European Parliament Installs Gilded Nude Statue Mocking Trump

Danish artist Jens Galschiøt’s sculpture “The Orange Plague” depicts a naked Trump sitting on the shoulders of a man straining under his weight.

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The Real Girls Who Inspired Stephen King's 'Carrie'

A badly bullied classmate and a near-death experience with a crucifix were among the factors that helped shape King's debut novel.

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.

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‘Bear With Me’ in Bristol

This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.

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Trump says he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said he regretted nominating three Supreme Court justices — Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh — who have opposed him in recent

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Opinion | You should be skeptical of JD Vance’s claims about Obamacare fraud

The vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong.

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New reporting sheds light on unsettling reason Trump’s first ballroom architect quit

“L’État, c’est moi” is a phrase attributed to France’s King Louis XIV, and 370 years later, the gap between “I am the state” and “I am the code” is narrow.

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USDA Announces Highest-Level Recall of More Than 167,000 Pounds of Meat

Star Meat Delivery, Inc., in collaboration with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), is recalling over 167,000 pounds of raw beef, pork, and goat. The meat is under a Class I recall a...

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Stephen Colbert on the Emmys, His Wife Hating His Beard & Gifting Jimmy His Captain America Shield

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September 11th Garden Braemar Stone in Manhattan

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

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What we know about NYC’s newly released 9/11 records revealing officials misled public about air safety | CNN

New York City released over 170,000 pages of documents revealing officials repeatedly misled residents about the toxic air quality levels after the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center...

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Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking women’s rights activist, dies at 92

Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine in the early 1970s and helped create the Women’s Media Center alongside Jane Fonda and writer Robin Morgan.

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