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Harvey Weinstein is spending his first night behind bars in New York City, after being convicted of rape and criminal sexual act for assaults on two women. Though he was acquitted of the most serious charges, "predatory sexual assault," Weinstein, who is 67, could still face decades in prison. Weinstein was once one of Hollywood's most powerful men, who could make or break careers. His conviction today represents a milestone in the #MeToo movement. Jericka Duncan reports.

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Historian: China’s Fatal Flaw The coronavirus outbreak will have more than “profound economic consequences,” says Zeynep Tufekci at The Atlantic: It has “revealed authoritarianism’s fatal flaw,” showing how China’s “use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on.” To understand why, look to Xi’s idol, Mao Zedong. In...

An octogenarian mobster’s bid to get out of an eight-year prison sentence was shot down by the U.S. Supreme Court Monday.

Netflix said Monday it is expanding the rollout of a Top 10 listing that will show its subscribers the 10 most-watched titles each day on the streaming giant. The service said in a blog post that it had been experimenting with the lists recently in Mexico and the UK, and is now rolling it out […]

It is becoming clear to investors that the economic effects of the coronavirus are going to be deeper, more widespread and more persistent than anticipated.

Norwegian energy giant Equinor has dumped plans to conduct deep-sea oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight, about 400 kilometres off the South Australian coast, saying the plan is no longer "commercially competitive".

An Edmonton business owner is frustrated with a lengthy expropriation process and what she feels is insufficient communication from the city.

United Bank for Africa (UBA) plc has launched ‘Click Credit’, a time loan designed to address the urgent needs of customers whose salary accounts are domiciled with the bank. As a bank backed by a strong retail franchise with over 1,000 business offices serving 19 million customers, the pan-African financial institution has introduced this product […]

The eyes of the political world are on South Carolina, where over half of the Democratic primary voters are black. ‘Black Lives Matter’ Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors joins Ari Melber making a dual endorsement, backing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for

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MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews on Monday apologized to the Bernie Sanders campaign after comparing his dominance in the first three states of the 2020 presidential nomination to the fall of France to the Nazis in World War II. Sanders senior advisor Chuck Rocha was asked on Fox News for response. “Look, we all get hot […]

Dr. Warren Farrell is known for his 2018 groundbreaking book, "The Boy Crisis." In it, he gives the evidence for the global crisis, and identifies the single biggest cause as a lack of father involvement ("the boy crisis resides where fathers do not reside"). He's been trying to bring national attention to this and has…

To casual observers, 9-month-old Matteo DiMartino looks like a normal, happy baby meeting all his milestones and being showered with love from his parents.  However, just last year his parents were unsure if their son would live past birth, let alone to almost a year. Newsday reports that at a routine ultrasound in 2018 at […]

'You do not have PTSD because of an election. Get a grip.'

The post This woman said Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 election gave her PTSD, and people are furious appeared first on The Daily Dot.

Season 18 of 'The Voice' premieres on NBC on Monday and kicks off with the first round of blind auditions.

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Fay Jones received £10,000 from a water company she later praised on social media.

Spoiler alert for a few plot lines and scenes from the first two episodes of “Hollywood.” Netflix hosted a sneak peek of Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood,” a seven-episode series for Netflix, on Sunday night at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood. Without giving away too many spoilers, the show takes place in post-WWII Hollywood. David […]

Another soggy and windswept weekend in the glorious Yorkshire Dale saw the game against Stourbridge cancelled for the second time of asking. Hopefully the weather will have subsided sufficiently for the game to take place, at the third time of asking, when the next allotted free weekend comes around in mid-March.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain have agreed to resume postal services to Qatar almost three years after they were stopped due to a political dispute, the United Nations said on Monday. The

The billionaire founder and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has long been a fan of Apple Inc., but for years has relied on a cheap Samsung flip phone.