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DeAnne Smith, one of those unreasonably talented people who can both play music AND make jokes, stuffed a bunch of…

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The Pixar animation magicians have created a vast and sprawling universe of characters, from humans, to animals, to…

Assuming the Royal Baby breaches the Duchess of Cambridge’s earthly vessel sometime in the next 36 hours, this…

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Less than a week after the Texas House of Representatives passed an unreasonably onerous bill restricting safe and…

According to the starstruck executives at OWN, Oprah has landed the interview of the millennium, or, at the very…

Let's hope you had an easier time staying cool this Fourth of July weekend than this befuddled alpaca, who is…

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