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February 8, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 8, 2022The Razzies are the answer to the Oscars, with the organization picking out the worst movies and worst performances of the year. And their nominations were released yesterday with Netflix's filmed version of "Diana the Musical" --based on Princess Diana's life story -- ...
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February 4, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 4, 2022Collectible dep't: Almost 11-thousand British plates, mugs and tea sets were accidentally marked with the wrong word when they were printed to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. Instead of the word "Jubilee," the word read "Jubbly" on the various items. ...
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February 3, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 3, 2022See ya: As you've probably heard, CNN president Jeff Zucker has resigned from the network after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, the network's executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Of course, staff romances can happen ...
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February 2, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 2, 2022Look for Grammy-nominated singer and country star Mickey Guyton to do the national anthem at the upcoming Super Bowl before the LA Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals. She will be joined by R&B singer Jhené Aiko who'll do "America the Beautiful" as well as Mary ...
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January 27, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 27, 2022Over in China, the Winter Olympics are two weeks away, but organisers have imposed restrictions on athletes and in Beijing, where the city's where city's first Omicron case has been detected, the Chinese have brought back anal swab testing for people suspected of coming ...
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January 25, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 25, 2022Yet still another artist has sold their catalog to a record company. This time it was BOB DYLAN who sold his music to Sony Music about seven months after he made another deal --with Sony’s rival, Universal Music-- for his songwriting copyrights. According to ...
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January 24, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 24, 2022Income tax filing season opens on Monday. But IRS officials are already warning filers that “in many areas, we are unable to deliver the amount of service and enforcement that our taxpayers and tax system deserves and needs.” Delays in processing are to be ...
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January 21, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 21, 2022ELTON JOHN is back! The Rocket Man began his latest concert tour Wednesday night in New Orleans two years after his hip surgery. He'd postponed the “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour back in March of 2020 thanks to COVID and other things as well. Members of the ...
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January 20, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 20, 2022It's ba-a-aa-ack: The classic children's show, "Fraggle Rock," will be coming to Apple TV+, 33 years after the last series was made. LISA HENSON, the CEO of the Jim Henson Company, says "It's all refreshed, it's all taken up to a slightly newer, modern level, and few ...
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January 19, 2022
Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 19, 2022The big business story yesterday was that the bigwigs at Microsoft plan to buy the Activision Blizzard company for nearly $70 billion dollars. Activision does games including Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Warcraft and Overwatch, and Microsoft says it'll help them grow their ...

