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The Netflix logo is seen on the company's building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The streaming giant is one of many platforms that contributed to streaming outperforming both broadcast and cable in TV viewership numbers for July.

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  • Television

Streaming outperforms both cable and broadcast TV for the first time ever

Streaming platforms outpaced broadcast and cable in July's total TV viewership. The change came as new seasons of hits on Hulu and Netflix debuted and live sports and traditional shows went on hiatus.

August 18, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Japan's alcohol industry hard, sharpening a long-running trend away from drinking. A new campaign sponsored by the National Tax Agency hopes to change that — but it's running into sharp criticism.

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  • Asia

Japan launches a contest to urge young people to drink more alcohol

Governments are watching lucrative alcohol tax revenues dry up, as people drink less. In Japan, a plan to counter that trend is running into controversy.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Heche suffered burns and an inhalation injury after she crashed her car earlier this month.

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  • Arts & Life

Coroner rules Anne Heche's death an accident

According to the the LA County Coroner's report, the cause was inhalation and thermal injuries. The actor died on Sunday, after she crashed her car earlier this month.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Emmett, from Carthage, N.C., made it into the finals of the kids' division sporting this blunt, baby-fringe haircut.

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  • Pop Culture

Meet this year's child Mullet Championship finalists

It can take years to grow the perfect mullet, and these kids have put in their time to take home the 2022 USA Mullet Championship trophy. Here's a peek at some of the most remarkable contestant 'dos.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Patricia Highsmith in 1942, age 21.

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  • Books

Untangling the contradictions of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith

Highsmith's writing was full of fakes, forgeries and falsehoods, revealing not only what her characters concealed, but what readers were willing to see.

August 18, 2022
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  • Allyson McCabe
People line up to receive the monkeypox vaccine.

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  • History

Talking about monkeypox? Then you should be talking about sex

Despite the possibility of stigmatizing queer sex, experts say it's important to keep sex at the center of the conversation around monkeypox.

August 18, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong
Author Jamil Jan Kochai and his former second-grade teacher, Susan Lung, were reunited after more than 20 years at a reading for the writer's second book, <em>The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, </em>in Davis, California.

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  • Education

It took 20 years for this author to reunite with the teacher who changed his life

The writer searched for more than a decade for Susan Lung, who taught him to read and write English when he was a 7-year-old in 1999. On Saturday, she surprised him at one of his book readings.

August 17, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
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Authors Jade Chang and Jacqueline Woodson on how they prep mentally to write a book

Authors Jade Chang and Jacqueline Woodson share a conversation about how they prepare mentally to write a new book and what motivates them.

August 17, 2022
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By:
  • Gus Contreras and
  • Justine Kenin
Student filmmakers can apply for funding for works about reproductive rights.

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  • Arts & Life

A new student filmmaking grant will focus on reproductive rights

The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative announced Wednesday that it has created the program in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

August 17, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
A man uses a hand fan in a park in central Madrid during a heat wave.

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  • World

It's been a hot summer. Here's how people around the world have been staying cool

Extreme heat is increasingly common throughout the globe, and this summer hit us with a newfound vengeance. From Spain to India, Rough Translation looked at ways people try to beat the heat.

August 17, 2022
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By:
  • Luis Trelles
Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman.

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  • Television

'Better Call Saul' finale soars as a meditation on consequences and regret

The question that hung over the show's final episode was a simple one: Would Saul ever grow a conscience? Would he ever let himself feel real regret?

August 17, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Deggans

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  • Book Reviews

Afghan women raise their voices in two new anthologies

This week marks a year since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan. But the Taliban hasn't succeeded in silencing Afghan women, whose voices ring out in two new and powerful collections.

August 17, 2022
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  • Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Elizabeth Finch,' Julian Barnes addresses collective vs. personal memory

Barnes' 25th novel is about the power of influence and obsessions, wrong turns, and the difficulty of pinning down another's life, whether someone you knew or someone who predated you by centuries.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Arts & Life

Burnout turned Twitch streamers' dreams of playing games full time into nightmares

Playing video games for a living sounds like a dream job. But toxic fans and demanding schedules can turn that dream into a nightmare.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Keller Gordon
A star for late rapper Nipsey Hussle was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Aug. 15. The ceremony included speeches and remarks from members of the late rapper's family, including his sister, Samantha Smith (third from right), and his grandmother Margaret Boutte (fourth from right), who accepted the star on behalf of the family.

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  • Arts & Life

Nipsey Hussle gets Hollywood star on what would have been his 37th birthday

The late rapper's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is the 2,729th placed to date.

August 16, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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