January 2020

Rewatching ‘Devil Wears Prada,’ I Now Know *Everyone* Is A Bad Employee

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Fourteen years after the character first appeared on screen, Miranda Priestly from “The Devil Wears Prada” is still on our minds. Today, Priestly’s image is used in memes and articles as an example of an impossible-to-please boss. In the film, she’s the exacting editor-in-chief of the fictional (but openly based on Vogue) Runway magazine, played […]

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Sean Hannity Producer Calls Meghan Markle ‘Very Uppity’

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A producer for Sean Hannity’s radio show told the host Tuesday that Meghan Markle was “very uppity” for failing to participate in a meeting with other royal family members. (Hear the Media Matters-shared audio below.) Lynda McLaughlin and Hannity were discussing the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry’s announced departure from royal duties on “The

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Demonstrators in Beirut target banks in continued protests

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Banks in Beirut were targeted by demonstrators during what they have called a ‘week of wrath’, in protest against the country’s banking crisis. Protests have been ongoing since October 2019. Lebanon’s commercial banks have been restricting savers’ access to their deposits and blocking most transfers abroad for more than two months. Protesters say they will

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A Myth That Won’t Die About a Gulf War Weapon, and Why It Matters

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That document also misattributed a mass-fratricide bomblet attack on a unit of the First Armored Division to enemy fire. It correctly states that one American cavalry troop suffered at least 23 wounded when howitzers fired cluster shells at them; however, in a 2017 interview with The Times, the squadron operations officer at the time, Mark

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Deborah James: You, Me and the Big C podcast host ‘in cancer-free place’

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDeborah James: “It is a miracle” One of the hosts of BBC Radio 5 Live’s podcast You, Me and the Big C has revealed she is now “in a cancer-free place” after three years of treatment. “It’s a bit bonkers… but right now I have no evidence

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