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TheRepublic.com 

The Latest: Brazil president praises house committee’s vote

SAO PAULO — The latest on Brazil’s widespread corruption investigation (all times local): 7:35 p.m. Brazilian President Michel Temer is praising a congressional committee’s rejection of a damaging report that had called for him to be suspended and put trial on a corruption charge. Temer says in a statement that Thursday’s vote by the panel

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'Unacceptable': Doctors and patient advocates slam the Senate Republicans' healthcare plan (again)

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Doctors and patient groups still aren't happy with the updated version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act that Senate Republicans released Thursday.

The groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and American Hospital Association, are critical of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Among the changes to the new bill are that more funds will be set aside for the opioid crisis... Читать дальше...

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Revered Wimbledon is to tennis what the Masters is to golf

LONDON — When Masters champion Sergio Garcia sat in the Royal Box at Wimbledon last week, he showed up in his green jacket from Augusta National. Seemed fitting. The tennis and golf tournaments seem to be each other’s counterparts in many ways, starting with the reverence in which they’re held — and the steps the

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Netflix somehow managed to make a great TV show based on a video game (NFLX)

Somehow, against all expectations and logic, the first Netflix original show derived from a video game is very, very good. More impressive: The show is based on the "Castlevania" game series, a long-dormant game franchise most well-known for being immensely difficult to play. Its story was secondary at best, and early games involved bizarre dialogue that was mistranslated from the original Japanese.

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The Huffington Post 

Amelia Earhart's Prenup Is Proof That She Was The Ultimate Feminist

For BRIDES, by Christina Oehler.



Since last week’s reveal that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, may have crashed on the Marshall Islands, we’ve been as curious as everyone about the famed airwoman and the details of her final years before her disappearance — including her secret wedding. And although we usually only hear about her life as a pilot and of her mysterious vanishing, Earhart’s life prior to her infamous final flight was remarkably modern and feminist— and her prenup is proof. Читать дальше...