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Can Manchin Find the Middle?

Joe Manchin is leaving the U.S. Senate to go on a journey. The West Virginia Democrat says he’s looking forward to “traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle.” There’s nothing like a good road trip, but fruitful expeditions require a sense of where you’re going. Manchin should think hard about where to find “the middle” in our politics right now. Some hints: It’s not the midpoint between a left-leaning Democratic Party and an increasingly right-wing Republican Party. Nor will he find ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Accused Of Rape, Abuse

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs, was accused in a lawsuit Thursday of subjecting R&B singer Cassie to a yearslong relationship that included beatings and rape. Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, alleged in the suit filed against the producer and music mogul in New York federal court that Combs brought her into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle” not long after she met him and signed to his label when she was 19 and he was 37 in 2005. Attorney Ben Brafman said Combs “vehemently denies” the allegations. Ventura, now 37 herself, said ...

Waters Denied Hotel Stays Over Antisemitism Allegations

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay reportedly rejected reservations for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over accusations of antisemitism leveled at the British singer known for his pro-Palestinian views. Waters was due to stay in Argentina’s capital of Buenos Aires ahead of shows scheduled for Nov. 21-22 as part of his “This is Not a Drill” tour, but the reservations fell through, with hotels citing a lack of availability, the Argentine newspaper Pagina 12 reported. Hotels in Montevideo, in neighboring Uruguay, also refused to host him but did not ...

Music Review: Now On Vinyl, Shania Twain’s ‘Greatest Hits’ Shines Anew

By ELISE RYAN Associated Press Shania Twain is familiar with the concept of a hit. Her second album “The Woman in Me” sold 20 million copies. Her next, “Come On Over,” sold 40 million. Her 2004 “Greatest Hits” album was one of its own, selling more than half a million copies in its first week — enough to become the fastest-selling hits album by a female artist in the United States, per the Guinness World Records. It has since been certified four times platinum. Now, as vinyl records see a resurgence, that album has been remastered for vinyl, available today. The ...

Grace Demands Everything, But Costs Nothing

The great drawing power of the gospel is grace. “For by grace you have been saved through faith (Eph. 2:8)” and “you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1)” along with many similar passages from the Bible have for two thousand years lifted people from despair into hope. There is also the widespread notion that this grace is free. Perhaps this idea springs from such passages as, “Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, ...

Faith Against All Odds

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America — to audiences large and small, from churches and colleges to spiritual centers and soup kitchens — in a demanding schedule of appearances in her second tenacious, against-the-odds run for the presidency. The bestselling spiritual author and one-time advisor to Oprah Winfrey didn’t make it to the 2020 primaries in a wide-open Democratic field. Now she is running against a sitting president from her own party, and the Democratic establishment has closed ranks behind ...