Month: May 2020

Translated by Victoria Cribb — The Mist completes – or starts, depending on how you read it – Ragnar Jonasson’s Hidden Iceland series. The first in the series, The Darkness, introduced us to Hulda Hermansdottir, a police detective on the verge of retiring from the Reykjavik police force. It provided the background and revealed large
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Play video content Breaking News LA County Sheriff’s Department A group of L.A.-area prison inmates were eager to contract coronavirus … because they believed that would be their ticket out … seriously. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva made the startling revelation Monday, saying about two dozen inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic attempted
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Indie studio Neon Giant’s The Ascent was featured in the lackluster Xbox Series X May 20/20 showcase, and its next-gen gameplay was only revealed after that presentation, which was lambasted by fans and detractors alike for its lack of gameplay, despite Microsoft’s contradictory promises. That’s no blunder on the developer’s part, but it’s baffling that Microsoft didn’t utilize all Xbox-exclusive gameplay
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Steph Cha has created a timely and unforgettable story about crime, injustice and the collision of two Los Angeles cultures, not written in abstract terms, but in the painful impact the conflict has on multiple generations of two families – one black and one Korean. Although most of the story takes place in 2019, it
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Shopping for a beach tote might feel a little cruel given our quarantined circumstances, but we all need something to look forward to. Get excited to not stay home and hit the coast once lockdown lifts with a waterproof Prada tote, straw backpacks, and deceptively chic beach bags that look way more expensive than their
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A police officer asks for documents at a checkpoint on April 21, 2020 in Bogota, Colombia. (Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images) Gender-based lockdown rules in Bogotá, Colombia, will be lifted after they fuelled a wave of violence against transgender people living in the city. Bogotá’s mayor, Claudia Lopez, said in a virtual press conference on Friday (May
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