3 Astronauts Arrive Safely on International Space Station Following Previous Failed Launch
(BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan) — Three astronauts who were launched into space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Monday entered the International Space Station nearly eight hours later, a relief to relatives and scientists months after a rocket failure aborted another mission.
4m Dec 04, 2018
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The First Woman Soccer Player of the Year Was Asked to Twerk on Stage After Receiving Her Award
One of the most prestigious soccer awards ceremonies in the world sparked outrage Monday night when the first-ever women's soccer player of the year was asked to twerk on stage by a male presenter. Norwegian striker Ada Hegerberg, 23, had just accepted her trophy when the presenter, Martin Solveig, a DJ and producer, asked her in French if "she could twerk". Visibly irr...
3m Dec 04, 2018
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Thailand’s Famous Phi Phi Islands Are Running Out of Drinking Water Because of Too Many Tourists
Just days after Thailand's world renowned Phi Phi Islands were praised for their environmental recovery, new details have emerged about the drinking water crisis in the holiday archipelago. Made famous by the film The Beach (2000), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the sandy white shores and crystal clear waters of the Phi Phi Islands attract tourists from all over the world ...
3m Dec 04, 2018
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A Top Legal Official at the E.U. Says Britain Can Change Its Mind on Brexit
LONDON (AP) — A top official at the European Union's highest court advised Tuesday that Britain can unilaterally change its mind about leaving the EU.Advocate General Manuel Campos Sanchez-Bordona told the European Court of Justice that a decision by the British government to change its mind about invoking Article 50 would be legally valid. The advice of the advocate gener...
2m Dec 04, 2018
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Tumblr Will Be Permanently Banning All Adult Content Soon
Tumblr has announced that all adult content will be permanently banned from its platform on December 17, a move that is expected to drastically alter how the microblogging site is used. According to Tumblr's Help Center, adult content, including "photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, vi...
2m Dec 04, 2018
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Students From Paradise Return to School 3 Weeks After Wildfire That Killed 88
(PARADISE, Calif.) — With hugs, teachers and a touch of anxiety, thousands of children returned to school and some semblance of routine Monday, three weeks after Northern California's deadly wildfire destroyed their homes and classrooms. Schools in Butte County have been closed since Nov. 8, when the blaze swept through the towns of Paradise, Concow and Magalia in the n...
3m Dec 04, 2018
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Congress Will Push the Shutdown Deadline. It’s Still Not Clear How It Will End
Lawmakers are playing a trillion-dollar game of chicken, pushing the deadline to avert a government shutdown back by two weeks without a clear sense of how to resolve the standoff.
4m Dec 04, 2018
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What Trump’s Deal With China Could Mean for Overdose Deaths in the U.S.
As part of a wide-ranging deal between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, China has reportedly pledged to designate the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl and similar drugs as controlled substances, subjecting those who sell them to harsher punishments and potentially slowing their flow into the U.S.
6m Dec 04, 2018
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Now Millennials Are Being Accused of Killing Canned Tuna
Canned tuna might be too stinky, processed and inconvenient for Millennials, a new report says. Millennials seem to be choosing yoga pants over jeans, and hot sauce over mayo. Now, it seems that they're avoiding a former mainstay of American lunches— canned tuna. Although consumers have been eating less canned tuna for the last three decades, Millennials seem to be buyi...
2m Dec 04, 2018
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The Internet Uses Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter Mistake to Troll Donald Trump
A punctuation error in a recent tweet written by Rudy Giuliani has turned into an opportunity for the Internet to roast Donald Trump. In a tweet sent out last Friday afternoon criticizing Robert Mueller and his investigation about Russia's alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election, Giuliani writes at length about Trump's attendance at the G-20 summit, but it...
1m Dec 04, 2018
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Men Are Beside the Point in Two New Films That Give Female Friendship the Royal Treatment
Sisterhood is powerful, but friendships between women can be among the thorniest flowers on earth. We often stand together, and need to do so for survival. But women, like all human beings, have flaws and frailties that sometimes tip into the red zone of defensiveness or distrust. Envy takes root like a weed; competitiveness becomes a blood sport. The complications are even greater for ambitiou...
