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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

October 5, 2020 by Naomi Coquillon For Hispanic Heritage Month, we are highlighting a few activities and interactive presentations that kids and families can do to honor the cultures

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown

Ethan Hawke plays the wild-eyed abolitionist in Showtime’s adaptation of the award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird” is based on the James McBride novel about John Brown. E

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Who can be president? According to the movies, it’s still White men

By Shelly Tan Sept. 30, 2020 It’s been 12 years since Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first Black president and four years since Hillary Clinton became the first major party

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Pope Francis’s new encyclical is a papal warning about a world going backward

By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli Oct. 4, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EDT ROME — Humankind, Pope Francis says, is in the midst of a worrying regression. People are intensely polariz

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Identify the Different Symptoms of the Flu and Covid-19

With fears of a “twindemic” in the United States this fall, here’s a guide to understanding what’s making you feel terrible. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Oct. 3, 2020 As influenza seas

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Most & Least Federally Dependent States

Federal assistance to states has come into the spotlight recently during the coronavirus pandemic, where some states have received far more money per case than others. For example, in the initial $

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Today’s Brunch: Apple Pear Oven Pancake for 2 (or really just me)

This was one of the first recipes I learned to make. The original popover recipe came from Seventeen Magazine when I was in high school. It has evolved over the years into this. Take one ripe apple

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

By Kyle Buchanan Sept. 30, 2020 Updated 6:19 p.m. ET In the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s a sweat-slicked summer day in Chicago 1927 and everybod

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  • October 9, 2020

Clean Your Appliances

Just a question – when was the last time you cleaned your washing machine and dishwasher? I mean, thoroughly – cleaning gaskets and filters – not just a cycle run with vinegar? If you can’t

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Vegan Mini Pizza

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

$118 vs $14 Brownies

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Michelle and Oprah

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Tribute to Chadwick Boseman

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Autumn Jazz

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Live Wax Jazz

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NY Times

  • Canadian Tourist Is Killed in Shooting at Mexico’s Pyramids
  • Japan to Sell More Weapons Abroad, Breaking With Postwar Pacifism
  • Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans
  • Democrat Betty Yee Leaves the California Governor’s Race
  • Trump and Iran Face Off in Iran War Negotiations

NPR

  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles
  • This week in science: Small talk, more human lobster killing, and an ancient flood

The Progressive

  • On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are
  • Citizen Journalists Shine a Light on Gaza
  • Climate Education Makes Economic Sense
  • ICE Agents Hide Behind Masks; Jesse Jackson Remembered As Determined Leader
  • What’s Behind the Push to Make Schools Adopt the Science of Reading?

FactCheck.org

  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut
  • The U.S. Treasury Didn’t Declare the Country ‘Insolvent’

Snopes.com

  • Kash Patel faces claims of excessive drinking, absences. Here's what we know
  • Did Trump cancel $11M grant to Catholic charity to 'punish' Pope Leo XIV? What we know
  • Inspecting photos allegedly showing 'dismal' meals on US military ships in Middle East
  • Bill Gates has nothing to do with 'Brain Honey' or any other fake Alzheimer's cure
  • Did Ted Lieu expose Stephen Miller funneling $6.2B through Cayman Islands?

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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