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CLAREMONT, N.H. (Reuters) – Pete Buttigieg began making his final case in New Hampshire over the weekend for why he is better placed to win over voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 than his top rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential …

Welcome back to Bachelor Nation. Can I steal you for a second? Here’s what we can expect of the 24th season of “The Bachelor,” starring a former “Bachelorette” contestant, Peter Weber, when it premieres this week: It will feature the most dramatic rose ceremony ever and contestants who are there …

Supported by Continue reading the main story The actor’s jagged features make him compelling in an eccentric way. But what happens when he’s hidden in makeup, as he is in “Joker”? A fan examines his career. Credit… By Nathan Gelgud Jan. 2, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET

Here at the Book Review, we comb through thousands of books a year, while always keeping an eye on the horizon. (Is this the year that President Barack Obama’s memoir finally arrives?) We’ve grouped these books by theme, including anticipated political memoirs, promising debuts, and new books from beloved authors …

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks on human rights in Iran at the State Department in Washington, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the …

“Don’t Believe a Word,” a new book by the Guardian writer and editor David Shariatmadari, delves into the riddles of language: the opacities, ambushes, dead ends, sudden ecstasies. It’s a brisk and friendly introduction to linguistics, and a synthesis of the field’s recent discoveries. So much more is now known …

Even at the end of a decade marked by surveillance capitalism and Russian trolls — a period of time when techno-utopianism curdled into disillusion — Silicon Valley has shown itself more than capable of delivering on one of its core promises: a frictionless convenience, at least for those who can …

Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian of ideas who applied cool intelligence and elegant writing to making the case that Victorian-era morals should invigorate contemporary social policies, died on Monday night at her home in Washington. She was 97. Her son, the writer and commentator William Kristol, said the cause was congestive …

PARIS (Reuters) – The French capital’s Opera Bastille has been silent for nearly a month because its orchestra is on strike, but on Tuesday the musicians performed on the steps of the opera house to bring attention to their anger at planned pension reforms. Members of the Paris Opera’s orchestra …

FILE PHOTO: The Microsoft sign is shown on top of the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 19,2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has taken control of web domains which were used by a hacking group called “Thallium” to steal information. Thallium is …