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Listen to a new, raw version of REM’s ‘elegy and eulogy’ for Kurt Cobain

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Kurt Cobain became close friends with Michael Stipe in the years before his death While REM were recording their ninth album, Monster, in 1994, Michael Stipe received a phone call he’d been dreading: Kurt Cobain was dead. The pair had been close – Stipe was godfather to Cobain’s daughter, […]

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Protecting Hong Kong’s young protesters: ‘Beat us, don’t beat the kids’

As Hong Kong’s protests deepen, one pastor and a group of mostly Christian volunteers are trying to stop clashes from happening. Protect the Children volunteers put themselves between protesters and police in a bid to mediate. But it’s getting more difficult as clashes break out earlier in the demonstrations – and the volunteers have inevitably

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California outlines ways to comply with upcoming privacy law

Companies must notify California residents of their data privacy rights in plain language and must verify people’s identities before releasing data, state officials proposed Thursday. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced draft regulations that also spell out ways people can ask for their personal information to be deleted from company databases. The rules are being

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Fed Votes to Lighten Regulations for All but the Largest Banks

Federal Reserve Board members voted on Thursday to adjust key bank regulations put in place after the financial crisis, enacting a series of changes that one board governor, Lael Brainard, warned could weaken “core safeguards.” Regulators are tying rules more closely to bank size, reducing the necessary level of cash and government bond stockpiles at

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Chance The Rapper’s Wife Kirsten Bennett Gets Real About Postpartum Life

Kirsten Bennett has opened up about postpartum life, months after giving birth to her second daughter, Marli, with Chance The Rapper in August.  In an Instagram post published Wednesday, Bennett helped bring awareness to the realities of recovering from childbirth by sharing a note about her own experience. “Mommy loves you my sweet Marli Grace,”

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