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☆ 1976 Seneca, Illinois Jane Doe identified as JoAnn ‘Vickie’ Smith
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Veronica Fulton | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

It’s a mystery that took more than 47 years to solve: The true identity of a woman known as Jane Seneca Doe. Jane Seneca Doe artist rendering Courtesy of Carl KoppelmanOn October 2, 1976, the body of a young woman was found murdered and tossed in a ditch along Highway 6 in an unincorporated area of Grundy County, Illinois, near the village of Seneca. After nearly two months of unsuccessful attempts to identify the Jane Doe, she was buried in an unmarked grave at a cemetery in Braceville, Illinois, where she remained until 2018. Margaret Press, who founded the DNA Doe Project in 2017, said Jane Seneca Doe was at the top of her list of cases she wanted to see identified. According to a press release on the Grundy County website, Jane Seneca Doe was identified on June 27, 2024, as a woman named JoAnn 'Vickie' Smith.

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☆ Kursk offensive: Ukraine’s soldiers fight to hold onto Russian region
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Nick Paton Walsh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Sumy, Ukraine CNN —The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight, yet betrayed the intensity of the battle in Kremlin territory. They provide a rare insight into the nearly four-month-long Ukrainian occupation of Kursk. A funeral ceremony in Irpin, Ukraine, is held last month for Serhii Solovyov, a soldier who died during the Kursk offensive. Recent Russian assaults in his area of Kursk have proven as ineffective as costly, he said. His drone commander, callsign “JS” for Java Script, said the unit killed 50 Russians that day.

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☆ How Washington reacted to the Hunter Biden pardon: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

In today's edition, our reporters go through President Joe Biden's pardon of his son — and the part that's particularly rankling fellow Democrats. Some Democrats bristle at Biden's pardon justificationBy Carol E. Lee, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Gary Grumbach and Dareh GregorianIt’s not just that President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter. The pardon comes after Biden repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his son’s sentence. “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? : White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended Biden’s decision to pardon his son, despite telling the press multiple times that the president had no such plans.

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LUANDA, Angola — President Joe Biden will make history Monday as he becomes the first American head of state to visit the West African nation of Angola, where he will showcase U.S.-backed infrastructure projects designed to link three nations. Biden will also announce initiatives related to global health and security cooperation, among other things, a senior administration official said Friday. “We’re preparing the ground for eventually reaching all the way to Tanzania, connecting the Atlantic and Indian oceans,” a second administration official said Friday, of the system which also runs through Zambia and Congo. U.S. investment, the senior administration official said, is spurring economic growth for people in Africa in ways that Chinese spending isn’t. Carlo Angerer reported from Luanda, Angola, and Aaron Gilchrist from Washington, D.C.

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☆ Clashes at Soccer Match Kill Dozens in Guinea
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Alexandra E. Petri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Dozens of people were killed on Sunday in clashes during a soccer match in Guinea, according to media reports. The violence occurred during a game between the Labe and Nzerekore soccer teams in the city of Nzerekore, the second-largest city in the West African nation. Agence France-Presse, citing local hospital sources, said there were “dozens dead,” with one doctor estimating the death toll was closer to “around 100” people. Prime Minister Bah Oury of Guinea condemned the violence in a statement on X on Sunday. “The government deplores the incidents that marred the football match between the Labe and Nzerekore teams this afternoon in Nzerekore,” Mr. Oury said.

Persons: Bah Oury, “, Mr, Oury Organizations: Agence France, Presse Locations: Guinea, Nzerekore, West African

☆ Biden fulfilling promise to visit Africa as US looks to counter China’s deepening influence in region
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Arlette Saenz | Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

It will also be the first time a US president has visited Angola, with which Biden has sought to shore up relations in recent years. As he hosted African leaders in Washington for a 2022 summit, Biden vowed to visit the continent the following year but ultimately missed that deadline. He scheduled a trip to Angola for this October, which was postponed due to a pair of devastating hurricanes hitting the US. The initiative is at the center of the Biden administration’s efforts to boost investment in Africa to blunt China’s growing influence in the region, which has outpaced that of the US. In an interview with The New York Times ahead of Biden’s visit to Angola, Lourenço said he is “ready to work” with Trump in the White House.

