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Pope Francis hits 3-week mark of hospitalization for double pneumonia

Doctors not involved in the pope’s care said after three weeks of acute care in the hospital for double pneumonia, they would have hoped to have seen improvement and warned that he was increasingly at risk of secondary infections the longer he

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Live updates: Trump threatens to sanction Russia in a bid for a ceasefire in Ukraine; White House hosts Crypto Summit – NBC News

Live updates: Trump threatens to sanction Russia in a bid for a ceasefire in Ukraine; White House hosts Crypto Summit  NBC News

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What We Still Don’t Know About the Manson Murders

In the late summer of 1969, panic spread throughout Los Angeles. Over two consecutive nights in early August, a strange group of college-aged hippies who were living at an abandoned movie ranch under the magnetic leadership of Charles Manson, brutally

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Why Oklahoma is pushing for all-day cellphone restrictions in class

Oklahoma is moving two bills through the state legislature that would restrict students from using cellphones while at schools in hopes that it will improve educational outcomes.

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A Lagos community, destroyed in one day

At least 9,000 people have been forcefully evicted from a riverside community in Nigeria’s most populous city, Lagos. Like many waterfront communities across the city, it has faced multiple threats and been targeted by luxury real estate developers. (Image credit:

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Homeland Security ends collective bargaining agreement with TSA workers

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation Security Administration, marking a major effort to dismantle union protections under the Trump administration.

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Trump threatens Canada with new tariffs and warns Russia about sanctions – CNN

Trump threatens Canada with new tariffs and warns Russia about sanctions  CNN

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Double Robert Pattinsons Are the Chief Reason to See Mickey 17

Bong Joon-ho isn’t a subtle director, and he never has been. The ominous killer-on-the-loose thriller Memories of Murder, the sardonic creature-feature The Host, the futuristic downer Snowpiercer, the multiple-Oscar-winning class-war parable Parasite: all of these movies are over-the-top by design,

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‘We Are Exhausted, and It’s Still Q1’: Wall Street Is Losing Patience With Trump

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It’s been a week of searing reversals coming out of the White House, making it difficult to

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Why Korean Superstar IU Relates So Deeply to Her Character in Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines

In 2011, K-pop star IU made her K-drama debut in Dream High, a series about young people trying to make it in Korea’s competitive music industry. But after more than a decade of superstardom on stage and on screen, IU

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