Deaton told Variety, “We knew we could not do a Zoom show; we could not do a living room show. We could not do that and have it represent the CMAs, which is ‘country music’s biggest night.’ It had to be representative of the brand. The other thing, the idea […]
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Brandon Bernard’s Final Words Before Execution of Death Row Inmate
The final words of Brandon Bernard, who was killed by lethal injection Thursday in one of the last federal executions of the Trump presidency, and whose impending death had triggered a nationwide campaign for clemency, came as an apology to the family of the couple he played a role in […]
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Anthony Fauci’s Daughter Alison ‘Saddened’ By Boyfriend’s Brother’s Death From COVID-19
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, revealed Wednesday that the brother of his youngest daughter Alison’s boyfriend had died after contracting the coronavirus. In a wide-ranging live-stream interview for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that was moderated by CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, […]
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Family of Man Who Died of COVID-19 Slams Anti-Maskers in Now-Viral Obituary: ‘His Death Was Political’
Price & Sons Funeral Home Dr. Marvin J. Farr The obituary of Dr. Marvin J. Farr, an 81-year-old man from Kansas, has gone viral after his family called out anti-maskers and those who “refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.” Farr died from […]
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On the front lines of COVID, nurses confront life and death
Registered Nurse Daniel Corral works with a COVID-19 patient at the El Paso Long Term Acute Care Hospital, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. The relentless war against a deadly, invisible enemy was out of sight to all but those working its front lines. Mark Lambie AP EL […]
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The Tortured Life And Tragic Crime Of The Only Woman On Death Row
About a week before Christmas in 2004, Lisa Montgomery, a 36-year-old mother of four, drove from her home in Kansas to Missouri, ostensibly to buy a rat terrier puppy from a woman she’d met at a dog show earlier that year. But it was not a pet that she was […]
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Irina Salvina death: EU calls for inquiry into Russian journalist who set herself on fire
The EU’s lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, Peter Stano, said in a tweet Monday that the EU was “shocked about the tragic death of journalist Irina Slavina.” Slavina, whose real name was Irina Murakhtaeva, set herself on fire on Friday in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 […]
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joyous explorations of death and the afterlife
In a normal year, last January would already feel quite distant by the time the autumn chill of October announces itself. This year, it feels more like an entire age ago, with most films I saw at festivals back then – including some good ones– appearing as the faintest of […]
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Breonna Taylor’s Case and Death: What We Know
[Follow our live Breonna Taylor decision and Louisville protests updates.] The death of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker who was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in March during a botched raid on her apartment, led to wide-scale demonstrations in the spring and summer as the case drew […]
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“Jaws of Death” a New Dinosaur Discovery, 45 Years After Bones Found
Gary Thompson was fifteen when he found the fossils near Cedaredge in Delta County. It was 1975, and he’d just gotten interested in paleontology after a school field trip to scenic Escalante Canyon, a red-rock canyon where he and his classmates learned about the dinosaur bones and petrified dung specimens regularly found in […]
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10 years after Tyler Clementi’s death, his mom continues to combat bullying
Tyler Clementi has been gone for ten years, but for his mother, his physical absence can feel so new and at other times, excruciatingly long. “I seem to be held captive by dates and this is one date that really always knocks me,” Jane Clementi said of the anniversary of […]
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What We Know About Fort Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillen’s Highly Suspicious Death and Disappearance From a U.S. Army Base
Photo credit: U.S. Army From Cosmopolitan Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old Private First Class (PFC) soldier for the United States Army, disappeared on April 22 at Texas’s Fort Hood Army base. She was later found dead. Guillen’s family believes officials at Fort Hood are covering up what happened to her. A […]
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Iowa State Courts Death by Inviting 25,000 Fans to a Game
G. Newman Lowrance Whatever else is taught at Iowa State, the school itself is imparting a lesson in reprehensible recklessness as it prepares to allow 25,000 to attend a football game even as its home city of Ames has become the hottest COVD-19 hotspot in America. The Iowa State Cyclones will […]
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Hoboken Revises Coronavirus Death Toll, Gives New Testing Info
HOBOKEN, NJ — The city of Hoboken adjusted its total coronavirus fatality number to 31 on Thursday (it was previously reported as 29), and announced that testing will be offered at two sites rather than just one this coming week. Mayor Ravi Bhalla explained, “Sadly, we were informed of two […]