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Viola Davis Drops Some Truth Bombs About Playing Michelle Obama On ‘Jimmy Kimmel’

“I’m terrified,” the actor said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Thursday. It was announced last month that Davis would star as the former first lady in Showtime’s dramatized “First Ladies” anthology series. Davis said the script is great, but she’s keenly aware of the burden to get her performance right. “I don’t care what else I’ve […]

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Saudi Arabia Invites Tourists: What You Need to Know

Travel / En Sound Media

For the first time, Saudi Arabia is officially opening its doors to tourists interested in visiting the kingdom for more than religious reasons. The ultraconservative Middle Eastern kingdom announced a new e-visa program on Friday that will allow people from 49 countries to enter the country for tourism, for stays as long as three months.

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Forget ‘any given Sunday’: There are givens in NFL this year

Sports / En Sound Media

You can take that “any given Sunday” bromide and toss it out with some of Case Keenum’s interceptions. So far in 2019, there is a Grand Canyon of separation between the contenders and everybody else. Sure, there will be upsets — or what we conclude are upsets until we learn more about the 32 teams.

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It’s Early, but Polls Show Shift on Impeachment

Politics / En Sound Media

A majority of Americans have opposed impeaching President Trump for the last two years or so, but four new surveys suggest public opinion might be starting to shift. The surveys, conducted partly or entirely since Nancy Pelosi’s announcement on Tuesday, all show an increase in support for impeachment. They even raise the possibility that Americans

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Medicare gene test fraud that peddled cheek swabs cracked by feds

Lifestyle / En Sound Media

Federal agents took down an alleged Medicare fraud scheme Friday that exploited seniors’ curiosity about genetic medicine by enticing them to get their cheeks swabbed for unneeded DNA tests. Medicare was billed about $2 billion. Dubbed “Operation Double Helix,” the crackdown targeted telemarketing companies, doctors and labs, in a joint effort by the FBI, U.S.

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Prince Harry Walks Through Angola Minefields, Just Like Mom Princess Diana

Entertainment / En Sound Media

Prince Harry retraced Princess Diana’s footsteps on the fifth day of his royal tour by walking in a minefield in Angola, just like his mother did in 1997. “This morning The Duke of Sussex visited a de-mining site in Dirico, Angola, to raise awareness of the danger and prevalence of landmines that still exists today,” read

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Thomas Cook: ‘I put my uniform on and started to cry’

Business / En Sound Media

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFormer Thomas Cook cabin crew manager Steve Kearney says the situation seems “desperate”. Former Thomas Cook employee Steve Kearney says he may struggle to make ends meet given that staff of the failed tour operator have not been paid. Mr Kearney said he cried as he joined

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Verstappen ahead of Leclerc in 2nd practice at Russian GP

Sports / En Sound Media

Max Verstappen traded positions with Charles Leclerc in Friday’s second practice at the Russian Grand Prix. After Leclerc set the pace in the opening running at the Sochi Autodrome, Verstappen moved to the top of the time charts. The Red Bull driver finished 0.335 seconds clear of Leclerc, with Valtteri Bottas third. Lewis Hamilton, who

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Pelosi Says Barr Has ‘Gone Rogue’

Politics / En Sound Media

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said that Attorney General William P. Barr had “gone rogue,” and questioned whether he could objectively make decisions about legal action in response to an explosive whistle-blower complaint accusing President Trump of misconduct, because Mr. Barr himself was mentioned in the document. “I do think the attorney general

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Indexes head sideways as weakness in tech offsets bank gains

Finance / En Sound Media

U.S. stocks headed sideways in early trading Friday as broad gains for banks were offset by sharp drops in technology companies. Banks were among the few gainers in the early going, led by Wells Fargo after the troubled bank named a new CEO. JPMorgan and Bank of America also rose while bond yields edged higher.

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