Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove racist language. Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 are among those with new editions with words and descriptions amended to strip them of offensive language, particularly passages that involve characters portrayed outside the U.K. Per The Guardian, …
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Three children and three adult staff members are dead following a school shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday morning. Officials said a suspect — 28-year-old Nashville area resident Audrey Hale — is also dead, and “multiple patients” have been reported following the shooting. A hospital …
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Elon Musk has revealed that he believes Twitter is currently worth $20 billion, or less than half the $44 billion he purchased it for just five months ago. In a companywide email Friday obtained by the New York Times about employee stock grants, Musk admitted that the company’s value since …
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Twitter went wild after former President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday. (Surprise: It turned out to be false.) The potential indictment against Trump stemmed from a hush-money payoff to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. From the moment news of the alleged …
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Alex Mar’s new book Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy tells the story of one of the youngest people sentenced to death in this country’s history: a 15-year-old girl named Paula Cooper. In the spring of 1985 in Gary, Indiana, she and three other girls skip …
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Digital database Internet Archive lost the first ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the “nonprofit library” by four of the biggest publishing companies. In June 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, John Wiley & Sons, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House sued Internet Archive over their attempt …
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HARTFORD, Connecticut—Welcome to 90s Con, where the Nineties live on. The decade where all that glitters is gold. Fans of 1990s pop culture have made the pilgrimage here on an arctic March day for a weekend of time travel, transforming the Connecticut Convention Center into a pastel love-fest. Reality? Adulthood? …
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On paper, nothing about Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon should work. Developed by Platinum Games and directors Abebe Tinari and Hideki Kamiya, it serves as a companion piece to the main Bayonetta trilogy ,but like other Nintendo-published co-productions — namely Cadence of Hyrule and Metroid Dread — it …
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HarperCollins will publish a new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for the first time since the fantasy novel’s original publication in 1937. It will feature a gallery of 50 paintings, maps, and drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. “Since it was first published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has become …
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Twitter announced on Thursday that it will begin removing its blue legacy verified checkmarks on April 1st. Yes, on April Fools’ Day. The social media company said that it would begin “winding down” their legacy verified program and nixing the legacy blue checkmarks it once handed out for free prior …
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