Bill Maher Targets Stan Lee’s Legacy in Controversial New Blog Post
Comedian Bill Maher has come under fire for a blog post where he suggests comic book readers are immature and targets Stan Lee, just days after his death. Maher's thoughts on comic book culture were posted on his Real Time with Bill Maher blog on Saturday. He seems to equate comics with arrested development in American culture and bemoans adults who love "kid stuff." The post "Adulting" comes ...
3m Nov 19, 2018
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People Say It’s Boring to Talk About A Dream You Had. Here’s Why You Should Do It Anyway
When Shane McCorristine, a scholar of modern British history, went trawling through police reports from 19th-century England, he was struck by the number that contained descriptions of dreams: witnesses and victims seemed to make a point of telling police and coroners if they had anticipated a crime or a death in their dreams. Telling dreams, he said, was a way to create “a social bond between ...
12m Nov 19, 2018
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Here’s How Much Your Thanksgiving Dinner Will Probably Cost This Year
This Thanksgiving, families can feel free to tighten their pursestrings and loosen their belts when they sit down to feast. That's because the American Farm Bureau Federation's (AFBF) 33rd annual survey of Thanksgiving dinner food prices found that the cost of this year's typical feast will be the lowest in eight years.
3m Nov 19, 2018
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Democrats Want to Change a 181-Year-Old Rule to Allow Religious Headwear in the House
As they prepare to welcome two newly-elected Muslim women into the 116th Congress, Democrats have proposed a clarification to a 181-year-old rule banning representatives from wearing hats on the House floor. If approved, the new rules would allow lawmakers to wear religious headwear, like hijabs and kippahs, once Democrats take control of the chamber in January. Representative-elect Ilhan Oma...
2m Nov 19, 2018
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How to Make Friends as a Middle-Aged Man, Even if the Idea Makes You Feel Weird
I’m not supposed to have any friends. I’m middle-aged. I’m a man. I’m an only child. My general disposition is not what you’d call sunny. And yet here they are, all around me. I have almost, oh, a dozen good friends — all acquired in the last few years. (“Acquired.” Men talk about friends like we talk about clients and armoires.) How did this happen? I was never someone who really knew how to...
5m Nov 18, 2018
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At a Peculiar Summit in Papua New Guinea, America Is Still the Odd One Out
The “America First” policy of U.S. President Donald Trump was savaged by every world leader taking the stage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Saturday, who together launched a stern defense of free trade and condemnation of the escalating trade war between Beijing and Washington. Trump’s name was never mentioned, but it was no secret who was b...
4m Nov 18, 2018
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Breaking Down That Shocking Reveal at the End of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Set just a few months after the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Crimes of Grindelwald picks up nearly right where the first installment in J.K. Rowling's five-film series left off. But the movie ends with a revelation that opens up an entirely new plot for the series' main players.
5m Nov 18, 2018
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Is Nancy Pelosi’s Fight to Become Speaker Again a Referendum on Gender?
As speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, Nancy Pelosi was the highest-serving woman ever to serve in American politics. Should she regain that title in January, she would make history once again. But as she fights a band of insurgent Democrats who want her replaced with a fresh face, some are wondering if gender is playing a role. Critics include a number of Democrats who won in Republican-l...
5m Nov 18, 2018
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2018
“The golden age of television has become the gilded age of television,” John Landgraf, the FX CEO and industry Nostradamus who coined the phrase “peak TV,” lamented in August. Signs of decadence were indeed everywhere in 2018: Murphy Brown, Queer Eye, Magnum P.I., Lost in Space, Charmed and more got revived; Roseanne came back from the dead twice.
9m Nov 18, 2018
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Is a Book America Needs, From a Woman It Does Not Yet Deserve
When I first learned that Michelle Obama was writing a memoir, one word emerged from the depths of my gut: No! That reaction came from a protectiveness conceived on Nov. 4, 2008, in my childhood home in Jackson, Miss. The election results had confirmed the impossible — America was getting its first black president. My mom paced the house, shouting her thanks to God. My 90-year-old grandmother s...
