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Photos: See the impact a major winter storm is having on U.S.
2 days, 19 hours ago

Photos: See the impact a major winter storm is having on U.S.

NPR  

Photos: See the impact a major winter storm is having on U.S. toggle caption Joshua A. Bickel/AP A powerful winter storm is lumbering across parts of the central and eastern U.S. Winter storm warnings are in effect from Illinois to New Jersey. toggle caption Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public Radio toggle caption Joshua A. Bickel/AP toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty …

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The EU and a South American trade bloc reach a giant trade deal after 25 years of talks
1 month ago

The EU and a South American trade bloc reach a giant trade deal after 25 years of talks

Associated Press  

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — The European Union reached a blockbuster free trade agreement Friday with Brazil, Argentina and the three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance, capping a quarter-century of on-off negotiations even as France vowed to derail the contentious accord. From Uruguay, the host of the Mercosur summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the …

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The EU and a South American trade bloc reach a giant trade deal after 25 years of talks
1 month ago

The EU and a South American trade bloc reach a giant trade deal after 25 years of talks

CNN  

AP — The European Union reached a blockbuster free trade agreement Friday with Brazil, Argentina and the three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance, capping a quarter-century of on-off negotiations even as France vowed to derail the contentious accord. From Uruguay, the host of the Mercosur summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the deal …

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Bob Dylan’s 1974 return was a watershed moment for music fans – I watched from the third row
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bob Dylan’s 1974 return was a watershed moment for music fans – I watched from the third row

The Independent  

On the morning of 2 December 1973, nearly 10 million letters started pouring through the US postal system for the same urgent purpose. open image in gallery Bob Dylan and The Band on the 1974 ‘Before the Flood’ tour For me and my friends, the excitement began well before the music started. Thanks to the obsessiveness of the box set, …

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Firebrand review: A girlboss Katherine Parr biopic, but it’s Jude Law’s Henry VIII who steals the show
4 months ago

Firebrand review: A girlboss Katherine Parr biopic, but it’s Jude Law’s Henry VIII who steals the show

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The biggest surprise of Firebrand is that …

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How did water bears get so hardy? Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis
4 months, 1 week ago

How did water bears get so hardy? Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis

Salon  

At first glance, the microscopic creatures known as tardigrades don't appear that hardy. "Before our publication, we only know how two of these fossils are related to living tardigrades," the study's corresponding author, Dr. Marc A. Mapalo from Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, told Salon. "Currently, the science indicates that water bears have several modes of cryptobiosis, …

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Paul Lynch, Celeste Ng and Christos Tsiolkas reveal the secrets of their reading and writing lives
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Paul Lynch, Celeste Ng and Christos Tsiolkas reveal the secrets of their reading and writing lives

ABC  

It's not every day that three titans of literature from across the globe come together to divulge the secrets of their intimate writing and reading lives. But at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival, the 2023 Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch, New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng and Christos Tsiolkas, author of international bestseller The Slap, did just that. On …

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Washington, We Need to Talk About You and Your Pandas
7 months, 1 week ago

Washington, We Need to Talk About You and Your Pandas

Politico  

And it shows no signs of ebbing even now: As news broke this week that the animals would be returning to the National Zoo, complete with a front-page Washington Post story and a White House video announcement, Washington began to party like it’s 1972. When the elderly Hsing-Hsing was reported to be ill in 1999, local schoolchildren sent enough get-well …

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Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple
9 months, 1 week ago

Column: Social Security is again in the crosshairs of a GOP budget, even though a long-term fix would be simple

LA Times  

House Speaker Mike Johnson : His caucus makes no secret about what it intends to do with government services, and it’s not pretty. That brings us to the Republican Study Committee’s prescriptions for Social Security and the other major benefit programs, Medicare and Medicaid. The committee members grouse about how Social Security has expanded since it was originally signed into …

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Pandemonium review: Armando Iannucci’s cod-literary Covid satire won’t thrill weary audiences
1 year ago

Pandemonium review: Armando Iannucci’s cod-literary Covid satire won’t thrill weary audiences

The Independent  

Long before Armando Iannucci was the telly satirist behind squirm-inducingly accurate gems like The Thick of It and The Day Today, he was a postgrad student, dutifully ploughing his way through a thesis on 17th-century religious literature. His debut play Pandemonium is a Covid-era political satire that feels miserably ponderous and out of date, even without the cumbersome references to …

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Did Anyone Ever Really Need a Smart Display?
1 year, 5 months ago

Did Anyone Ever Really Need a Smart Display?

