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Counties and places like northeastern ohio, who were switching their Party Registration from democratic to republican. And one reason they were doing that was they watched the first couple of president ial debates and they realized that trump was speaking about issues that many of these rust belt democratic voters cared about, trade and immigration. Bernie sanders was talking about the issues as well and did so well in the Democratic Party primary, but for many over the voters in the rust belt a...

In 2002, i was an emt on the truro rescue squad. The pager that i had went off and said that we had a rescue call from an unresponsive female at 50 depot road. I thought, gee, i think thats the worthington residence. So i went in and just looked and christa was naked from the waist down, lying on her back, and very dead. She was stabbed through the chest. Her cell phone was left on the kitchen counter with just the digit 9 punched in, as if she might have been trying to dial 911. 46yearold Chris...

In 2002, i was an emt on the truro rescue squad. The pager that i had went off and said that we had a rescue call from an unresponsive female at 50 depot road. I thought, gee, i think thats the worthington residence. So i went in and just looked and christa was naked from the waist down, lying on her back, and very dead. She was stabbed through the chest. Her cell phone was left on the kitchen counter with just the digit 9 punched in, as if she might have been trying to dial 911. 46yearold Chris...

The following is an excerpt from the new book

How the man behind the landmark ‘Asian Saga’ survived the horrors of Changi and a bullet to the face – only to battle historical nitpickers

Ten minutes after downloading Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer, I was wondering what the hell I’d been thinking.

Norman Mailer’s modus operandi was to seek out the most morally troubling corners of human experience—and rush headlong into them for material.

Brando brought his trademark eccentricity to the director's chair. It didn't go well.

Peter Manso, biographer of Mailer and Brando, dies at 80 April 9, 2021 GMT TRURO, Mass. (AP) — Peter Manso, a writer and longtime Cape Cod resident known for his exhaustively researched books and articles, including biographies on the likes of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, has died. He was 80. His wife, Anna Avellar, told the Cape Cod Times that Manso most likely died of a heart attack. He died Wednesday. Manso conducted hundreds of interviews for his hefty biographies of Brando and Mailer...