NASA beams Missy Elliott song to Venus

Missy Elliott lyrics blasted off into space as NASA transmitted her song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” 158 million miles from Earth to Venus, the space agency said Monday.  It took nearly 14 minutes for the hip-hop track to reach its destination. The Missy Elliott song is the second song ever transmitted into deep space, following

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New “Big Brother” season to premiere

New “Big Brother” season to premiere – CBS News Watch CBS News Season 26 of the CBS reality TV show “Big Brother” premieres on Wednesday. Sixteen new house guests will compete and strategize to evict one of their own each week to try and be the last person standing. The prize is $750,000. “Entertainment Tonight”

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Book excerpt: “Godwin” by Joseph O’Neill

Pantheon We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Joseph O’Neill, author of “Netherland” (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) and “The Dog,” returns with “Godwin” (Pantheon), a novel about a bizarre scheme to find the next international soccer star. Read an excerpt below.  “Godwin” by Joseph O’Neill Prefer

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Book excerpt: “Bear” by Julia Phillips

Hogarth We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Julia Phillips, whose bestselling debut novel, “Disappearing Earth,” was a National Book Award finalist, returns with “Bear” (Hogarth), a hypnotic, tense story about sisters on an island off the coast of Washington whose lives are upended by the presence of a

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