Awkwafina Takes the Asian-American Entertainment Renaissance to New Heights in Nora From Queens
Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens isn't just the name of a new Comedy Central show--it's a statement of fact. The 31-year-old, who recently won a Golden Globe for her lead role in last year's indie hit The Farewell--and who rose to fame in the early 2010s spitting jokey feminist raps like "My Vag"--is known to her family as Nora Lum of Forest Hills. So, what distinguishes the woman from her alter e...
3m Jan 20, 2020
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‘I’ve Seen Everything.’ Author Isabel Allende on Why She Doesn’t Fear Death and the Inspiration for Her New Novel
The world's most popular living author in Spanish on not fearing death and the forgotten event behind her new novel Your new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, centers on a historical event: in 1939, the poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda chartered a boat to take 2,200 Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship to Chile.
4m Jan 20, 2020
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The Complicated Truth About What U.S. Citizenship Means Today
The first time I saw the Statue of Liberty was 25 years ago, from a noisy ferry that brought me and hundreds of other eager tourists across New York Harbor. Back then I was a foreign student, in Manhattan for three days to attend an academic conference on linguistics. I had only one afternoon to devote to sightseeing, and faced with the choice of which landmark to visit, I settled immediately o...
8m Jan 20, 2020
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From Chile to Hong Kong, the World Saw a Lot of Protests in 2019. Here’s Why That Trend Is Going to Continue
With high-profile protests raging across Chile, Colombia, Hong Kong, Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, India, Spain, France and more, last year it often felt as if much of the world was out in the streets. A lot of it was. A report published Thursday by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft finds that a quarter of the world’s countries experienced a “surge” in civil unrest in 2019. And, the report’s author...
6m Jan 20, 2020
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In This Georgia Town, Immigration Detainees Outnumber Residents
(LUMPKIN, Ga.) — Maria Campos sits in the backseat of a car with her grandchildren, her eyes welling with tears as the immigration center comes into view. The seven-hour drive from North Carolina to the Stewart Detention Center in a remote corner of southwest Georgia has become all too familiar. One of her sons was held here before being deported back to Mexico last year, leaving behind his wif...
5m Jan 20, 2020
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The 8 Video Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2020
This year marks the start of a new decade, and the end of a generation of video games. Sony and Microsoft are set to launch new systems during the holidays, marking the beginning of a new phase in gaming. But that's good news: Traditionally, the games launched at the end of a generation are among that generation's best.
6m Jan 20, 2020
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YouTube Has Been ‘Actively Promoting’ Videos Spreading Climate Denialism, According to New Report
YouTube has been “actively promoting” videos containing misinformation about climate change, a report released Thursday by campaign group Avaaz claims, despite recent policy changes by the platform intended to drive users away from harmful content and conspiracy theories.
7m Jan 20, 2020
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Former White House Chief Economic Advisor to Trump Says Tariffs ‘Hurt the U.S.’
Former White House Chief Economic Advisor Gary Cohn said Sunday that President Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum "hurt the U.S." and did not help the administration in trade negotiations, either. "I don't think the tariffs helped us get to any different outcome. I think it has hurt the U.S. It's totally hurt the United States," Cohn said on CBS's Face the Nation. Cohen stated in response to...
1m Jan 20, 2020
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California Elementary Teachers Sue Delta After Plane Dumps Jet Fuel Over School
Teachers who were at a Cudahy, Calif., elementary school when a Delta aircraft dumped fuel overhead on Tuesday have filed a lawsuit against the airline, accusing it of negligence. The teachers, who asked not to be named, felt “sick, dizzy and nauseated” after being covered with the fuel, prominent women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred said at a press conference after filing the lawsuit on Friday.
4m Jan 20, 2020
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TSA Apologizes to Native American Traveler Who Said an Agent Pulled Her Braids and Said ‘Giddyup’
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has apologized to a Native American traveler who says she faced a 'humiliating' encounter with an employee during a security pat-down. While traveling through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Tara Houska, an indigenous rights activist and lawyer, said on Twitter last week that a TSA agent pulled her braids behind her shoulders, laughed...
