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Nov 19, 2024 | 
slickdeals.net | Andy Weir |a Knight |Dennis Taylor |Max Brooks
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
coloradocommunitymedia.com | McKenna Harford |Max Brooks
A Republican candidate running to represent Castle Rock at the state Capitol is clarifying his background after an independent political committee attempting to boost his candidacy sent voters an ad in the mail with wrong information. Max Brooks, who is running for Colorado House District 45, said the advertisement from a group unaffiliated with his campaign wrongly calls him an Army veteran and a native of Castle Rock, where he serves on the town’s council.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
wunc.org | Andrew Limbong |Max Brooks
Michelle Williams' voicing of Britney Spears' new memoir has received high praise. We look at why top-level actors want to be involved in audio book performances.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
ideastream.org | Andrew Limbong |Max Brooks
Staff from The 92nd Street Y, New York are resigning, after the storied cultural hub abruptly halted a scheduled reading by author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Now the rest of the 92NY's poetry reading season – which was set to feature Emily Wilson, Roxane Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and more – is "currently on pause," according to a 92NY spokesperson.
On Friday, 92NY was supposed to host Nguyen, who is promoting his new memoir A Man of Two Faces.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
ypradio.org | Deepa Shivaram |Max Brooks
Updated October 18, 2023 at 4:08 AM ET
President Biden is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Wednesday as the White House tries to show solidarity with its chief ally in the Middle East after Hamas killed some 1,400 Israelis during an Oct. 7 attack.
But the trip became more fraught after an explosion at a busy Gaza hospital killed hundreds of people, shortly before Biden left Washington.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
ypradio.org | Nicole Werbeck |Max Brooks
Protests broke out in Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Jordan in response to a massive blast that rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, Palestinian health officials said.
Groups of protesters roamed Beirut on motorcycles and gathered outside the French embassy, and the headquarters of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
wunc.org | Mandalit del Barco |Max Brooks
Special prosecutors say they plan to present the New Mexico Grand Jury with a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of the cinematographer on the movie set of Rust.
Baldwin was one of the producers of the Western movie, which was being filmed on a ranch outside Santa Fe in October of 2021. As an actor, he was holding the gun that went off during a rehearsal.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
wunc.org | Andrey Henkin |Max Brooks
Carla Bley, the pianist behind some of the most beloved compositions in the jazz canon, who recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019, died Tuesday. Her death was confirmed by her husband and longtime collaborator, bassist Steve Swallow; the cause given was complications from brain cancer. She was 87.
Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
wunc.org | Tamara Keith |Max Brooks
Updated October 17, 2023 at 7:22 PM ET
President Biden left for a quick trip to Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday, a visit meant to signal full U.S. support as Israel responds to the Hamas attacks.
But he canceled a stop planned for Amman, Jordan after an explosion at a busy hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of people. The cause of the explosion — which happened shortly before Biden left Washington — was not immediately confirmed.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
tspr.org | Ayana Archie |Max Brooks
Twenty-one species, including birds, a bat and several mussels, have been labeled extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicesaid Monday.
The species were previously on the national list of threatened and endangered species.
