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  • "Top Gun: Maverick" has raked in more than half a billion dollars at box offices worldwide. But behind the scenes, there's some litigation brewing over the movie.
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders is the favorite, but does Elizabeth Warren peel away some progressives after a fiery debate performance? Former Vice President Biden has a lot on the line — and a lot to prove.
  • The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.
  • After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.
  • Tiffany DeBellott, 29 is Executive Director at the Center for Participatory Change. She has two daughters. She has lived in Asheville for 29 years and currently lives in the Burton Street Legacy Neighborhood.
  • Kyle Turner, 62, is a retired federal civil servant and veteran, a nonprofit grant writer, and an advocate for housing and youth in transition. He lives in Lucerne Park in West Asheville. He has two daughters who are twenty years apart in age. He has lived in Asheville just over two years.
  • Nina Ireland is 34. She is an entrepreneur, and mom of four. She has lived in Asheville more than 30 years and calls the River Arts District home.
  • Carla Hall can't stand sardines. In fact, she hasn't eaten them since childhood. But sardines are nutritious, safe and sustainable, so we gave her a challenge: Make them tasty, too.
  • Also: Georgia's lieutenant governor threatens to end Delta's tax break over NRA ties; a new report warns of the dangers of U.S. poverty and racial inequality; and a warm Arctic means a colder Europe.
  • The ABA Journal, the magazine of the American Bar Association, recently ranked the top 25 legal shows in television history. L.A. Law ranked at the top of the list, beating Perry Mason. ABA Journal editor and publisher Edward Adams offers his insight.
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