4m Jan 20, 2020
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Here’s What’s Open and Closed on Martin Luther King Day 2020
For over three decades, the U.S. has dedicated the third Monday of every January to the memory and legacy of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. This year, Martin Luther King Day falls on Jan. 20, 2020 — the same date that the holiday was first observed in 1986. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, and would have turned 91 this year. To mark the holiday this Monday, parades throughout the coun...
3m Jan 20, 2020
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Smudge the Cat Is the Real Star of the Woman Yelling at a Cat Meme and He’s Still Living for Drama
If there's one inescapable cat to out-purr viral pets in recent memory, Smudge often comes out on top. Most internet users recognize 6-year-old Smudge from the "woman yelling at a cat" meme, but the fluffy white rescue who has also been called "confused cat at dinner" had his first big meme moment in the summer of 2018. Smudge sat at the dinner table with his family, like the real human he migh...
4m Jan 19, 2020
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Jeanine Cummins’ ‘American Dirt’ Is a Harrowing Tale of Immigration, Family and Memory
Jeanine Cummins' highly anticipated fourth book, American Dirt, opens with the kind of massacre that has become terribly familiar to those forced to live in the cross fire of Mexican drug cartels. At her niece's quinceañera in Acapulco, a middle-class Mexican bookstore owner named Lydia shields her son in a shower stall while sicario gunmen murder the rest of their family, 16 people in total, i...
3m Jan 19, 2020
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Trump Administration Proposes Rollbacks to Obama-Era School Lunch Programs
The Trump Administration announced a proposed rule on Friday that would roll-back Obama-era school lunch regulations, allowing more flexibilities in the amount and types of fruits and vegetables served during lunch. The announcement was made on former First Lady Michelle Obama's birthday, a coincidence not lost on critics.
4m Jan 19, 2020
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Tensions are High, Extremists are Expected. Here's What to Know About Richmond's Pro-Gun Rally
Officials in Richmond, Va., are taking security precautions as threats of violence from extremist groups are set to overshadow the traditional Lobby Day event where activists meet with state legislators to advocate for a wide range of policy changes. This year's Lobby Day on Monday, Jan. 20 comes amid Democratic legislators — who have majority in both the state's House and Senate following 2019...
9m Jan 19, 2020
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‘We Made a Mistake.’ National Archives Issues Apology for Altering 2017 Women’s March Photo
The National Archives has apologized for altering a photo of the 2017 Women's March in Washington, D.C. that has been on exhibit since last May. On Friday, The Washington Post published a story about the Archive's "Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote," exhibit that featured a photo from the 2017 Women's March, held the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
2m Jan 19, 2020
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People Are Swooning for Florence Pugh's Game of Thrones Star Brother
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. From Midsommar to Little Women, actor Florence Pugh has been making headlines in the past year for her Hollywood come-up; however, when it comes to Internet adoration lately, it's Pugh's older brother, Toby Sebastian, who might have the market cornered.
2m Jan 19, 2020
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Gay Inmates Tie the Knot Inside Cyprus Prison
(NICOSIA, Cyprus) — Former heroin addict Kevork Tontian met the man he wanted to spend the rest of his life with behind bars. And not even his freedom was enough to keep him away from Wemson Gabral da Costa.
4m Jan 19, 2020
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Dinner as We Know It Is Hurting the Planet. But What If We Radically Rethink How We Make Food?
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
14m Jan 19, 2020
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Portrait Found Hidden in Art Gallery's Walls Verified as Missing Gustav Klimt Artwork
(PIACENZA, Italy) — Art experts have confirmed that a painting discovered hidden inside an Italian art gallery's walls last month is Gustav Klimt's “Portrait of a Lady,” which was stolen from the gallery nearly 23 years ago.
