Author: Gloria Irabor
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Kenyan Olympic Gold Medalist Jepchirchir Wins 50th Women’s Boston Marathon
Reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir has capped the celebration of a half-century of women in the Boston Marathon with a finish to top them all. The 28-year-old Kenyan won a see-saw sprint down the stretch on Monday, when the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon returned to its traditional spring start for the first…
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Gaslit: Julia Roberts As Martha Mitchell
Fans looking forward to the upcoming limited series Gaslit can get a good look at what’s in store, as Starz has released a new trailer for the series about a shockingly true story from the Watergate scandal. The trailer beings with Attorney General John N. Mitchell (Sean Penn) receiving a phone call that a security…
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Malcolm Nance Leaves MSNBC To Fight Russia In Ukraine
Longtime MSNBC on-air terrorism and national security analyst, Malcolm Nance, has now joined the fight against Russians in Ukraine. Nance, was a former naval intelligence officer before he became executive director of The Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics, and Radical Ideologies. After leaving the service, he appeared on Joy Reid’s 7 PM program Monday…
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Billboard Music Awards: Megan Thee Stallion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Burna Boy Among Artists Set To Perform
NBC and the Billboard Music Awards on Tuesday revealed the first round of performers for the May 15 awards show. Megan Thee Stallion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Latto, Burna Boy and Rauw Alejandro are all slated to take the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas next month. While both Meg and…
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John Slattery Joins ‘The Good Fight’ Season 6
Multiple Emmy nominee, John Slattery, has been enlisted to star in season six of the Paramount+ series, The Good Fight. Slattery will play a character who helps out Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart. “We couldn’t be more excited to have the enormously talented, usually-too-busy John Slattery join the cast,” said The Good Fight co-creators and showrunners…
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Paramount Makes Nickelodeon Content Available for Ukrainian Refugees in Europe
Paramount Global has launched further initiatives for Ukrainian refugees with a focus on providing them with free Nickelodeon kids content on various platforms in Europe and beyond. The goal is to provide “comfort and enable them feel at home while watching their favorite cartoons, even if abroad.” In addition to a $1 million donation to…
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Ivory Coast Patrick Achi Reappointed PM One Week After Resignation
Patrick Achi has been reappointed as prime minister of Ivory Coast just a week after resigning from the post, Senate President Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio has said. Ahoussou-Kouadio was speaking to a joint session of parliament on Tuesday. A reshuffled cabinet is due to be announced soon, although details of that remain sparse. The prime minister’s reappointment…
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Austrian Avant-Garde Artist Hermann Nitsch Dies At 83
Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83. Nitsch’s wife, Rita Nitsch, told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday that Nitsch died at a hospital in the Austrian town of Mistelbach on Monday after a serious illness. Nitsch,…
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Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Bags Almost 11 years Jail Term
Ryan Reavis, one of the men who supplied Mac Miller with the fentanyl-laced pills that led to his overdose has been sentenced to 10 years and 11 months in prison. Ryan Reavis — who pleaded guilty to one felony count of distributing fentanyl — was one of three charged in the rapper’s September 2018 fatal…
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Six People Dead As Multiple Explosions Rock Kabul Schools
No less than six people have been killed and 11 others injured after multiple explosions rocked a high school and educational center in western Kabul on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were students, but seven injured children were taken to a hospital run by the NGO Emergency, the organization…
