2 w. ago Kelsea Ballerini, Nicole Kidman and Lainey Wilson lead glamour parade at glitzy ACM Awards 2025 in Texas

Thrown at the the Ford Center At The Star in Frisco, Texas on Thursday, the dazzling event welcomed the leading lights of the country music world.

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2 w. ago AP PHOTOS: Red carpet fashion at the Academy of Country Music Awards

The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards are taking place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas. This year marks the 60th annual edition of the ceremony and Reba McEntire will once again host.

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2 w. ago The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards are here; newcomer Ella Langley leads the nominations

The 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards will take place Thursday at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas

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3 w. ago ‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet

A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from overWhen 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken.He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility or maybe deported back to his native Venezuela. He and the other passengers, their hands and feet shackled, settled into a tense silence. Then a terrifying possibility crept into Salazar’s mind. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies

Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang tiesDetainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: SOS.With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘They disappear them’: families of the detained see grim echo of Latin American dictatorships in Trump’s US

Mounting stories of ‘forced disappearances’ of Venezuelans in the US have left their loved ones distraught and disbelievingNeiyerver Rengel’s captors came one sunny spring morning, lurking outside the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and pouncing as soon as he emerged.The three government agents announced the young Venezuelan man had “charges to answer” and was being detained. Continue reading...

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