Wired  

When modern smart displays first arrived in 2017 in the form of the first-generation Echo Show, we called them creepy with big potential. Over the past six years, smart displays still feel like a lumbering category with untapped potential—Amazon, Google, and even Meta haven’t been able to crack the code to turn a smart display into a must-have home device. …

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Review: Bigger, louder and even less necessary, ‘Extraction 2’ lumbers along
1 year, 6 months ago

Review: Bigger, louder and even less necessary, ‘Extraction 2’ lumbers along

LA Times  

Having barely survived the adventures of the first film, solider for-hire Tyler Rake returns for “Extraction 2.” Played again by Chris Hemsworth, Rake is recovering in a remote cabin in Austria when he is visited by a mysterious handler and charged with rescuing the wife and two children of a Georgian gangster held in a ruthless prison. While the first …

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India no longer lumbering around at relatively slow pace: Jaishankar in South Africa
1 year, 7 months ago

India no longer lumbering around at relatively slow pace: Jaishankar in South Africa

India TV News  

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India is no longer "lumbering around at a relatively slow pace" at the end of his three-day visit to South Africa for a BRICS conclave. "This scale of change which is taking place in India, when we speak about the pace of transformation of these nine years, is really something that I think …

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Researchers radio-collar 1st bear in mountains near LA
1 year, 8 months ago

Researchers radio-collar 1st bear in mountains near LA

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park Service said Wednesday. The 210-pound black bear dubbed BB-12 was caught April 23 in a natural area south of U.S. Route 101 on the western end …

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How some states deliver via bureaucratic norms
1 year, 9 months ago

How some states deliver via bureaucratic norms

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Over the decades, India has developed a reputation for having a strong society but a weak state. University of Oxford political scientist Akshay Mangla used the example of police officers seeking to enforce the rule of law on the streets as a classic illustration of the power of norms. Last week, Mangla joined host Milan Vaishnav on the …

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Ex Stream Benefits: From Trial By Fire to Cinema Marte Dum Tak, looking at the best on OTT in January
1 year, 11 months ago

Ex Stream Benefits: From Trial By Fire to Cinema Marte Dum Tak, looking at the best on OTT in January

Firstpost  

For the streaming platform in India, January was a remarkably unproductive month redeemed by two outstanding serials, both intimately inured to reality. Netflix’s Trial by Fire was easily the best of January and bound to be counted among the most important happenings on the digital platform in 2023. Trial by Fire, based on the harrowing first-person account of Neelam and …

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Lost 'Giant Dog' Rolls Up To Dollar General Store And Refuses To Leave
2 years, 6 months ago

Lost 'Giant Dog' Rolls Up To Dollar General Store And Refuses To Leave

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A lost dog in Florida decided to cope with his situation via retail therapy. Employees at a Dollar General in Bradenton called police this week reporting a “giant dog that wouldn’t leave,” police said in a now-viral Facebook post that includes body-cam footage of the canine lumbering around the store. The 135-pound dog, whose name turned out …

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Mark Lanegan, gruff-voiced frontman of grunge’s Screaming Trees, dies at 57
2 years, 10 months ago

Mark Lanegan, gruff-voiced frontman of grunge’s Screaming Trees, dies at 57

LA Times  

Mark Lanegan, the gruff-voiced singer and songwriter who led Screaming Trees to fame during the Seattle grunge explosion of the early ’90s before going on to play as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and in duos with Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs and Belle & Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell, died Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. …

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Editorial: The VA vowed to house more than 500 homeless veterans by the holidays. How did it do?
3 years ago

Editorial: The VA vowed to house more than 500 homeless veterans by the holidays. How did it do?

LA Times  

A homeless encampment outside the grounds of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus is seen in April 2020. After Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough toured the homeless encampment of about 40 people, mostly veterans, who lived on the sidewalk outside the gated grounds of the West L.A. VA campus in October, he went back to Washington and vowed to …

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WH aims to restore faith in government by improving services
3 years ago

WH aims to restore faith in government by improving services

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday aimed at rebuilding the public’s trust in government by making it easier to do things like renew passports, apply for Social Security benefits and get aid after natural disasters. “The bottom line is we’re going to make the government work more effectively,” Biden said before signing the order in the …

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Footprints show some two-legged dinosaurs were agile
3 years ago

Footprints show some two-legged dinosaurs were agile

The Independent  

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Footprints show some two-legged dinosaurs were agile
3 years ago

Footprints show some two-legged dinosaurs were agile

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Not all two-legged dinosaurs were like the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex. An analysis of dinosaur tracks from 120 million years ago unearthed in Spain adds to growing evidence that these meat-eating prehistoric beasts belonging to the same group as T.rex could be highly agile. The findings, published Thursday in Scientific Reports, reveal one of the fastest known sets …

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Border controls leave an army of invisible workers trapped on floating sweatshops
4 years, 1 month ago

Border controls leave an army of invisible workers trapped on floating sweatshops

ABC  

Ronbert Bibat had been trapped inside the rusty belly of a lumbering 39,000-tonne cargo ship for well over a year. Key points: Border restrictions designed to stall the spread of coronavirus have left around 400,000 seafarers stranded at sea Worldwide, there are more than 50,000 commercial vessels, many of which escape oversight by registering in tax havens Australian authorities have …

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Tourism on high
4 years, 1 month ago

Tourism on high

China Daily  

Snow-covered wetlands in Arxan. Located more than 1,500 meters above sea level, a village in Inner Mongolia autonomous region's Arxan welcomes visitors to enjoy its attractions surrounded by nature and deer, Yang Feiyue reports. Amidst the snowcapped forest and running river waters, sika deer look for food at Lucun village in late October. Lucun sits in the south of Bailang …

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