frank Stoltze discusses who may emerge to face Karen Bass in November.
