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We leave behind our fears of monsters under the bed as we say goodbye to our childhoods, but one can follow us into adulthood and loom over our heads.

The strength of the US economy rests on the shoulders of consumers. If people are spending money, companies keep employees in their jobs ... and those workers keep spending. In theory, anyway. 

Add "The Last Thing He Told Me" to the list of what once would have been Lifetime movies expanded (or simply stretched) to become limited series. The main selling point here is Jennifer Garner as the wife who, "Dateline"-like, discovers her husband is not what he seems, in an efficient adaptation of Laura Dave's novel that doesn't rise much above that description.

"Barry" has taken chances from the very beginning, which is certainly true of a fourth and final season that picks up where the third left off, with its hitman-turned-wannabe actor getting arrested. That paves the way for an even darker season that accentuates the show's ensemble aspect while leaning a little too heavily on blurring lines with flights of fancy.

Bo Knapp never forgot the first moment he first saw Beverly Scott. It was August 1968, day one of eighth grade and Beverly was a transfer student at Henderson Junior High in Little Rock, Arkansas. Bo and his best friend were standing in the school hallway when they met Beverly.

While on the ground in Paris, CNN's Frederik Pleitgen gets hit with tear gas during a fresh round of demonstrations over government plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, a day before a crucial court ruling on the constitutionality of the divisive law.

For the second time in as many weeks, an American community is grieving after a mass shooting. Five shattered families in Louisville now join the six still mourning their loved ones in Nashville. As gun violence proliferates to the point that most American families have been affected by a gun-related incident, the political armor that once protected firearms might finally be cracking.

Dr. Kwane Stewart's outreach on the streets started more than a decade ago as a personal mission that he kept to himself.

A statue more than 200 years old of the water nymph Sabrina has been vandalized with blue crayon, British conservation charity the National Trust said in a statement.

President Joe Biden appeared to suggest Thursday that the US government is close to identifying the leaker responsible for the disclosure of sensitive government secrets posted to social media.

Sloppy presidents saving things for posterity. A secretary of state getting government data forwarded to her private email server. Ideologically motivated leakers Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner.

Tens of thousands of England's trainee doctors have gone on strike this week over pay. For many, hourly pay falls below that of some baristas and fast-food workers.

A former auctioneer has admitted he helped create and verify 25 fake Basquiat paintings that were seized from the Orlando Museum of Art last year, according to authorities.

Xi Jinping has had a busy couple of weeks.

Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to "re-enter society."

A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan's three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15.