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Queen to perform at the Oscars

Less than one week until the Oscars, The Academy is still beefing up its list of performers, and its latest addition, they hope, will rock you.

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Trump ramps up pressure on Venezuela's Maduro in speech

President Donald Trump on Monday urged Venezuelan military officials to back the country's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido and allow humanitarian aid to flow into Venezuela.

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President and CEO of Time's Up, Lisa Borders, resigns

Less than two months into the job, Lisa Borders has resigned as the president and CEO of Time's Up.

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Trump talking about John James as frontrunner for UN ambassador

President Donald Trump has mentioned former Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James as a leading contender for the role of US ambassador to the United Nations, a source close to White House tells CNN.

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Jussie Smollett's career awaits outcome of his case

When Jussie Smollett released his debut album "Sum of My Music" last year, he was riding high.

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War on e-cigarettes: Hong Kong intends to jail vaping offenders. But will it make people quit?

Robert Chan lit his first cigarette aged 18. He quickly became hooked, smoking 15 a day for more than a decade.

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Florida student arrested for disturbance after he refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance, police say

A Florida school district said that a student who refused to take part in the Pledge of Allegiance was arrested for becoming disruptive, not for refusing to say the pledge.

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Elizabeth Warren to release universal child care plan paid by 'wealth tax'

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren is set to release a sweeping universal child care plan on Tuesday that would guarantee child care from birth until the time children enter school.

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Airlines will add new gender options for non-binary passengers

US airline passengers who don't identify as "male" or "female" will soon have more gender options to choose when booking tickets.

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National Study Finds Americans Do Not Know The Facts Or Their Risk For Heart Disease

While 7 out of 10 Americans acknowledge heart disease as the number one killer of both men and women, a national survey conducted by MDVIP and Ipsos finds that people still worry more about cancer (62 percent) than they do a heart attack (55 percent). A staggering 62 percent of Americans failed the "Heart Attack IQ" quiz, proving a concerning lack of knowledge about heart disease, the risk factors and prevention.

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UNCF Celebrates 75 Years of Lighting the Way to Better Futures

Hosting annual San Francisco UNCF "A Mind Is…" Gala to benefit deserving students and historically black colleges and universities

For 75 years, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) has supported hundreds of thousands of deserving students, private historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and advocated for minority higher education.

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2019 Statewide Warrant Roundup Runs Through March 16

Missouri City is taking part in the Statewide Warrant Roundup again, allowing offenders to settle their fines without going to jail. Payments started being accepted on Friday, Feb. 15—in person and by phone—and will continue to be accepted through Saturday, March 9.

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Trash Bash to Hold 26th Annual Cleanup on March 30, 2019

Thousands of volunteers to clean area waterways

On March 30, 2019, the River, Lakes, Bays ‘N Bayous Trash Bash® (Trash Bash®) will celebrate its 26th consecutive cleanup of the Galveston Bay watershed. Trash Bash® is proud of its heritage as the largest, single-day, waterway cleanup in Texas. In 2018, about 3,600 volunteers collected 85.5 tons of trash, one ton for recycling, and 356 tires, while cleaning 158.5 miles of shoreline.

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One of the Newest Celeb Favorites, Rufat Ismayel of AFFFAIR Brought Glamour and Lots of Sparkle to Spring Studios To Close Out NYFW

It is fitting that one of Hollywood’s newest go-to labels, Afffair, closed out NYFW at Spring Studios with a sultry, empowering, feminine collection from Azerbaijani designer, Rufat Ismayil.

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Free Shuttle for Riders During METRORail Service Interruption

Green & Purple Lines Impacted by Power Line Work

On Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, free METRO shuttles will be provided to METRORail riders from the Theater District to Magnolia Transit Center and Palm Center while CenterPoint Energy works on a high-voltage power line in East Downtown.

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Man retires from mail delivery at age 91

It was August 1949 when the U.S. Postal Service stopped using the train to deliver mail to Richfield and a 21-year-old kid made his first mail run in a delivery truck from Salt Lake back to his hometown.

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Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials

Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September. But the pages pushing the videos do not disclose that they are backed by the Russian government.

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Is it time for Real Madrid to say goodbye to Brazilian Marcelo?

When a player has been at a club for so long, almost becoming part of the furniture in the process, it's often hard to remember a time without them.

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Iraq war veteran and teen next door partner up to remove neighborhood snow

In 2016 we told you the story of Justin Anderson, an Iraq veteran, amputee and brain cancer survivor, who uses a special wheelchair to plow his neighborhood.

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Michael B. Jordan makes us all look lazy

It's late November and Michael B. Jordan is preparing to head overseas. He leaves on Thanksgiving for an international leg of press for his film "Creed II." His travels were going to take him to places like London and Africa. Then his schedule had him diving into award season here in the states. March, he said, would bring a breather.