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Liz Cheney helps Harris seek moderate votes as they paint Trump as a dangerous choiceOct 21, 2024 2:52 pm - Kamala Harris teamed up with Liz Cheney on Monday to make a bipartisan appeal to Republican voters uneasy about Donald Trump, describing the former president as a malignant force that needs to be removed from American politics.
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Book review: 70-year-old psychiatrist takes to the road in Anna Montague’s beguiling new novelOct 21, 2024 1:03 pm - Americans love road trips. Or at least American writers love them as metaphors of self-discovery. In Anna Montague’s beautiful, beguiling and slightly bonkers debut novel...
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Book Review: Richard Chizmar tells a creepy occult tale in ‘Memorials’Oct 21, 2024 11:20 am - Richard Chizmar’s “Memorials” is set in 1983 as three students embark on a road trip through Appalachia, documenting roadside memorials for their American Studies 301 class at York College. We soon learn that this trip turns out to be both educational and personal for the three students.
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‘Smile 2’ grinning to No. 1 at box officeOct 21, 2024 9:06 am - Horror movies topped the domestic box office charts this weekend. “Smile 2,” in its first weekend, and “Terrifier 3” in its second proved to be the big draws for general movie audiences.
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Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decideOct 21, 2024 8:53 am - Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she's going to m...
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Trump blasts FEMA as he surveys storm damage in North CarolinaOct 21, 2024 8:30 am - Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation, but he said he was not concerned that the aftermath of Hurricane Helene would affect election results in the battleground state.
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth controlOct 21, 2024 8:30 am - Millions of people with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.
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Singer Zayn postpones US tour after the death of his former bandmate Liam PayneOct 21, 2024 8:13 am - English singer Zayn Malik on Saturday postponed a planned tour to the U.S. following the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne.
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US defense chief visits Kyiv for talks on how to keep supporting Ukraine’s fight against RussiaOct 21, 2024 8:05 am - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit Monday, hours after a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital and as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushes Western partners to keep providing military support for the war.
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Lebanon assesses damage after Israel strikes Hezbollah-run financial institutionOct 21, 2024 8:02 am - Lebanese were surveying the damage on Monday after overnight Israeli strikes hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution that Israel says is used to fund attacks but where many ordinary people keep their savings.