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Noah Lyles – The Flash
Already the world's fastest man, Noah Lyles is bringing his speed and showmanship to the Paris Games
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July 15, 2024
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Alice Munro
Master of the short story
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June 10, 2024
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'I don't have faith in doctors anymore!'
How women get pressured into long-term birth control
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June 24, 2024
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Rashida Jones The multihyphenate creator on her new dark comedy Sunny, the complexity of grief, and whether a robot can find its motivation
In Sunny, you play an American woman in Kyoto, reluctantly bonding with a \"homebot\" gifted to her by her husband's company after he and their son disappear following a plane crash. What about grief were you hoping to explore in this story?
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July 15, 2024
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House of the Dragon's song of grief and guilt
\"THERE IS NO WAR SO HATEFUL TO THE GODS AS A WAR between kin,\" a wise character observes in the second season of HBO's House of the Dragon.
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July 15, 2024
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Maika Monroe is giving evil a run for its money
LIKE A SHAPE-SHIFTING SPECTER LURKING just out of frame, the title of \"scream queen\" has been trailing in Maika Monroe's wake since her star-making turn in the 2015 breakout horror hit It Follows.
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July 15, 2024
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Mia Goth prefers to live on the edge
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST INDELIBLE IMAGES IN recent cinema: \"Please, I'm a star!\" wails the title character of Ti West's 2022 cult horror film, Pearl, after she's been rejected for a role at an audition.
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July 15, 2024
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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT BREAKING
The sport of breaking-competitive breakdancing will make its Olympic debut in Paris.
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July 15, 2024
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HOW SIMONE BILES CHANGED GYMNASTICS
THERE ARE TWO MAIN FEATURES ANY ATHLETE EARNING the Greatest of All Time title needs to possess-longevity and ability.
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July 15, 2024
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THE POLITICS OF PARIS
WHEN FRENCH HISTORIAN PIERRE DE COUBERTIN founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the modern Olympic Games, in the late 19th century, he billed the competition as a peace movement that could bring the world together through sport.
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July 15, 2024
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The growing evidence that even heading into this year's election― Americans are less divided than you may think
IN JANUARY 2021, IN THE TURBULENT wake of the last presidential contest, a former professor named Todd Rose asked some 2,000 people a question.
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July 15, 2024
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Monument removals and revolutionaries
Four years ago, amid reinvigorated public debate about historical monuments, statues began coming down across the country.
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July 15, 2024
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The D.C. Brief
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY knew the score when he signed into law a requirement that every classroom in his state-from kindergartens to college chemistry labs-must post a copy of the Ten Commandments.
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July 15, 2024
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Donald Sutherland - A profound talent
The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, who died on June 20 at age 88, enjoyed such a long career that citing a definitive performance is impossible.
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July 15, 2024
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Chicago commits to explore reparations
BLACK CHICAGOANS MAY SEE SOME form of reparations, after the city's mayor signed an executive order on June 17 to form a dedicated task force.
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July 15, 2024
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maximum-security prison, In a the imagination flies free
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND IS how most Americans probably think about incarcerated individualsuntil an acquaintance or a loved one lands in a correctional facility, after plotting a crime or perhaps just acting impulsively in a heated moment.
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July 15, 2024
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WHY HUNGARY IS SO GOOD AT WATER POLO
ARRIVING HOME A WORLD champion in the summer of 2023, Hungarian water-polo player Vince Vigvari got a taste of the rock-star life.
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July 15, 2024
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THE HARDEST SPORTS ON THE BODY
Athletes are competitive by nature, so when they get together for a massive sporting event like the Olympics, there's likely a bit of good-natured oneupmanship over whose event is hardest.
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July 15, 2024
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A SHOW OF PEACE
Andriy Yermak has been President Zelensky's closest wartime adviser. Now he's trying to find an ending.
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July 15, 2024
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PLASTIC BURNOUT
Fiji is ground zero for the planet's waste problem and the challenge of stopping it at the source
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July 15, 2024
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On Her Own
Melinda French Gates talks about her divorce, her life, and her post-Gates Foundation plan to help the world by helping women.
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July 15, 2024
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The true meaning of 'give me liberty'
ALMOST 250 YEARS AGO, FOUR weeks before the battles of Lexington and Concord, Patrick Henry rose in St. John's Church in Richmond, Va., to urge Americans to arm for a war that he saw as inevitable. He famously concluded his call to arms: \"Give me liberty, or give me death.\"
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July 15, 2024
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The Putin-Kim affair
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S recent trip to North Korea was a remarkable event for many reasons.
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July 15, 2024
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CHINA'S ROVING EYE
It wasn't so long ago that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his country's relationship with China \"a marriage made in heaven.\" And when President Joe Biden told reporters in March 2023 that he wasn't inviting Netanyahu to Washington given his plans to undermine Israel's independent judiciary, Netanyahu planned a visit to President Xi Jinping in China instead.
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July 15, 2024
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Willie Mays - The "Say Hey Kid" who inspired
MILLIONS OF KIDS WHO watched Willie Mays play during the prime of his major league baseball career, or were born after he retired from the game in 1973, practiced making “The Catch,” just like Mays—who died peacefully on June 18, at 93 —did that afternoon back in 1954.
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July 15, 2024
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Julian Assange - After a 14-year battle against extradition
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE after more than a decade spent holed up in a London embassy, then in British custody, largely to avoid extradition to the U.S. On June 26, the WikiLeaks founder appeared in a federal court in Saipan, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, following a plea deal with American prosecutors.
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July 15, 2024
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How will extreme heat affect energy bills?
AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS CAN EXPECT TO SEE MORE than a rise in the mercury this summer. From June to September, the average cost of keeping a home cool is predicted to spike by nearly 9%-to $719.
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July 15, 2024
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THE KIDS ARE FAR RIGHT
Across Europe, rightwing parties have managed to find support among young voters.
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July 15, 2024
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The World According to Biden
Inside the President’s efforts to sustain the American century
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June 24, 2024
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Claudia Sheinbaum
A first for Mexico
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