5m Nov 18, 2018
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Inmates Fighting California Wildfires Are More Likely to Get Hurt, Records Show
Of the 9,400 firefighters battling the 240,000-acre California wildfires that have already killed more than 65 people and incinerated more than 12,000 structures, one group is at particular risk. It's not the location of their deployment that makes them vulnerable, nor their levels of physical fitness.
12m Nov 18, 2018
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8 Destinations for Every Type of Traveler
Vacations are supposed to be relaxing, but planning them—particularly deciding on where to go—can feel like work. Fortunately, your personality can help you hone in on the perfect destination. Whether you’re more introverted, romantic or open to new experiences, follow this vacation guide—where to go depending on your most dominant traits, with destinations picked by expert travel writers, blo...
6m Nov 17, 2018
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They Fled the Nazis as Children. Now They Want Their Adopted Homeland to Welcome Other Refugees Too
In a courtyard in central London this Thursday, a class of excited schoolchildren were playing. Settling into a chair, the 86-year-old British lawmaker Alf Dubs gazes down from the balcony above. He was younger than these children when, just before the outbreak of World War II, his mother put him on a train alone, traveling from Prague to London. Aged just 6, he knew nobody. Of the hundreds of...
6m Nov 17, 2018
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The 10 Best Movies of 2018
Every year, there’s someone around to say, “This seemed like a bad year for movies,” to which I invariably say, “I think it’s been a great year for movies!” This has been going on for decades now, so the problem—if you want to consider it one—is clearly with me. What stuns me each year isn’t how many bad movies get made, but how many good ones do. Naturally, there’s a broad middle ground of me...
10m Nov 17, 2018
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All the Ways Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Connects to Harry Potter
Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Harry Potter fans have eagerly awaited an onscreen face-off between Dumbledore and Grindelwald since readers first heard about the famous duel in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
12m Nov 17, 2018
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See San Francisco Almost Disappear Behind Wildfire Smoke in These Viral Photos
As devastating wildfires continue to cripple the state of California, a pair of viral photos demonstrate how thick smoke from the still-burning Camp Fire is dramatically impacting the landscape in San Francisco, which is located more than 140 miles away from the blaze. Local resident Marc Stokes showed the before-and-after images in an Instagram post that reveals the stark difference between t...
2m Nov 17, 2018
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What to Know About Tanzania’s Anti-LGBT Crackdown
The World Bank withdrew a $300 million loan to Tanzania on Thursday, in response to a number of controversial laws passed by the national legislature in recent months. As well as clamping down on an existing ban preventing pregnant girls from attending school, Tanzania has made it illegal to question official statistics and cracked down on LGBT rights in a country where homosexuality is already...
5m Nov 17, 2018
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The True Story Behind the Movie Green Book
Nick Vallelonga grew up in a quintessential Italian family in a tight-knit, 1960s Bronx community — they went to church, his mother cooked, his father ate. But something differentiated him and his younger brother from the rest of the neighborhood boys: their father was best friends with a world-renowned black piano prodigy in a time and place where interracial friendships were uncommon. That f...
11m Nov 16, 2018
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Cambodian Court Convicts Former Khmer Rouge Leaders of Genocide
Nearly 40 years after suffering the totalitarian nightmare of the Khmer Rouge, victims of Cambodia's horrific history were granted a small measure of justice on Friday. An international criminal tribunal convicted two aging former Khmer Rouge leaders in a historic ruling that for the first time legally defines the regime’s crimes as genocide.
7m Nov 16, 2018
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‘I Don’t Want to Go Anywhere Else but Home.’ How Residents Will Rebuild a Paradise Destroyed by Wildfire
Brenda Howell is glad her father isn't alive to see Paradise, Calf., today. He was the longtime fire chief of the mountain town of 26,000 and always warned it was a "tinderbox" – with wooden houses built along winding roads in a densely forested mountainside. Northern California's Camp Fire proved all of his fears were well founded when it ripped through the town last Thursday.
