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Where Bipartisan Reform Is Actually Working
States are making it easier to fire bad workers, allowing better pay for high performers, and limiting the collective bargaining power of unions.
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Two Cancelled Virtual Boy Games Join ‘Nintendo Classics’ Today
Nintendo has added two previously cancelled Virtual Boy games, Zero Racers and D-Hopper (Dragon Hopper), to its Nintendo Classics library on the Switch Online + Expansion Pack service. The move continues Nintendo’s practice of reviving unreleased titles from the ill-fated 1995 console, offering subscribers access to games that never made it to market nearly three…
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Unearthed video exposes El-Sayed’s opinion on driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants
A resurfaced 2018 interview has revived scrutiny of Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan, after footage showed him arguing that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to obtain driver’s licences. Fox News reported that El-Sayed described the current denial of licences to undocumented immigrants as a form of “discrimination” based on…
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A Fire Inspired David Allen Coe To Write This Massive Hit for Another Artist in 1977
Johnny Paycheck’s only No. 1 hit, “Take This Job And Shove It”, released in 1977, is widely assumed to be his own composition, but it was actually written by fellow country artist David Allan Coe. The song’s origin lies not in workplace frustration, as its title might suggest, but in a chance remark made after…
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Beast Of Reincarnation’s Cinematic Focus Fails Its Flashy Action
When you start a new game in Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation, a prompt asks if you’d like to play in cinematic mode. This locks the cutscene frame rate to 24 frames per second, but, understandably, leaves the gameplay as is. When I first saw this during my 90-minute preview session last month, it felt…
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‘Late Fame’ Review: Willem Dafoe And Greta Lee Superb In Wonderful Indie Film About Art And Rediscovery In A New York Long Gone
Deadline critic Pete Hammond has reviewed Late Fame, an independent film starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee that premiered at the Venice Film Festival a year ago and is only now reaching cinemas. Directed by Kent Jones and written by Oscar nominee Samy Burch, the film adapts Arthur Schnitzler’s 1890s novella, relocating its setting from…
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Family’s GoFundMe for girl, 3, who drowned on California lake VANISHES after cops said her death is now being treated as homicide
The GoFundMe fundraiser set up for the family of Lailah Rosillo, a three-year-old girl who drowned in a California lake, has disappeared from the platform after police announced they are now investigating her death as a homicide. The removal has raised questions among family members and the public, as the case shifts from what was…
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Nintendo got “a lot of angry calls” from parents who thought Animal Crossing’s “skin-colored” gyroid “looked like a wiggling penis”
Nintendo received numerous complaints from concerned parents after an early Animal Crossing gyroid item was deemed to resemble a “wiggling penis” due to its skin-like colouring and shape. The anecdote, shared by a former Nintendo staffer, highlights the sometimes unpredictable nature of localisation and design decisions in family-friendly games, where innocuous in-game objects can be…
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Stefano Pozzebon Named CNN International Correspondent Based In Rome
CNN has appointed Stefano Pozzebon as an international correspondent based in its Rome bureau, expanding his role after years contributing to the network from Latin America. He will now report on major stories across Italy and Europe, working alongside CNN Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb, who leads coverage of the papacy. Pozzebon previously served as a…
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Senate overwhelmingly advances stopgap funding bill aimed at preventing shutdown
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