A family movie with a throwback feel, “Penguin Bloom” seemingly can’t make up its mind about who its actual protagonist is — the kid narrating what happened, his paralyzed mom dealt a cruel twist of fate, or the bird that helped the family weather it all.
Why LeBron is right (and Zlatan is wrong)
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In a recent interview, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a star soccer player at AC Milan and one of the most recognizable figures in world football, offered a direct critique of NBA superstar LeBron James' social and political a...
What Mitt Romney gets *exactly* right about Donald Trump
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Mitt Romney is no fan of Donald Trump. In fact, the Utah Republican senator may be the single most prominent critic of the 45th President within the GOP. Mitt Romney is also a political realist. Which is why he said...
LGBTQ campaign backed by German footballers hailed as a ‘step in the right direction’
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More than 800 professional footballers in Germany have backed a campaign offering support to LGBTQ players. The campaign has been launched by the magazine 11Freunde (11 Friends) and includes statements from several...
Citibank can’t get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules
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New York (CNN Business)After committing one of the "biggest blunders in banking history," a US District Court judge ruled that Citibank cannot recover the almost half a billion dollars it accidentally wired to Revlon...
The story keeps getting worse for Andrew Cuomo on Covid-19
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Amid the swirling controversy over whether New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration knowingly undercounted deaths among nursing home residents during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state, a top aide f...
White House suspends deputy press secretary for one week for threatening reporter over story about him
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(CNN Business)White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that one of her deputies, TJ Ducklo, had been suspended for one week without pay after a Vanity Fair story revealed Ducklo had threatened a reporter wh...
3 reasons why a ‘center right’ party will never work
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The news was intriguing: A group of 120 Republicans held a meeting in the last week to talk about the possibility of forming a "center right" party or a new faction within the GOP to signal a clear break from former...
Couples everywhere: Here’s why you (or they) can’t ever find anything. It’s not your fault
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"Where are the stamps?" I asked my wife. "I can't believe you are asking me. They are right where they always are," she yelled from across the room. This does nothing to help me in my quest. The stamps are nowhere t...
Meet the Minnesota mom fighting QAnon conspiracies one Instagram story at a time
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When Sharon McMahon scrolled through social media in the months leading up to last year's presidential election, she said found herself horrified by the amount of "straight misinformation" filling her feed. "It wa...
Paul Manafort can’t be prosecuted on state charges, New York court rules
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The New York state appeals court denied the Manhattan district attorney's effort to bring criminal charges against Paul Manafort after he was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump. In a brief ruling, the chief jud...
Story of human evolution gets another rewrite with DNA analysis of Chinese teeth
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Experts hailed the discovery in 2015 as "stunning" -- 47 teeth found in a cave in southern China dated back to 80,0000 to 120,000 years ago, challenging widely accepted ideas about human evolution. It suggested tha...
Pope appoints first woman Under-Secretary with right to vote in Synod of Bishops
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Pope Francis has for the first time appointed a female Under-Secretary to the Synod of Bishops, the Vatican announced Saturday. French Sister Nathalie Becquart will be the first woman to be appointed to the position...