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New election ordered in Louisiana sheriffs race won by one vote | US news

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US news This article is more than 1 month oldNew election ordered in Louisiana sheriffs race won by one voteThis article is more than 1 month oldDemocrat Henry Whitehorn’s win over Republican John Nickelson in the Caddo parish invalid due to illicitly cast ballots, says judge A Democratic politician who recently won a Louisiana sheriff’s election over a Republican candidate by a single vote has been ordered to run the race again after a judge determined that a handful of illicitly cast ballots muddied up the results. Read More...

Origin by Dan Brown review fun in its own galumphing way

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Dan BrownReviewIn his fifth blockbuster outing, professor of symbology Robert Langdon takes on the battle between science and religion Origin is the fifth of Dan Brown’s gazillion-selling books starring Robert Langdon. As fans of 2003’s The Da Vinci Code will remember, Langdon is professor of religious symbology at Harvard. But, like renowned academic archaeologist Indiana Jones, you seldom see him marking term papers or preparing lectures. Instead – in this case dressed in a tailcoat throughout – he spends his time careering between renowned buildings (theBilbao Guggenheim, Barcelona’s Sagrada Família and so on) solving Crystal Maze-style puzzles, being chased by baddies and uncovering world-changing secrets. Read More...

Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America

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FilmJim Caviezel stars as a hero trying to stop child traffickers in a paranoid new movie turning into a surprise box-office hit Type the words “sound of freedom” into Twitter (decent people who wish to live good, happy lives should under no circumstances actually do this) and the search will yield dozens of triumphant reports crowing about the improbable victory of a film by that title over the likes of Indiana Jones at the box office this week. Read More...