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'Impeachment: American Crime Story' dissects the Clinton scandal with Monica Lewinsky's input

The "American Crime Story" banner launched by O.J. Simpson's trial is an odd one for FX's "Impeachment," an otherwise engrossing, undeniably juicy limited series that puts the women front and center in the Bill Clinton impeachment scandal. Sarah Paulson's portrayal of Linda Tripp steals the show, but there's no shortage of remarkable work in a production that deserves an Emmy for its prosthetic makeup alone.

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Review of The Takedown

Biracial buddy cop movies (e.g., Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon) aren’t a new phenomenon and could use a refresh. The genre gets a needed update with this French ebony/ivory crime story that’s novel due its unusual antagonists. Right-wing, antiimmigrant zealots.

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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

It doesn’t start with a big bang, but it ends with one. Coming off the heels of the phenomenally successful, $1.4B grossing Top Gun: Maverick, expectations for this Tom Cruise vehicle to ignite the summer box office are high. Will it make a billion dollars? Only audiences will decide.

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Public Education Is Vital to a Democracy

America owes much of its prominence and prosperity to the fact that it has led the world in popular education. Even without a public school system, we had the highest literacy in the world in the 19th century. We were among the first to provide public school to the young through the 12th grade. We were the first to open the doors of colleges and universities – significantly through the GI Bill after World War II – to children from all levels of income.

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'Out of touch': Wisconsin's Barnes and Johnson prepare for general election campaign defined by attacks

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes are political opposites.

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Nonprofit founder steals thousands from project meant for those experiencing homelessness

Leaders for a Minneapolis nonprofit are considering their next steps after one of their founders admitted to stealing thousands of dollars in donated funds.

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Traumatized and tired, nurses are quitting due to the pandemic

Nursing was more than a career to Rachel Ellsworth. She says she was "called" to the work.

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Rite Aid is closing nearly 100 stores as part of its bankruptcy. See the list

Rite Aid, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, is now preparing to shed almost 100 stores nationwide as part of its restructuring efforts.

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Biden campaign eyes strength with older voters as key to a Florida victory

Joy Solomon is a retired businesswoman in Boca Raton, Florida, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. But after watching the President's response to the coronavirus pandemic, she says she's voting for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden this time around.

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A Texas Transplant Family is Celebrating National Minority Donor Awareness Month:

Please Register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor

August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. This national observance (first a day and then a week) was initiated in 1996 to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors from multicultural backgrounds. Starting this year, this nationwide awareness push to engage and educate multicultural communities about the need for organ and tissue donors has been expanded to encompass the entire month of August.

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Republicans target Democrats and teachers unions over school closures in bid to regain suburban foothold

Republicans in charge of taking back the House and Senate next year hope that a new message focused on reopening schools -- and blaming Democrats and their allies in organized labor for continued closures -- will lure back suburban voters who spurned them in 2020.

What to watch for in Thursday's January 6 committee hearing

Thursday's hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection turns the panel's focus toward how former President Donald Trump tried to use the Justice Department to bolster his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Conyers: Frustration of '67 Can Be Found Today Across Nation

The 50th anniversary of the Detroit rebellion — highlighted by the release of the movie "Detroit" — allows us the chance to reflect on the state of civil rights in President Donald Trump’s America.

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Natural Hair Blogger, Meechy Monroe, Dies at 32 of Brain Tumor

The beauty and natural hair world was rocked as news of natural hair and beauty blogger Tameka “Meechy Monroe” Moore’s death surfaced over the weekend. She was only 32-years-old.

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Demolition of Prohibition-era Wall Reveals Centuries-old Wine Collection

Museum workers in New Jersey broke through a Prohibition-era wall and a locked wooden cage to discover over 50 bottles and 42 demijohns of rare Madeira wine dating back as early as 1769.

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Aurora Pays $110K for Unlawful Detention and Tasing of Darsean Kelley

Police Tased Kelley in the Back as he Said, “I Know My Rights”

The City of Aurora will pay $110,000 to settle claims brought by ACLU of Colorado on behalf of Darsean Kelley, a young Black man who was unlawfully stopped, detained, and tased in the back by Aurora police just as he said “I know my rights.”

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5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Habit Healthier

Is your morning cup of Joe good for you? In short, yes. On its own, coffee – consumed by 64 percent of Americans at least once a day – is packed with health-giving antioxidants. In fact, there’s a myriad of research suggesting that coffee drinkers have an 11 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than non-drinkers, thanks to ingredients that can affect levels of hormones involved in metabolism.

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Teens Are Still Having Sex, Most Use Contraception

American teens' sex habits and contraceptive use haven't changed much over the past decade, according to a new report from the National Survey of Family Growth, which is administered by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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New York Police Charge Man In Jogger's Death

The New York Police Department charged a man with second-degree murder in the death last August of a jogger in Queens, Detective Ahmed Nasser said Sunday.

First-time voter: I needed to vote as if my life depended on it

As a resident of one of 2020's battleground states, I cannot contain my excitement about the fact that this is my first time voting in a US presidential election. In Georgia, I was casting a vote for the change that I so desperately want to see in this country.