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In an Oval Office event on Oct. 16, meant to showcase the Trump administration’s new push to “make IVF affordable for all,” Dr. Mehmet Oz managed to prove that arithmetic is apparently the real ...

This week, the sales for Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl finally hit the Billboard charts, and the album is — would you just believe it? — a huge success. Released Oct. 3, Swift's 12th studio LP ...

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