2018 midterms explained articles
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Cher Explains Why She Once Turned Down Elvis Presley
[caption id="attachment_3595014" align="alignnone" width="900"] Cher, Elvis Presley.[/caption] A younger Cher once turned down none other than Elvis Presley. “It was because I was nervous and I knew of the people around him and it wasn’t that they were bad people, it's just that I was kind of nervous of his reputation,” Cher, 77, said on Wednesday, May 1, episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. “I’m really shy when I’m not working and kind of shy around men.” Cher, whose exes include Sonny...
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Explainer: Why Are Mass Protests Shaking Tbilisi?
Georgians have been demonstrating in huge numbers since April 9 over legislation known as the "foreign agents" bill. As Sophie Datishvili of RFE/RL's Georgian Service explains, many Georgians see the bill as a threat not just to civil society but also the country's European aspirations.
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The Everton crisis explained: how did it get to this point?
Owner Farhad Moshiri once said the club were ‘robust’ enough to fund stadium but now they need working capital injectionsAt Everton’s annual general meeting in January 2019, the owner, Farhad Moshiri, made a dramatic promise.Speaking about the club’s ambition to build a 52,888-seat stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, the club’s majority shareholder pledged: “I’ll throw as much money as needed. Private markets will provide £350m, naming rights will give us some more and we will maybe have an equity...