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• The next venue for Prince William's Earthshot Prize has been announced

• William, 43, is taking his environmental prize to Mumbai, India

• It will be the sixth iteration of the awards, taking them to the country that has provided more Earthshot finalists and winners than any other in the world

Prince Williamis making plans to head back to an exciting city he visited a decade ago withKate Middleton.

The Prince of Wales, 43, is taking hisEarthshot Prizeto Mumbai, India, in November 2026. He and Princess Kate wen there in 2016 as part of a successful and extensive tour of the country.

The Prince will be expected to travel to the awards, which celebrate innovators and investors looking to find answers to some of the planet's environmental problems. Mumbai follows the inaugural awards in London, in 2021, followed by Boston, Singapore,Cape Town, South Africa, andRio de Janeiro, Brazil, all of which William has attended. Kate, 44, has missed the last two, but attended London and Boston in 2022.

The announcement was made on Tues. Feb. 17, at the first Mumbai Climate Week. It is a fitting place for the awards and the series of events that take place around it, as organizers point out there have been more Earthshot Prize winners and finalists from India than any other country.

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The awards are designed to inspire and engender new ideas and initiatives — and optimism that climate change and other challenges can be combated. Earthshot Prize organizers say India and Mumbai in particular are well-placed to lead the change, in Asia and beyond.

William's brainchild — which sees winners in five categories take home $1.4 million in backing — is set to run for a decade, rewarding scalable ideas and projects with prize money and a network of financial supporters and mentors.

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"We must continue to look to the future with urgency and optimism, which is why I am delighted that Mumbai will host The Earthshot Prize 2026. India is one of the world's most important forces for climate and nature," Prince William said in a statement. "What succeeds in India at scale has the power to inspire progress everywhere."

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He added, "With the largest population of young people in the world, there is a real sense of momentum – to not only imagine a better future, but to inspire change and make it a reality. Together, we can rise to meet our greatest challenge, to repair and restore our planet by 2030.​"

Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra that includes Mumbai, added in a statement, "The Earthshot Prize is the world's most prestigious environmental award and I'm proud to announce that it will be hosted in Mumbai in November."

"Sustainability and climate action remain top priorities for Maharashtra, and The Earthshot Prize will create global attention for India's leadership and commitment to turning our goals into meaningful action on the ground."

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Earthshot was inspired by President John F. Kennedy's 'Moonshot' mission of the 1960s and William has the same groundbreaking ambition — to find ideas for action to save the planet from its most pressing environmental problems. Since its inception in 2020, Earthshot has identified more than 5,600 emerging environmental innovations from 156 countries.

Each winner in five categories — Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix our Climate — receives $1.4 million. But alongside the winners, some 75 finalists have been recognized and brought into the Earthshot community, collectively securing more $500 million in investment and philanthropy to find funding and support as they hope to take their ideas forward.

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After 20 years, Anderson Cooper is exiting "60 Minutes," CBS' flagship news program.

"Being a correspondent at '60 Minutes' has been one of the highlights of my career. I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors and camera crews in the business," Cooper said in a statement (perVariety). "For nearly 20 years, I've been able to balance my jobs at CNN and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they want to spend time with me."

CBS News, meanwhile, issued the following statement to TVLine: "For more than two decades, Anderson Cooper has taken '60 Minutes' viewers on journeys to faraway places, told us unforgettable stories, reported consequential investigations and interviewed many prominent figures. We're grateful to him for dedicating so much of his life to this broadcast, and understand the importance of spending more time with family. '60 Minutes' will be here if he ever wants to return."

Cooper has been a fixture on "60 Minutes" since the 2006-07 season, serving as a correspondent concurrent with his duties at CNN. In addition to anchoring "Anderson Cooper 360°," he also hosts the cable network's own Sunday night newsmagazine, "The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper."

His final "60 Minutes" segment — in which filmmaker Ken Burns shared what he thinks would surprise the nation's founders 250 years after the Declaration of Independence — aired Sunday (see below).

