
Taylor Swift's melancholy and romantic 'Folklore' wins album of the year
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Taylor Swift's "Folklore" captured the mood of many in 2020, and on Sunday the collection of melancholy and romantic songs won the Grammy for album of the year.
"It's an album that allows you to feel your feelings and it's a product of isolation," Swift said in a recent Disney+ documentary about the making of the album. "This could have been a time when I absolutely lost my mind, but instead, this album was like a real flotation device." In the film, Swift said to her co-collaborators on the album, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, "it turned out everyone needed a good cry as well as us."
As President Donald Trump hardens his position toward Moscow and seeks new ways to bring the conflict to an end, he is leaving open the prospect of allowing shipments of longer-range missiles to the country that would allow it to strike deeper into Russia, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Los Angeles man dies in jail while awaiting trial for killing and dismemberment of wife, her parents
A Los Angeles man accused of killing and dismembering his wife, her mother and her stepfather has died in jail while awaiting trial, authorities said Monday.

A slew of Democratic-led states asked a federal court on Monday to lift the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $7 billion in public education money, accusing the Department of Education of unlawfully locking up critical funds Congress set aside to help low-income and immigrant students, among others.