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Clockwise from left: How to Die Alone, Matlock, Leonardo da Vinci, Grotesquerie, Interior Chinatown, Somebody Somewhere Ian Watson/Hulu, Brooke Palmer/CBS, PBS, Prashant Gupta/FX, Sandy Morris/HBO hide caption
Clockwise from left: Wicked, Here, Emilia Pérez, A Real Pain, Piece by Piece and Blitz. Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Shanna Besson/Pathé, Searchlight Pictures and Apple TV+ hide caption
Colman Domingo as Muncie Daniels in The Madness. Amanda Matlovich/Netflix hide caption
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In 'The Madness,' Colman Domingo gets caught up in a convoluted conspiracy
In 'The Madness,' Colman Domingo gets caught up in a convoluted conspiracy
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Ira Glass at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images hide caption
The town of Gegenbach, Germany, turns its town hall into a giant Advent calendar each December. Hubert Grimmig/Kultur- und Tourismus GmbH Gengenbach hide caption
Mary Theisen Lappen of Team United States competes during the Women's +81kg, Gold Medal Event on day sixteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at South Paris Arena on August 11, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lars Baron/Getty Images) Lars Baron/Getty Images hide caption
The attraction between superfan Alana (Hunter King) and Chiefs Director of Fan Engagement (Tyler Hynes) is just one of the love stories in Holiday Touchdown. Joshua Haines/Hallmark Media hide caption
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration building is seen behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md., in 2018. Cucumbers shipped to the U.S. and Canada, and organic eggs sold in 25 Costco stores in five southern U.S. states, were recalled this week for potential salmonella contamination. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Turkey bone gumbo brings a Cajun flair to Thanksgiving leftovers. Chris Granger hide caption
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a holiday staple and also an earworm for many. Here, she sings at a 2014 holiday concert in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Maroon Ent hide caption
Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu in Interior Chinatown. Mike Taing/Hulu/Disney hide caption
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'Interior Chinatown' is a genre-bending exploration of Asian-American identity
'Interior Chinatown' is a genre-bending exploration of Asian-American identity
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"Is it OK to ask about salary on the first date?" How to marry romance and finance
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 13: Ina Garten signs cookbooks during Food Network's 25th Birthday Party Celebration at the 11th annual New York City Wine & Food Festival in 2018 in New York City. Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Food Network hide caption
Mall of America's amusement park is one of the ways the shopping center lures tourists and locals to make a day of their visit. Jenn Ackerman for NPR hide caption
The Dora the Explorer balloon gets pumped up for a flight over the streets of New York City in the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Barry Gordemer/NPR hide caption
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, pictured in November 2023, has been a fixture of the holiday since 1924, minus a few years during World War II. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images hide caption
Handlers show their hounds during the National Dog Show in 2022 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela/Getty Images hide caption
The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, but it has since become a nation of fishermen as well, with hundreds of pirogues lining the beach of the capital of Nouakchott. George Steinmetz hide caption
In Netflix's Our Little Secret, Lindsay Lohan plays Avery, a woman spending Christmas with her boyfriend's family — including her ex, who happens to be dating her boyfriend's sister. Chuck Zlotnick/Netflix hide caption