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The world’s richest man has become fixated on child sexual exploitation in deindustrialized English towns—much of which took ...

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Great Grandpa have announced a new album. Patience, Moonbeam is the Seattle indie-rock quintet’s long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Four of Arrows, and it’s out March 28 via Run for Cover. The album ...

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In the pipeline: Special anthologies are coming our way from the Knopf publishing house in honor of the centennial anniversary of The New Yorker magazine. On Feb. 4 ... and both retail for $50. Online ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Chen Jinping, a 60-year-old Manhattan resident and U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty on December 18 to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government. Until 2022, he ...