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Me Too Founder Tarana Burke: Biden Can Be ‘Accountable And Electable’ Joe Biden

Me Too Founder Tarana Burke: Biden Can Be ‘Accountable And Electable’

The founder of the Me Too movement spoke up on Tuesday to explain what she believes is an “inconvenient truth” about the sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.  Tarana Burke, who founded Me Too in 2007, said former congressional aide Tara Reade’s accusations against Biden…
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April 29, 2020
Roy Horn of ‘Siegfried and Roy’ fame tests positive for coronavirus Siberian Tiger

Roy Horn of ‘Siegfried and Roy’ fame tests positive for coronavirus

April 28, 2020 | 9:01pm Enlarge Image Siegfried Fischbacher (left) and Roy Horn Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Keep Memory Alive Roy Horn, of famed performance duo Siegfried and Roy, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Horn, 75, is “currently responding well to treatment,” his publicist said in a statement to…
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April 29, 2020
Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage Holocaust

Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage

“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task,” the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in an existential exhale of a letter to his…
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April 29, 2020
How ‘Star Wars’ characters drink their coffee, according to a fanfiction writer Star Wars

How ‘Star Wars’ characters drink their coffee, according to a fanfiction writer

By Morgan Sung2020-04-29 00:56:09 UTC You think the wildly diverse characters of the Star Wars universe drink their coffee the same way? Not at all, according to popular Archive of Our Own author Violet Wilson. The fanfiction writer tweeted a thread of the different ways characters from all three Star…
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April 29, 2020
On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1 Black Hole

On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

Data availabilityThe data that support the plots within this paper and other findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.References1.Liu, J. et al. A wide star–black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements. Nature 575, 618–621 (2019).2.Belczynski, K. et al. The formation of a 70-M☉ black hole…
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April 29, 2020