In the wake of the backlash, Bernstein's children came to Cooper's defense

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Robert Downey Jr.'s outrageous performance keeps it in the discourse, and asks us to think about why we're laughing

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The main character of "Moana" is a Disney princess who doesn't have a man and isn't looking for one

Either Obama is dooming the economy to placate deficit hawks, or he's pretending to freeze non-defense spending

Wait, that's their real accent?!

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If W. Mark Felt is the man, a few journalists get credit for having been right for a long time now.