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Star Wars

The Lion King helped boost Disney’s earnings as company prepares for Disney+ launch

The last Disney earnings call before Disney+ launches Photo: Walt Disney Studios Disneys final earnings call before the launch of its anticipated streaming service, Disney+, reminded investors that Disney is in a strong place, beating revenue estimates. Th…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Checkpoint

A Tale of Two Walls

When I was a GI in Germany in 1973, I was able to visit the other side of the Berlin Wall. In order to show the soldier the importance of its mission in Europe, the U.S. Army took a select few into East Germany. I was among those fortunate enough to pass thr…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

eSports

YouTuber’s Lifetime Fortnite Ban Opens Conversation About Fair Punishments For Cheating

Jarvis Khattri, a YouTube content creator for the esports organization FaZe Clan, received a lifetime ban from Fortnite earlier this week after releasing a video of him cheating in the mega-popular battle royale shooter. This has since given way to discussion…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Holocaust

Italian Holocaust survivor under police guard after racist threats

An 89-year-old Italian woman who survived the Holocaust has been given a police escort after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic threats. Liliana Segre, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 13, has been receiving up to 200 hate messages a day…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Korean War

On Veterans Day, remember the women who fought

Friday marks the 12th annual women veterans appreciation ceremony in the Hall of Flags at the State House. One female veteran will receive the Deborah Sampson Award, named for the Massachusetts native who disguised herself as a man in order to fight during th…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

NATO

NATO experiencing ‘brain death’, France’s Macron says

BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - France’s president warned fellow European countries on Thursday that NATO was dying, citing a lack of coordination and U.S. unpredictability under President Donald Trump, comments quickly rejected as “drastic” by the German chancellor…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Changing the culture of economics: The 2019 Nobel laureates

The 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Their experimental work has changed the culture of economics, especially devel…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Bubble

Blockhead Returns With Instrumental “Bubble Bath” Album

New York-bred producer Blockhead is back with Bubble Bath, the follow-up to this year’s Free Sweatpants album, which featured MCs such as Aesop Rock and Open Mike Eagle. But like the majority of his extensive catalog, Bubble Bath is soaking in 12 tracks of i…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Ultra-runner in Jerusalem completes 195th of 196 marathons in two years

From an erupting volcano in Guatemala to the 50°C heat of Djibouti to the mountains of the Himalayas in Nepal, ultra-runner Nick Butter has run marathons the length and breadth of the planet over the last two years. On Thursday, Israel became the 195th out o…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Pay For ‘Medicare For All’ With Immigration Reform? ‘Gang Of Eight’ Is Skeptical.

WASHINGTON Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has taken a lot of heat in the past week over her long-awaited plan to pay for “Medicare for All,” a government-run health care program, that she says doesn’t include raising taxes on the middle class. Her moderate …

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

The Lion King helped boost Disney’s earnings as company prepares for Disney+ launch

A Tale of Two Walls

YouTuber’s Lifetime Fortnite Ban Opens Conversation About Fair Punishments For Cheating

Italian Holocaust survivor under police guard after racist threats

On Veterans Day, remember the women who fought

NATO experiencing ‘brain death’, France’s Macron says

Changing the culture of economics: The 2019 Nobel laureates

Blockhead Returns With Instrumental “Bubble Bath” Album

Ultra-runner in Jerusalem completes 195th of 196 marathons in two years

Pay For ‘Medicare For All’ With Immigration Reform? ‘Gang Of Eight’ Is Skeptical.

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