Some Patients With Wuhan Coronavirus Only Show Mild Symptoms. Here’s Why That’s a Problem
As researchers fight to stop the spread of a novel coronavirus that originated in a seafood market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, they are facing a counter-intuitive problem: the symptoms can sometimes be so mild in patients that the virus is very difficult to detect. The Wuhan coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, has killed at least 106 people in mainland China, out of the 4,400-plus document...
5m Jan 28, 2020
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“You shall never be a bystander.” How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone
On the morning of January 27th, 1945, the first Red Army soldier walked into Auschwitz death camp, and the 7,500 remaining prisoners knew they were finally free. More than 1.1 million people died in the camp, and those who survived are now facing a new struggle – the fight over remembrance. January 27th is not just the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, it is also the last major H...
8m Jan 28, 2020
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Sci-Fi Novelist William Gibson on the Invention of the Term “Cyberspace” and How AI Could be Truly Intelligent
The sci-fi novelist on inventing the term cyberspace, the surprising way AI could be truly intelligent and the ending he regrets In the same way Hunter S. Thompson and Pablo Picasso gave us gonzo journalism and Cubism, you've been credited with creating cyberpunk and inventing the term cyberspace. How do you plead? I remember early in my career looking at a yellow legal on which I wrote down in...
4m Jan 28, 2020
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Supreme Court Allows Policy Used to Deny Green Cards Over Use of Public Benefits
(WASHINGTON) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place new rules that could jeopardize permanent resident status for immigrants who use food stamps, Medicaid and housing vouchers. Under the new policy, immigration officials can deny green cards to legal immigrants over their use of public benefits. The justices' order came by a 5-4 vote and reversed a ...
3m Jan 28, 2020
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Memes Still Aren't Accessible to People Who Are Blind. What's Being Done About It?
If you’ve spent a lot of time on the internet in the last decade, you might immediately recognize this description: a toddler clenches his fist in front of a determined-looking face. “Success kid” is one of the most popular online memes in history. But for the 2.
10m Jan 28, 2020
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Column: Child Poverty Is a Moral Tragedy. This Policy Would Significantly Help
Nearly 1 in 5 American children is officially poor. That's roughly 15 million kids. But the number living with a significant deprivation--insufficient food, seriously overcrowded housing or a lack of access to medical care due to cost--is actually much higher. According to the latest studies, it's more like 1 in 3.
5m Jan 28, 2020
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Teen Basketball Players, Coaches Among Those Who Died in Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant
A helicopter crash outside Los Angeles on Sunday killed the basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people who were flying to a basketball tournament. All nine people aboard the helicopter died when it crashed "in a remote" field in Calabasas, Calif. around 10 a.m. Sunday.
7m Jan 28, 2020
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Suspect Handcuffed With His Arms Behind His Back Shot and Killed in Police Cruiser
(TEMPLE HILLS, Md.) — A man who had been handcuffed with his arms behind his back by police in Maryland was shot and killed inside an officer's cruiser. Prince George's County police officers responded Monday night to reports that a driver had struck multiple vehicles near the Temple Hills community, spokeswoman Christina Cotterman told news outlets during a news conference. When officers locat...
2m Jan 28, 2020
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John Bolton Revelations Test Trump Impeachment Defense Strategy
Donald Trump’s impeachment team began their second day of arguments less than 24 hours after revelations from John Bolton threatened to undermine key aspects of their defense. But Trump’s lawyers decided to plow ahead on Monday, ignoring the Bolton news and keeping with the planned defense they had outlined over the weekend. “We deal with transcript evidence,” Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow said at...
7m Jan 28, 2020
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The Tech Team Behind Billy Porter’s Incredible Opening and Closing Grammys Hat Told Us How it Works
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, a star-studded event, was a perfect opportunity for today's biggest celebrities to show off the latest fashion trends, from the everyday to the truly wild. The Grammys are where haute couture gets its moment to shine, and where your average viewer can gawk at outlandish and usually cumbersome outfits they'll probably never own.
6m Jan 28, 2020
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Trump Is Finally Presenting His Middle East ‘Peace Plan.’ Here’s What We Know So Far
It’s been three years in the making. But the Trump Administration’s proposal to bring peace to the Middle East, a purported solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is about to see the light of day. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, met President Donald Trump separately on Monday to hear details of the s...
9m Jan 28, 2020
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Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela Merkel set the tone with a moving and highly reflective speech at the Auschwitz Memorial in early December, when she expressed a “deep sense of shame for the barbaric crimes that were here committed...
