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SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify This is Episode Four of a four-part Fascination on really big birds.You can listen to Episode One here; Episode Two here; and Episode Three here.Flora Lichtman: I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but this is the best way to describe terror birds.Federico Degrange: Terror birds are fing amazing.

During the Trump presidency, one of the strongest currents in our culture was the struggle for social justice, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter to the recognition of proliferating gender identities.Now, one of the strongest currents is the backlash to all of that.Resentment of strident progressive politics unites the hapless CNN chief Chris Licht, who complained, in an Atlantic profile, that the network had been producing too much anti-Trump outrage porn, and the louche British rock star (and reputed Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend) Matty Healy, who complained, in a New Yorker profile, that artists are now expected to be liberal academics.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Dec. 12-18.Details and times are subject to change.BAKING IT: MAYA RUDOLPH & AMY POEHLER'S CELEBRITY HOLIDAY SPECIAL 10 p.m. on NBC.Maya Rudolph is kicking off the second season of her show, Baking It, with a holiday special co-starring Amy Poehler.

Keaton plays the title character who is hired by a recently deceased couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) to scare away the new (alive) residents of their house.Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play the divorcing couple Jerry and Lucy who mess with each other's new potential love lives when they realize they're still in love with each other.

Rishi Sunak has said he turns to the racy novels of Jilly Cooper to find some escapism.It was first reported that the Prime Minister enjoys the raunchy books, including 1985 bestseller Riders, earlier this month and Mr Sunak confirmed the news in an appearance on ITV's This Morning.Asked by presenter Alison Hammond if it is true he reads the books, the Prime Minister laughed and said: Yes that's true.

Boris Johnson has claimed that Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened to kill him in a missile attack, saying it would only take a minute in a call ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.The former prime minister said the extraordinary conversation took place in February after he had visited Kyiv in a last-ditch attempt to show Western support for Ukraine amid growing fears of an assault.

Sir David Attenborough has said internal BBC politics resulted in him spending much of his career documenting wildlife abroad rather than in the British Isles.The broadcaster and naturalist, 96, said that when he joined the corporation in 1952 he was soon offered Africa as his area of specialism, which suited him down to the ground.

Stephen Graham has become an OBE for services to drama in the New Year Honours list.The 49-year-old Merseyside-born actor has won plaudits playing Irish, English and American criminals and police officers in various blockbuster Hollywood films and hit TV dramas across his three-decade career.He starred in the 2000 crime comedy film Snatch alongside Brad Pitt and Jason Statham, as well as 2019's gangster epic The Irishman, where he played real-life mobster Anthony Provenzano alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

Stephen Graham has said he shares his OBE with his incredible warrior mother after she died recently.The 49-year-old Merseyside-born actor, known for TV crime drama Line Of Duty, was named on the New Year Honours list for services to drama.On Saturday, the This Is England star told his Instagram followers: A few days ago this incredible, inspirational, warrior woman With the purest heart my mum passed away.

Were I to write a Mari Sandoz biopic, I'd start with a shadow racing across her desk.I'd start at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1935.I'd start with a 39-year-old hayseed thin as a fence post and prickly as barbed wire assaulting her typewriter on the ninth floor of the Nebraska State Capitol as a local bank teller plunges 135 feet to his death on the stone transept below.

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Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers who shot and killed their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, are asking the courts to vacate their 1996 convictions, citing new evidence from a documentary series alleging that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of Menudo.

Like many short-form video creators, Jorge Soto got his start on TikTok.But a year and a half after uploading his first video to TikTok in March 2020, he gave YouTube's TikTok clone a try."In two months, I gained a million subscribers, which is crazy," Soto said in the third episode of the Digiday Podcast's four-part series on short-form vertical video creators.

March Madness in the Contra Costa County libraries is a tournament all about children's books.Each week books will go head-to-head until only one remains.Vote online for one book in each round.For the first round, vote for your favorites in the Sweet 16.Then come back the next week to see which books make it to the Elite Eight.