6m Jan 19, 2020
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Hundreds of Britons Volunteered for a Diary Project in 1937
On the eve of the war that would cost the lives of more than one million British military personnel, change the path of the empire, and reshape the skylines of cities from London to Glasgow, people across the U.K. opened up their diaries and sat down to write. Founded in January 1937 as an “anthropology of ourselves,” the project known as Mass Observation was meant to record the mundane details...
6m Jan 18, 2020
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Australia’s Bushfires Show the Wicked, Self-Destructive Idiocy of Climate Denialism Must Stop
Australia’s fires this summer—unprecedented in the scale of their destruction—are the ferocious but inevitable reality of global warming. A hotter, drier climate means more and longer droughts and more and fiercer fires. So if Australia is on the front line of the climate crisis, why are we not also a world leader in climate action? In most countries, asking people whether they believe in the s...
5m Jan 18, 2020
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People Have Invented More Than 200 Gender-Neutral Pronouns. Here’s Why ‘They’ Is Here to Stay
It is a well-known truth among linguists that so long as English is changing — which it always is — there will be people who are belly-aching about it, warning that if things keep going as they are, the language will soon be on life support and, as likely as not, dead within the year. Critics feared for the future when people started using contact as a verb in the 1920s and when they embraced t...
7m Jan 18, 2020
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The British Government Says E.U. Citizens Will ‘Be Able to Stay’ After Brexit, But Some Anxiety Remains
European Union citizens living in Britain will not automatically be deported even if they fail to prove they're legally allowed to reside in the U.K. after Brexit, the British government has said. But many are still anxious the new rules could leave them with an insecure immigration status after Brexit happens on Jan. 31. Citizens of E.U. countries automatically have the right to live and work ...
4m Jan 18, 2020
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Stories Finally Get Their Due in a New Posthumous Collection
"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up in Eatonville, Fla., to spend years traveling across the South and the Caribbean as an anthropologist and ethnographer.
3m Jan 18, 2020
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Sept. 11 Responders May Be at Heightened Risk of Developing Leukemia
After the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, the thousands of people involved in rescue-and-cleanup efforts were exposed to carcinogens and other toxins as they breathed in contaminated air and dug through industrial rubble. Studies completed since then have shown elevated rates of conditions including multiple myeloma, prostate cancer and thyroid cancer among 9/11 responders and those who wor...
5m Jan 18, 2020
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This Week’s Baseball Insanity Is the Perfect Scandal for Our Age
So there are football games this weekend? Yes, you can be forgiven if the NFL's conference championship games on Sunday have suddenly slipped your mind. Somehow, talk of baseball trash cans and buzzers and burner accounts have knocked football off the front page on the eve of the second-most important day for America's most popular sport. Baseball, America's slog of a national pastime, has been...
7m Jan 18, 2020
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Fewer Americans Now Binge Drinking, But Those Who Are, Are Drinking More
American adults who binge drink are consuming an increasing number of alcoholic beverages per year when they binge, a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. The study, an analysis of data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 2011 to 2017, found that while overall rates of binge drinking decreased slightly, going from 18.9% to 18.
2m Jan 18, 2020
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This Looks Like the Right Guy to Softly Cradle Baby Yoda in His Arms
If there's anyone in the world who absolutely deserves the privilege of holding Baby Yoda, it's probably George Lucas. And thanks to The Mandalorian showrunner Jon Favreau, Star Wars fans everywhere are getting to witness the moment that Lucas cradled the Child in his arms. Presented without caption, Favreau took to Twitter on Thursday night to share a behind-the-scenes photo of the Star Wars c...
2m Jan 18, 2020
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Australian Firefighters Save the World’s Last Remaining Dinosaur Trees
(CANBERRA, Australia) — Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife bore down, National Parks and Wildlife ...