7m Dec 03, 2018
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‘It’s About Right and Wrong.’ In Conversation With the Journalist Who Exposed the World’s Biggest Corruption Scandal
On the morning when I first met Clare Rewcastle Brown, the British journalist known for breaking wide one of the biggest-ever corruption scandals to involve a head of state, she casually mentioned we were being followed. We were taking part in a rally snaking through London's Trafalgar Square when she noted the "dodgy looking fellow." At the time, being stalked through central London was not un...
6m Dec 03, 2018
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How to Tell If Someone Is Lying to You, According to Body Language Experts
All human beings possess the ability to lie. And many of us do — multiple studies have suggested that, on average, Americans tell one or two lies a day. Fortunately, experts say there are ways to spot signs of untruthfulness. To identify a fib, you first have to have a baseline for how someone acts when they’re being honest, says Traci Brown, body language expert and author of How to Detect Li...
8m Dec 03, 2018
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California’s Historic Camp Fire Destroyed Their Home. Now They’re Looking for Hope — And Suing Their Utility Company
What happened to Kirk Trostle is just too big to process, he says. The retired police chief lived in Paradise, Calif., for 30 years, until the "fires from hell" came in early November. Now the life he knew, from his neighborhood to music in the park on Thursday nights, is gone.
12m Dec 03, 2018
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President Trump Reportedly Wants to Make Asylum Seekers Wait in Mexico. It’s Not That Simple
With many fleeing life-threatening conditions including gang violence and domestic abuse, the thousands of migrants who make up what has become known as the "migrant caravan" hoped the United States would be a place of refuge after their long journeys. Instead, some of them were met with tear gas at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on Nov. 25, after at least one migrant reportedly threw rocks...
10m Dec 03, 2018
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‘There Is an Atmosphere of Civil War.’ France’s Yellow Jackets Are Driving Fury at Macron
On the one side sits a hugely powerful global leader who made his fortune as an investment banker, then in his 30s took power of the world's seventh-biggest economy. Pitted against him: A growing mass of protestors seething with frustration and contempt, who opinion polls said this week have the support of two-thirds of the country. Emmanuel Macron is that leader, of course. The French Preside...
7m Dec 03, 2018
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What George H.W. Bush’s Life Can Teach America About Overcoming the Challenges It Faces Today
The United States has had only 45 presidents over its two and a quarter centuries as a nation, and we just lost one of them: George H.W. Bush, the 41st. Of course we will and should mourn, but we would be remiss if we did not as well take a few moments to learn from his four years in the Oval Office and from the other 90 years of his remarkable life. First and most important, we should see tha...
6m Dec 03, 2018
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The Smashed Face of This Statue Symbolizes the Fury of the Paris Protests
France's worst riots in a decade have left destruction across Paris, with even national monuments facing the wrath of anti-government protesters known as gilet jaunes or yellow jackets after the high-visibility jackets they wear on demonstrations. Thousands of protesters stormed the streets of the French capital over the weekend, leaving torched cars, smashed windows and looted stores in their...
2m Dec 03, 2018
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The Whereabouts of China’s Gene-Editing Doctor He Jiankui Remain Unknown
The whereabouts of He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world's first gene-edited babies, remain unknown after his former workplace refuted media reports that he was detained over the weekend. A spokeswoman for China's Southern University of Science and Technology said that media reports of He's detention were inaccurate but added that the university would be unable t...
2m Dec 03, 2018
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Behind TIME's Cover Commemorating George H.W. Bush's Life
Former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 94, appears on the cover of TIME this week, as the country commemorates his legacy in American politics. Bush appeared on more than 20 covers of TIME during his life, first in 1970 as he campaigned for the U.S. Senate and last in 2015 as a second Bush son prepared to run for U.S. President.
2m Dec 02, 2018
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George H.W. Bush Believed in the Essential Goodness of Americans: Essay
He wanted to go as soon as he heard. On the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, George Herbert Walker Bush—known as “Poppy” to family and friends—was walking on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, when word came of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was 17-and-a-half years old. He longed to defend his country—right then, right away, no waiting around. Told he would hav...