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☆ Angola, the U.S. and a Slavery Connection Few Talk About
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( John Eligon | Joao Silva | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

They stood on a concrete platform over a cobblestone plaza as slave traders cast their final judgment, gazing westward at a bend in the mighty Cuanza River, where unknown horrors lay ahead. For the ancestors of millions of African Americans, this slave market in Massangano, a village in Angola, was likely the place where they were sold into bondage. It was a point of no return. Historians believe that people from the southern African nation of Angola accounted for one of the largest numbers of enslaved Africans shipped to the United States, including the first to arrive at Point Comfort, Va., in 1619. That history has largely gone unnoticed in Angola and the United States, where many Black Americans often make pilgrimages to Ghana and Senegal in West Africa to trace their ancestors’ treacherous journeys but not to Angola.

Locations: Massangano, Angola, United States, Comfort, Va, Ghana, Senegal, West Africa

☆ New Orleans art triennial: Artist Amanda Williams revives George Washington Carver’s century-old patent for blue paint — and a powerful history
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-01 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

He had discovered the iron-rich soil could be used in a chemical reaction with a potassium compound and nitric acid to produce a vibrant blue pigment. But over the past three years, the Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams has been reviving Carver’s blue with the help of researchers and scientists. “So there was a practicality to it, but there was also ingenuity in figuring out that things around you can yield unexpected results.”An arts building at Xavier University painted in Carver blue. GBM Historical Images/ShutterstockFor Carver, color was a tool to beautify the homes of the region’s poorest residents that could be achieved through natural resources. Courtesy the artistBut for her commission for Prospect.6, titled “In Her Rich Deposits of (Blue),” Williams chose to focus on “signaling joy, and not inequity or disparity,” she said.

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☆ Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-30 | by ( Kaanita Iyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —President-elect Donald Trump said he would require countries that are part of BRICS — a China- and Russia-backed group of emerging economies — to commit to not creating new currency or face 100% tariffs during his administration. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. BRICS had been made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa since 2011. The leader of one member country, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in 2023 proposed creating a common currency in South America to reduce reliance on the US dollar. Using BRICS currencies and banking networks outside the US dollar-denominated system could allow member countries such as Russia, China and Iran to circumnavigate Western sanctions.

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☆ Pumpkin pie or sweet potato? How two pies divided our Thanksgiving tables
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Leah Asmelash | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But if she had to pick between sweet potato and pumpkin — the two autumnal pies that have come to define the Thanksgiving season — the choice is a simple one: Sweet potato. But in many homes, particularly African American ones, sweet potato pie remains supreme. This abundance of sweet potatoes, both in pastry and other forms, led to sweet potato pie entering the soul food canon. Illustration by Leah Abucayan/CNNThe importance of sweet potato pie to African Americans has continued through generations. A few decades later, Georgia Gilmore sold sweet potato pies, and other food, to help fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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☆ Will Namibia’s Liberation Party Be the Next to Fall in Africa?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( John Eligon | Timo Shihepo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Voters in southern Africa this year have delivered blow after blow to parties that helped free their countries from colonialism. And on Wednesday, one of those parties, the South West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO, in Namibia is expected to face its toughest electoral test ever. In May, the African National Congress, the party that led the defeat of apartheid in South Africa, lost its absolute majority in Parliament for the first time since democracy took hold in that country 30 years ago. The party was forced to form a governing coalition with rivals. In neighboring Botswana, the Botswana Democratic Party, which had governed since the country became independent 58 years ago, suffered a stunning setback in last month’s national election: It lost the presidency, going from being the largest party in Parliament to the smallest.

