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On the last day of competition for the Paris Olympics, the surest American bet again came through. But this time, barely.  The United States women’s national basketball team won its eighth straight Olympic gold medal on Sunday, via a startlingly close 67-66 victory over host country France at Bercy Arena. The win did more than just confirm the U.S.’ long-held supremacy in hoops. It gave the U.S. its 40th gold medal of the Paris Games, tying it with China for most golds at these Olympics.

The ruling of the Supreme Court of America to legalize homosexual marriage was criticized by many Nigerians. Kiss Daniel however supported the ruling. "Ok, so, g@y marriage is legalized in the U.S? Some are mad, some are indifferent, some are glad. Straight or G@y, what matter is we’ve got a heart that can love. Love is love and love always wins. Barrack Obama, peace" he wrote on Instagram. Most of his fans disagreed with his stance on the same sex marriage ruling.

Nine months after the release of her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Chappell Roan is seeing the kind of success new artists dream about. On Thursday, her album hit No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart—beating out Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. In the last few months, her monthly listeners have grown to more than 20 million on Spotify, and she's drawn crowds of thousands at festivals like Boston Calling and Gov Ball in New York City (where she arrived dressed as the Statue of Liberty).

The count will vary depending on which expert you ask, but for our purposes, let’s say there are seven basic emotions: joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt and disgust. All these emotions are still with us because they’ve helped us survive through several million years of evolution. And yet five of them—anger, sadness, fear, contempt and disgust—are clearly on the not-so-comfortable end of the affective spectrum. (“Surprise” can go either way.

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It increases knowledge and cultural understanding. It also inspires and challenges a person’s imagination. And, because Nigeria is rich in culture and blessed with writers who can put it into words, it is only natural to invest in reading books written by Nigerians. Nigerian literature has expanded dramatically in the last 50 years. From early writers like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka to more contemporary writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the number of stories depicting the Nigerian experience has increased.

On February 5, 2024, the 66th Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles with several music stars including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, SZA, Kacey Musgraves, and others breaking different records. Swift became the first artist to win Album of the Year for a fourth time, winning for “Midnights”. Eilish became only the second woman to ever win two Song of the Year trophies, winning for 'What Was I Made For', while Victoria Monét broke Sheryl Crow’s record for the oldest solo artist to win Best New Artist.

Skiers at Innsbruck and St. Anton tied their skis together with rubber binders that boosted Dr. Josef Klaus for Chancellor. In Vienna, shoppers were assaulted by Technicolored posters plumping for “Pittermann, Always a Democrat, Always for Austria!”, and others found their mailboxes stuffed with pamphlets showing Dr. Bruno Pittermann fondling his black cat Petzi. Even the revelers at the huge Vienna Staatsoper Fasching ball could not escape a host of beaming candidates.

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