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How Pamela Adlon Totally Reinvented Herself and Became a TV Icon

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excellent FX series Better Things, she wrote a series of phrases on note cards and stuck them to the wall. Divorce is contagious. Togetherness. Forgiveness. Rain. I feel like I had themes this season for the first time, Adlon tells me on this weeks episode of Mike Judge, who co-created King of the Hill. Adlon won an Emmy Award for voicing young Bobby Hill on that animated series. I never thought Mike would come down to do this scene, just stick his head in, Adlon says, explaining that Judge was…

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Home Office boss quits over ‘campaign against him’

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSir Philip Rutnam says there has been a “vicious, orchestrated briefing campaign” against him The top civil servant in the Home Office has resigned and said he intends to claim for constructive dismissal by the government. Sir Philip Rutnam said there had been a “vicious and orchestrated” campaign against him in Home Secretary Priti Patel’s office. Reported tensions between the pair included claims she mistreated officials – which she has denied. The prime minister has “full confidence in his cabinet”, Downing Street…

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Trump Turns to Tucker Carlson to Help Decide Roger Stones Fate

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If President Trump ends up pardoning his former political operative part-time Trump adviser: Tucker Carlson. For roughly a year, the primetime host has done a series of segments devoted to calling on the president to pardon the so-called dirty trickster Stone, a Republican consultant, Nixon enthusiast, withdrew, mere hours after the Justice Department headquarters intervened to supercede their recommendation to a federal judge that Stone be sentenced to seven-to-nine years behind bars. And on Wednesday morning, Trump posted a tweet railing against the rogue prosecutors, branding them part of the…

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4 things to watch in South Carolina’s Democratic primary

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Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Joe Biden needs a win Saturday night. And if he, as recent polling suggests, pulls it off, how big that victory is could determine the course of the Democratic nomination fight as it heads into Super Tuesday on March 3. Visit CNN’s Election Center for full coverage of the 2020 race For all the other candidates, like former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, South Carolina serves as a stopover on the way to Super Tuesday. None of…

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YouTuber tricks British racist Katie Hopkins into accepting C*NT award

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Pieters, who has 1.24 million followers on YouTube, released a video on his channel on Thursday titled I Flew Katie Hopkins to Prague to Win a Fake Award. So we thought it would be nice to give her one, he continues, with the image of an award that reads Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy. The abbreviation of the award reads CUNT. The chairman and leaders are made up of characters based on photos of Pieters dad, the leader of the Klu Klux Klan, and the woman who makes announcements…

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Lena Dunham: Caroline Flacks death hit me with a sickening power

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I adored the former Love Island host, and wish we could have shown her a more hopeful reality: that women who err and fail are worthy of love My adoration for Cher) and the empathy she brought to a bloodless and occasionally unkind television format lent her an air of approachable glamour, a local-girl-done-good sheen, aspirational but earthy. Not since I saw Storm I C Cup, and took comfort in her durable, bounce-back brand of vulnerability. Her quotes about heartbreak (I feel at my most calm, in control and happiest…

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Weinstein Accuser Details Gross Golden Shower Encounter With Disgraced Film Mogul

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Harvey Weinsteins defense lawyers testimony was cut short on Monday after she broke down in tears while reading a May 2014 email to a former boyfriend, in which she revealed her relationship with Weinstein to him for the first time and mentioned a previous sexual assault. In the letter, she wrote that she admired Weinstein because he validated her Hollywood dreams and encouraged her to pursue acting. Harvey was my fathers age and he gave me all the validation I needed, Mann wrote in the email. I think he liked…

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Stray Staffie With A Fabulous Smile Finds Her Forever Home

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Probably most of us have at least one stereotype related to a dog breed in our minds. Huskies are convinced barking is for amateurs and just howl instead, chihuahuas can’t shut up and seem like they want to fight anything that moves but yet they can’t stop trembling, Staffordshires not only look like they want to fight anything but actually do – you name it. Due to this last trait, most shelters know they’ll have real trouble trying to rehome a Staffie when one comes along but in this case,…

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New Artifacts Recovered From Franklins Doomed Arctic Expedition Shipwreck

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A collaborative team of researchers continues to piece together the circumstances underlying the mysterious disappearance of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Now, underwater archaeologists unveil more than 350 newly recovered artifacts from HMS Erebus, one of two ships lost in the Arctic waters. The mission makes up the largest, most complex underwater archaeological recoveries in Canadian history. Over three weeks in the fall of 2019, Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team conducted 93 dives on HMS Erebus, logging nearly 110 hours. Divers used both traditional and…

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Well, That Was Awkward: Weekly Horoscopes February 24-28 | Betches

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The good news: the sun is headed into Mercury this week, which guides all of our communications. The bad news: Mercury is also in retrograde, which can bring on misunderstandings and technical snafus. Basically, don’t be surprised if you have at least one painfully awkward experience this week that you’ll think about randomly right before you’re about to fall asleep for the rest of your life. You know, like that time in second grade when you called your teacher “mom.” Humiliating. Taurus Awkward social situations abound, Taurus. You’re in serious…

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Nuros new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

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Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a driverless exemption from the federal government. The exemption granted by the the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is for Nuro’s newest — and until Thursday, unseen — low-speed electric vehicle called the R2 that will be used for local delivery service for restaurants, grocery stores and other businesses. It’s a milestone for Nuro, as well as the autonomous vehicle industry, and signals…

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Jordan Ayew strikes for Crystal Palace to keep Brighton in the mire

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Jordan Ayew scored the only goal of the game as Crystal Palace ended their poor run with a 1-0 win at Brighton These are worrying times for Graham Potter. The Brighton manager watched his side suffer the ignominy of a first home defeat in the top flight at the hands of their bitter rivals that leaves them still waiting to record a victory in 2020. Jordan Ayews seventh Premier League goal of the campaign was enough to record victory for Crystal Palace as they gained sweet revenge for losing twice…

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Americans Should Prepare For A Significant Disruption Of Their Lives From COVID-19 Transmission, CDC Says

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It is only a matter of time until COVID-19 – the disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, formerly known as 2019-nCoV – begins to spread within US communities, top US health officials said Tuesday. With more than 80,000 people infected around the world, the situation in the US is “rapidly evolving and expanding”. At this time, the virus is not currently spreading in American communities, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports at least 14 confirmed cases, prompting warnings that transmission between people is likely to continue.  “It’s not so…

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I knew pretty quickly I was on to something: James Ellroy on writing The Black Dahlia

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The death of wannabe starlet Elizabeth Short became entwined in Ellroys mind with the murder of his mother and inspired his bestselling novel I had written six novels before Dahlia, but my primary income throughout this time had come not from books, but from being a golf caddy. At first, I worked at the Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, but around the time my first book, Browns Requiem, was published in 1981, I moved to Westchester County, about half an hour outside New York City. I had first heard…

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Mom Enlisted Son to Murder Husband, Daughter for Insurance Money: Prosecutors

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A New Jersey woman faces murder charges after allegedly enlisting her son and his friend to brutally kill her daughter and husband 25 years ago by promising them a cut of his life-insurance policy. Dolores Morgan, 66, and her 47-year-old son, Ted Connors, collected a $200,000 life-insurance policy and moved to Florida with her son. Killing for money and drugs, the states position, you cannot get more violent, prosecutor Meghan Doyle Asbury Park Press. The 48-year-old admitted he held Mejia down and covered her face with his hand, while Connors…

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