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Book Review: Kate Quinn returns with ‘The Briar Club,’ a murder mystery during the 1950s Red ScareJul 09, 2024 8:17 am - If you’ve never read a Kate Quinn novel, there’s no time like the present. Or like the 1950s in Washington, D.C. That’s the setting for Quinn’s “The Briar Club,” which is a murder mystery wrapped up in the stories of multiple women who rent rooms at a boarding house during the height of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare.
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Beryl leaves hot misery in its wake as the still-dangerous storm churns into the U.S. interiorJul 09, 2024 8:05 am - HOUSTON — Many of the millions left without power when Hurricane Beryl crashed into the Houston area, killing several people and unleashing flooding, now face days withou...
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Trump returns to campaign trail with VP deadline nearing amid calls for Biden to withdrawJul 09, 2024 8:01 am - MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump is getting back on the campaign trail Tuesday, rallying voters in his home state at his flagship golf resort in a celebratory mood a...
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Kyiv mourns as rescuers sift piles of rubble at a children's hospital hit by a Russian missileJul 09, 2024 7:59 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Rescuers searched the rubble at a children’s hospital Tuesday for more dead and wounded, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day after Russian...
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Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her workJul 09, 2024 7:52 am - In “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation,” author Emily Van Duyne rejects the trope that Plath was nothing more than a bad mother who struggled with mental illness and a morbid poet, whose life was merely a preface to her infamous self-inflicted death.
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From ‘Red October’ to ‘30 Rock,’ a look at Alec Baldwin’s career ahead of ‘Rust’ shooting trialJul 09, 2024 7:47 am - Hollywood has never known exactly what to do with Alec Baldwin, so it has done a little of everything with him. Before the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western “Rust” put his career in question, he took on, and sent up, a wide spectrum of variations of masculinity.
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Twins score twice in 11th and improve to 8-0 against White Sox with 8-6 winJul 08, 2024 10:56 pm - Brooks Lee and Manuel Margot drove in runs in the 11th inning and the Minnesota Twins topped the Chicago White Sox 8-6 on Monday night. Lee's second RBI single of the gam...
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Lionel Messi will start vs. Canada in Copa America semifinal, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni saysJul 08, 2024 8:39 pm - NEW YORK — Lionel Messi won't be stopped by a leg injury and will play in Argentina's Copa America semifinal against Canada on Tuesday night. Messi has been dealing with ...
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Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher edJul 08, 2024 8:34 pm - Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction,” ...
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For-profit college in Oak Lawn shuts down abruptlyJul 08, 2024 8:29 pm - A for-profit college in Oak Lawn has abruptly closed amid a federal review. Officials at Northwestern College in Oak Lawn sent an email to students on Saturday saying th...