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February 23, 2016
Obama makes final attempt to persuade Congress to close Guantanamo
President Barack Obama launched a final push on Tuesday to persuade Congress to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but lawmakers, opposed to rehousing detainees in the United States, declared his plan a non-starter.
An inventive bag of tricks
As couture-adorned A-list celebrities strut down the freshly laid red carpet at this year’s Academy Awards, designer Ashlee Nik will be tuned into the TV coverage and checking Getty Images to see which nominees are sporting her clutches.
Champagne: Perfect for your Oscar successes and failures
Soon, Academy Award winners will be popping open some bubbly and the runners-up will be drowning their sorrows.
Russian-Israeli director takes Ukraine revolution to the Oscars
When Evgeny Afineevsky began filming his Oscar-nominated documentary about Ukraine’s revolution, he thought he was in for a fun project full of song and dance, oddly enough.
US Holocaust museum to collect items for time capsule
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043.
Revolution – Implications for Israel, for the Arab World, and the West
Since Iran became a radical Islamic Shiite state some 46 years ago, it has been recognized as a perpetrator of both regional and global terrorism.
Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton and a $16 Moscow Mule
Actually before we get started let’s clarify a couple things: I’m less twenty-something and more decidedly twenty-four, and the Moscow Mule was $18 with tip.
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