Word of his exit comes after several years of upheaval at CBS News. In July, Paramount opted tosettle President Donald Trump's lawsuitover a "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. The lawsuit, filed in October 2024 — just days before the presidential election — centered on CBS News' dissemination of two different clips of Democratic nominee Harris' thoughts on the conflict in the Middle East. A longer version aired on "Face the Nation," while a shorter excerpt was used the next day on "60 Minutes." CBS News had long maintained that each excerpt reflected the substance of Harris' answer, and in February 2025 full transcripts were released to support that stance. Nevertheless, Paramount agreed to settle for $16 million.

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Shortly thereafter, the FCC approved Skydance Media's $8 billion bid to acquire Paramount.

Then on December 21, at the discretion of CBS News' newly appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, a "60 Minutes" segment on the Trump administration's deportations of detainees to El Salvador was pulled hours ahead of air. The correspondent on the segment, Sharyn Alfonsi, subsequently sent a memo to colleagues alleging that Weiss' decision was "not an editorial decision," but rather "a political one."

Weiss in turn defended the move, suggesting that the segment was not ready and needed a Trump administration official to comment "on the record and on camera." It proceeded to air four weeks laterwithout any significant changes to the report itself.

Breaker Mediawas first to report the news of Anderson's exit.

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There are bad audition stories, and then there are truly painful ones.

Will Arnetthas a not-so-fond memory of the latter.During a stop byHot Ones, theArrestedDevelopmentactor was asked if he had a "most painful memory of auditioning in L.A. during pilot season" to share, because he "once swore off pilots after being cast in a series of shows that failed to launch."

Though it wasn't for pilot season — or a television series at all — Arnett did have a pretty good recollection of the time he auditioned withKevin Costnerfor the 1997 movieThe Postman.

"The night before, I'd eaten something bad, and I ended up going to the hospital because I was so dehydrated from being ill," Arnett toldHotOneshost Sean Evans. "And at that point that afternoon going to meet him, that was the furthest I'd been away from the bathroom in like, you know, 14 hours."

He continued, "And I remember getting up there and just meeting him and being a fan of his and like this was like a big deal, and just sweating, and just thinking, 'This can go really bad right now.' Yeah, I was meeting Kevin Costner and I legitimately was worried about crapping my pants, you know."

Ultimately, Arnett didn't clarify which role he was up for inThe Postman, but it's clear he didn't get the part in the film, which was also produced and directed by Costner. In addition to Costner, Olivia Williams, Will Patton, Tom Petty, Peggy Lipton, and Larenz Tate also starred.

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TheIs This Thing On?actor had made his big screen debut the previous year, in 1996 filmsEd's Next MoveandClose Up. A few more movie roles would follow, but it wasn't until 2003'sArrestedDevelopmentthat Arnett had his big breakthrough.

As alluded to onHot Ones, Arnett has not been shy over the years about his struggles booking roles early in his career, includingtellingVarietyin 2004that he had made a personal vow not to audition for television pilots anymore right before he got the role onArrested Development.

"When it went to series, my character got cut or I got fired," he said of his experience with pilot season, noting in particular the CBS seriesStill Standing, which he was cut from when the network ordered more episodes without him. "I'm not entirely sure. I know that both things happened."

Elsewhere onHotOnes, above, Arnett discusses the art of a great talk-show appearance, his obsession with Golden Tee, and how he cracked the code on his Batman voice.

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — A shooting during a Rhode Island youth hockey game left three people dead, including the shooter, and three more hospitalized Monday night in critical condition, authorities said.

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Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that someone helped bring a swift end to the violent scene Monday afternoon by intervening and trying to subdue the shooter, who was at an arena to watch a family member's hockey game. The shooter died from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound, she said, noting that authorities were still investigating.

"It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute," she said.

Goncalves identified the shooter as Robert Dorgan, who she said also went by the name Roberta Esposito and was born in 1969.

The police chief did not provide further details about the shooter or the victims, except for saying it appeared that both victims who died were adults.

