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Actor-director BEN AFFLECK is warning that the public glee over Tom Cruise's box office flop "Digger" could push Hollywood toward safer, more uniform movies: "Guess what you're going to get? A bunch of s---tty homogenized movies."

The 119-year-old Plaza Hotel in Manhattan once owned by President Trump will close for at least four years in January so its facade can be restored.

Eduardo Penalver, Georgetown University's new president, said he believes college needs "extended argument" -- and he told his school he wants to see a lot more debating.

Comcast committed $7.5M toward President Trump's new White House ballroom, among other donors such as Apple and Nvidia.

President Trump on Thursday said GOP enthusiasm is surging and attacked prominent Democratic nominees in personal terms, using an incorrect name for a Michigan candidate and dubbing Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico a "con man."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday after Lebanese authorities seized Hezbollah explosives that one official said were meant for use in targeting Israeli forces.

Jalen Hurts will not play Sunday against Carolina. The Eagles quarterback has a blood clot in his calf, and the team is still deciding on treatment.

A developer looking to get a data center project approved is offering residents of De Soto, Kansas, $20 million in credits toward utilities and property taxes over 10 years.

Michael Whatley, the Republican candidate for the Senate in North Carolina, doesn't have ad time booked in the battleground state, but his campaign says he's not giving up.

An appeals court delivered a victory Thursday to Fairfax and Arlington counties' school systems, ruling that they can turn to the regular federal courts to defend their transgender student policies against the Department of Education.