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National Black Book Festival News
We hope you're enjoying the second month of the year and continuing to support African-American literature. During this month, we've been highlighting authors on our social media platforms who are making a difference by writing books that both inform and entertain.
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Discovery+ is sticking around. It's a strategy shift for Warner Bros. Discovery
Discovery+ isn't disappearing, after all. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN's parent company, has decided to continue offering the Discovery+ streaming platform in the United States, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. That marks a sharp reversal from the media company's previous plan to combine Discovery+ with HBO Max into one streaming service. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.
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Parents of Florida students with disabilities are taking a stand over masks. They're suing Gov. DeSantis
Will Hayes was supposed to start the new school year Tuesday, but instead he's staying home because of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on mask mandates in schools, his mother said.
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Naya Rivera, star of 'Glee,' dead at 33 after disappearing from boat
Naya Rivera, who found fame playing Santana Lopez on the hit series "Glee," has died after going missing during a boat ride with her 4-year-old son, Ventura County Sheriff William Ayub announced at a press conference on Monday.
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The January 6 Riot and Donald Trump Loom Over Joe Biden's Presidency a Year Later
Two weeks before becoming president, Joe Biden watched the January 6 attack on television from his home in Delaware, horrified as the unspeakable images of the insurrection unfolded and aghast at the sitting President's unwillingness to condemn it.
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Snoop Dogg Cancels Concerts Due to Strikes
CA: Snoop Dogg cancels two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in solidarity with
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Texas Man Sues Date for Texting During 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Movie
A Texas man is demanding a refund from his date after she texted while they were at the movies in Austin.
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Shutdown fears, and a wait-and-see game
A partial government shutdown is four days away, and there is no plan to stop it. That's not speculation. That's not a Democratic attack on the White House and President Donald Trump. Those are the words of Republican senators -- several -- as they continue to express frustration about the looming partial government shutdown.
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Tesla Factory at Center of Discrimination Lawsuits
Three employees say Tesla's auto manufacturing facility was so hostile to black workers that it was "straight from the Jim Crow era." An assembly line worker says others mocked his pants as "gay tight."
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The God-Shaped Brain — A Positive View Of God Can Lead To A Healthier Life
Religious beliefs can affect more than spiritual health. In fact, different views about God can actually lead to mental and physical changes. And when God concepts are distorted in some way, the changes can be profoundly negative.
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After his expletive-laden rant about Trump, Robert De Niro apologizes - to Canadians
A day after he took a swipe at President Donald Trump, Robert De Niro has apologized -- not to the commander-in-chief but for him.
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Michael B. Jordan apologizes after new rum venture is accused of cultural appropriation
Michael B. Jordan has issued an apology regarding his new liquor brand following some high-profile complaints.
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Shutdown watch: Deal is just about wrapped up, but time is running out
Things are just about wrapped up (allegedly) on a massive spending deal, according to several aides working on the process.
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Trump celebrates women's rights -- and attacks Michelle Obama
At an event aimed at highlighting the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, President Donald Trump disparaged the country's most admired woman, Michelle Obama as "over her head" after she delivered a scathing, direct-to-camera speech criticizing him at the Democratic National Convention Monday.
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Trump lashes out as Cohen raid fuses Russia probe and Stormy case
There could be dark and unprecedented times ahead. The FBI raid against Michael Cohen spiked President Donald Trump's rampant indignation over the Robert Mueller probe to previously unseen heights, multiplying the persecution complex he feels about the FBI and his own Justice Department and fueling his sense he's the target of a witch hunt.
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This entire Chinese village is a shrine to Xi Jinping
It's the kind of artwork you'd expect to see celebrating Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin or Kim Il Sung. But this isn't Communist propaganda that harks back to Cold War days. The simple mural of Xi Jinping painted on the side of a dusty wall in this small village is a modern-day shrine to China's new "president for life."
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Communities that Work Together, Win Together (An Independence Day Reminder)
Freedom, independence, self-sufficiency: these are great and glorious concepts. We celebrate them this time of year, whether we process it that way or not, because they're so deeply engrained in our image of America. We see ourselves as a nation of rugged individualists: seizing the bull by the horns, charting our own course, walking alone into the forest with an axe slung over our shoulder.
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Amber Heard testifies her role in 'Aquaman 2' was reduced after Johnny Depp's attorney called her abuse claims a 'hoax'
Amber Heard finished testifying on direct examination in the $50 million defamation case with ex-husband Johnny Depp on Monday, following a week-long break in proceedings.
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New documentary unearths troubling links between Victoria's Secret and Jeffrey Epstein
The cultural phenomenon that was pre-2020 Victoria's Secret, with its televised lingerie catwalks and salacious TV ads, may be at times hard to fathom in a post-#MeToo world. What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood -- exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings -- quickly became a parody so gauche it's hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously. But "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons," a new Hulu documentary out today, explores exactly why and how it was.