The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH), a historic sector of the Brooklyn Public Library, is partnering with a women-led collective to facilitate conversations on intersections of gender equality and racial justice in a two-part program in honor of Women's History Month.CBH will have two virtual discussions co-presented by Ms Foundation for Women, a Brooklyn based collective that works to advance equality and justice for all.

In the opening moments of the HBO documentary series Branson, Richard Branson looks into the camera to say goodbye.It's always strange recording something when you're alive and healthy, he said, knowing the only reason this video will be seen is if something has gone awry.Branson, a serial entrepreneur whose businesses include the aerospace company Virgin Galactic, has bid farewell before when he thought he needed to prepare for the worst  I've written letters to my children and my grandchildren on a number of occasions, he said in a phone interview last month  but in this case, it was 16 days before he tried spaceflight.

Two days after the Gestapo's 1944 raid on the annex where Anne Frank and others were hiding, Miep Gies, a seemingly ordinary secretary, and her colleague walked into the hiding place and encountered a chaotic scene left behind by the Nazis.Years later, Gies described what she saw that day as a mess of books, newspapers and other everyday items.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Every year there are fewer Holocaust survivors still with us.But the trauma they experienced continues to reverberate through generations.Today we bring you the story of a descendent of Holocaust victims.Haley's ancestors were Holocaust survivors.But she's chosen to return to Germany anyway.

John Underwood, a stylish writer at Sports Illustrated for nearly a quarter century whose rollicking account of a fishing trip in Florida with the baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams led to their collaborations on two highly regarded books, died on April 12 at his home in Miami.He was 88.His wife, Donna Underwood, confirmed the death, but did not cite a specific cause.

This is the first of a four-part series on the North Star goals that set category leaders apart from their peers.As marketers, we must constantly balance the ideal with the practical and achievable.This comes amid a flood of competing priorities, including:


Demands for short-term financial results from shareholders.

In my previous post in this Flex series, Absolutely simple metrics with Flex I introduced Ookla's internet Speedtest command line utility and showed you how to pick up the latency, download bps, and upload bps statistics by using a Python script.Eagle-eyed readers might have noticed a tantalizing element of the command we tested with:
speedtest --accept-license -f csv That -f csv (format the output for CSV) implies other formats.

The New York Times jumped into the ongoing conversation about why American road deaths are so rapidly outpacing the rest of the industrialized world - but the scratch-the-surface approach left a lot of causes and solutions on the table.Journalists Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano's  deep dive on America's skyrocketing traffic violence crisis centered on our nation's 5-percent spike in car crash deaths during the Covid quarantine - a rise that came as other nations' fatality rates plunged.

Over the last two weeks, I've been sharing fascinating insights about the relationship between core earned media attributes and consumer behavior, based on Onclusive's recent study of global PR measurement data from over 100,000 articles.Publication authority turned out to be a strong driver of consumer activity at the top of the marketing funnel -- such as pages viewed and actions taken on your brand website as a result of reading a media article.

Editor's Note: This is the first in a four-part series on the wisdom of the seasons.The others are summer, fall and winter.Ah, spring.It's our season of hope, holding a promise that change is a-comin', for the better.The river will flow again after it was frozen, Ernest Hemingway wrote of the season in A Moveable Feast.

Editor's Note: In her monthly kitchen recommendations column, recipe developer and food writer Casey Barber shares her suggestions and tweaks to make your meals better.Before there were Crock-Pots and Instant Pots, slow cookers and air fryers, there was the Dutch oven.A multipurpose pot that has been a workhorse for cooks for centuries, it is one of the most useful, versatile pieces of kitchen equipment one can own.

The gold medals are piling up.For the sixth year in a row, the Mediterranean style of eating earned the title of best overall diet, according to 2023 ratings announced Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.Meals from the sunny Mediterranean also ranked first in the categories of diet best diet for healthy eating and best plant-based diet, the report said.

