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The Last Train to Key West, by Chanel Cleeton

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Love In The Eye Of A Hurricane In 'Last Train To Key West'

11:00am June 18, 2020

by Denny S. Bryce

In Chanel Cleeton's latest, three women from very different backgrounds — and with different goals in life and love — converge on Key West as the devastating Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 bears down.

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Dad's YouTube Channel Advises How To Change A Flat, Other Life Skills

8:12am June 18, 2020

Rob Kenney has two grown children, but thanks to his new YouTube channel — called "Dad, How Do I?" — he has more than 2 million "Internet" kids. In his videos, he shares a few dad jokes and dad-vice.

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Former national security adviser John Bolton paints a critical portrait of President Trump in a new memoir set for publication soon.

Trump Told China To 'Go Ahead' With Prison Camps, Bolton Alleges In New Book

10:34pm June 17, 2020

by Philip Ewing

The former national security adviser avoided talking to Congress about what he knew when it was convened for impeachment — abetted by Republicans. Now he tells the story in a new book.

A server wears a protective face mask while attending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bethesda, Md., on June 12.

Amid Confusion About Reopening, An Expert Explains How To Assess COVID-19 Risk

9:42pm June 17, 2020

by Terry Gross

Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm warns that the threat from the pandemic is ongoing. "We will all know somebody — we will all love somebody — who will die from this disease," he says.

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Students behind the Flossy Podcast: Joshua Bovell, Jaheim Birch-Gentles, Brianna Johnson, Jamar Thompson, Ieszan McKinney, and Kamari Murdock in Canarsie, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Not pictured - Isaiah Dupuy)

'Climate Change Is Racial Injustice': Students Speak Their Truth In Winning Podcast

8:32pm June 17, 2020

by Elissa Nadworny

A group of students from Brooklyn see every day how climate change disproportionately affects their community. They made a podcast that asked: Why?

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Former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton speaks in September at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

John Bolton Unloads On Former Boss Trump, Even If It's A Little Late Now

6:08pm June 17, 2020

by Ron Elving

The tone of his forthcoming book, The Room Where It Happened, suggests the diary of a tutor who has endured many frustrating months with a spoiled and inattentive pupil who ignores his lessons.

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'From Here to Equality' Author Makes A Case, And A Plan, For Reparations

5:58pm June 17, 2020

by Noel King

In a new book, economist William Darity Jr. argues that monetary payments are owed directly to the descendants of enslaved people, to help reverse more than two centuries of disenfranchisement.

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Espress yourself: Victor (Michael Cimino, left) bellies up to barista Benji (George Sear) in Hulu's Love, Victor.

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Hovering In The Closet Doorway: 'Love, Victor'

7:54am June 17, 2020

by Glen Weldon

The makers of 2018's inoffensive Love, Simon center this Hulu series on a Latinx teen from a conservative, working-class family, but otherwise recapitulate the film's strengths — and weaknesses.

Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) becomes temporarily paralyzed after the sudden death of her father in Never Have I Ever.

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If You're Grieving Right Now, Here Are 5 Shows That Get It

6:59am June 17, 2020

by Eric Deggans

It may sound odd to highlight fictional stories about grief at a time when so much of the real thing is around. But experts say there is catharsis in watching someone struggle with familiar feelings.

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Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food, by Chase Purdy

'Billion Dollar Burger' Asks: What Is Meat?

5:00am June 17, 2020

by Nicholas Cannariato

Chase Purdy's briskly paced and quietly bold new book about the future of meat suggests people rethink its meaning, as he explores those at the forefront of developing cell-cultured meat.