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Hollywood actors are joining screenwriters in the first dual strike from the two unions in more than six decades, with huge consequences for the film and television industry LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood actors are joining screenwriters in the first dual strike from the two unions in more than six decades, with huge consequences for the film and television industry. Here is a look at how it has played out, why it's happening, and what could come next. WHAT LED TO THE ACTORS STRIKE? More than a month of talks on a new three-year contract between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the studios, streaming services and production companies that employ them led to little progress, and the tone became openly hostile in the days before union leaders voted to begin a strike on Friday. A last minute intervention from a federal mediator didn't bridge the gap. Union leaders say the streaming model that has taken over the industry ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that he could order his troops to try to seize more land in Ukraine to protect Russian territory on the border KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Tuesday that he could order his troops to try to seize more land in Ukraine to protect border ing Russian territory and asserted that Ukrainian forces had suffered “catastrophic” losses in a new counteroffensive. In some of his most detailed remarks about the war in months, the Russian leader also said he was not contemplating a new troop mobilization, as many Russians have feared, but did not rule it out. And he reiterated Russia’s claim that Ukraine was responsible for blowing up a Dnieper River dam that caused vast flooding on both sides of the front line last week in the country's south. Putin's comments at an open meeting with military journalists and bloggers followed Kyiv's claims that Ukrainian troops had captured a handful of villages in the early st...