Organizations: West Africa People’s Organization, SWAPO, African National Congress, Botswana Democratic Party Locations: Africa, West, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana

☆ Robert Dixon, Last Surviving Buffalo Soldier, Dies at 103
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Trip Gabriel | More About Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert W. Dixon Sr., the last known survivor of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments known as Buffalo Soldiers, died on Nov. 15 near Albany, N.Y. His wife, Georgia Dixon, said he died at a rehabilitation center. Created after the Civil War, the Army’s all-Black cavalry and infantry regiments were nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” by Native Americans who encountered them in the nation’s Western expansion. The name may have been a reference to the soldiers’ curly black hair or to the fierceness that buffalo show in fighting. During the Spanish-American War, the experienced horsemen of the 10th Cavalry led the way for Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s novice Roughriders in fighting in Cuba.

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☆ The Miss Universe runner-up made history for Nigeria. After online attacks about her nationality, she felt she had 'a point to prove.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She previously competed at Miss South Africa but withdrew following online attacks on her nationality. Adetshina is now the first-ever Miss Africa and Oceania, a new title awarded by a panel of Miss Universe judges. AdvertisementIt's been a tumultuous journey for the 23-year-old, who almost didn't reach the Miss Universe stage after she withdrew from Miss South Africa following online attacks about her Nigerian name. 'People felt I wasn't South African enough'Chidimma Adetshina at Miss Universe Nigeria boot camp in August. While Adetshina felt like she had a "point to prove" to her online critics, she also realized she had a point to prove to herself.

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☆ The senators who will determine the fate of Trump's Cabinet picks: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

In today’s edition, two of our Capitol Hill experts, Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V, break down the key senators to watch in the confirmation battles over Donald Trump's Cabinet. Plus, national political correspondent Steve Kornacki takes a break from election data to dive into the polling around what Americans plan to serve at Thanksgiving this year. Programming note: From the Politics Desk is taking a holiday break the rest of the week. Trump’s Cabinet picks present an opening for Collins to further demonstrate her independent streak if she chooses to vote against some of Trump’s more controversial picks. The Cabinet nominees could be an opportunity for him to flex his muscle and use his vote to shape Trump’s agenda.

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☆ ‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’: The anti-apartheid photographer who turned his lens on Black America
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“He left South Africa and resettled in the United States in 1966,” it ends, before listing his survivors. The image, taken by South African photographer Ernest Cole, is one of thousands taken during his time in exile in the United States. Not looking for an impression but authenticity, he cast the American actor over a South African. Courtesy Magnolia PicturesIn the film, Cole despairs, “exile is destroying us one by one.”“You leave your country heartbroken,” the director said. Inside were around 60,000 Cole negatives, spanning South Africa and the US, plus his notes and contact sheets.

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☆ Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Joan Cros | Nurphoto via Getty ImagesFrench telecoms giant Orange on Tuesday said it's partnering with Microsoft -backed OpenAI and Facebook-owner Meta to build custom artificial intelligence models designed to better understand regional African languages. Orange said it's working with OpenAI and Meta to develop custom AI models built on their respective Whisper and Llama open-source AI models — openly available systems that can be adapted to meet specific needs — that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems. The open-source AI models will be provided externally by Orange with a free license for non-commercial uses including public health and education, the company said. Orange plans to expand its custom AI model initiative to eventually cover all 18 West African countries. In addition to using AI systems to improve customer service, Orange is also using the tech to improve a core part of its business: mobile networks.

