Rachel Lears was looking for hope. The ongoing legacy of the 2016 election had left the documentarian scouring for stories that would counteract, in her words, “the cynicism and despair that a lot of us felt.” She began to notice that progressive organizations like Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats …
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Kacey Musgraves makes crossover look easier. Two-thirds of the way into her January 26th show at New York’s Beacon Theatre, the second of two sold-out nights at the venue, she gathered together her men-in-black touring band at the front of the stage. The unplugged segment has become almost de rigueurfor …
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On January 16th, California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the final rules and regulations governing the state’s cannabis industry, a little over a year after legal recreational sales went into effect. The Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Public Health …
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Miley Cyrus will perform at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Alicia Keys will host the show, which airs February 10th at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. The second round of performers also boasts singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile and rising R&B singer H.E.R., both of whom …
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President Donald Trump has taken drastic measures to conceal his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report in theWashington Poston Saturday. The bombshell story comes just one day after theNew York Timesrevealed that the FBI opened a joint counterintelligence and criminal investigation into whether the president …
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The governor of Tennessee announced Monday that he has granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 murder of a 43-year-old man who had solicited her for sex when she was 16 years old. In December, after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that …
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Following weeks of speculation, Axl Rose has officially released “Rock the Rock,” his first new song in over a decade. The song, and Rose himself in cartoon form, appear in an episode of New Looney Tunes. The episode, titled “Armageddon Outta Here, Part Two,” previously broadcasted in late-December, but Boomerang, …
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Norah Jones performs a bluesy rendition of one of her “favorite” Ray Charles songs, “What Would I Do Without You,” as a tribute to the late R&B legend in this exclusive clip from Austin City Limits‘ Hall of Fame New Year’s Special. Gary Clark Jr. also staged a rare guitar-less …
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Joquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera sounded chipper on the phone, arranging a steep discount for kilos of heroin with a Chicago-born drug trafficker who had become one of his best drug-distribution partners stateside. Greeting an alleged customer amiably, with an exclamation of “Amigo!” Guzmán set about negotiating a 20-kilo shipment …
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On Thursday, President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, a massive piece of legislation renewed once every five years since 1933, outlining regulations on everything from food stamps to environmental land use. This one does something, though, that the previous versions have not — it legalized industrial hemp, including the …
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