9m Jan 28, 2020
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Kobe Bryant Was Working on a Children’s Book When He Died. His Co-Author Just Deleted the Draft
(SAO PAULO) — Kobe Bryant and Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho were working together on a children's book, but the author of “The Alchemist” said he deleted the draft after Bryant's death in a helicopter crash. The 72-year-old novelist told The Associated Press on Monday that the two men started discussing the project in 2016, when Bryant retired after a 20-year NBA career. They began writing a fe...
3m Jan 28, 2020
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Chipotle Fined $1.3 Million for More Than 13,000 Child Labor Violations
(BOSTON) — Chipotle was hit with a $1.3 million fine over more than 13,000 child labor violations at its Massachusetts restaurants, the state's attorney general announced Monday. Attorney General Maura Healey ordered the largest child labor penalty ever issued by the state against the Mexican restaurant chain after finding an estimated 13,253 child labor violations in its more than 50 locations.
2m Jan 28, 2020
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Prince Andrew Called Uncooperative by Prosecutor in Jeffrey Epstein Investigation
(NEW YORK) — Britain's Prince Andrew has provided “zero cooperation” to the American investigators who want to interview him as part of their sex trafficking probe into Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. prosecutor said Monday. Speaking at a news conference outside Epstein's New York mansion, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said prosecutors and the FBI had contacted Andrew's lawyers and asked to interview him.
4m Jan 28, 2020
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See All the Winners of the 2020 Grammy Awards
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards took place this year under the shadow of major tumult at the Recording Academy. They also began just hours after news broke that NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his . daughter Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles. Outside the Staples Center, arrivals took place on the red carpet as mourners gathered outside the arena to pay their respects at ...
15m Jan 28, 2020
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Kobe Bryant Had a Singular Impact on His Game and the World
Kobe Bryant was the fair heir to Michael Jordan, a scoring assassin who could rip a defender's heart out by way of a devastating dunk, or an elusive fadeaway jump shot from the baseline, his singular work of art. He won five NBA championships, made 18 All-Star teams, won an MVP award, two scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals and just last night was passed by LeBron James on the NBA's all-tim...
7m Jan 27, 2020
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What We Know So Far About the Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time and an internationally recognizable NBA superstar, died in a helicopter crash Sunday outside Los Angeles. He was 41 years old. Bryant was flying with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people when the helicopter went down “in a remote field” in Calabasas, Calif. around 10 a.m., according to the Associated Press.
13m Jan 27, 2020
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John Bolton Book Reportedly Claims President Trump Tied Ukraine Funds to Investigation
(WASHINGTON) — The stakes over witness testimony at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to undercut a key defense argument. Bolton writes in the forthcoming book that Trump told him that he wanted to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid from Ukraine until it helped him with...
7m Jan 27, 2020
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The Best and Worst Moments of the 2020 Grammys
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards were a teary affair: performers at the Staples Center took the stage below the retired jerseys of Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash earlier in the day. But the night also included triumphs for first-time Grammy winners like Lizzo, who kicked off the show with a jubilant performance, and Billie Eilish, who swept the big four categories for the first ...
12m Jan 27, 2020
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At Least 5 Rockets Hit U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Injuring 1 Staffer
(BAGHDAD) — A nighttime rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injured at least one embassy personnel member, staffers there said Monday. The two staff members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, did not specify the injured person's nationality or the severity of their wounds. They said the rocket slammed into a restaurant inside the e...
3m Jan 27, 2020
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Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 80 as U.S. Prepares to Evacuate Americans From Wuhan
(BEIJING) — A new viral illness being watched with a wary eye around the globe accelerated its spread in China with 80 deaths so far, while the U.S. Consulate in the city at the epicenter announced it will evacuate its personnel and some other Americans aboard a charter flight. China's health minister said the country was entering a “crucial stage" as “it seems like the ability of the virus to ...
8m Jan 27, 2020
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As India’s Constitution Turns 70, Opposing Sides Fight to Claim Its Author as One of Their Own
On Jan. 14, protesters gathered in the northern Indian city of Allahabad and lit candles at the base of a tree trunk, beside portraits of two fathers of the Indian nation. One, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—better known by his honorific, Mahatma (great soul)—is recognizable as the Indian independence activist and icon to peaceful protesters around the world. The other, however, remains lesser know...
14m Jan 27, 2020
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How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter on Honoring Her Family
How to remember victims of mass murder who have no graves? For families whose members have survived genocide or other forms of mass murder, remembrance is private and visceral. They often have no body to bury or cremate. As a child, I was fascinated by funerary objects: Egyptian mummies and their grave gods, memorial candles in temples, churches, and home shrines, old tombstones in small-town A...