11m Dec 02, 2018
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George H.W. Bush Died 8 Months After His Wife of 73 Years. Doctors Explain Why That's So Common
George H.W. Bush died in his Houston home on Nov. 30, less than eight months after his wife of 73 years, Barbara. He was 94. While Bush's cause of death was not immediately known, a range of factors can cause spouses to die around the same time. A 2013 study published in the Journals of Gerontology found that the death of a spouse raises a person's risk of dying by around 30%, compared to thos...
5m Dec 02, 2018
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Artist Behind Viral Barbara Bush Cartoon Returns to Reunite Her With George H.W. Bush
Clarion Ledger cartoonist Marshall Ramsey has followed up his viral Barbara Bush cartoon, drawn earlier this year, with a new illustration reuniting the Bush family in heaven. President George H.W. Bush passed away on Nov. 30, 8 months after his wife of 73 years died. The Ledger published a new cartoon from Ramsey on Dec. 1, which depicts the former President arriving into heaven in a TBM Aven...
3m Dec 02, 2018
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88 Confirmed Dead in California’s Camp Fire as Search for Victims Ends
The effort to locate the remains of people killed in the Camp Fire north of Sacramento has concluded, the Butte County Sheriff’s office announced this week. The remains of 88 people were recovered from the blaze. The Camp Fire, which was fully contained on Sunday after burning 153,335 acres, was by far the deadliest fire in California history. The second-deadliest fire, Los Angeles’ 1933 Griff...
2m Dec 02, 2018
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Bill Clinton Remembers His Unlikely Friendship With George H.W. Bush in an Emotional Op-Ed
Former President Bill Clinton honored the life of George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 in his Houston Home, with a touching editorial about an unlikely friendship between two, who were once political adversaries. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, published Dec. 1, Clinton praised the former President and invited all Americans to give thanks for his service to the country. Clinton said that he ...
3m Dec 02, 2018
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How Blue and White Became the Colors of Hanukkah
It's no secret that the American holiday calendar is thoroughly color-coded. The Fourth of July is red, white and blue, for obvious reasons. Halloween has pumpkin orange, and the Thanksgiving table tends to be festooned in the brown and red colors of the harvest season. And as those autumnal hues begin to fade, the red and green of Christmas take their place. But, though those colors can tend ...
5m Dec 02, 2018
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Exercise Is Great. But Even Light Activities Like Walking and Housework Can Improve Your Health
For many, the phrase physical activity conjures sweaty runs or power-lifting sessions at the gym. But the latest federal guidelines support a much broader — and ultimately less intimidating — definition of what it means to be active: one that includes less obvious pursuits like taking the stairs, raking leaves and even bird-watching. This subtle shift in messaging may help Americans prevent chr...
5m Dec 02, 2018
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Peter Jackson on His New WWI Documentary, a Painstaking Labor of Love
Academy-award winning filmmaker Peter Jackson is best known for his big-budget fantasy trilogies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which he made over the course of nearly 15 years. Now the New Zealand-based director is making his mark on a decidedly different genre with a documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old.
7m Dec 02, 2018
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Review: Sony’s PlayStation Classic Is Too Frustrating to Love
Nostalgia is a powerful marketing tool, often used by companies to provoke consumer desire and extract more money from the pockets. A prime example: The rise of "classic" shrunken-down versions of decades-old video game consoles, loaded with favorite games from yesteryear. While Nintendo popularized the trend, Sony's now getting in on the action with its $99 PlayStation Classic, a miniature rep...
6m Dec 02, 2018
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Government Promises Almost $17 Million to Those Affected by Las Vegas Mass Shooting
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. government is allocating nearly $17 million to help people affected by the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that became the deadliest in the nation's modern history, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Friday. The money from the Justice Department will defray costs of counseling, therapy, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and legal aid for thousands of people aff...
