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Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78

11 janvier 2026 à 02:09
His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it emerged to become an American institution.

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Bob Weir performing with the Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island in 1979. Over a career that spanned more than 60 years, Mr. Weir helped shape the sound of American rock and became a cornerstone of the jam-band movement.

At the Rikers Jail, the Women Have No Library. But They Have a Book Club.

10 janvier 2026 à 18:11
Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature.

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Amanda Camia, 35, shares what she wrote in a creative writing exercise inspired by the book “Push” by Sapphire during a book club meeting.

US protests condemn ICE killing of Renee Good and ‘a regime that is willing to kill its own citizens’

11 janvier 2026 à 01:25

In Philadelphia, protesters demanded ICE leave US communities and Trump end warmongering in Venezuela

On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.

“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter.

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