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Florence Griffith-Joyner celebrates with her gold medal after winning the Women's 100 meters final event during the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

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Remembering Olympic gold medalist Florence 'Flo-Jo' Griffith Joyner

Olympic gold medalist Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith Joyner died 25 years ago on Sept. 21, 1998. The sprinter's world records for the 100 meter and 200 meter events remain unbroken.

September 21, 2023
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  • Ashley Montgomery
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Two debut books make the prestigious Booker Prize shortlist

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You and Chetna Maroo's Western Lane are among the contenders for this year's prize, which honors the best English-language fiction published in the UK and Ireland.

September 21, 2023
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  • Andrew Limbong
Leslie Jones says she was 19 when Jamie Foxx told her she needed to live life — get hired, get fired, fall in love — in order to be truly funny.

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How comic Leslie Jones went from funniest person on campus to 'SNL' star

Jones says performing stand-up for the first time as a freshman in college felt like putting on a shirt that fit perfectly: "It was just so natural." Her memoir is Leslie F*cking Jones.

September 21, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Book Reviews

Lauren Groff's survivalist novel 'The Vaster Wilds' will test your endurance, too

An impoverished servant girl escapes the fledgling Jamestown colony during the winter of 1609–1610 in a historical saga that takes its inspiration from Robinson Crusoe.

September 21, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives at the Russell Senate Office Building last Wednesday. The Senate's unwritten dress code will no longer be enforced as of this week.

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The Senate's dress code just got more relaxed. Some insist on staying buttoned-up

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's decision not to enforce an unofficial dress code has elicited strong reactions and dominated talk on Capitol Hill, even as a potential government shutdown looms.

September 21, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Issa Rae voices Angela, Brooke Monroe Conaway plays Zuri and Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is Stephen in Max's <em>Young Love</em>.

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There's a lot to love in the 'Hair Love'-inspired TV series 'Young Love'

The animated series on Max follows a young Black family getting back on its feet after the mother is struck by illness. The show is a spin-off from an Oscar-winning short film by Matthew A. Cherry.

September 21, 2023
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  • Eric Deggans
Books sit on shelves in an elementary school library in suburban Atlanta on Aug. 18.

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There have been attempts to censor more than 1,900 library book titles so far in 2023

Most of the scrutinized books were written by or contained subject matter about people of color or members of the LGBTQ+ community, according to research by the American Library Association.

September 21, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Horses are spooked by the Woolsey Fire near Paramount Ranch on Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills, Calif.

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  • Arts & Life

You've likely seen this ranch on-screen — burned by wildfire, it awaits its next act

The Woolsey wildfire devastated most of Paramount Ranch's Hollywood heritage in 2018. Human-driven climate change is demanding difficult decisions about what to preserve in the rebuilding process.

September 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
The roundhouse under construction at <a href="https://www.southernsierramiwuknation.org/wahhoga">Wahhoga Village</a> in Yosemite National Park.

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A Northern California tribe works to protect traditions in a warming world

The Oak Fire last year threatened the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation's way of life. Now the tribe is restoring ancient heritage sites and cultural practices in collaboration with local agencies.

September 20, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
A screenshot from the premiere of <em>The Joy of Painting</em> shows the painter Bob Ross with the work, A Walk in the Woods, which is up for sale.

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  • Arts & Life

This rare Bob Ross painting could be yours — for close to $10 million

The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market, let alone one with this much history.

September 20, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Artists Roberto Lugo (left) and Kevin Beasley are the 2023 winners of the Heinz Awards.

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A sculptor and a ceramicist who grapple with race win 2023 Heinz Awards for the Arts

Kevin Beasley and Roberto Lugo are this year's winners of the the Heinz Awards for the Arts, a prestigious prize that comes with a $250,000 cash award.

September 20, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby

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  • Book Reviews

'Wellness' is a perfect novel for our age, its profound sadness tempered with humor

Nathan Hill's stunning new novel about the stories we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time, is both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.

September 20, 2023
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  • Michael Schaub
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's new album features some of its iconic mascots on the cover and seven safety-focused tracks.

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  • Music News

A federal agency wants to give safety tips to young adults. So it's dropping an album

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's album addresses the most common hazards among those 13-24, through a variety of genres. It's called We're Safety Now Haven't We, and you'll want to hear it.

September 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Songwriter and producer Edgar Barrera poses at the 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in 2021. Barrera has earned another 13 Latin Grammy nominations in 2023.

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Hitmaker Edgar Barrera leads the 2023 Latin Grammy nominations

The Mexican American songwriter and producer earned nearly twice as many nods as his closest competitors, which include three of his collaborators: Colombian artists Camilo, Karol G and Shakira.

September 20, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama <em>Norma Rae.</em>

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  • Movies

Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue

Hollywood has churned out films that depict labor organizers as communists, and labor bosses as gangsters. So it should come as no surprise that real-life negotiations with the studios are so tricky.

September 19, 2023
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  • Bob Mondello
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