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As the National Mall prepares to close to visitors and armed troops patrol the nation’s capital, Discovery and its education division are planning a “virtual field trip” for students exploring the ritual of Inauguration Day. I Do Solemnly Swear: The U.S. Presidential Inauguration was announced by the company today as a no-cost education initiative with
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UK supermarket chains have demanded government intervention to prevent “unworkable” new Brexit regulations causing disruption to food supplies to Northern Ireland. The chief executives of Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Iceland, Co-op and Marks & Spencer have written to Cabinet office minister Michael Gove warning that enforcement of new procedures when a grace period expires on 31
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Hollywood Radio and Television Society announced newly elected executive officers, board members and newly appointed advisory council members on Wednesday. The organization, which bills itself as the “industry’s premier information and networking forum,” elected the following officers to two-year terms: Warner Bros. Television’s Odetta Watkins as president, UTA partner Dan Erlij as chairperson of the
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The government must make tackling poverty a priority in 2021 or risk being defined by a “record of worsening hardship”, according to a new report from a leading anti-poverty charity.  The “state of the nation” report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that people who were already trapped in poverty were “particularly vulnerable” to the
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EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Depp may believe that he has handed Amber Heard all the documentation he needs to in the former couple’s multi-million-dollar defamation battles, but the Aquaman star is now going fishing in some very deep seas. In subpoenas submitted today, Heard wants to know what the Los Angeles Police department and Walt Disney Motion
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Acquired titles — chief among them The Office — dominated streaming in 2020, according to a newly released year-end summary from Nielsen. The measurement firm began incorporating subscription streaming into its weekly ratings last summer, though with an extended lag time. It tracks only viewing through a TV screen — meaning no mobile devices —
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Nationwide Covid surges and a disappointingly slow vaccine rollout notwithstanding, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci reiterated over the weekend his belief that live theater venues could reopen during fall 2021. Participating in a virtual conference held Saturday by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Fauci said that, depending on the vaccine rollout, the reopening of live
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Los Angeles County saw nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 cases in a matter of one week, bringing the region to a total of 906,171 total cases. Public Health reported that the county reached another grim marker, just a week after Los Angeles topped 800,000 coronavirus cases. Officials confirmed 16,982 new Covid-19 cases and 221 related deaths
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Amazon has followed in Apple and Google’s footsteps with plans to kick the conservative social platform Parler off its Web Services. Founded in 2018, Parler is described as a far-right alternate to Twitter. Numerous posts on the app, which bills itself as “the world’s town square,” advocated for violence and promoted participation in Wednesday’s attack
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