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A new art exhibit examines 50 years since the Vietnam War and looks forward with hope

8:35am February 25, 2025

April 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. In Washington, D.C., a new art exhibit offers counter-narratives of what it means to be Vietnamese American.

2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® - Day 3 - Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Joy Reid fired from MSNBC amid network shakeup

7:59am February 25, 2025

Reid is a longtime political commentator who has been vocal on progressive issues and sharply critical of President Trump.

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'Most people are good': How a stranger's words became a family mantra

7:00am February 25, 2025

On a flight home, Caitlin Shetterly told the man next to her that after 9/11, flying made her nervous. Then the man told her something she'll never forget: "Most people are good."

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Drake gets his revenge — on the charts, anyway

4:44am February 25, 2025

Kendrick Lamar won his rap war with Drake last year by just about any measure, but this week, Drake got a small measure of revenge when his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, knocks Lamar out of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts.

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'Avowed' is the latest role playing game where your choices impact the story

6:32pm February 24, 2025

by Vincent Acovino

A new video game is on the cutting edge of interactive storytelling, though in some ways its still behind stories written in the 1970s.

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An art museum exhibit in Greenland's capital explores a provocative question

5:16pm February 24, 2025

by Vincent Acovino

An art museum exhibit in Greenland's capital may have been ahead of its time in imagining what could happen if the autonomous territory had its own military.

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Apply to become a contestant on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

2:15pm February 24, 2025

'Jesus Wept' author chronicles the debates roiling the Catholic church

12:59pm February 24, 2025

by Dave Davies

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

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After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs

12:55pm February 24, 2025

Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.

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'Conclave' triumphs at SAG Awards and Timothée Chalamet wins for best actor

8:04am February 24, 2025

The papal thriller and the lead in Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown' were surprise winners on Sunday, adding a few final wrinkles to an unusually unpredictable awards season.