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As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories. A respected leader in media and a beloved figure to listeners who have followed her three-decade-long NPR career, Wertheimer provides clear-eyed analysis and thoughtful reporting on all NPR News programs. Before taking the senior national correspondent post in 2002, Wertheimer spent 13 years hosting of NPR's news magazine All Things Considered.

Mara Wilson is urging everyone to take a closer look at how they talk about child stars.  In a powerful essay penned for Elle.com, the actress who rose to fame with early roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, knows all to well how quickly young actors and actresses can be sexualized once they're thrust into the public spotlight. After all, she experienced it firsthand.  "Even before I was out of middle school, I had been featured on foot fetish websites, photoshopped into child porn, and received all kinds of letters and messages online from grown men,"

Sergio Aguero scored for Manchester City while Emi Buendia had two assists as Norwich won 3-2 against the league champions. Norwich City were awarded a corner kick which was taken by Emi Buendia. The 22 year old Argentine’s cross found the head of McLean who scored the first of the game. They would go on to double their lead and just as it looked like they would go into half time with a two goal advantage, Sergio Aguero pulls one back for City.

We asked critics and Hollywood creators: Which supporting players make everything better? Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Shutterstock, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Newmarket Films, A24, New Line Cinema, FX, Sony Pictures Releasing, Paramount Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, Sony Pictures Television and Focus Features Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; Photos by Shutterstock, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Netflix, Newmarket Films, A24, New Line Cinema, FX, Sony Pictures Releasing, Paramount Pictures, Gramercy Pictures, Sony Pictures Television and Focus Features As many have noted, a small but significant loss we’ve all faced during quarantine has been the disappearance of the casual acquaintance.

Michael Dodge/Stringer/Getty Images Despite the constant hand-wringing that smartphones will lead to the downfall of society, there's mounting evidence that your phone habit may not be so bad after all. In fact, there are ways your phone might actually be good for you. We've compiled a list of apps to boost your brainpower, hone your memory, and even improve your emotional intelligence. The science of how exactly our brains work — and how much we can train them — is constantly evolving, but one thing's for sure: there's no better way to get smarter while waiting in line at the grocery store.

Ed Sheeran is opening up about losing his virginity. In a new interview with Elle, the 23-year-old "Sing" singer reveals that the first time he had sex wasn't his proudest moment. When asked what felt better, selling out Madison Square Garden three times or losing his virginity, Sheeran answered, "Probably selling out Madison Square Garden three times." When asked a follow-up question about losing his virginity, he added, "It's a benchmark in my life, but it wasn't the best thing I've ever done.

RussiaObituaryJanet ChisholmFighting the cold war in MoscowJanet Chisholm, one of the most unlikely spies in the history of espionage, has died aged 75, without ever talking about her role in a major British cold war coup. In Moscow, as an officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), she ran Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in Soviet military intelligence (GRU), who passed Soviet secrets to the west at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crises.

But through it all, Ashley stuck by Michael's side. Just this past February, she told E! News, "We definitely have had our share of issues [and] some of them have been very public. Ultimately, I think that it's reminding myself that Michael is the person I chose to spend my life with." "So, if I can look at him and still love him, still care about him, forgive him and want to keep going with him,"

Affleck in his element. Super Bowl LVII has come and gone, and while the epic highs and lows of professional football may be over for the season, we’ll always treasure the memories of the game we had. Incredible touchdowns, massive runs, Patrick Mahomes — wait, sorry. We’re getting word that the Super Bowl is about eating seven-layer dip, stanning Rihanna, and getting our brains flooded with dopamine from the novelty of the commercials.