It’s been over thirty-five years since A Christmas Story was released, but this charming tale remains a holiday essential and a familiar favorite. Adapted from Jean Shepherd’s short stories, the 1983 vignette-style film journeys back to the Christmas when then-9-year-old Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) wanted nothing more than a grand new Red Ryder BB gun
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Bill Barr will not be missed by most of the hundreds of nonpartisan career prosecutors inside the Department of Justice. Least of all, though, by the lawyers working for the Southern District of New York, whose jurisdiction covers most of Donald Trump’s hometown—and whose continuing probes of the president’s associates, including an investigation of Rudy
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Pete Buttigieg has spoken about his first experience of homophobia in a moving speech as he made history with a nomination for a role in Joe Biden’s cabinet. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor made history on Tuesday (15 December) when he was announced as Biden’s pick for transportation secretary. The 38-year-old will become the
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Courtesy of Saint Laurent Fashion in 2020 has taken a turn. We traded in heels for slippers and dressed up to go nowhere. Designers reimagined the spring-summer 2021 season into digital presentations, masked events, staged runways, or opted out of showing altogether. Those that did were creative, but the successful collections were the ones empathetic
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If all you did was look at the coronavirus figures in the U.S.—more than 16.9 million infected, over 306,000 dead, more deaths than 9/11 on three separate days in the course of a single week, the possibility of 450,000 lives lost by February 1—you might think that the Trump administration’s policy was to just sit
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This COVID-stricken year has been a disaster for many American students and parents, particularly those in minority communities. Children still learning to read have had to adjust to learning by Zoom. Those applying to colleges have had carefully laid plans upended. Without the guarantee of school breakfast and lunch, hunger has soared among America’s 51
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Former presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg this week made history as the first gay man nominated for a full-time cabinet post, prompting howls of anger from Trump supporters. Republican-supporting outlets such as Russia Today, Fox News, The Federalist and have sought to shout down LGBT+ celebrations of Buttigieg’s appointment, arguing that it “erases” the legacy of
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Jennie Garth & Tori Spelling opened up to HL about how it’s both ’emotional’ & ‘comforting’ seeing Luke Perry while rewatching ‘90210’ episodes for their podcast. Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling have themselves and fans hooked back on the original Beverly Hills, 90210, as they have been documenting their reactions to rewatching the show for
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