Coldplay concert in Malaysia can be stopped by organizers if the band misbehaves, government says | AP News

Coldplay concert in Malaysia can be stopped by organizers if the band misbehaves, government says | AP News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Organizers of Wednesday’s Coldplay concert in Malaysia can stop the show if the British rock band misbehaves, a minister said as the government rejected Muslim conservatives’ calls to cancel the show. Led by the country’s opposition bloc, Muslim conservatives have protested the concert over Coldplay’s support for the LGBTQ+ community.

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JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history, including AP reporter | AP News

JFK assassination remembered 60 years later by surviving witnesses to history, including AP reporter | AP News

DALLAS (AP) — Just minutes after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot as his motorcade rolled through downtown Dallas, Associated Press reporter Peggy Simpson rushed to the scene and immediately attached herself to the police officers who had converged on the building from which a sniper’s bullets had been fired.“I was sort of under

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Maui wildfire survivors camp on the beach to push mayor to convert vacation rentals into housing | AP News

Maui wildfire survivors camp on the beach to push mayor to convert vacation rentals into housing | AP News

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — A group of Lahaina wildfire survivors is vowing to camp on a popular resort beach until the mayor uses his emergency powers to shut down unpermitted vacation rentals and make the properties available for residents in desperate need of housing. Organizers with the group Lahaina Strong are focusing on 2,500 vacation

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