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French polemic over fake game show electrocutions

1 hour 40 mins ago

A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die. Full Story

3 histories receive Bancroft Prize

51 mins ago

Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history. Full Story

Melancholy Hamlet returns to Met after 113 years

2 hours 2 mins ago

Ambroise Thomas' "Hamlet" was last performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1897, and it's easy to see why more than a century passed before its revival. Full Story

Posner says he failed to source material for book

2 hours 19 mins ago

An author and journalist who resigned last month from the Internet news site The Daily Beast over allegations of lifting material acknowledged that passages in his latest book are similar to those of another writer. Full Story

Reagan 'GE Theater' tapes restored, go to library

2 hours 33 mins ago

All 208 episodes of television's "General Electric Theater," hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, are being delivered to former first lady Nancy Reagan on Wednesday as part of the two-year celebration of the late president's 100th birthday. Full Story

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