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Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as an alien who comes to Earth in hopes of saving the humans on his home planet in Showtime’s new series The… Read More »Watch the First Five Minutes of Showtime’s Man Who Fell to Earth
police supp. David Brown’s Update on Mass Shootings in South Chicago
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you saw the many cryptocurrency-related Super Bowl ads, and you may have found them weird, or deeply dystopian, or just unsettlingly familiar. Nevertheless, you may… Read More »How people actually make money with cryptocurrencies
Long hailed by its proponents as a safe hedge in uncertain times, Bitcoin’s value has been falling steadily over the past few weeks.