5m Nov 16, 2018
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Mark Zuckerberg Tries Out Transparency as Yet Another Crisis Hits Facebook
About 38 minutes into a conference call with reporters on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg asked for more. "I think we should probably take a bunch more questions," the embattled Facebook CEO said, despite the fact that the call was scheduled to end a few minutes later.
5m Nov 16, 2018
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SpaceX Is About to Launch More Than 7,000 Internet-Beaming Satellites
(Bloomberg)—Elon Musk’s SpaceX won permission to deploy more than 7,000 satellites, far more than all operating spacecraft currently aloft, from U.S. regulators who also moved to reduce a growing risk from space debris as skies grow more crowded. Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
3m Nov 16, 2018
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‘Sad.’ ‘Weak.’ ‘Anemic.’ How Media Across Europe Described the U.K.’s Brexit Chaos
The U.K. was wracked by political turmoil Thursday, after Prime Minister Theresa May presented lawmakers with the draft of her newly-agreed deal on the terms of Britain's departure from the Europe Union on Wednesday evening. A string of high-profile resignation announcements rolled in, including from the minister charged with overseeing Brexit. Some in May's center-right Conservative Party com...
6m Nov 16, 2018
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Sour Patch Kids Cereal Is a Real Thing and People Don’t Know What to Think
First there were Reese's Puffs. Then there were Cookie Crisps. Now there's Sour Patch Kids cereal. With supplies of Halloween candy running low, people are having to find new ways to get their daily sugar rush. What luck that Post is releasing a Sour Patch Kids-flavored cereal just in time for the new year. That's right, soon Sour Patch kids fans will be able to get their fix of the tangy gum...
2m Nov 16, 2018
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Samantha Bee on Taking Criticism and Holding Her Own in Comedy
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
3m Nov 15, 2018
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U.K.’s Minister for Brexit Quits as Lawmakers Begin to Desert Theresa May Over E.U. Deal
The British minister charged with overseeing the country's departure from the E.U. resigned on Thursday morning, as lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet began to turn against the draft Brexit deal she has negotiated with the bloc. Dominic Raab became the second Brexit Secretary to leave the position in four months, after David Davis resigned in July. Raab was joined on Thursday by...
3m Nov 15, 2018
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Here’s Why You Get More Acne in the Winter — And How to Fix It
Nothing much blooms in winter, but pimples may be an exception. A 2015 study of New England acne patients found the percentage of them who enjoyed a clear complexion was greatest during summer and fall. Winter, on the other hand, tended to be a rough season; rates of moderate-to-severe acne leaped 11% among the study participants in winter compared to summer.
4m Nov 15, 2018
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At ASEAN Summit, Pence and Bolton Speak of Need for Regional Cooperation
"Empire and aggression have no place" in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says, in an apparent allusion to China's growing presence in the area and Beijing's determination to make the South China sea a sphere of Chinese influence.
2m Nov 15, 2018
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I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It
Love it or leave it. Have you heard someone say this? Or have you said it? Anyone who has heard these five words knows what it means, because it almost always refers to America. Anyone who has heard this sentence knows it is a loaded gun, pointed at them.
17m Nov 15, 2018
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Senate and House GOP Pick Congressional Leaders as Showdown Over Pelosi Simmers
The three leadership elections that took place Wednesday went largely as expected. Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell was reelected Majority Leader of the Senate and New York Sen Chuck Schumer is again the Minority Leader. On the House side, Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected Minority Leader.
6m Nov 15, 2018
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5 Things to Know About the Asylum Process and How It Works
Many of the Trump administration’s most controversial immigration policies have taken aim at the most vulnerable class of migrants: asylum seekers. President Trump's family separation policy was designed in part to target moms, dads, and children seeking asylum in the country, while former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ June opinion specifically made it more difficult for victims of gang and ...
