Writer-director Robert Rodriguez offers an odd mashup of two movies from the 2000s with “We Can Be Heroes,” basically the offspring of his “Spy Kids” and “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.” The result is a lively and colorful if uninspired Netflix kids movie, which even throws in the David Bowie song that inspired the title for good measure.
In Biden’s Oval Office, Cesar Chavez takes his place among America’s heroes
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The Oval Office décor quickly changed after President Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. Walls featuring figures such as Andrew Jackson were replaced with portraits of Founding Fathers and busts of civil rights ...
For many parents, the swearing-in of Kamala Harris was an inspirational teaching moment for their kids
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The moment Kamala Harris took her oath of office on Wednesday to become the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president was an inspirational teaching moment for parents and kids across the country...
Trump talked out of pardoning kids and Republican lawmakers
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President Donald Trump received an unsettling warning on his final Saturday night in the White House. Huddled for a lengthy meeting with his legal advisers, Trump was warned the pardons he once hoped to bestow upon ...
The world will take away a tragic truth from Biden’s inauguration
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This was excerpted from the January 15 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Click here to read past editions and subscribe. There'll be no arguments about crow...
Russian woman who swam under Siberia’s ice may have broken the world record
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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in water estimated to...
Superintendents push to speed up vaccination of educators: ‘We could lose a whole generation of kids’
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Superintendents from Texas, Florida, Washington, North Carolina and other states are pushing for an organized plan to vaccinate the country's teachers and school staff more quickly, in order to allow schools to open...
Only about 2,000 people speak the Cherokee language fluently. The tribe is saving some vaccine doses for them
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Even before the pandemic hit, the Cherokee Nation was dealing with a crisis: the potential disappearance of its native language. Only about 2,000 people alive on this earth can speak the Cherokee language fluently. ...
‘Extraordinary’ corporate revolt over campaign donations shakes political world
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Some of the country's largest firms are scrambling to distance themselves from last week's insurrection at the US Capitol by freezing or reassessing their political donations -- sending tremors through a political s...
10 tips for talking to your kids about the attack on the US Capitol
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Dr. Neha Chaudhary is a double board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and cofounder of Brainstorm, Stanford's Lab for Mental Health Innov...
Doorbell camera captures a woman saving her neighbors from their burning home
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Nicole Salgado and her family woke up on New Year's Day to frantic knocking at the front door of their home in Avondale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, and she didn't know it. "We were all asleep," Salgado told CN...
Already free of coronavirus, this Pacific Islands country could become the first in the world to be vaccinated
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A cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that's one of the few places on Earth entirely free from Covid-19 could become one of the first countries vaccinated against the disease. The Republic of Palau, an archipela...