3m Jan 17, 2020
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China’s Birthrate Sank to Lowest Level on Record Last Year
China’s birthrate dropped to the lowest level since at least 1949 last year and the labor force continued to shrink, in the latest sign of slowing growth prospects for the world’s second-largest economy. The number of births per 1,000 people declined to 10.48, the lowest level on record according to National Bureau of Statistics data going back to when the Communist Party took power.
5m Jan 17, 2020
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Ivanka Trump’s Sister-in-Law Karlie Kloss Says She Voted Against Trump in 2016 and Will Again in 2020
Supermodel Karlie Kloss, who is married to Jared Kushner's brother, said in a televised interview Thursday that she voted against Donald Trump in 2016 and will do so again when the 2020 election comes around. The Project Runway host, who married Joshua Kushner in October 2018, addressed her relationship with the Kushner family on the show Watch What Happens Live.
2m Jan 17, 2020
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Her Hair Loss as She Shares Her ‘Very Personal’ Alopecia Diagnosis
In a moving interview with The Root, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley opened up about living with alopecia and revealed that she has gone completely bald. Pressley, 45, said she decided to go public about her hair loss because she felt she owed an explanation to all the women of color who have reached out to her about what had become known as her signature hairstyle: Senegalese twists.
6m Jan 17, 2020
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Review: Mac Miller's Posthumous Album Circles Is a Heartbreaking Plea For Inner Peace
There were times when it seemed like Mac Miller would never stop rapping. At his peak, he was an indefatigable creative force who wrote and recorded hundreds of verses stuffed with cocksure bravado, unending internal rhyme schemes and sly double entendres. These verses were volleyed off onto grandiose Billboard-topping studio albums, knotty mixtapes scavenged by backpack rap nerds, or the proje...
9m Jan 17, 2020
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Women Are Now the Majority of the U.S. Workforce —But Working Women Still Face Serious Challenges
Going into 2020, the U.S. economy generally seems strong — especially for women, who hold the majority of jobs for the first time in almost a decade. Women held 50.04% of American jobs as of December, excluding farm workers and the self-employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's up from 49.7% just one year ago.
7m Jan 17, 2020
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NPR's Steve Inskeep Finds the American Present in the Past
If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning Edition that starts an hour later. It means the most intense part of his workday is over when a lot of people are just heading to the office around 7:30, and he passes the rest of the morning preparing for the next day...
8m Jan 17, 2020
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Why Iran’s Regime Is Facing Renewed Protests After the Ukraine Airlines Plane Crash
It took three days for Iran to admit the truth. Hours after it launched missiles at bases in Iraq that house U.S. troops on Jan. 8, a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet bound for Kyiv crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing all 176 on board. Iranian officials suggested the cause was technical failure but backtracked on Jan. 11, saying "human error" had led its military t...
3m Jan 17, 2020
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Column: It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman. Why Do So Many on the Left Insist That It Doesn't?
The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America. For those who refused to see how entrenched racism remained even after Obama’s ascent, Trump emerged a more profane object lesson in the failures of marching away from clarity about who America has been and is perfectly willing to be again with regard to racial matters.
13m Jan 17, 2020
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The Reason Fossil Fuel Companies Are Finally Reckoning with Climate Change
A peculiar theme park in the Hague celebrates the history of the Netherlands through a series of miniature models. The Madurodam features little canals, old-fashioned windmills, tiny tulips and, amid it all, an homage to Royal Dutch Shell, the oil giant that is the biggest company in the country and, by revenue, the second largest publicly traded oil-and-gas company in the world. There's a Shel...
24m Jan 17, 2020
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Delta Pilots Who Dumped Fuel That Fell On a School Didn’t Tell Controllers Before the Maneuver
The pilots of a Delta flight conducting an emergency landing didn't tell air traffic controllers before dumping fuel that wound up falling on several Los Angeles area schools on Tuesday, aviation officials said Thursday. "A review of yesterday's air traffic control communications shows the Delta Flight 89 crew did not tell air traffic control that they needed to dump fuel," the Federal Aviation...
