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Live Science | 2/21/2019 | Staff
A faint and frigid little moon doesn't have to go by "Neptune XIV" anymore. Astronomers have given a name — "Hippocamp" — to the most recently discovered moon of Neptune, which also formerly went by...
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Conservative Tribune | 2/21/2019 | Benjamin DeKraker
As the Jussie Smollett case continues to unravel, the African-American actor is facing an unlikely critic: “the Rev.” Al Sharpton. Smollett is the gay star of “Empire,” who recently alleged that he...
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www.oann.com | 4/8/2014 | Staff
(Reuters) – The son of the Republican candidate in a disputed congressional race in North Carolina said on Wednesday he warned his father to be suspicious of a political operative now accused of...
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TVLine | 2/19/2019 | Kimberly Roots
When This Is Us decided that dance was going to be an integral part of Beth’s past, the show’s Powers That Be wanted to ensure that their storytelling would be on point(e).
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TVGuide.com | 2/19/2019 | Keisha Hatchett
Did you know that NCIS's Tim McGee (Sean Murray) loved to tap dance as a teen? Tuesday's delightful episode exposed a new side of the computer wizard while serving up a fun-filled hour of murder,...
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‘This Is Us’: Susan Kelechi Watson on Beth’s Past, Grief and Working With Phylicia Rashad (SPOILERS)Variety | 2/19/2019 | Danielle Turchiano
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Our Little Island Girl,” the 13th episode of Season 3 of “This Is Us.” It took until the middle of the third season of NBC family drama “This...
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ScienceDaily | 2/18/2019 | StaffAccording to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham and involving an international team of collaborators, the number of species within ecological communities on land has...
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phys.org | 2/18/2019 | Staff
The rich levels of biodiversity on land seen across the globe today are not a recent phenomenon: diversity on land has been similar for at least the last 60 million years, since soon after the...
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Washington Free Beacon | 2/15/2019 | Joe Schoffstall
BY: Joe Schoffstall Sen. Amy Klobuchar's (D., Minn.) tenure as a "tough-on-crime" prosecutor may prove a problem and could damage her standing among progressives during the Democratic primaries.
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KVUE | 2/13/2019 | Staff
AUSTIN, Texas — Deep in the heart of Texas is an artery that's been clogged for decades. According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, the portion of Interstate 35 that runs through...
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Archaeologists must avoid prehistoric Brexit parallels – they encourage twisted readings of the pastphys.org | 2/13/2019 | Staff
This is not the first Brexit, apparently. That "watery Brexit" happened around 6,000 BC when Britain was detached from continental Europe with the final formation of the English Channel as it is...
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/Film | 2/13/2019 | Hoai-Tran Bui
After breaking out with his feature directorial debut Sleight, J.D. Dillard is becoming a hot commodity in Hollywood, with his latest project becoming the center of a heated bidding war.
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TVOvermind | 1/7/2016 | Tiffany Raiford
Young and the Restless fans were not all that surprised to see what happened when Mia and Rey were being intimate. Let us start by saying that the fact that they thought it was a good idea to renew...
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realclimatescience.com | 2/13/2019 | Staff
In the November 1976 issue of National Geographic, they showed a Little Ice Age followed by a sharp warming spike to 1940, and then cooling back to 1880 levels. This cooling back to 1880 levels was...
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Mail Online | 2/13/2019 | James Wood For Mailonline
The head of MI6 is to stay on beyond his retirement date to deal with any post-Brexit turmoil, it has been reported. Alex Younger, who has been in the role for almost five years, is due to retire in...
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ScienceDaily | 2/11/2019 | Staff
A team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Cambridge and University of Birmingham studied data from ice cores drilled in Greenland. They looked at oxygen isotopes and compared them to...
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TechCrunch | 2/11/2019 | Staff
Over the last 20 years, smart home gadgets have evolved from fantasy to commodity. Walk into Best Buy and there are dozens of products that take just a few minutes to set up. It’s wonderful.
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phys.org | 2/11/2019 | Staff
A new study on ice cores shows that reductions in sea ice in the Arctic in the period between 30-100,000 years ago led to major climate events. During this period, Greenland temperatures rose by as...
