South Korea’s Youn wins best supporting actress Oscar for ‘Minari’
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -South Korean film icon Youn Yuh-jung won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her role as a spirited and unconventional grandmother in “Minari.”

Youn, 73, is the first South Korean actor to win an Oscar and the first actor from that country ever to clinch an Academy Award nomination.

Youn’s win was announced onstage by Brad Pitt, last year’s supporting actor winner.

“Mr. Brad Pitt,” Youn said to Pitt as she stepped up to the microphone.

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Daniel Kaluuya wins Oscar for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -British actor Daniel Kaluuya on Sunday won his first Oscar for his supporting role as the late Black Panther activist Fred Hampton in the drama, “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

Kaluuya, 32, emerged as front-runner for the Academy Award after also winning at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild and British BAFTA ceremonies.

Born in London to Ugandan parents, Kaluuya describes himself as a working-class kid who got his first big break in the entertainment industry as a teen actor and writer on the young adult British TV series,

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Democrats Block McCarthy Resolution To Censure Maxine Waters Over Protest Comments
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Updated April 20, 2021 at 5:26 PM ET
By a vote of 216-210, House Democrats defeated a resolution Tuesday brought by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to censure Rep. Maxine Waters over comments that protesters should “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were to be acquitted in his trial over the killing of George Floyd.

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Homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $46,000 on average
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New York (CNN)A pair of recent real estate studies are shedding light on how people of color have been consistently disadvantaged in the US housing market for years and are largely missing out on the country’s ongoing home-buying frenzy.

For nearly a decade, homes sold in mostly Black neighborhoods have been undervalued by an average of $46,000, according to a Redfin analysis released Wednesday. Redfin, a national discount real estate brokerage, examined the valuations of more than 73 million single-family homes listed and sold between January 2013 and February 2021,

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Real Madrid eliminate Liverpool to reach Champions League semifinals with draw at Anfield
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Real Madrid knocked out Liverpool to reach the Champions League semifinals following a 0-0 draw at Anfield on Wednesday which gave them a 3-1 aggregate victory.

Before match, Liverpool issued an apology after Madrid’s bus suffered a broken window when an object was thrown at it en route to Anfield.

Liverpool were hoping to replicate their comeback from two seasons ago when overturned a 3-0 first-leg defeat against Barcelona to reach the Champions League final,

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Bernie Madoff, who ran the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, is dead
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The once-celebrated figure on Wall Street was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

Bernie Madoff, the disgraced former financier who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has died, sources confirmed to ABC News.

The 82-year-old died of natural causes while being housed at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, sources said.

Madoff, who had been on dialysis and in a wheel chair, died a “broken man,”

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Soccer-Chelsea see off Porto to reach semis despite Taremi stunner
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SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) -Chelsea hung on to reach the Champions League semi-finals with a 2-1 aggregate win despite Mehdi Taremi’s stunning overhead kick in added time handing Porto a 1-0 victory in the quarter-final second leg on Tuesday.

The substitute had been responsible for his side’s only attempt on target as they chased a 2-0 deficit from last week’s first leg but he provided an emphatic response in a cagey game with his acrobatic strike deep into added time.

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Kristin Smart investigation: A timeline of the Cal Poly student’s disappearance
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Cal Poly student Kristin Smart was last seen on May 25, 1996.

That’s when Smart left an off-campus fraternity party at around 2 a.m. and was walked back to her Muir Hall dorm by several people. Paul Flores was one of them and the last person to be seen with her, according to witnesses.

Two days later, May 27, Kristin’s roommate reported her missing.

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Smart family

Nearly a month after her disappearance,

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Nick Cannon expecting twin boys with Abby De La Rosa
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(CNN)Actor and TV presenter Nick Cannon is preparing to welcome his second set of twins into the world.

DJ Abby De La Rosa announced on Sunday that she and “The Masked Singer” host — who already shares 9-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey — are expecting twin boys, calling the expected arrivals “my miracle babies.”
De la Rosa posted images on Instagram from the couple’s maternity shoot, in which she posed with her bump on show,

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Report: Eddie George taking over at Tennessee State
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The rumors swirled fast, and it’s now confirmed, Eddie George will be taking over the football program at Tennessee State University. The news was first reported by Brett McMurphy of Stadium and later confirmed by the Tennessean.

According to the report, outgoing coach Rod Reed told his team on Saturday night that today’s game against Southeast Missouri would be his final game. Reed is wrapping up his eleventh season at TSU. Eddie George is no stranger to Nashville,

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