Month: October 2020

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett reacts as she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. (Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty) Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed for the Supreme Court. The Senate voted to confirm Barrett’s nomination 52 to 48 on Monday (26 October). Barrett is expected
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Danell Leyva, three-time USA Gymnastics Olympic Medalist, attends a viewing party of the Olympic Opening Ceremony hosted by the filmmakers of “Icarus” at the Hollywood Athletic Club on February 9, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Netflix) Three-time Olympic gymnastics medallist Danell Leyva has explained how stereotypes about male gymnasts held him back
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Deep by Nick Cutter for $1.99 Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuval for $3.99 Hausmagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft by Erica Feldmann for $2.99 The Sellout by Paul Beatty for $2.99 Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake for $2.99
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How Many Divergent Movies Have We Seen The Divergent series tracks the journey of Tris Prior, a young woman living in a dystopian society that divides its society into five factions. Tris learns she is “Divergent,” someone who has attributes aligning to multiple factions, but chooses to join the Dauntless or “brave” faction and hide
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Our On the Radar news page returns, and this week we’re raising a glass to five new crime novels, beginning with one set in the brewing industry of the 1930s. In Yorkshire, to be precise. Looks like the perfect accompaniment to a pint of bitter. In addition, we’ve got the latest from Gunnar Staalesen, the
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The idea of having kids with new husband David Harbour really makes Lily Allen smile.  The singer shares daughters Ethel, 8, and Marnie, 7, with ex-husband Sam Cooper. When asked about any plans to expand her family, she told The Sunday Times it’s certainly in the cards.  “I think so. Especially now Marnie’s getting so big,” Lily explained to the outlet. ”It’s like, ‘No, my babies!'” While
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Baroness Nicholson. (UK Parliament, cropped. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Anti-trans Tory peer Baroness Nicholson claims it’s “very dangerous” that the BBC explained what pronouns are to children. On International Pronouns Day, BBC Bitesize – the public-service broadcaster’s free online study support resource for UK pupils – tweeted a cartoon of three teenagers in a changing room, each with
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Viola Smith, the trailblazing drummer once heralded as the “fastest girl drummer in the world,” has died, The Washington Post reports. She was 107 years old. According to the Post, Smith died October 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. The cause of death was revealed to be complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Smith grew
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J.M. Barrie writing letters to his great friend Robert Louis Stevenson at his desk in Adelphi Terrace House. (Sotheby’s via Getty Images) Never-seen-before letters reveal JM Barrie telling Robert Louis Stevenson “I have discovered that I love you” – and the only possible explanation is that they were “the greatest of friends”. It’s the first
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuval for $3.99 Hausmagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft by Erica Feldmann for $2.99 The Sellout by Paul Beatty for $2.99 Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake for $2.99 The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco
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Exclusive Felicity Huffman has finally put the college admissions scandal firmly in her rearview mirror … and she’s reached the finish line before Lori Loughlin even got started. The ‘Desperate Housewives’ actress is officially off supervised release, and her legal team says she’s completed all other aspects of her punishment — including her 2-week prison
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The last time we saw Idaho bounty hunter Jake Tapper, his wife Janine, and his gun-running sister Frankie, they were walking away from a deadly encounter with some of the richest and most powerful men in Idaho. That story was told in Boise Longpig Hunting Club. Top of Jake’s to-do list is to retrieve his
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Adele hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time this weekend, returning to the show on October 24 for the first time since she performed in 2015. H.E.R. was the show’s musical guest, performing her new songs “Damage” and “Hold On.” Watch clips below. After an opening sketch recapping Thursday’s presidential debate, Adele began her
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