The eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones" will launch April 14, HBO announced late Sunday.


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The latest movie in "The Mummy" franchise arrives in theaters this week.

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'The Audacity' offers brutal send-up of Silicon Valley

The movie vacillates wildly between Reeves' attempts at introspection and Jonah Hill's mania.

'Outcome': Keanu Reeves' movie is a muddled mess (Susan Lucci excepted)

He and his dachshund, WillieBoy, will be at The Next Chapter April 21.

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Gillis Poll and his fiancee got to hang out with James Marsden's billionaire character in the season 2 opener.

LI restaurateur appears on Apple TV's 'Your Friends & Neighbors'

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Students who had been relocated to other schools due to the blaze returned to class at West Side School in Laurel Hollow Monday. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

Class back in session at LI school damaged by fire

Some Long Islanders condemed the president's Truth Social posts, including one of an AI-generated image that depicted himself as Jesus. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

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NewdayTV's Elisa DiStefano heads to Adventureland to ride the new attraction, Wave Twister.

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NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa visited G Taste Crepe Café in Huntington to try their sushi crepes.

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Town of Smithtown video footage shows an argument erupting between councilmen Tom McCarthy and Thomas Lohmann at the end of Tuesday's town council session after Lohmann allegedly assaulted McCarthy in the executive session, which was closed to the public. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

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A peer mentoring program at Shoreham-Wading River High School brings students together through the joy of music.

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NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visits Kōre Mat Pilates Studio in Baldwin.

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The U.S. Navy launched a groundwater treatment plant on Union Avenue in Bethpage, designed to contain the spreading Grumman plume of contamination.

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Labor leaders said an LIRR union strike would be "disastrous" for Long Island, despite MTA officials' attempts to downplay the impact of a strike.

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Doctors accused an LI nurse of faking childhood vaccines yet she kept practicing for years. The DA never investigated. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa and Newsday investigative reporters Jim Baumbach and David Olson have the story.

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The IRS says the average refund amount as of April 3 was $3,462. Here's what a sampling of taxpayers had to say. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie has more.

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Towns have used local zoning laws to block house of worship expansions, an issue that has grown more acute nationwide, experts said. NewsdayTV's Doug Geed reports.

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A rehearsal was held on Monday at the United Methodist Church of Hempstead for an upcoming gospel concert that will raise funds for local social justice movements.

'Empowered to use our voice'

The Suffolk PAL donated $5,000 worth of equipment to Brentwood youth baseball. NewsdayTV's Matt Lindsay reports.

'We're all about the kids. It's what we do.'

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman claims NIFA no longer needs to oversee the county's finances. Newsday reporter Robert Brodsky reports.

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'Should have been fixed a long time ago'

The universal pre-K coming to South Huntington this fall for 4-year-olds will be in a centralized location and do away with the lottery system.

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Suffolk officials hope to have two-way traffic restored on the existing bridge by Memorial Day weekend. NewsdayTV's Jasmine Anderson reports.

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