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Mystery as Democrat nepo-baby lands $411k-a-year council job over 400 other applicants… including THREE who scored better than her during selection process
Erica Lee Carter, 46, the daughter of late Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, was appointed as the Harris County Administrator earlier this year in a hotly contested hiring process.
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Abandoned review – this real-life mystery makes for TV that’s a wild helter-skelter ride
Now grown, three siblings search for clues as to why their parents left them at a Barcelona railway station in 1984 – and uncover a secret family history they could never have imaginedDid you know your surname when you were five years old? The more you think about it, the harder the question becomes to…
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‘If you see one movie this year’: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey set to storm the box office
The summer’s most anticipated film will raise epic questions about culture wars, classics and the nature of film-makingIn a plot twist worthy of the ancient bards themselves, the hottest movie of the summer isn’t a superhero flick, or an alien-invasion yarn, or a crinolines-and-bonnets period drama. Instead, it is an adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old…
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The making of Independence Day at 30: ‘I panicked and raced to set to rewrite’
The makers of the blockbusting sci-fi thriller reveal how they made a hit, why Kevin Spacey was almost involved and what went wrong with the sequelThe architects of cinema’s most popular alien invasion have slightly differing accounts of how exactly the original plans for Independence Day came to them. But they both agree that it…
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Thousands of fish killed in park pollution mystery
Dead eels, sticklebacks, gudgeon and stone loach were discovered in a stretch of the River Pool.
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Netflix’s New Harlan Coben Mystery Continues Its Unstoppable Reign on Streaming
Harlan Coben’s new Netflix series, I Will Find You, has emerged as a major viewership success. Find out more.
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Netflix’s 6-Part Sci-Fi Series Is the Smartest Horror Show Since ‘Haunting of Hill House’
Netflix’s six-part series Cassandra flips the haunted house trope on its head by introducing themes of AI and the danger of convenience.
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War Drama ‘Peluru Senja: The Ghost & the Gun’ Locks Malaysia Theatrical Date, Drops Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
The first trailer for “Peluru Senja: The Ghost & the Gun” has arrived alongside confirmation of a nationwide Malaysian theatrical release on Aug. 28, timed to the country’s Independence Day weekend. Local distributor MSK Cinemas will handle the rollout. The Bahasa Malaysia-language feature is the third film from Singapore-based Indian director Anshul Tiwari, whose previous…
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Ghosts of the Azteca: England return to scene of infamous Maradona handball
Mexico have a formidable record in their iconic stadium but for many it will always be associated with one playerAs soon as the World Cup draw was completed in Washington DC last December, the date went into the diary, circled in bold by every England fan that hoped to travel, and millions more who knew…
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Mystery parasite leaves Americans battling ‘explosive’ illness as CDC investigates
The CDC reports 145 confirmed cyclosporiasis cases across 17 states as the parasitic outbreak season climbs, with 20 patients hospitalized so far.