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Help us, Carrie Fisher. You're our only hope.

The recent cast announcement for Star Wars Episode IX contained a wonderful surprise: Carrie Fisher will reprise her role as Princess-turned-General Leia Organa one last time, despite the fact that she died in 2016. Fans are weeping in both mourning and celebration at the prospect of once again seeing the legend who made "Princess" synonymous with "unstoppable badass."

SEE ALSO: See the emotional Carrie Fisher tribute from Star Wars Celebration

Taylor Swift is trying to do her part to ease the grief of a Massachusetts town mourning a recently fallen police officer. 

In America, even fame can't protect black people from the life-threatening dangers of white fragility.

Print news is alive. 

After California's violent Carr Fire jumped over the Sacramento River Thursday night and entered the west part of Redding, home to over 90,000 inhabitants, the tempestuous fire took out a significant portion's of the city's electrical grid — even toppling transmission towers. 

But the local newspaper, the Redding Record Searchlight, was able to get its paper out — amid approaching flames and without power. 

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Twitter's live video-streaming app Periscope is about to become a much less appealing place for trolls to ply their hate.

It's been said many times before that what looks cool in the comics doesn't always translate on film. Here today with an object lesson in that idea is Netflix's latest teaser for Iron Fist Season 2, which also confirms (again) that the Marvel series will return on Sept. 7.

Wild critters are having a rough time under the Trump Administration.

After the administration proposed dramatic changes to the decades-old Endangered Species Act last week, on Friday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) canceled an Obama-era rule that made industries pay for damages inflicted onto refuge lands. 

In short, the "Mitigation Policy" allowed a company, say a mining operation, to damage certain resources as long as the company committed to improving nearby land — to compensate for the damages done. Читать дальше...

Thursday night's outage for MoviePass stemmed from money troubles.

That is a fact, proven by a regulatory filing (h/t CBS News). And yet, CEO Mitch Lowe's lengthy apology letter reframes the Thursday incident that prevented subscribers from using the service in the most vague way possible.

SEE ALSO: Facebook is getting in on the movie ticket battle royale

"We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused from the temporary outage in the app over the past day," the publicly posted letter, shared Friday, reads. Читать дальше...

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Come this new school year, consider taking time to help teachers in underfunded schools meet their students' needs.

If blocks upon blocks of vacant storefronts are any indication, the retail industry is going digital.

You spend a third of your life in bed — seriously, there's research to back it up — so you might as well decorate your bedroom with a good night's sleep in mind. Sounds easy, right? So why do we wind up buying cheap, scratchy sheets and lumpy pillows that do nothing for our spinal alignment?

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about the only nice thing that happened on the internet this week.

Congress wants to spend $95 million to study how gadgets and social media affects children. 

At this point, the sexual harassment allegations against CBS head Les Moonves sound sickeningly, depressingly familiar.

One thing we know: the Star Wars must end. Well, the Star Wars as we know them, at least. 

Southwest and ride-hailing app Lyft inked a deal last month, but after the airline put out an email Friday about the partnership, people seemed confused about what it entails.

Politico caught Donald Trump Jr. and Robert Mueller very awkwardly hanging out at the same airport gate in Washington D.C. on Friday. 

Earth's night-light, aka the moon, is pretty awesome. The U.S. was able to land on it in 1969, plant its flag, and take a picture for the memories. That means the moon belongs to the United States, right? We talked to a space lawyer to find out. Read more...

A Buddhist priest apologized for lashing out at tourists who complained about his temple on Bookings.com.