Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?

North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured ...

This injury has plagued MLB for most of the last century, but a new phenomenon is emerging

Tommy John surgery used to be a procedure reserved for some of baseball’s biggest stars. Now, a huge number of kids are going under the knife.

A firefighter, police officer and an FBI agent. The tale of an accused serial law enforcement impersonator

At an extravagant reception, hotelier Steve Farzam seemed to literally plunge into marriage, appearing to dive from a helicopter in a rainbow parachute onto the grounds of a luxury hotel north of ...
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After years of progress on gender, the male gaze is back

This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...
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‘My brother was murdered by greed’: Inside Brazil’s methanol poisoning crisis

When Marcelo Lombardi, 45, complained he was feeling sleepy on a Friday, his family didn’t think much of it. Lombardi often put in long hours running his family’s 17-year-old real estate business in ...
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No Doubt reuniting again for a limited engagement at Sphere in Las Vegas

Don’t speak, just plan on heading to Las Vegas to see No Doubt. The band fronted by Gwen Stefani will be playing a limited engagement at Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pop-punk and ska-inspired ...
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Brands can’t choose their customers. So what happens when extremists wear their clothes?

When right-wing protestors took to the streets of London in September, the turnout was one of the largest in decades. More than 110,000 people showed up to rally against immigration, many carrying ...
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Trump’s free speech backflip was 250 years in the making

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...
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Dressing a professor in crisis: The designer behind Julia Roberts’ outfits in Luca Guadagnino’s new film

In Luca Guadagnino’s new psychological thriller “After the Hunt,” Julia Roberts stars as a Yale professor who is forced to choose sides when a star pupil accuses another faculty member of sexual ...

Liberalization in China and the prospects for democracy

However, instead of collapsing, China has experienced astonishing economic growth in the 1990s. Although it is arguable whether rapid economic development has significantly enhanced the legitimacy of ...
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They were thousands of miles from home in a hospital in India. Here’s how they met and fell in love

It was possibly the last place on earth Charlotte Phillips expected to find love. In a small hospital in Delhi, India, her mother, Janet, was undergoing a last-resort treatment for her debilitating ...