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Washington Free Beacon | 2/11/2019 | Andrew Kugle
BY: Andrew Kugle Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) said during a Monday interview on the "Breakfast Club" that she supports the legalization of marijuana, a drug she also...
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IndieWire | 2/9/2019 | Staff
Though it’s preceded by 20 other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Captain Marvel” takes place before almost all of them — 1995, to be exact. As such, the folks at Marvel have opted to give...
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TMZ | 2/9/2019 | Staff
Don Lemon IS GOOD at comebacks ... and it's never been clearer than with this video. We got Don at LAX Friday and asked about the blackface scandals in Virginia ...
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Washington Free Beacon | 2/8/2019 | Jeffrey Cimmino
BY: Jeffrey Cimmino The Boston Globe editorial board on Friday called on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to "put all the facts about her past in front of voters," in the wake of a report that the...
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TechCrunch | 2/8/2019 | Staff
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google’s main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur, a secret endeavor housed under the tech giant’s moonshot...
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POPSUGAR Entertainment | 2/7/2019 | Karen Snyder Duke
Warning: spoilers for A Million Little Things ahead! We were hooked on A Million Little Things from the very early moments of that emotional series premiere, but no one could have predicted that the...
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www.oann.com | 2/2/2019 | Staff(Reuters) – The painful history of blackface in America was highlighted this week as two top Virginia Democrats came under fire after admitting to having blackened their faces to resemble...
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IndieWire | 2/6/2019 | Staff
“To the Stars” takes place in 1960s Oklahoma, a setting that could easily fall into tropes about both the region and the concept of period pieces in general. Directing the story of a pair of friends...
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Business Insider | 1/21/2019 | John Haltiwanger
Former Vice President Joe Biden's record on racial justice is being re-examined as he considers running for president in 2020. Biden's mid-1970s crusade against busing as part of efforts to...
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Filmmaker Magazine | 2/1/2019 | Scott Macaulay
by Scott Macaulay “In a way, I see the festival as run like a punk rock label — a successful one!” says filmmaker and Slamdance “co-conspirator” Paul Rachman. With its award ceremony and final...
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www.oann.com | 1/30/2019 | StaffLONDON (Reuters) – Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, visited London’s National Theatre as the venue’s new royal patron on Wednesday, watching a line-run of a Shakespeare play and meeting aspiring...
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Science | AAAS | 1/30/2019 | Staff
DUBNA, RUSSIA—From certain angles, the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions here looks more like an auto repair shop than a legendary scientific institute. Scientists in dirty blue smocks walk...
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www.whitehorseinn.org | 1/30/2019 | Staff
The Mod | “The State of the Evangelical Mind: Reflections on the Past, Prospects For the Future” Thirty years on from the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, author Mark Noll and...
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Townhall | 1/28/2019 | Staff
What Will It Take To Make You Understand And Accept That They Hate You? Seventy-one years ago this month -- in January 1948 -- a black, 17-year-old high school dropout left home.
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ScienceDaily | 1/24/2019 | Staff
Previous research has pointed to crocodiles and alligators starting with a land-based ancestor some 200 million years ago and then moving to fresh water, becoming the semi-aquatic ambush predators...
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Breitbart | 1/21/2019 | Staff
Democratic presidential hopefuls are courting Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network (NAN) as they jockey for support in the increasingly crowded 2020 primary field — ignoring Sharpton’s...
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WND | 1/23/2019 | Staff
(AP) — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Democrat Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, says he’s forming an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid.
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www.oann.com | 1/22/2019 | Staff
Charles Matthews made a buzzer-beating put-back shot, and No. 5 Michigan bounced back from its first loss of the season to defeat Minnesota 59-57 on Tuesday at Ann Arbor, Mich.
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The Daily Caller | 1/22/2019 | Staff
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated on Monday that the United States should pay reparations to the non-white communities who were negatively impacted by America’s New Deal.
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Washington Examiner | 1/21/2019 | by Tiana Lowe
Presidential hopeful and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, may have deeply unpalatable views on issues from foreign policy (she's pals with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad) to taxation, but none have put...
