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MIAMI—Rescue crews found another body in the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo on Saturday, bringing the death toll to five.

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Scouting Report: The Company Store's Company Conscious Down Alternative Comforter is breathable, lightweight, and —of course— totally sustainable and made from recycled materials.

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A structural engineer hired by the Champlain Towers South in 2018 to review possible repair needs warned of “major structural damage” to concrete foundations and “abundant” cracks in the parking garage—but repair works were only just getting underway on Thursday when the oceanfront condo crashed to the ground.

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Scouting Reporting: The Matador Towel is small enough to fit into a pocket, weighs practically nothing, and is the perfect thing for staying dry no matter what.

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On Friday night, Bill Maher welcomed Quentin Tarantino to his Real Time program. Given the extraordinary egos in play, there was a high likelihood of this HBO tête-à-tête being insufferable, and about how the current state of cinema is too “politically correct.”

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It’s been nearly 48 hours since the sudden overnight collapse of a Surfside, Florida, condo building with hundreds of people inside, and Sergio Lazano has lost hope.

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Nothing reminds you of your own impermanence quite like watching Angelina Jolie’s children grow up. One moment it’s 2005, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are “Caught Together! On Vacation” (per Star magazine’s explosive cover line), with the actress cradling her infant son Maddox on a Kenyan beach.

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Early this month, as Donald Trump delivered his keynote address to the North Carolina Republican Party’s annual convention, the former U.S. president noticed something: His greatest crowd-pleaser of the night didn’t come when he attacked President Joe Biden, trashed Dr. Anthony Fauci, or repeated his lies about the 2020 election being stolen from him. It came when he railed against critical race theory, declaring that it should be banned from being taught to schoolchildren and government staff. Читать дальше...

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This week iconic pop star Britney Spears gave stirring and emotional testimony about living under the conservatorship granted to her father in 2008. Likening her experience to enslavement, Spears said she had been forced to work against her will, compelled to enter a mental-health institution, drugged, and prevented from having children. The shocking revelations drew instant support and raised questions about the nature of the conservatorship system. Читать дальше...

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Carole Baskin is easy to spot in the wild.

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When COVID-19 hit last year, the stream of major video game releases wasn’t really affected. All the big planned releases hit stores: Animal Crossing, The Last of Us Part II, Cyberpunk 2077 (and its rogue penises), ready to soothe the boredom of a quarantined nation. Then the wave broke and the entire industry experienced a massive production glut. The releases of the PS5 and new Xbox consoles were marred by production line shortages and nagging supply issues that continue to this day. Читать дальше...

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The suspension of Rudy Giuliani from the practice of law by a New York appellate court panel was a major judicial statement about the grave danger Donald Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election poses to the nation and its democratic system. It may also have been futile and potentially unconstitutional.

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As of this week, all of us have the opportunity to see culture at its peak: In F9, the ninth installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise, Vin Diesel drives his franchise to the moon. Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson’s forever bickering characters Tej and Roman are the ones who make the giant leap into the cosmos—and as they do, the film taunts us with its audacity.

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The rainy season in California has come and gone. Now, most of the larger Southwest region of the United States is in the throes of a record-breaking dry spell.

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In December 2018, the U.S. Patent Office approved one of the strangest applications in its 231-year history, from a Navy engineer who was confident he could design nothing less than a physics-denying craft that could fly at massive speeds, not just across the sky but into outer space and even under the ocean.

Sound familiar? Indeed, if the dreams of Salvatore Cezar Pais, an engineer at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River... Читать дальше...

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In her first five months in office, Vice President Kamala Harris has learned at least one important lesson about immigration: You can run to the border, but you can’t run from the border.

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Jasmine Hartin—the billionaire’s daughter-in-law charged with killing a cop in Belize—is being tossed back in a notorious prison after her bail was withdrawn by an employee of her estranged husband.

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On Friday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging voting laws in Georgia. The announcement came on the eighth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. That timing is likely no coincidence.