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Storm cuts power to 1,000 homes and affects travel

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionStorm Brendan: What is causing the stormy weather? More than 1,000 properties were left without power as high winds swept across Wales, felling trees and causing disruption on the roads Western Power Distribution (WPD) said homes in Newcastle Emlyn and Cardigan in Ceredigion had been affected Gusts reached 79mph on Mumbles head in Swansea and the windy weather was due to continue late into the night. A school closed due to a power failure after a tree fell on power lines and…

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Men, Stop Trying To Tell Us How To Be Women

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Olayemi Olurin Updated January 12, 2020 Felix Uresti Olayemi Olurin Updated January 12, 2020 Felix Uresti Lately, all I have been seeing is men giving advice to women and writing articles directed at women, all of which keep taking the form of lectures to women about how we dress, how scantily clad we are allowed to be, how we should feel about ourselves, how to be women, what makes us worthy of male attention, who we have sex with, how many people we have sex with, how men feel about…

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Meghan Markle plans to move to Los Angeles only after Trump leaves office, report

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FILE – In this Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020 file photo Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London after their recent stay in Canada. In a stunning declaration, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, said they are planning “to step back” as senior members of the royal family and “work to become financially independent.” A statement issued by the couple Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 also said they intend to “balance” their time between the U.K. and North America. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE)…

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30 Thought-Provoking Digital Illustrations That Expose The Flaws Of Our Modern Society

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Art has recently grown into a relatively strong medium to convey critique. Whether it’s of the way we live our lives, the way “things are done” in our society, or the way we abuse the planet (or abuse each other). In a world where a single picture can tell a thousand words—how information is much more consumed via imagery rather than language—art turns out to be an effective way to understand the scope of an issue and to call for change. This is the trajectory that artist and illustrator Davide…

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Inside the US prison where inmates ‘begged for their lives’ amid days of violence

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In a system marked by racism and neglect, five inmates died this month. Prisoners and families demand urgent reform People were begging for their lives as they were stabbed, said Kelly Mallett, as his gaze drifted. There were fires being set. Trash everywhere. Rats. Roaches. It was just total chaos. The 44-year-old is a former inmate at Mississippis crumbling state penitentiary at Parchman, part of a sprawling, century-old prison farm complex in the north of the state. He had only been free for two days and was the first eyewitness…

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The Oscar nominations are a bit mixed up – just like a movie industry that’s in transition

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(CNN)If the “snubs” and oversights feel a little more acute and arbitrary with the latest round of Oscar nominations, blame that in part on a year that produced an abundance of good movies, and few genuinely great ones. Both “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” are fine movies. For many, however, each paled next to signature works by the directors responsible for them — “Irishman,” another mob drama, falling short of Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” while “Once Upon a Time” is arguably the fourth or fifth best…

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