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Terror and Geopolitics: Manchester 2017 and 1996

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Manchester, UK, was hit with the deadliest bomb attack on Monday since a June Saturday morning in 1996, when a massive 3000 lb. Provisional Irish Republican Army blast leveled the city center shopping district to rubble and left 200 wounded. The toll at the Ariana Grande concert so far this morning is nearly two dozen […]

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Disney Is Opening an Immersive Star Wars Hotel

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Disney has announced plans for a new Star Wars-themed hotel that will allow fans to live out their dreams in a galaxy far far away. The hotel is set to open in 2019 as part of an expansion at the Disneyland resorts in Florida and Anaheim that is exclusively themed around the Star Wars universe. […]

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Harry Styles Reenacts Titanic on His Carpool Karaoke Ride

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Harry Styles is finishing out his Late Late Show residency with a bang! The former One Direction boy bander hit all the high notes as he returned to the Carpool Karaoke passenger seat on Thursday, the last of his four-day-long residency, and grooved along to tunes with host James Corden. Thanks to his appearance on the show […]

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Ariana Grande Leads Support for Victims of London Terror Attack

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Ariana Grande is among a number of celebrities offering thoughts and messages to the victims of terror attacks in London on Saturday night. “Praying for London,” Grande wrote on Twitter after the incidents, which left more than one person dead, according to authorities. The attacks—a hit-and-run of pedestrians and multiple stabbings—occurred at two locations near […]

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Hurricane Matthew in Haiti: Looking Beyond the Disaster Narrative

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Well-meaning people have either emailed or texted me over the past couple of days, with some variant of “how are things going in Haiti?” Short of people’s prayers, and the question, “is everyone you know ok?” How indeed to respond? Hurricane Matthew is a Category 4, meaning that winds are gusting at 145 miles per […]