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The most unbelievable thing about Michael Fagan’s 1982 Buckingham Palace break-in, which climaxed with Fagan’s infamous bedroom meeting with Queen Elizabeth, is that the trespassing was actually the second time Fagan managed to breach the palace that summer. Fagan testified that he had broken into Buckingham Palace about a month before the July incident, roaming
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Presidents have long worn watches, but over the past couple of decades, timepieces have increasingly served as props: ways for presidents and Oval Office hopefuls to telegraph something about their approaches. Bill Clinton and his Ironman Timex wrist monster (theoretically) ingratiated him with the common man. When Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012, he
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Meghan Markle has been portrayed in some tabloids as weaseling her way into the royal family. But the truly strategic royal bride-to-be may have been Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton—at least according to The Crown historian Robert Lacey. In his new book Battle of Brothers: William and Harry—The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult,
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Ever since COVID-19 disrupted our lives and made everyday leisure activities almost impossible, it’s been tough to unwind, especially with a larger group of friends and family. It appears there’s now another option for those feeling cooped up. On Friday, Cineplex announced “Private Movie Nights” — a new private screening offering that provides Canadians across
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Something started to spread over the summer when Donald Trump turned the White House lawn into a venue for the Republican National Convention finale and potentially a living, breathing Hatch Act violation. It wasn’t a COVID-19 outbreak—that would come later, at another White House celebration with scant masks and a misguided reliance on rapid tests.
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On the heels of positive news from a potential coronavirus vaccine candidate, Ticketmaster is thinking about the future. The company confirmed to Global News that it is “exploring” a new strategy that would allow individual event organizers to require fans to verify their vaccination status, or whether they’ve tested negative for COVID-19 within a 24-to-72-hour
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A few years after Staple’s Pigeon began selling for thousands and around the time Nike ramped up its limited lines, luxury companies began to offer similar products. Though many of the best current designer sneakers resemble high-tech runners, the decade started in retro, as Saint Laurent produced high and low tops of a slimmed-down, 80s-leather
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Bolsonaro is one of Trump’s biggest allies and has similarly spent the last eight months dismissing COVID-19. In addition to mocking mask wearing and downplaying the virus, in March he had his own “just inject bleach” moment when he said Brazilians could jump in raw sewage and “never catch anything.” The following month, responding to
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Shortly before noon EST on Saturday, history was made when Pennsylvania—and its 20 electoral college votes—was called for Joe Biden, pushing him over the 270 electoral college votes needed to beat the sitting president, Donald Trump. Celebrations ensued across the United States, and the world, with jubilant Biden supporters dancing, singing and popping bottles of
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By 10 p.m. ET on election night, the narrative around the Latino vote had already begun to solidify. Early reports indicated that Cuban-American precincts in Miami-Dade County had swung heavily for President Donald Trump, and a number of predominantly Mexican-American counties along the Rio Grande River delivered astonishingly good results for the Republican Party compared
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