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JACKSONVILLE — A sold-out crowd of 15,259 UFC fans packed the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday for the pay-per-view card that marked the first full capacity indoor sporting event in the United States since Covid-19 hit the country hard in March 2020. Although vaccination rates are …

WASHINGTON —The Forever War might at last be coming to an end. On Wednesday, the news leaked out that President Biden planned to announce that American troops would fully withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. To hear the Biden administration tell it, this will not be a partial exit …

Dionne Warwick, the newly anointed Queen of Twitter, will jump from social media to livestreaming with Dionne at Home With You, a pair of shows that the singer will stage on Mandolin. Warwick will stage her first-ever livestream concerts on April 4th (Easter) and May 9th (Mother’s Day), with the …

Mark Kozelek, the singer-songwriter behind Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters, has been accused of sexual misconduct by seven more women, Pitchfork reports. The accusations follow an earlier Pitchfork report from last summer that detailed Kozelek exposing himself without permission and pressuring women into sex. The original report from …

The City Council of Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, approved what’s believed to be the country’s first government reparations program for African Americans Monday, March 22nd, the Chicago Tribune reports. The program aims to address discriminatory housing practices and policies that have impacted black residents for decades. Evanston pledged …

WASHINGTON — In a new interview with ABC News, President Biden endorsed the idea of making modest reforms to the filibuster as the bulk of his administration’s domestic-policy agenda heads to the U.S. Senate in the coming months. Biden, in his first extended sit-down interview since taking office, told ABC’s …

Yo-Yo Ma treated a Massachusetts vaccine distribution center to an impromptu performance Saturday, minutes after the renowned cellist received his second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Both Ma and his wife received their second shot Saturday at a vaccine center in Berkshire Community College, ABC News reports. During the cellist’s …

HBO has shared its first full look at Tina, the upcoming documentary focused on the life and legacy of Tina Turner. While last month’s teaser for film tackled Turner’s tumultuous childhood, the new preview traces the singer’s decision to leave her abusive husband and bandmate Ike Turner, her struggling early …

David Crosby may have sold his publishing to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group, but his Rolling Stone advice column Ask Croz remains 100% his own. As has been the case for the past couple of years, Crosby is taking questions from readers on whatever thing they feel like asking. No …

“Who the hell is Bruce Springsteen?” I thought. Dashing out the stage door of a late-night Broadway show to beat the blundering crowds back in 2019, violin case in hand, I stepped onto the uptown C train for a swift escape out of midtown Manhattan. As I scrolled mindlessly through …