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The Daily Caller | 7/26/2016 | Staff
A notable LGBT congressman has come to the defense of Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as she takes flak for past statements made about “homosexual extremists.
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Washington Examiner | 1/16/2019 | by Diana Stancy Correll
Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who was the first openly gay member of Congress from New York, came to the defense of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, after it was unearthed that she worked for an...
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/Film | 1/15/2019 | Chris Evangelista
I bet you didn’t see this coming: Netflix has a new original series! Of course, I’m just funning – Netflix always has a new original series these days. The streaming giant has more or less given up...
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Townhall | 1/15/2019 | Staff
It didn’t take long for progressives to turn on Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) after she announced Friday that she was throwing her hat in the ring for 2020.
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Conservative Tribune | 1/12/2019 | Jared Harris
Earlier this week, seafood giant Red Lobster confirmed it would be abandoning advertising on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Citing its “core values,” the company said in a statement to The Wrap...
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The Daily Signal | 1/11/2019 | Staff
Christopher Walker is a columnist and writer on politics and international affairs. He is based in London and has published regular columns in The Independent. The Democratic Party is seriously...
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Washington Examiner | 1/11/2019 | by Al WeaverSen. Kamala Harris' prosecutorial record in California is being picked apart by press stories — including some that charge she wasn't progressive enough — just as she readies herself for a 2020...
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E! Online | 1/8/2019 | Staff
At this point in Nick's career, he's been "riding the desk" at S.H.I.E.L.D. and isn't "as cynical" as he is in future MCU storylines. "Things are changing. The world is changing for him—[especially]...
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TVOvermind | 5/31/2011 | Tiffany C. Lockhart
Everyone deserves a second chance. Whether they made it big or have come close to making it. In this week’s premiere episode of America’s Got Talent: Champions, fifty acts fight to be the best of...
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Religion News Service | 1/8/2019 | Staff
(The Conversation) — Pope Francis started the new year criticizing some Catholic bishops for their role in the church’s sexual abuse crisis. In a letter to bishops gathered at Mundelein Seminary in...
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PEOPLE.com | 1/7/2019 | Staff
Kevin Hart is reaching out to the LGBTQ community and apologizing once more. The Upside actor, 39, extended the apology on his SiriusXM radio show Straight from The Hart, which airs on Monday night.
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TVLine | 1/4/2019 | Andy SwiftForget everything you thought you knew about Carmen Sandiego — which, to be fair, probably wasn’t much to begin with. That shady lady has always been kind of a question mark.
Thursday Prayer: disrupting the status quo Around Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, the green walk signal is the figure of...
Church of England’s synod takes on Brexit divisions as zero hour approaches LONDON (RNS) — The Church of England’s most senior...
Colo. House passes LGBT-inclusive sex ed bill blocking schools from teaching abstinence only The Colorado House has passed a...
How to Foster Trust and Engagement with Website Visitors One of the values my family has is to make our home a...
Tesla Model 3 loses Consumer Reports recommendation over ‘reliability problems’ Consumer Reports has placed the Tesla Model 3...
Expanding the use of silicon in batteries, by preventing electrodes from expanding This adjustment could extend the life of...
Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons In the global quest to develop practical computing and communications devices...
CBS All Access releases a spooky, star-studded trailer for Jordan Peele’s ‘Twilight Zone’ A new version of “The Twilight...
Too hot for comfort: the physiological dangers of extreme heat A new review of more than 140 studies explores the physiological...
Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Selfie with Robert Downey Jr. After Saying She's Done with Marvel Films Gwyneth Paltrow is retiring from...
The Monkees' Peter Tork Dead at 77 Monkees bassist Peter Tork has died at the age of 77. Word of Tork’s passing was...
Kaley Cuoco shares awkward moment with husband Karl Cook where he said they 'looked like siblings' Kaley Cuoco has poked fun...
Record number of films released in UK cinemas last year, reports FDA The Film Distributors’ Association has published its...
The Haunting of Hill House Renewed for Season 2 — Get Ready for a 'New Story' Featuring 'All New Characters'
Khloé Kardashian Seemingly Addresses Her Painful Breakup in a Series of Instagram Stories IMDb.com, Inc. takes no...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
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