9m Jan 27, 2020
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Why Chile’s SATs Have Become the New Frontline of Inequality Protests
School’s out for summer in Chile. But the vacation isn’t proving very relaxing for high school students in the South American country. A group of Chilean teenagers have spent the last few weeks opening a new and controversial front in the nationwide protests over inequality that started in October: Chile’s version of the SAT. On Jan.
12m Jan 26, 2020
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Paul Yoon’s Devastating ‘Run Me to Earth’ Explores Coming of Age in a War Zone
The orphaned teenagers at the center of Paul Yoon's latest novel like to fantasize about traveling to far-off places at night. They go to Paris or the moon. One visits a "very large" ship. As their days dip into darkness, 17-year-olds Prany and Alisak and 16-year-old Noi, Prany's sister, imagine that they are anywhere other than the bombed-out makeshift hospital where they sleep each evening.
3m Jan 26, 2020
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Park Rangers Find 2 People Dead in Rocky Mountain National Park
Park rangers in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park found two people dead while searching for a reportedly suicidal person. On Friday afternoon, park rangers were notified about a suicidal person who was "likely" in the park, according to a press release from Rocky Mountain National Park. Authorities located the person's vehicle and while searching for its occupants, they temporarily stoppe...
56s Jan 26, 2020
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Should You Reconsider Using WhatsApp After the Jeff Bezos Hack? Probably Not
Amid reports that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone was allegedly hacked by Saudi Arabia — with the direct involvement of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman via the popular chat app WhatsApp — some users may be wondering: Can I be hacked the same way? Investigators have "medium to high confidence" that Bezos's device was compromised after the chief executive received a mysterious video file from Bin ...
7m Jan 26, 2020
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When It Comes to Some Medical Treatment, Researchers Find Less Is More
Beyond its effects on the body, medical care can be a balm for the mind. Extensive treatment can feel like a promise that doctors have done everything possible. But that perceived security can come at a high price. As health costs soar, patients are emptying their pockets for care that may not make them healthier, research suggests.
4m Jan 26, 2020
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2 Dead, 4 Injured in Shooting at South Carolina Bar
Two people were killed and four injured in a shooting at a bar in Hartsville, S.C., early Sunday, officials said. The shooting occurred at a Hartsville bar named Mac's Lounge, Hartsville Police Department public information officer Lauren Baker confirmed. Police were called to the scene at 1:59 a.m., the Hartsville Police Department said in a statement. The four people injured are being treated...
51s Jan 26, 2020
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A 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Speaks. Really.
The priest once known as Nesyamun has been a man of few words for the past 3,000 years—which is how things go when you've been dead since about 1000 BCE. But according to a study just published in Scientific Reports, he recently spoke in a lab in the United Kingdom, and the single syllable the mummified Nesyamun uttered could open the door to an entire chorus of voices from the ancient Egyptian...
5m Jan 26, 2020
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Vine Has a New Successor: The 6-Second Video App Byte
Dom Hofmann, the co-founder of the defunct six-second video platform Vine has announced the release of the app's successor: Byte. The new app, which lets users shoot and upload six-second looping videos, launched on Android and iOS on Friday. Its creators wrote on the Apple App store that the app should seem "both familiar and new" to users. "We hope it’ll resonate with people who feel somethin...
2m Jan 26, 2020
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Who Will Win—and Who Should—at the 2020 Grammys
Awards season rolls on, with the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards right around the corner on Jan. 26. And after more than six decades of music celebrating its own on the industry's biggest night, we know better than to put too much stock into how the prizes are allocated; even Adele tried to give her Grammy away to Beyoncé back in 2017.
15m Jan 26, 2020
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Most Australians Don’t Spend a Lot of Time Thinking About the Bush. The Wildfires Remind Us What We Could Lose
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
8m Jan 26, 2020
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Researchers Find 102 Genes Linked to Autism in One of the Largest Studies of its Kind to Date
Autism spectrum disorder is a complex neurodevelopmental condition that is likely caused by both genetic and environmental factors. As the name suggests, it also represents a range of symptoms and behaviors, all of which makes teasing apart the genes involved quite challenging. In a study published Jan.
5m Jan 26, 2020
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In Groundbreaking Experiment, Astronauts Have Baked Cookies in Space. But What Do They Taste Like?
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes. And how do they taste? No one knows.
4m Jan 26, 2020
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In Harvey Weinstein Trial, Drama Gives Way to Lesson on ‘Rape Myths’
Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault trial opened in dramatic fashion. Lines formed before dawn outside the lower Manhattan courthouse. Full-throated protesters bellowed for justice for Weinstein’s accusers. A list of possible witnesses promised potential jurors a glimpse of Hollywood A-listers.