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☆ Breyten Breytenbach, Dissident South African-Born Writer, Dies at 85
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Trip Gabriel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Breyten Breytenbach, a dissident South African-born poet, memoirist and former political prisoner who was jailed on trumped-up charges for anti-apartheid actions in the 1970s, died on Sunday in Paris, his longtime place of residence as an expatriate critic of his homeland. His death was announced by his family, who did not state a cause. “To be an Afrikaner is a political definition,” he wrote in 1985. “It is a blight and a provocation to humanity.”His loathing of apartheid’s institutionalization of white supremacy began in personal experience. In 1962, Mr. Breytenbach married a Vietnamese-born woman, Hoang Lien Ngo, but because of South Africa’s laws forbidding mixed-race marriages, she was refused entry to the country.

Persons: Breyten, memoirist, Breytenbach, Hoang Lien Ngo Locations: Paris, South Africa, Vietnamese

☆ Contentious COP29 deal shows climate cooperation fraying at edges
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

When COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev stepped to the podium at the closing meeting of the Baku climate summit on Sunday morning, hoping to clinch a hard-fought agreement on global climate finance, he carried with him two speeches. Expectations for a deal were depressed by worries of a looming U.S. withdrawal from global climate cooperation, geopolitical turmoil, and a rise of isolationist politics that had shunted climate change off much of the world’s top priorities list. An activist holds a globe balloon during a protest at the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 21. That made getting a bigger climate finance number hard, observers to the talks said. “Even maintaining climate finance at current levels in the current political environment is a huge fight,” said Joe Thwaites, senior advocate on international climate finance at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

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☆ Walmart rolls back DEI programs after right-wing backlash
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, will curb some diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. It’s the latest company to backtrack on diversity initiatives in the face of right-wing pressure. The company said Monday it is ending racial equity training programs for staff and evaluating programs designed to increase supplier diversity. “We are willing to change alongside our associates and customers who represent all of America,” Walmart said in a statement. Walmart joins Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply Co., John Deere and other companies in revising or pulling back on their DEI programs, support for Pride marches and LGBTQ events, strategies to slow climate change and other social policies.

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☆ How the Trump administration and congressional Republicans may crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Simone-Weichselbaum.Jpg | Simone Weichselbaum | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

Some of the nation’s leading civil rights groups told NBC News that they are gearing up for a flood of legal battles to protect the protesters. Under Rubinstein, America First Legal has in the past year filed four lawsuits that provide a glimpse into how the Trump administration could differ from its predecessor. America First Legal alleges in the suits that the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education have protected pro-Hamas extremists. Rubinstein in an interview brought up an additional law he expects a second Trump administration could enforce. The Knight Institute said although it expects the new Trump administration to aggressively police speech, it is prepared to fight back.

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☆ Fred Harris, former U.S. senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. “Fred Harris passed peacefully early this morning of natural causes. “I think it’s worked wonderfully,” Harris recalled in 2004, when he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma at a Democratic party commission meeting in 1969, in Washington. “Fred Harris had a real ability to articulate those concerns, particularly of the downtrodden.”In 1968, Harris served as co-chairman of the presidential campaign of then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

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☆ Are seed oils toxic? It's complicated — here's what you need to know about the war over dietary fats
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

AdvertisementOver the past few years, fears about toxic and inflammatory "seed oil" have taken over the internet. What seed oil is actually doing in our diet is more complicated than either side lets on. The seed oils under fire, aka 'the hateful 8'lacaosa/Getty ImagesFor centuries, people around the world have used local oils, some of which could be classified as "seed oils," derived from mustard seeds and flaxseeds. Advertisement"There are things that are way more important for you than to even think about seed oils," Mozaffarian said. AdvertisementBazinet said, while the jury is still out on seed oils, some people may want to take extra precautions.

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☆ Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-24 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

(AP) – Fred Harris, a former US senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. “I think it’s worked wonderfully,” Harris recalled in 2004, when he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. “It’s made the selection much more legitimate and democratic.”“The Democratic Party was not democratic, and many of the delegations were pretty much boss-controlled or -dominated. Harris ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, quitting after poor showings in early contests, including a fourth-place win in New Hampshire. We had my Senate seatmate Robert Kennedy killed and then we had this terrible convention,” Harris said in 1996.