She said investigators were trying to piece together what happened and have spoken with scores of witnesses who were there inside Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles outside Providence. They also were reviewing video taken from the hockey game. Unverified footage circulating on social media shows players diving for cover and fans fleeing their seats after popping sounds are heard.

Outside the arena, tearful families and high school hockey players still in uniform were seen hugging before they boarded a bus to leave the area.

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Monday's shooting came nearly two months after Rhode Island was rocked by a gun violence tragedy atBrown University, where a gunman killed two students and wounded nine others. That shooter went on to also fatally shoot a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Authorities later found Claudio Neves Valente, 48, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a New Hampshire storage facility.

"The fortunate thing is that the two incidents are not related, but it is very tragic," Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said. "These are high school kids. They were doing an event, they were playing with their families watching, a fun time, and it turned into this."

Pawtucket is nestled just north of Providence and right under the Massachusetts state border. A city of just under 80,000, Pawtucket had up until recently been known as the home to Hasbro's headquarters.

This story has been corrected to show that the shooting occurred on Monday, not Tuesday.

Associated Press writer Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, contributed to this report.

GENEVA (AP) — Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv were in Geneva on Tuesday for another round ofU.S.-brokered peace talks, a week before the fourth anniversary ofRussia's full-scale invasionof its neighbor.

However, expectations for any breakthroughs in Geneva were low, with neither side apparently ready to budge from its positions on key territorial issues and future security guarantees, despite the United States setting aJune deadlinefor a settlement.

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyysaid his government's delegation was in Switzerland and Russian state news agency Tass said the Russian delegation had also arrived. Talks, to be held over two days, were expected to start later in the day.

Discussions on the future of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory are expected to be particularly tough as U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, sit down with the delegations. That's according to a person familiar with the talks who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk to reporters.

Russa is still insisting that Ukraine cede control of its eastern Donbas region.

Also in Geneva will be American, Russian and Ukrainian military chiefs, who will discuss how a ceasefire monitoring might work after any peace deal, and what's needed to implement it, the person said.

Duringprevious talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, military leaders looked at how a demilitarized zone could be arranged and how everyone's militaries could talk to one another, the person added.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov cautioned against expecting developments on the first day of talks as they were set to continue on Wednesday. Moscow has provided few details of previous talks.

Ukraine's short-handed army is locked in a war of attrition with Russia's bigger forces along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile)front line. Ukrainian civilians are enduring Russian aerial barrages that repeatedlyknock out poweranddestroy homes.

The future of the almost 20% of Ukrainian land that Russia occupies or still covets is a central question in the talks, as are Kyiv's demands for postwar security guarantees with a U.S. backstop to deter Moscow from invading again.

Trump described the Geneva meeting as "big talks."

"Ukraine better come to the table fast," he told reporters late Monday as he flew back to Washington from his home in Florida.

It wasn't immediately clear what Trump was referring to in his comment about Ukraine, which has committed to and taken part in negotiations in the hope of ending Russia's devastating onslaught.

Complex talks as the war presses on

The Russian delegation is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin's adviser Vladimir Medinsky, who headed Moscow's team of negotiators in the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul in March 2022 and has forcefully pushed Putin's war goals. Medinsky has written several history books that claim to expose Western plots against Russia and berate Ukraine.

The commander of the U.S. military — and NATO forces — in Europe, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, and Secretary of the U.S. Army Dan Driscoll will attend the meeting in Geneva on behalf of the U.S. military and meet with their Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Col. Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for the U.S. commander said.

Overnight, Russia used almost 400 long-range drones and 29 missiles of various types to strike 12 regions of Ukraine, injuring nine people, including children, according to the Ukrainian president.

Zelenskyy said tens of thousands of residents were left without heating and running water in the southern port city of Odesa.

Zelenskyy said Moscow should be "held accountable" for the relentless attacks, which he said undermine the U.S. push for peace.

"The more this evil comes from Russia, the harder it will be for everyone to reach any agreements with them. Partners must understand this. First and foremost, this concerns the United States," the Ukrainian leader said on social media late Monday.

