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Staff workers clean a tapestry at the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Nov. 30, 2023. Since its foundation in 1721, the Royal Tapestry Factory of Madrid has not stopped producing. It was Philip V, then King of Spain, who had the factory built with the help of Catholic craftsmen from Flanders to replace the lack of private initiative that existed at the time. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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AP PHOTOS: Spanish tapestry factory, once home to Goya, is still weaving 300 years after it opened
By IRENE YAGÜE - Associated Press
Sat,12/23/23-11:40PM , 388 Reads
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Royal Tapestry Factory has been decorating the walls and floors of palaces and institutions for more than 300 years.

Located on a quiet, leafy street in central Madrid, its artisans work with painstaking focus on tapestries, carpets and heraldic banners, combining the long wisdom of the craft with new techniques.
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New York governor commutes sentence of rapper G. Dep who had turned self in for cold case killing
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sat,12/23/23-12:21PM , 107 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Travell “G. Dep” Coleman, who walked into a New York police precinct in 2010 and admitted to committing a nearly two-decade-old cold case murder to clear his conscience, has been granted clemency by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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A person removes a piece of art work by Banksy, which shows what looks like three drones on a traffic stop sign, which was unveiled at the intersection of Southampton Way and Commercial Way in Peckham, south east London, Friday Dec. 22, 2023. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

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Suspect arrested in alleged theft of a Banksy stop sign decorated with military drones
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sat,12/23/23-11:25AM , 210 Reads
LONDON (AP) — A man suspected of stealing an artwork by Banksy of a stop sign adorned with three military drones, was arrested Saturday, London police said.

A man in his 20s was in custody on suspicion of theft and criminal damage, the Metropolitan police said.
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From left, Gabrielle Roitman, Kayla Seffing, Maddy Hiller and Casey Myer take a selfie in front of an "Oppenheimer" movie poster before they attended an advance screening of "Barbie," Thursday, July 20, 2023, at AMC The Grove 14 theaters in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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What to stream this week: Barbenheimer, 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' and K-pop act TVXQ
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fri,12/22/23-9:26AM , 58 Reads
ABC's multi-city New Year's Eve special and new music from the K-pop act TVXQ are some of the new television, movies and music headed to a device near you.
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