The gold medals are piling up.For the sixth year in a row, the Mediterranean style of eating earned the title of best overall diet, according to 2023 ratings announced Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.Meals from the sunny Mediterranean also ranked first in the categories of diet best diet for healthy eating and best plant-based diet, the report said.

It was a dark Saturday night last month on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Saturday nights can get very dark, but Sabrina Brier, in a rhinestone necklace and strapless plaid pantsuit, was agleam onstage at a basement comedy club called Caveat warming up the crowd.You're the butter, I'm the microwave, she announced.

The hand around his waist held him tighter, their bodies pressed closer together, and Xie Lian's struggling hands were firmly folded and crushed against his own chest; unable to move.His lips were still securely sealed, the kiss deepening, and a stream of gentle, chilled air slowly passed through.A god kisses a ghost king, and a love story, movie deal and KFC sponsorship are born.

As the Los Angeles Times' letters editor, Julie Ryan Green saw every type of reader missive imaginable.The letters to the editor - hundreds each day - were short and cheeky, long and angry.They were emailed, snail-mailed and faxed.And they were mostly from the guys.When The Times expanded its letters section in 2006, Green posed the question: "Most of our mail, by the way, comes from men.

Why wasn't he in custody? asks the MI5 officer Lily Thomas.It is January 1963, and Thomas is talking about Kim Philby, a British intelligence agent who, after being exposed as a Soviet spy, has escaped to Moscow.Nicholas Elliott, Philby's closest friend and a fellow member of the foreign intelligence agency MI6, looks slightly nonplused.

The lawyer for a leading accuser of R. Kelly says prosecutors shouldn't have dropped charges against Kelly before his appeals of federal criminal convictions were resolved.The singer is seen here in a courthouse in Chicago.Pool/Getty Images Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx said this week that her office is dropping multiple sex-abuse charges against R&B singer R. Kelly, saying he is already facing stern punishment in federal court.

Former NFL coach and current NBC football analyst Tony Dungy recently found himself at the mercy of Twitter after touting a long-debunked far-right conspiracy theory about students dressing up as animals and using litter boxes at school.In a since-deleted tweet, the former football coach responded to a post from the right-wing publication The Daily Wire about a Minnesota legislator supporting a bill that would require menstrual products to be placed in boys' bathrooms at schools.

Kenan Thompson is looking for a new job.Well, not really.In the new YouTube-first series Lil Interns, the nicest dad in comedy tries to work a real day job with a bunch of kindergartens as competition.Lil Interns is a faux-reality show side hustle for Kenan, a six-part series about him interning with a bunch of kids at an Old Navy (which of course co-produced the series).

One of the ironies of increasingly stringent digital privacy controls: they might result in a consumer online experience in which advertising is much more prominent, conspicuous, and disruptive.Last week, Meta announced the introduction of two new ad placements to Instagram, including an ad unit in the profile feed:

Meta is not alone: YouTube has also recently increased ad load through the introduction of new ad placements as that property navigates the challenging digital advertising environment, which I've dubbed the Mobile Marketing Winter in a three-part series (parts one, two, and three).

Several festive new holiday drinks, suitable for year-end reveling, have been created by Nolet's, a gin company that was founded in 1691 in Schiedam, the Netherlands, and is still family-owned.The cocktails are notable for the simplicity of their ingredients  no need to concoct arcane herbal mixtures, and the like.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said there is always a way forward but it has to be at the right time, when asked about reconciliation between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the royal family.The Most Rev Justin Welby officiated at the couple's wedding in 2018 and said that due to pastoral confidentiality he could not really comment on the rift.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will still be invited to the King's coronation despite the damaging claims they levelled at the royal family in their Netflix documentary, it has been reported.Harry and Meghan will have a place at Charles' historic ceremony on May 6 if they wish to attend, The Daily Telegraph has said.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have insisted they always intended to keep up public duties after quitting the royal family, and said a distorted narrative had been created to trap them into silence.Harry and Meghan never cited privacy as the reason for stepping back as senior working royals more than two years ago, a spokeswoman said.

