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Lina Lyte Plioplyte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.

'Periodical' filmmaker wants to talk about PMS, menopause and the tampon tax

1:08pm December 07, 2023

by Tonya Mosley

Lina Lyte Plioplyte sees menstruation as a "beautiful cycle" that happens to half of the world's population — one that "we're not supposed to talk about it." Her new film aims to break the stigma.

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The National Menorah, part of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, is silhouetted against the setting sun in Washington, D.C.

Hanukkah Lights 2023

12:09pm December 07, 2023

Hear some of our favorite stories about the festival of lights, plus a special Tiny Desk performance by The LeeVees.

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They're not cute and fuzzy — but this book makes the case for Florida's alligators

12:06pm December 07, 2023

by Gabino Iglesias

Rebecca Renner's Gator Country is an impeccably researched love letter to Florida's flora and fauna. She argues that alligators deserve the same respect and protection as any other animal in danger.

The legacy of visionary TV producer Norman Lear, dead at 101

5:48pm December 06, 2023

by Eric Deggans

Norman Lear, who addressed serious issues in humorous sitcoms, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 101. He leaves behind a legacy of hit 1970s sitcoms that revolutionized television.

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Here are the 25 top viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023

5:48pm December 06, 2023

The publicly-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year. The Wikimedia Foundation gas released a breakdown of those numbers.

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A foundation has doubled their $250 million pledge to diversify monuments in the U.S.

5:27pm December 06, 2023

An initiative from the Mellon Foundation dedicated to creating monuments that tell diverse stories recently pledged to double its funding for the project.

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The Wicker Man, from 1973, was directed by Robin Hardy.

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'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic turns 50

4:59pm December 06, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

The 1973 movie The Wicker Man helped kick off the subgenre known as "folk horror." The film, about a sinister pagan ritual on a remote Scottish island, has scared horror fans for five decades.

Taylor Swift performs during her Eras Tour in Nashville, Tenn. Swift is 'Time' magazine's Person of the Year.

'Time' magazine names Taylor Swift its 2023 Person of the Year

11:20am December 06, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

The 33-year-old international pop star has been playing to massive crowds on her Eras Tour and has garnered attention for her budding romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Lear dropped out of college and enlisted in the Air Force to fight in World War II. In his late 20s, he moved to Los Angeles where he struggled for several years, selling furniture door to door and taking baby pictures. He's shown above in his Los Angeles office in March 1979.

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Norman Lear, who made funny sitcoms about serious topics, dies at 101

10:04am December 06, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Lear's revolutionary comedies, including All in the Family and The Jeffersons, didn't shy away from issues of race, struggle and inequality. He believed that all people are "versions of each other."

Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023.

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Here are the 25 most-viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023

6:55am December 06, 2023

by The Associated Press

English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia.