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Workers Reveal Disney Is Covering Up Its COVID Cases

By Tarpley Hitt

Workers and their worried spouses reveal to The Daily Beast that Disney is not only underreporting its COVID cases but clearing COVID-positive employees to return to work.

How a Soviet Triple Agent Recruited New Spies in the West

By Anton Shekhovtsov, Michael Weiss

A KGB manual, published in English for the first time, reveals how Soviet spies infiltrated Western governments in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse.

Cops: Baby Pictures, Boy Doll in Michael Jackson’s Bedroom

By Marlow Stern

Watch the most eye-opening scene from the documentary “Killing Michael Jackson”—the LAPD detectives who investigated his death describing what they found in his messy bedroom.

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‘The Boys’ Skewers Scientology in Season 2

By Laura Bradley

In one of the season’s best running jokes, a fallen superhero joins a religion that warns against “suppressive energy” and wants to help him rebuild his career—for a steep price.

Emails Reveal Messy Reality of Keeping Sick Kids on Campus

By Larrison Campbell

While COVID-racked Alabama showed signs of bending, other hot-zone colleges were stubbornly plowing ahead.

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Indian-American Pride in Kamala? Yes, but It’s Complicated

By Mythili Sampathkumar

The veep choice’s Black heritage is often discussed. Far less interrogated is her Indian half. Maybe the rest of America can learn something about us.

The Big Charlie Hebdo Trial Is a Sham

By Nadette De Visser

A rogue’s gallery of minor players is on show in a glass cage, but where is the prospect of real justice?

Even a Safe Vaccine Could Be a Distribution Nightmare

By David Axe

From refrigeration woes to anti-vaxxer sentiment, rushing vaccine safety trials is far from the only way this could go bad.

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Michel Mulloy was supposed to be installed on Oct. 1. Instead, he offered his resignation to the pope.

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Last week, the Berlin hospital confirmed that the poison that struck him down had been identified as Novichok.

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This Yamazaki Double Decker rack has set the bar for all other drying racks moving forward.

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5. Beauty Influencer Ethan the Supreme Dies at 17

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