"We agreed to all realistic proposals from the United States, starting with the proposal for an unconditional and long-term ceasefire," Zelenskyy noted.

The talks in Geneva took place as U.S. officials also held indirecttalks with Iranin the Swiss city.

Burrows reported from London. Associated Press writer Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

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BEIRUT (AP) — Protesters blocked main roads in and around Beirut on Tuesday after Lebanon's Cabinet approved new taxes that raise fuel prices and other products to fund public pay hikes.

The Cabinet approved a tax of 300,000 Lebanese pounds (about $3.30) on every 20 liters (5.3 gallons) of gasoline on Monday. Diesel fuel was exempted from the new tax, as most in Lebanon depend on itto run private generatorsto make up for severe shortages in state electricity.

The government also agreed to increase the value-added tax on all products already subject to the levy from 11 to 12%, which the parliament still has to approve.

The tax increases are to support raises and pension boosts of public employees, after wages lost value in the 2019 currency collapse, giving them the equivalent of an additional six months' salary. Information Minister Paul Morcos said the pay increases were estimated to cost about $800 million.

Though the Mediterranean country sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East, it suffers ongoinginflationand widespread corruption.The cash-strapped countryalso suffered about $11 billion in damages in the 2024 war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.

Anger over fuel hike

Ghayath Saadeh, one of a group of taxi drivers who blocked a main road leading into downtown Beirut, said the country's leaders "consider us taxi drivers to be garbage."

"Everything is getting more expensive, food and drinks, and Ramadan is coming," he said. "We will block all the roads, God willing, if they don't respond to us."

When the Lebanese government proposed new taxes in 2019, including a $6 monthly fee for using internet calls through services such as WhatsApp, mass protests broke out that paralyzed the country for months. Demonstrators called for the country's leaders to step down over widespread corruption, government paralysis and failing infrastructure, and for an end to the country's sectarian power-sharing system.

Lebanon has been under international pressure to make financial reforms for years, but has so far made little progress.

Weapons plan discussed

Also Monday, the cabinet received a report from the Lebanese army on its progress on a plan to disarm non-state militant groups in the country, including Hezbollah.

Last month, the army announced it had completed the first phase of the plan, covering the area south of the Litani River, near the border with Israel. The second phase of the plan will cover segments of southern Lebanon between the Litani and the Awali rivers, which includes the port city of Sidon.

Morcos, the information minister, said following the cabinet session that the second stage is expected to take four months but could be extended "depending on the available resources, the continuation of Israeli attacks and the obstacles on the ground."

The disarmament plan comes after aU.S.-brokered ceasefirenominally ended a war between Hezbollah and Israel in November 2024. Since then, Israel has accused Hezbollah of rebuilding and has continued to launch near-daily strikes in Lebanon and to occupy several hilltop points on the Lebanese side of the border.

Hezbollah has insisted that the ceasefire deal only requires it to disarm south of the Litani and that it will not discuss disarming in the rest of the country until Israel stops its strikes and withdraws from all Lebanese territory.

Associated Press writer Hussein Malla contributed to this report.

Angel Reeseleft fans swooning with another jaw-dropping Instagram upload, this time rocking a stringbikini. The WNBA star recently shared an Instagram photo dump on February 15, where she showcased this stunning look. Reese flaunted the sultry ensemble as she posed with a bouquet of red and white roses for Valentine's Day. She also penned a caption, writing, "more than enough."

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Check out Angel Reese's look below:

Reese wore a cheetah-print two-piece string bikini set for aValentine's Day photo shoot. The underwired bra also featured white lace detailing. The photos capture the Chicago Sky star posing by the pool, along with a large bouquet of roses. The stunning swimwear showcased her athletic physique and glowing skin as she lounged by the water. Reese went for a no-makeup makeup look with minimal accessories, keeping attention on the exquisite lingerie set.

Needless to say, fans can't get enough of Reese's latest stylish moment, with many flooding her post's comments section with heart-eye emojis.

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