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In this web exclusive, Roger Ebert Fellows Hal Burgan, Coltrane Zerai-Che, and Xinyi Li preview some of the films nominated for Best Picture in the 2020 Oscars and pick out some of the biggest snubs from this year's awards.
New law allows HS school students to leave class to vote; Professor heads to Finland to study mental health; Danville man shoots two alleged home intruders.
Earlier this month, astronomers announced that they had detected a repeating fast radio burst, or FRB, from a galaxy only half-a-billion light-years away. That may sound far, but in space terms, that’s closer than any of the previous bursts that have been observed.
Pat Benatar’s 1979 anthem “Hit Me with Your Best Shot" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold well over a million copies in the U.S., but she is one of several female rockers who have been left out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which announced its latest inductees earlier this month.
A deadly strain of coronavirus is spreading in China. Officials there have reported 17 deaths and more than 400 infected.
