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Senate Democrats decrying college boards and fogeys for censorship acquired greater than they bargained for when Sen. John Kennedy started studying aloud from a few the “banned books.” ...

Instead of “Want to Netflix and chill?” streaming service clients can now ask, “How about Netflix and Jesus”? That second query now applies, at the ...

A Vincent van Gogh portray stolen from a museum within the Netherlands throughout a COVID-19 lockdown has been returned to an artwork sleuth in an Ikea bag.The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, also referred to as the Spring Garden, was snatched from the Singer Laren museum, about 30km (19 miles) east of Amsterdam, on 30 March 2020, when the attraction was closed to stop the unfold of coronavirus. Thieves smashed glass doorways throughout an in a single day raid to take the 1884 paintings, which was on mortgage from the Groninger Museum, within the metropolis of Groningen, round 180km (112 miles) from the Dutch capital.It has "suffered but is - at first glance - still in good condition," the Groninger mentioned.The museum singled out Dutch artwork sleuth Arthur Brand for ...

CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett’s attorneys advised an Illinois appellate courtroom Tuesday it ought to toss the previous “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic assault in opposition to himself in 2019 after which mendacity about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to correctly dismissed costs being improperly restored. ...

All wings report in! The miniature mannequin filmed as “Red Leader/Red One” within the authentic Star Wars is ready to go to public sale, with a beginning value of $400,000. ...

The current FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, simply confirmed what many have lengthy predicted: India, the nation with the longest historical past with our noble sport, might also be the nation with the brightest future. ...

Fans of singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett have posthumously rocketed his 1985 biggest hits album, “Songs You Know By Heart,” again up the Billboard charts. ...

Co-host and former champion Ken Jennings returned to host “Jeopardy!” for its fortieth season, ending weeks of confusion amid the labor strikes. Mr....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 100 ambassadors, journalists and representatives of a broad spectrum of society watched a U.N. screening Monday night of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists throughout Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port metropolis within the early days of the struggle. ...

A Polish music expertise present is going through a backlash for that includes contestants in blackface impersonating Kendrick Lamar and Beyonce.Singer Kuba Szmajkowski was topped the winner of the second episode of Twoja Twarz Brzmi Znajomo - the Polish model of the worldwide franchise Your Face Sounds Familiar - on Saturday after performing Lamar's monitor Humble. The singer wore blackface make-up and in addition had cornrows, and shared photographs of him on the point of 163,000 followers on Instagram. During his efficiency, he reportedly additionally used the N-word.Performing Beyonce's If I Were A Boy, fellow contestant Pola Gonciarz additionally darkened her pores and skin to carry out.Many social media customers have criticised the present and the contestants - calling...