Downing Street has dismissed a Government minister's call for a boycott of Netflix over its documentary with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as he called them utterly irrelevant.No 10 also said on Friday that Rishi Sunak does not back another Tory MP's attempt to bring legislation that could strip Harry and Meghan of their royal titles.

Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and members of the royal family were not approached for comment on the content of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix series, palace sources have said.Harry and Meghan's tell-all documentary began streaming on Thursday, with Harry accusing the royals of having a huge level of unconscious bias and Meghan saying the media wanted to destroy her.

The first three parts of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's bombshell documentary have dropped on Netflix, with Harry talking about growing up with his mother Diana, Princess of Wales.While Harry says he internally blocked out many memories of his mother  who died in a car crash when he was 12  he does remember the intense media scrutiny she lived through.

While you may already know how to keep the TikToks you see on your feed organized you might not know how to organize the videos you post on your own page.That's where TikTok playlists come in handy, and even if you're not sure how to make one you've likely come across them on some of your favorite influencers' profiles.

An Instagram post catches, a TikTok goes viral-sometimes that's all it takes to launch someone into internet fame.And then what?In this six-part series, tech and culture reporter Alyssa Bereznak explores how social media stardom is made.The influencer social circuit, the spon-con, the content houses, and all the dark details in between.

A couple of weeks back, we joined up with Glen Schofield of Striking Distance Studios to have him walk us through some behind-the-scenes previews of his studio's upcoming game, The Callisto Protocol.In our series so far, we've explored Callisto's gameplay and its audio design, and this week we're continuing our sneak peek with a look at the look of the game-the lighting and visuals.

British architectural photographer Marc Goodwin provides a look into architecture studios in Frankfurt in the second edition of his three-part series documenting architectural offices in Germany.The series offers a look into eight architecture studios based in Frankfurt including the office of Schneider+schumacher, Crossboundaries, Apd architektur+ingenieurbüro and Max Dudler.

Architectural photographer Marc Goodwin has photographed behind the scenes at 11 Stuttgart-based architecture studios in the latest of a three-part series documenting architecture offices in Germany.In the Stuttgart edition of his documentation of worldwide architecture studios, Goodwin has photographed studios including Blocher Partners, Se\arch Freie Architekten and Laboratory for Visionary Architecture.

Dezeen is teaming up with Holcim to launch Concrete Icons, a new video series profiling the most iconic contemporary concrete buildings by the world's leading architects.The series will comprise six short videos telling the stories behind striking concrete buildings around the world, based around interviews with the architects behind them.

Netflix has confirmed a second series of Sir David Attenborough's Our Planet amongst a slate of new natural history documentary programmes.As part of its push into the genre, the streaming giant has ordered six new projects to premiere over the next few years.Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman will narrate two  the first a six-part series, Our Universe, which will launch on November 22.

We've spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img> element.In this third and final piece, we are going to explore more techniques using the CSS outline property.That might sound odd because we generally use outline to draw a simple line around an element - sorta like border but it can only draw all four sides at once and is not part of the Box Model.

Joint development relationships are what allow larger tech companies to stay ahead.The hardware and software of these silent technology heroes makes its way into the tech we love through joint development relationships.When big tech engineers can't solve the problem themselves, they turn to joint development relationships with smaller companies that can.

Since then, he has led efforts to expand the cave system by finding new entrances and chambers and connecting segments disconnected over time.In a first wave of improvements, roads were repaved and new hotels, stores and coffee shops sprang up.But now, with the virus receding and the release of two major new film productions, many residents are hopeful that Tham Luang will again be a magnet for visitors when the rainy season ends and the cave reopens in October."By next year," he predicts, "it will be the longest cave system in Thailand."