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Rod Wave Sings Through the Pain

Throughout “Pray 4 Love,” Wave, 21 and originally from St. Petersburg, Fla., paints a picture of devastation and disappointment. On “Thug Life” and “The Greatest,” he bemoans the limited options available to him and the people he grew up with. On songs like “5% Tints,” he bounds back and forth …

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Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91

Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine known for his caricatures of actors, politicians and other celebrities, died on Wednesday at his home in Woodbury, N.Y. He was 91. His longtime friend, John Reiner, confirmed the death. Mr. Drucker, who specialized in illustrating Mad’s movie and television satires, inspired …

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Sanders quits U.S. presidential race, setting up Biden battle with Trump

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist whose progressive agenda pushed the Democratic Party sharply to the left, ended his White House campaign on Wednesday, clearing the way for a Nov. 3 election battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump. Sanders, a onetime front-runner …

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Sanders drops out of U.S. election race, setting up Biden battle with Trump

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist whose progressive agenda pushed the Democratic Party sharply to the left, ended his White House campaign on Wednesday, clearing the way for a Nov. 3 election battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump. Sanders, a former front-runner …

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Bernie Sanders suspends 2020 Democratic presidential campaign

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders addresses a news conference in Burlington, Vermont, U.S. March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the White House on Wednesday during a conference call with staff, making former Vice President Joe Biden the …

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Isolation art: recreate masterworks with cabbage, lentils and socks

MOSCOW (Reuters) – While making blinis one morning in self-isolation, Natalia Goroshko noticed one in her pan had taken the floppy form of one of Salvador Dali’s melting clocks. A view shows the reconstitution of “The Lovers” painting by Belgian artist Rene Magritte in an unknown location in Spain, in …

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Trump slams mail-in voting, says it ‘doesn’t work out well for Republicans’

US President Donald Trump speaks on small business relief in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 7, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the idea of voting by mail, saying Republicans lose out in the process, …

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The Heroine of This Korean Best Seller Is Extremely Ordinary. That’s the Point.

The new, often subversive novels by Korean women, which have intersected with the rise of the #MeToo movement, are driving discussions beyond the literary world. “These books exposed Korea’s dirty little secret, which is that despite being seemingly wealthy and modern and enlightened and cool, the social advances have fallen …

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‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst

When Mark O’Connell began to work on his new book, “Notes From an Apocalypse,” four years ago, he was already thinking hard about the end times. “I was obsessed with the future, an obsession that manifested as an inability to conceive of there being any kind of future at all,” …

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Are Your Children Stuck Inside? So Are These Kids

‘The Long Winter,’ by Laura Ingalls Wilder Here we find the hardy Ingalls family — Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace — during the snowy winter of 1880 in the town of De Smet, in the Dakota Territory. As our reviewer wrote in 1941, “By Christmas Day, the Ingalls …

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