6m Jan 26, 2020
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How Trump and His Lawyers Have Been Getting Ready for His Impeachment Defense
Donald Trump is already worried about the television ratings for the first day of his defense team's opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. "Looks like my lawyers will be forced to start on Saturday, which is called Death Valley in T.V.," he complained on Twitter Friday morning. Trump has good reason to want people to tune in.
8m Jan 26, 2020
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Trump’s Impeachment Defense Takes Its Cue From the President
When Donald Trump's lawyers began their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial on Jan. 25, much of their argument boiled down to a phrase the President himself has been repeating for months: read the transcript. The President's lawyers focused on the White House summary of the July 25, 2019 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the central piece of evidence.
8m Jan 26, 2020
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Allegedly Cursed Out a Reporter and Asked Her to Identify Ukraine on a Map
On Friday, National Public Radio (NPR) reporter Mary Louise Kelly said that after she asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Ukraine in an interview, he allegedly become furious, cursed at her and accused her of not being able to find Ukraine on a map.
5m Jan 26, 2020
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Here’s Why Artists Who Aren’t That New Keep Getting Nominated for the Best New Artist Grammy
Best New Artist: it sounds like the promise of a career about to take flight. But for many recipients of this breakout Grammy Award, the label has turned out to be a bittersweet one with a mixed track record of predicting future success — not to mention the burden of expectation it brings.
12m Jan 26, 2020
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What Young French People Don't Know About the Holocaust
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, and this year's observance will be noteworthy for marking the 75th anniversary of that event. But the context in which the anniversary arrives is also noteworthy for another reason: one 2019 report found that more Jewish people had been killed in anti-Semitic violence worldwide in the previous yea...
7m Jan 26, 2020
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Hunger Games Prequel Courts Controversy Over Its Choice of Main Character
Readers have been anticipating Suzanne Collins's prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy since 2019, when the author announced her plans to revisit the dystopic world in a new book. A new excerpt of the upcoming novel, named The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, reveals the prequel will center, at least in part, on a young version Coriolanus Snow.
3m Jan 25, 2020
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Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters March in Iraq Amidst Growing Anti-U.S. Sentiment
A new sign greets travelers leaving the Baghdad International Airport, with red and white Arabic letters on a shrapnel-pockmarked wall. It proclaims the spot is the “the site of the American crime,” where on January 3rd, a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy leader of Iraq’s government-sanctioned armed groups and a legendary anti-ISIS comma...
7m Jan 25, 2020
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Trump Unveils Logo For New United States Space Force, With Nod to Star Trek
(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon's new U.S. Space Force is not Star Trek's Starfleet Command, but their logos bear a striking similarity. President Donald Trump unveiled the Space Force logo Friday, writing on Twitter that he had consulted with military leaders and designers before presenting the blue-and-white symbol, which features an arrowhead shape centered on a planetary background and encircle...
2m Jan 25, 2020
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The Lessons of SARS Never Really Left Hong Kong. Will That Help Stop a Coronavirus Outbreak?
For the past week, Hong Kong retail store owner Dora Ho has been wearing a medical mask wherever she goes. She doesn't let her husband leave the house without one, either. The couple have a dozen boxes of them at home, and started their stockpile as news reports began to pour in about a deadly, pneumonia-like coronavirus that first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
7m Jan 25, 2020
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New Trump Rule Requires U.S. Officials To Weigh Pregnant Visa Applicants’ Medical Needs
The Trump administration issued a new rule on Thursday instructing United States consular officials to deny pregnant women visas unless they can prove "to the satisfaction of the consular officer" either that they are not traveling to the U.S. to give birth, or that they have a legitimate medical reason to give birth in the country. The administration says the new provision is an attempt to cut...
6m Jan 25, 2020
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Chinese New Year Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Wish Someone a ‘Happy Lunar New Year’ in Chinese
Saturday marks the start of the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, China's biggest holiday. During this time, the world's largest human migration will take place as hundreds of millions of people make their way to celebrate with family in China. The holiday is also celebrated by millions of people of Chinese decent all over the world, including in the U.S. Here's...
5m Jan 25, 2020
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How the Grammys Descended into Behind-The-Scenes Chaos
When Alicia Keys hosts the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, she will likely try to keep the mood as upbeat as she did last year. But a dark cloud hangs over the proceedings. The Recording Academy is currently locked in a vicious battle against its former president and CEO Deborah Dugan, who had led the organization for not quite half a year before being placed on administrative leave on Jan...
13m Jan 25, 2020
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34 U.S. Troops Had Brain Injuries From the Iran Missile Strike, Pentagon Says
(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injury in Iran's missile strike this month on an Iraqi air base, and although half have returned to work, the casualty total belies President Donald Trump's initial claim that no Americans were harmed. He later characterized the injuries as “not very serious.
6m Jan 25, 2020
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