2m Dec 01, 2018
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4 Things to Know About the History of NAFTA, as Trump Takes Another Step Toward Replacing It
On Friday at the G-20 Summit, U.S. President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's outgoing president Enrique Peña Nieto signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Trump celebrated with a tweet hailing the new trade deal as the end of the "terrible" North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has been in effect since Jan. 1, 1994. That treaty, ...
8m Dec 01, 2018
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George H.W. Bush Accomplished Much More as President Than He Ever Got Credit For
Virtually from the moment he defeated Michael Dukakis in the election of 1988, George Herbert Walker Bush made it clear that he was going to be a very different sort of Commander in Chief than Ronald Reagan. He told the Secret Service to turn off its sirens and ordered his motorcade to come to a halt at stoplights. He let it slip that he (sometimes) showered with his dog. He took pictures of hi...
20m Dec 01, 2018
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The Story Behind George H.W. Bush’s Famous ‘Read My Lips, No New Taxes’ Promise
Six words. That's all it took to craft one of the most enduring quotes throughout the career of President George H.W. Bush — who died on Nov. 30, 2018, at the age of 94, just eight months after his wife Barbara Bush. "Read my lips: no new taxes." Spoken by Bush during his 1988 run for the presidency, the quote helped Bush defeat Michael Dukakis, became a cornerstone of his Saturday Night Live...
3m Dec 01, 2018
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3 Crucial Life Lessons From President George H.W. Bush
When George H.W. Bush, the 41st U.S. President, died on Nov. 30, 2018, at the age of 94 obituaries celebrated his achievements as President – but his life offers lessons for almost everyone. TIME’s coverage of former President H.W. Bush dates back to 1964, when he was a U.S. Senate candidate from Houston, and includes more than a dozen cover stories.
4m Dec 01, 2018
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George H.W. Bush, the 41st President, Dies at 94
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
1hr 13m Dec 01, 2018
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Some Fear an Economic Cold War As Trump Meets China's Leader
The stakes for President Donald Trump's Saturday meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping seem like they couldn't be higher as the world's two biggest economies argue over escalating tariffs, how to handle North Korea and saber rattling in the South China Sea. But as in the meetups between U.S. presidents and Soviet leaders during the Cold War, analysts say the most likely results of th...
5m Dec 01, 2018
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Here’s Your Guide to the Movie References in Ariana Grande’s ‘Thank U, Next’ Music Video
Leave it to Ariana Grande to capture the essence of the teen rom-com with her music video for "Thank U, Next." In the highly anticipated video released on Friday, Grande pays homage to films like Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, Bring It On and 13 Going on 30 by channeling their sweet storylines. Viewers will even spot some cameos from some of the films' stars.
4m Dec 01, 2018
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How Doctors Became Cuba’s Biggest Export
This week hundreds of Cuban doctors stationed in Brazil packed up their bags and went home, less than two weeks after their government in Havana ordered an end to their participation in the country’s More Doctors program on Nov. 14. The program, which bolsters healthcare provision in poor and rural communities, had fallen foul of an ideological rift between Cuba’s communist government and Braz...
7m Dec 01, 2018
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Mrs. Maisel’s Season 2 Is the Perfect Escape From 2018
Everyone loves a comeback story, and with its first season, Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel offered two of them. There was the unlikely evolution of heroine Miriam "Midge" Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) from jilted Upper West Side Jewish housewife to rising downtown stand-up star. But the 1950s-set series also marked a triumph for its creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who'd spent years following he...
2m Dec 01, 2018
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Indigenous Rights Activist: Why Uncontacted Tribes Should Be Left Alone
As the sun set on the evening of the Nov. 15, 2018, John Allen Chau sat contemplating North Sentinel Island, where he was soon to meet his end. He had long dreamed of making contact with the Sentinelese people, and his diary tells us he was “disappointed” that they had not accepted his advances to them: “My name is John. I love you and Jesus loves you!” He writes of a language barrier, but the ...
5m Nov 30, 2018
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How China's Gene-Edited Twins Could Be Forever Changed by Controversial CRISPR Work
For now, they’re known as Lulu and Nana, pseudonyms that are meant to give them some amount of anonymity amid the international uproar over their birth. As the first babies born after their genomes were edited (while they were embryos, by the genetics tool CRISPR) the twin girls, born in Shenzhen, China are the subject of scientific and public scrutiny that will only escalate as they get older.
