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- Richard Williams, Oscar-winning animator behind ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ dies at 86
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:44 PMHe spent about 30 years working on “The Thief and the Cobbler” but lost control of the film after it went over budget and fell behind schedule.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump weighed in on a movie, then the studio canceled it. Now the director has something to say.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:05 PMThe release of the Blumhouse movie was canceled following three mass shootings and a tweetstorm from the president.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tiger Woods couldn’t fix golf’s diversity problem. Steph Curry takes another shot.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 05:19 PMThe NBA star, with his gift to Howard University, joins others in D.C. in trying to make the game look more like America.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A stuck steer got a little help from fire and rescue personnel
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 09:55 PMThe aging animal, named Bullwinkle, spent hours in the mud until Montgomery County responders could extract him.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - By air and sea, a desperate search to find a local firefighter, friend missing off Florida coast
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:47 PMTwo firefighters planned for a quick fishing trip, but they never returned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’
Tuesday - 04/30/2019 - 11:28 AMShortly after colonists established laws on how to govern, they created laws on how to enslave.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yes, people are still obsessed with Pokémon — and this is their Super Bowl
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 05:23 AMAt the world championships, fans compete in video games, hold stuffed Pikachus for good luck — and even propose marriage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - People are leaving Guatemala. We can’t respond unless we understand why.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 05:43 AMThe demographic paradox of Central American migration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Illuminati? The conspiracy against Trump’s economy is massive.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:48 AMThe credibility of statistics apparently depends on whether they’re beneficial.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump again signals a retreat on gun control, reverting to remarks that mirror NRA views
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:36 AMAfter two recent mass shootings, President Trump said “there is a great appetite” for tightening background checks. But advisers warned him there is little support for action on gun control, and the president has shifted his focus to mental illness.
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- Billie Eilish dethrones Lil Nas X with her first Billboard No. 1 single
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:14 PMEilish's "Bad Guy," which triumphed Monday, had been runner-up for nine nonconsecutive weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The top fantasy football running backs to draft in 2019
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:06 PMTaking a look at how the likes of Ezekiel Elliott, Le'Veon Bell and Todd Gurley stack up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Norfolk officials sue Virginia in effort to remove Confederate monument
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:57 PMThe city is challenging a state preservation law that protects war memorials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Julián Castro rolls out animal welfare plan as Trump snubs endangered species
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:52 PMCastro has positioned himself among the campaign's leading voices for advancing animal protections.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Salvadoran woman was charged in the death of her stillborn baby. A judge acquitted her.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:23 PMAdvocates say 21-year-old Evelyn Hernández acquittal is a "sign of hope" for a country with one of the world’s most severe abortion bans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Bible was used to justify slavery. Africans made it a path to freedom.
Tuesday - 04/30/2019 - 11:34 AMLarge numbers of African Americans adopted Christianity and quickly remade it their own.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What a freshman congresswoman learned after her ‘stunning’ clash with progressives
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 03:20 AMAbigail Spanberger, a moderate Democrat from the Richmond suburbs, realized that sometimes, your foes are inside your own party
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - To save opera, we have to let it die
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:43 AMHolding fast to a retrograde idea of what art can be will hinder its ability to thrive.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I was wrong about Trump. Here’s why.
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:18 AMThe negatives of Trump’s demagoguery now clearly outweigh the positives of his leadership.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - General Electric issues expanded response about fraud allegations, financial reporting
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 03:18 PMGE addressed follow-up questions about its long-term care insurance and Baker Hughes units after a report alleged the company was masking the depths of its financial troubles.
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- Huawei business ban leaves rural wireless companies with few alternatives
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:51 PMThe Trump administration added several dozen more Huawei affiliates to a trade blacklist Monday, but also extended a temporary reprieve that will allow some U.S. companies to continue doing business with the Chinese tech company for at least the next three months.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The top fantasy football wide receivers to draft in 2019
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:53 PMSee how the likes of Julio Jones, Odell Beckham Jr. and Antonio Brown stack up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vaunted D.C. charter school sued again over teacher who sexually abused children
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:06 PMA new lawsuit alleged that Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School administrators didn’t do enough to protect students.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cyanide from a steel plant trickled into Lake Michigan for days before the public was notified
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:35 PMThousands of fish have died over the past week, since a failure at a steel plant caused cyanide and ammonia to leak into a river that feeds Lake Michigan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - School disciplines students who sang Nazi song and gave Nazi salute during awards banquet — but won’t say how
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 08:55 PMIt's the latest anti-Semitic action by students amid a rise in hate crimes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New Hampshire’s white liberals grapple with reparations
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:41 AMAfter President Trump’s election, many began to think about racial justice more seriously.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Omar, Tlaib blast Israel for blocking their visit
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 05:36 AMThe two congresswomen used a rare news conference during congressional recess to try to highlight the situation facing Palestinians under Israeli policies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The U.S. must take Greenland by force!
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 06:46 AMDenmark’s refusal to sell us the island is clearly fighting words.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump risks turning a chance for success in Afghanistan into a shameful failure
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 07:38 AMThe United States shouldn’t agree to a flimsy peace accord with the Taliban.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 3 out of 4 economists predict a U.S. recession by 2021, survey finds
Monday - 08/19/2019 - 03:33 PMThe findings reflect growing skepticism that the U.S. economy will be able to withstand a protracted trade war without serious harm amid a weakening global outlook.
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