7m Nov 15, 2018
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Determined Protester Will Stop At Nothing to Crash This TV News Segment
Part of the business of TV news is filming interviews out in the open with expert sources. And part of that experience of filming is dealing with potential interruptions: rough weather, stray passersby or, often, disruptive protesters.
2m Nov 15, 2018
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‘All We Have Is Each Other.’ Lady Gaga Helps Victims of Devastating Malibu Fire
Lady Gaga lent a helping hand to victims of the devastating Malibu wildfires when she visited an American Red Cross shelter on Tuesday, which was also World Kindness Day. The A Star Is Born actress passed out pizza, coffee, and gift cards to those who had just lost everything in the fires. In a post on her Instagram stories, Gaga encouraged her followers to help others as well: "All we have is...
1m Nov 15, 2018
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Theresa May Just Cleared Her First U.K. Hurdle to Reaching a Brexit Deal
Britain’s exit from the European Union passed a crucial milestone on Wednesday evening, when after a marathon five-hour negotiation session Theresa May confirmed her cabinet had accepted the Brexit deal she has negotiated with the European Union. The decision means U.K. parliament will now have to vote on the contents of the agreement, which at the time of May's address had not been made public.
2m Nov 15, 2018
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Retired Harlem Man Reveals Himself As $343 Million Powerball Winner
(NEW YORK) — A Harlem man has been revealed as the winner of $343 million in a Powerball drawing, the biggest jackpot in New York state lottery history. Lottery officials introduced 67-year-old Robert Bailey at a New York City news conference Wednesday. Bailey says he has "faithfully" played numbers a family member gave him over 25 years ago. The retired federal government employee bought hi...
1m Nov 15, 2018
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Why the U.S. and Britain Went Back to War Just a Few Decades After the Revolution
George Gleig had seen thousands of soldiers in battle, but he had never seen any perform more disgracefully than the Americans assigned to defend Washington in the summer of 1814. “No troops could behave worse than they did,” wrote Gleig, an officer with a British force attacking the American capital.
9m Nov 14, 2018
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First Lady Melania Trump Just Publicly Called for a National Security Council Official to Be Fired
(WASHINGTON) — In an extraordinary move, Melania Trump is publicly calling for the dismissal of a top White House National Security Council official. After reports circulated Tuesday that the president had decided to remove Mira Ricardel from the NSC, the first lady's spokeswoman issued a statement saying: "It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the hono...
1m Nov 14, 2018
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What to Know About the Brexit Deal and What It Means for a Second Referendum
Two and a half years after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, Brits are finding that the decision may have raised far more questions than it answered. So when British Prime Minister Theresa May's office finally confirmed on Tuesday that a draft text of the Brexit deal had been agreed with E.U. negotiators, it didn't calm many nerves. Quite the opposite: even with a possible deal, ther...
11m Nov 14, 2018
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President Trump Leaves Out Hindus in Diwali Tweets
It took President Donald Trump three tries before he recognized Hindus in a White House celebration of Diwali on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted: "Today, we gathered for Diwali, a holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains throughout the United States & around the world.
1m Nov 14, 2018
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Wildfires Are Getting More Frequent and More Destructive. There Are No Easy Ways to Prevent Them
In mid-October, as high winds and warm weather struck the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California lights went off for some 60,000 Californians. Schools shuttered and businesses went dark. At fault was the specter of dangerous wildfires. To be clear, no wildfire burned in the immediate vicinity. Instead, the local utility company preemptively shut off power, fearing that high winds could...
5m Nov 14, 2018
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Climate Change Activists in Protest Outside Nancy Pelosi's Office
(WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has joined about 200 climate-change activists as they stage a protest at the office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Protesters are calling on Democratic leaders to put forward a "Green New Deal" that includes a swift transition to 100 percent renewable energy in line with findings of a recent report on climate c...
