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Melissa McCarthy Was Starstruck Meeting Megan Rapinoe And U.S. Women’s Soccer Team

Melissa McCarthy may be an award-winning celebrity in her own right, but even she was apparently awestruck by the U.S. women’s national soccer team. The actress confessed that she “weirdly geeked out” and “got really nervous” while meeting the Women’s World Cup champions at a screening of her latest movie in Los Angeles. “I kind […]

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Fresh food traders brace for Brexit

Business / En Sound Media

Birmingham Wholesale Market is the UK’s biggest mixed wholesale market where almost a hundred traders buy and sell fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and flowers from all over the world. Some of them have been open for nearly a hundred years and they sell to customers across the Midlands and as far afield as south Wales.

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Tech Meets Health Care, Sometimes Shakily

Technology / En Sound Media

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Katie Thomas, who covers health and is based in Chicago, discussed the tech she’s using. As a health care reporter, what are your most important tech tools for doing your work? I mostly work from home near Chicago, and

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NFL Pro Bowl returns to Orlando for 4th straight year

Sports / En Sound Media

The Pro Bowl will return to Orlando for the fourth straight year and be held one week before the Super Bowl. The NFL’s all-star game will be an afternoon match at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26. A week later, the league’s championship game will be played a few hours south in the Miami area.

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Don’t Assume Trump’s Approval Rating Can’t Climb Higher. It Already Has.

Politics / En Sound Media

Donald J. Trump doesn’t always seem like a candidate focused on expanding his base of support. He may have done so anyway. The share of Americans who say they have a favorable view of him has increased significantly since the 2016 election. And over the last few months, some of the highest-quality public opinion polls,

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All The Movies Coming To Netflix This Week (Aug. 4-10)

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Last week, Netflix added a few dozen movies, including “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Jackie Brown.” This week, it adds only two movies ― and you’ve probably never heard of them before. The Alex Rodriguez-centric sports documentary “Screwball” and the children’s movie “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” join on Tuesday and Thursday,

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Monica Lewinsky scandal to be retold in American Crime Story

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lewinsky, pictured left last year, will be played by Beanie Feldstein President Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and the 1999 impeachment proceedings it led to are to be dramatised on US television. The latest series of American Crime Story will air in the run-up to next

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Ryanair pilots vote for strike action

Business / En Sound Media

UK-based Ryanair pilots have voted to strike in a row over pay and conditions. In July, the budget airline reported a sharp fall in quarterly profits to 21%, due to higher costs for fuel and staff, and reduced ticket prices. The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) has announced two walkouts. The first strike will be

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Police patrol Rome’s Spanish Steps to enforce sitting ban

Travel / En Sound Media

Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn perched there without a care in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday.” But the Spanish Steps in Rome are no longer a place for sitting. Enforcing an ordinance that took effect last month, police officers patrolled the famed stone staircase Wednesday to tell locals and visitors “Please, no sitting” on one

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8chan owner heading to US as lawmakers seek answers

Technology / En Sound Media

The owner of the online message board 8chan says he’s headed shortly to the United States, where lawmakers want to question him on his site’s use as a megaphone by violent white supremacists. Jim Watkins, who lives in the Philippines, did not specifically say he would testify, but he tweeted portions of an email he

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