3m Jan 17, 2020
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Patient in Japan Confirmed as Having New Virus From China
(TOKYO) — Japan's government said Thursday a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The man developed a fever and coughs on Jan. 3 while in Wuhan, returned to Japan on Jan. 6, and was hospitalized four days later due to persistent coughs and fever, with his X-ray...
3m Jan 16, 2020
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Inside Jared Kushner’s Unusual White House Role
Jared Kushner's White House office is a shrine to his own influence. Gold-framed accolades from his father-in-law hang on the walls, written in thick black Sharpie in President Donald Trump's spiky hand. To Jared, Great job on Mexico. Thanks DAD, reads one. A limestone replica of the plaque marking the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which Kushner helped orchestrate, rests atop a bookcase.
24m Jan 16, 2020
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Hong Kong Leader Says the City’s Semiautonomy Can Endure Beyond the 2047 Deadline
(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the ''one country, two systems'' framework under which the city enjoys freedoms unknown in China could continue after a 2047 deadline if loyalty to Beijing is upheld. Lam’s comments at the Legislative Council appeared to be an appeal to those in the city who see Beijing as tightening its control over the semi-autonomous territory's ...
4m Jan 16, 2020
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Lev Parnas Hits the Airwaves on the Eve of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Just hours after a date was set for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, one of the key figures in the Ukraine scandal embarked on a media push on Wednesday night.
7m Jan 16, 2020
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Injuries and Deaths Could Rise with Climate Change in the U.S., a New Study Finds
An estimated 2,135 additional people could die every year in the United States as a result of climate change-related injuries like assaults, drownings and falls, if temperatures rise 2°C over current long-term averages, according to findings published in Nature Medicine earlier this week.
3m Jan 16, 2020
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'Today, the American Soldier Is in Danger, Tomorrow the European Soldier Could Be': Iran's President
(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran's president warned Wednesday that European soldiers in the Mideast “could be in danger” after three nations challenged Tehran over breaking the limits of its nuclear deal. Tehran's top diplomat meanwhile acknowledged that Iranians “were lied to” for days following the Islamic Republic's accidental shoot down of a Ukrainian jetliner that killed 176 people.
8m Jan 16, 2020
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'Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez' Probes the Secret Life of the Convicted Killer and Ex-NFL Star
Aaron Hernandez’s downfall from football star to convicted murderer is one of the most notorious cases to emerge from not just the NFL, but the sports world at large. In 2015, the former New England Patriots tight end was convicted of murdering Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was the boyfriend of Hernandez’s fiancée’s sister.
8m Jan 16, 2020
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‘Like a Scene From a Movie.’ What I Saw Photographing the Taal Volcano Eruption in the Philippines
I was at home just south of Manila on Jan. 12 when I got a text from my girlfriend telling me that Taal Volcano had just erupted. My first reaction was disbelief. While the volcano situated in the middle of lake is considered active, never have I seen or even imagined it would erupt. Its last major eruption was in 1977, way before I was even born. I grew up spending many weekends with family an...
5m Jan 16, 2020
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The Winner of Jeopardy!‘s “Greatest of All Time” Tournament? Who is Ken Jennings
(NEW YORK) — Being bold paid off for new Jeopardy! mega-champion Ken Jennings, while it didn't for his opponents. Jennings won his third match in the Jeopardy! “Greatest of all Time” contest televised on Tuesday, an event that's been a prime-time hit for ABC. He pocketed $1 million by dispatching James Holzhauer, who won one match, and Brad Rutter, who came up empty.
2m Jan 16, 2020
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Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick to Receive Treatment for ‘Alcohol Dependence’
Arizona Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick announced Wednesday that she will seek treatment for "alcohol dependence" after a serious fall last week. In a statement released on Wednesday, Kirkpatrick, 69, said that her alcoholism was the "underlying cause" of her fall and that she will seek "rehabilitation and treatment." She also thanked those who have shown her support.
2m Jan 16, 2020
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