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Betty's White's abiding romance with the TV camera
CNN
No matter how much you tally the awesome number of credits White collected, you're still left wondering how she lasted so long and in so many different contexts, writes Gene Seymour. Timing, always the first and best quality in comedic acting, was the principal quality of White's durability.
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Hot and dry weather is fueling wildfire activity in the Western United States and Canada, with fires damaging homes, causing injuries and forcing evacuations. The largest active wildfire in the US has scorched more than 280,000 acres in eastern Oregon and another blaze has exploded to nearly 125,000 acres in California.
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A Justice Department watchdog has found that former Attorney General Bill Barr was personally involved in the decision to publicize an incident from the 2020 election – nine mail-in ballots for Donald Trump being discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania – that flamed the false narrative of widespread voter fraud.