Persons: – Fred Harris, Harris ’, Margaret Elliston, “ Fred Harris, ” Elliston, Harris, it’s, ” Harris, “ It’s, “, ”, Jimmy Carter, Fred, “ I’ve, Michelle Lujan Grisham, “ Sen, Lyndon Johnson, Lynn A, Curtis, Milton S, Norman Ornstein, ” Ornstein, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, Johnson, Republican Richard Nixon, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Oklahoma Sen, Fred R, Bob Daugherty, Sen, Robert S, Kerr, Howard Edmondson, — Charles “ Bud ” Wilkinson, LaDonna Vita Crawford, Byron, Laura Organizations: Democratic Party, Associated Press, Senate, Democratic National Committee, Democratic National Convention, African, Democratic, University of New, Democratic Party of New, Comanche, ” New, ” New Mexico Gov, National Advisory Commission, Civil Disorders, Kerner Commission, Eisenhower Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, Republican, Disorders, University of Oklahoma, J, OU Locations: Oklahoma, New Mexico, Corrales, Chicago, Boston, New Hampshire, University of New Mexico, Democratic Party of New Mexico, ”, ” New Mexico, Vietnam, Walters, Texas, Lawton

☆ UN talks in disarray as a draft deal for climate cash is rejected by developing nations
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Baku, Azerbaijan AP —As nerves frayed and the clock ticked, negotiators from rich and poor nations were huddled in one room Saturday during overtime United Nations climate talks to try to hash out an elusive deal on money for developing countries to curb and adapt to climate change. We need to speak to other developing countries and decide what to do,” Evans Njewa, the chair of the LDC group, said. The rough draft discussed on Saturday was for $300 billion in climate finance, sources told AP. Until we’re tired, until we’re delusional from not eating, from not sleeping.”Activists protested for climate finance grants for poor countries at the United Nations talks. Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesWith developing nations’ ministers and delegation chiefs having to catch flights home, desperation sets in, said Power Shift Africa’s Mohamed Adow.

Persons: ” Evans Njewa, Susana Mohamed, John Podesta, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez, ” Gomez, Sean Gallup, Mohamed Adow, ”, Teresa Anderson, Luis Acosta, “ We’re, Eamon Ryan, it’s, ” Ryan, Alden Meyer, ” Jiwoh Emmanuel Abdulai, “, Nabeel Munir, Monterrey Gomez Organizations: Azerbaijan AP, Nations, Alliance of Small, Associated Press, European Union, ”, United Nations, Action, Colombia's, Unit for, Risk Management, Getty Locations: Baku, Azerbaijan, Colombia, United States, Panama, Paris, AFP, Sierra Leone, Pakistan

☆ Paul Mescal's 'Gladiator II' character appears in the first movie — here's a refresher on who Lucius is
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In "Gladiator," Lucius is just a child — here's what you need to know about him. In "Gladiator II," Paul Mescal's Lucius is a vengeful heir to the throne who's out for blood — but in the first "Gladiator" film, his character is just an innocent child who mucks up his parents' coup d'état. Compared to his appearance in the first film, Lucius is a bit difficult to recognize. Here's what you need to know about Lucius, and how Mescal's storyline in "Gladiator II" connects to the first film. "Gladiator II" reveals that Maximus was really Lucius' father.

Persons: Paul Mescal, Lucius Verus, Lucius, Maximus, Paul Mescal's Lucius, mucks, Ridley Scott's, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix . Long, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Crowe, Emperor Commodus, Phoenix, Empress Lucilla, Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington, Macrinus, Aidan Monaghan, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Lucilla, Spencer Treat Clark, Rome, haggard, Marcus Acacius, Pedro Pascal, Denzel, Rome —, Lucilla — Lucius Organizations: Paramount, DreamWorks, Denzel Washington, Universal Locations: Rome, Numidia, North

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