9m Nov 30, 2018
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Amid Rising Pressure, Argentine President Mauricio Macri Prepares to Host the G-20
The topic is accommodations, specifically the midtown Manhattan hotel where the President of Argentina finds himself for the United Nations General Assembly, a few blocks away. His shrug says the Langham is perfectly adequate, hardly a fleabag at $645 a night. But it's not where Mauricio Macri would be staying if he were not President. "The Regency," he says, with a small smile and a distant l...
8m Nov 30, 2018
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‘Ideas Cannot Be Killed With Weapons.’ Why the Assassination of Syria’s Most Prominent Citizen Journalist Matters
A year ago, I spent an entire day with Raed Fares at the Human Rights Foundation office in the Empire State Building. My colleagues and I had learned that he was in the United States to speak at Harvard, and we decided to host a closed-door press meeting for him. We sat with him in a conference room 40 stories above New York City, writing and rewriting his remarks, translating Arabic to English...
9m Nov 30, 2018
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Measles Cases Spiked Worldwide Last Year Due to 'Gaps in Vaccination Coverage'
Reported cases of measles spiked in 2017, threatening years of public health progress and pointing to gaps in vaccination coverage worldwide, according to new data released Thursday from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between 2000 and 2017, reported measles incidence dropped by 83%, saving about 21 million lives and resulting in an...
3m Nov 30, 2018
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Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan Cites Not Paying Off National Debt as Big Regret
(MADISON, Wis.) — Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday named immigration and the national debt as his two biggest regrets as he prepares to leave office after 20 years in Congress, saying he has no immediate plans to return to public office. The Republican lawmaker from Wisconsin, the 2012 vice presidential nominee, sat for an interview with The Washington Post as he prepares to step d...
5m Nov 30, 2018
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A Face Transplant Gave This 26-Year-Old a ‘Second Chance at Life’ — And Points to a Promising Future for Patients
Cameron Underwood is back to golfing, restoring cars and even sky-diving, less than three years after sustaining a self-inflicted gunshot wound that severely damaged his face and nearly claimed his life. Underwood, now 26, was left without the majority of his lower jaw, teeth and nose, and with significantly impaired eyesight, speech and mouth function, after his June 2016 injury.
6m Nov 30, 2018
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Austria’s Young Chancellor Sebastian Kurz Is Bringing the Far-Right Into the Mainstream
He made it all appear so easy. The fear, the hate, the insecurity in Europe started to seem like petty problems when Sebastian Kurz, the Chancellor of Austria, was on the stage in his hometown of Vienna, looking more like a class president in front of his high school reunion than a man who casts himself as Europe's last best hope. It was Oct.
19m Nov 30, 2018
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A Girl Wanted Shoes Marketed for Boys. See How Steph Curry Answered the Call
(Bloomberg) — NBA superstar Steph Curry and a young fan from California have pushed Under Armour to include girls in the marketing and sales of the basketball star’s signature shoe. Until recently, Under Armour’s website listed the Curry 5 as an option in the menus for men, women and boys. Though the shoe’s sizes are the same for all kids regardless of gender, it wasn’t listed for girls.
2m Nov 30, 2018
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Hopes Are Slim for an End to Trade War When Xi Meets Trump
World leaders descend on Buenos Aires this weekend for the G-20 summit, with Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian sailors, the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and Britain’s impending exit from the E.U. all high on the agenda. But while substantial progress is not expected on these issues in the Argentine capital — the G-20 is oft-derided as a costly talking shop — many hope for meaningful...
5m Nov 30, 2018
5m
Ben Is Back Stumbles Despite a Sensitive Turn by Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts has always been irrefutably likeable. I would dare even those who claim immunity to resist her most captivating feature: the way her eyes start smiling a few beats before her mouth has gotten the signal. You see that smile only a few times in Ben Is Back, writer-director Peter Hedges' well-intentioned film about a young recovering heroin addict who sneaks away from his treatment ...
2m Nov 30, 2018
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