1m Nov 14, 2018
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Juul Suspends Sales of Most Flavored Products, Stops Social Media to Address Underage Vaping
(Bloomberg) — Juul Labs Inc., the maker of the e-cigarette that is wildly popular with American teens, said it stopped selling its fruit-flavored nicotine pods to stores and shut down its U.S.-based Facebook and Instagram accounts. The move, which was announced Tuesday by Juul Chief Executive Officer Kevin Burns, follows a campaign from the Food and Drug Administration to curtail underage use ...
3m Nov 14, 2018
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Amazon Excited Middle America With the HQ2 Contest. Then It Picked New York and Washington
If the mayor of a city is its best representative, then Dallas has a broken heart. "We don’t like to lose. This does not make us happy," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a press conference Tuesday, referencing Amazon's decision not to select his city as a location for its second headquarters. "We competed hard, we competed well, but we did not succeed," he went on, sounding like a coach addre...
9m Nov 14, 2018
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Here’s What to Know About Michelle Obama’s New Memoir and Arena Tour
Michelle Obama's 12-stop jaunt across the country — and an ocean — is not your average book tour. Of course, the former first lady is not your average author. Oprah Winfrey will join Obama Tuesday night at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, as she begins the tour touting the already best-selling "Becoming.
3m Nov 14, 2018
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Here’s What a Sunrise On Mars ‘Sounds’ Like
George W. Bush was still in his first term in the White House and Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois state legislature when the Opportunity rover landed on Mars on January 25, 2004. The spacecraft had an expected minimum lifetime of 90 Martian sols — or Martian days, which, at 24 hours, 39 minutes each, are only a little longer than an Earth day.
3m Nov 14, 2018
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Review: Even Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin Can't Save the Lazy, Cranky Kominsky Method
For more than two decades, Chuck Lorre has been one of the most powerful names in television. Though he didn’t last long in his career-making gig as a Roseanne writer, he survived that show's chaotic set to create some of the biggest sitcoms of the 1990s: Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg. A few years later, as reality TV reshaped primetime and original cable programming started to eat in...
4m Nov 13, 2018
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These Are Some of the Most Beloved Heroes and Villains You’d Never Know Without Stan Lee
In the wake of reports that Stan Lee passed away at the age of 95 on Monday, fans are mourning the loss of the legendary Marvel Comics creator. Lee, who made cameos in a number of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, is credited with creating some of the most popular comic book superheroes and villains of all time, including Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk. “I think everybody l...
2m Nov 13, 2018
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Macron Wants to Defy Nationalism by Creating a Europe-Wide Army. It's a Battle He's Likely to Lose
Over the past rainy weekend in Paris, dozens of world leaders gathered in the French capital and seemed wholly focused on marking the devastation of World War I, which ended 100 years ago and claimed the lives of some 16 million people. But beyond the ceremonial proceedings, a war of words was unfolding: The fierce nationalism of U.S. President Donald Trump on one side, and the passionate globa...
8m Nov 13, 2018
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President Trump Attacked Mail-In Ballots in Florida. Here Are the Facts
Advocates for overseas voters harshly criticized President Donald Trump for arguing that some mail-in ballots shouldn't be counted as he spread a conspiracy theory about Florida's elections on Monday. In a tweet on Monday, Trump called for the state to stop counting ballots and stick with the results from Election Night, a move that while circumventing state law would also disenfranchise membe...
11m Nov 13, 2018
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Canada Is in Talks With Pakistan to Grant Asylum to Christian Woman Asia Bibi
As Pakistan roils with fury over the dismissal of a Christian woman's blasphemy conviction, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government was in talks with Islamabad about potentially granting asylum to Asia Bibi, who was recently freed, Agence France-Presse reports. "We are in discussions with the Pakistani government," Trudeau said in an interview with AFP.
2m Nov 13, 2018
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