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Friends, families mourn as Houston officials investigate concert deaths

Friends, families mourn as Houston officials investigate concert deaths

Investigators worked Sunday to determine how eight people died in a crush of fans at a Houston music festival, as friends and loved ones mourned the victims and a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles took shape at the site.
by The Associated Press

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Take a rom-com road trip in 'How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days'

Take a rom-com road trip in 'How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days'

K.M. Jackson's laugh-out-loud new romance follows a Keanu Reeves superfan who's heard her celeb crush is getting *gasp* married — and she has to stop him! But will she find real love along the way?
by Denny S. Bryce

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Astroworld music festival joins a list of historical concert tragedies

Astroworld music festival joins a list of historical concert tragedies

The deaths of at least eight people at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday call to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals over the past half-century.
by Rachel Treisman

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'Woke Racism': John McWhorter argues against what he calls a religion of anti-racism

'Woke Racism': John McWhorter argues against what he calls a religion of anti-racism

Linguistics professor John McWhorter's new book is “Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.” He says some in the U.S. cultural left have taken "anti-racism" efforts to extremes.
by James Doubek, Steve Inskeep, Barry Gordemer and Reena Advani

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Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival

Crowd surge kills at least 8 at Houston music festival

The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27, and 13 people were still hospitalized, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Saturday. He called the disaster “a tragedy on many different levels” and said it was too early to draw conclusions about what went wrong.
by The Associated Press

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'The Waiting' is an unflinching portrayal of the separations caused by war

'The Waiting' is an unflinching portrayal of the separations caused by war

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's harrowing new graphic novel was inspired by her own family history — Gendry-Kim was an adult when she discovered that she had a long-lost aunt possibly trapped in North Korea.
by Thúy Đinh

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Talking Volumes: William Kent Krueger on 'Lightning Strike'

The New York Times bestselling author of “This Tender Land” joined host Kerri Miller at the Fitzgerald Theater for the finale of this season’s Talking Volumes.
by Kerri Miller

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Spies on opposite sides of the Cold War unite in 'From Warsaw With Love'

Spies on opposite sides of the Cold War unite in 'From Warsaw With Love'

Reporter John Pomfret interviewed government officials and intelligence operatives and mined declassified files in Poland to write his fascinating story of the Polish-U.S. intelligence relationship.
by Viveca Novak

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