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Who says “three’s a crowd?’ To Willow, it’s just right. Source link

Reuters – The White House Council on Environmental Quality expects to submit a plan for helping clean up the nation’s most polluted communities to President Joe Biden within weeks, according to the council’s new chair, Brenda Mallory. The widely anticipated blueprint is intended to help Biden execute a campaign promise …

Photo: sirtravelalot (Shutterstock) After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into the city’s police department to determine whether it “engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” …

What Writing Has In Common With Happiness “The final line of an enigmatic Jorge Luis Borges poem became the title for Yasmina Reza’s latest book, Happy Are the Happy. For Reza, Borges’ poem suggests that happiness, which people tend to talk about as achievable and context-dependent, is dispensed more mysteriously …

The NBA legend says James led the ‘superteam’ movement. Source link

Vanessa Bryant, widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant, has revealed the first official release for the Mambacita clothing line in honor of their daughter Gianna “Gi Gi” Bryant who died in the fatal helicopter crash with her father and seven others in January 2020. Read More: Ciara, Vanessa Bryant have …

Late last year William Leonard Roberts II, who is known professionally as Rick Ross, announced that he had entered into a strategic partnership with Jetdoc. The Grammy-nominated rapper signed on as an equity partner, adviser, and spokesperson for Jetdoc, a digital healthcare platform that connects people with a licensed healthcare …

In this May, 1985 file photo, a Philadelphia policeman is seen on a rooftop as flames rise from a row of burning homes beyond, in Philadelphia. The fire started when police dropped a bomb onto the house of the militant group MOVE, on May 13, 1985 and fire spread throughout …

The cause of death for Friday actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister, who died suddenly in his California home last year, was released.  According to autopsy reports obtained by TMZ, Lister died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease commonly known as heart disease. At the time of his death, the L.A. County …

Vikram David Amar: How to—carefully—surmount the Electoral College What share of the vote would either party have needed to reach a filibuster-proof 60 seats? By shifting the vote in each of the 100 elections by the same number of percentage points until Democrats or Republicans were ahead in 60 races, …