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In 2017, Albuquerque Police Officer Ryan Holets made national headlines after encountering a pregnant homeless woman on his shift who was about to shoot up heroin. Holets offered to adopt the woman’s unborn child, who he later named Hope, and helped her into recovery.

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Before taking office, President Joe Biden said he would not support vaccine mandates to combat the coronavirus pandemic, and would instead use the power of his office to “encourage people to do the right thing.”

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The Biden Justice Department sued Texas on Thursday over its crushingly restrictive abortion law after the Supreme Court refused to rule on its constitutionality.

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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was natty in a light gray suit, smiling broadly as he greeted red-scarfed Young Pioneers high on the reviewing stand before thousands of his subjects summoned at midnight for a parade marking the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Thursday.

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Michael Constantine had already won an Emmy more than three decades before he played Kostas “Gus” Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. From the moment the precedent-smashing blockbuster debuted, however, the veteran actor would find himself autographing one item over and over again.

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Deputies from the Hampton County Sheriff’s Office who responded to the shooting of a renowned South Carolina lawyer over the weekend—months after his son and wife were murdered at their family estate—wrote in their incident report that he had suffered no “visible injury,” a claim that was almost immediately walked back by authorities on Thursday.

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A Swiss bodybuilder living in Southern California told late NBA superstar Kobe Bryant that for $3 million, he’d get rid of the young Colorado woman who accused him of raping her in July 2003, recently unsealed FBI documents detail.

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One of R. Kelly’s accusers described Thursday how she was sexually assaulted by the singer after being locked in his studio for days—and then threatened by his associates who warned her not to “fuck with Mr. Kelly.”

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Despite hours of public comment against the plan and two delayed votes because of community pushback, Atlanta’s City Council voted on Wednesday night to approve the construction of a massive new police training center on city land that has been dubbed “Cop City” by those against it.

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A Black woman says she felt targeted because of her race by a police officer who attempted to tackle her as she was walking her dog in a Chicago park.

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A former Kansas elementary-school teacher who took hundreds of “sexually motivated” cellphone pictures of one of his fourth-grade students has been found guilty of reckless stalking.

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In an act of pure thoughtfulness, or thoughtful public relations, the billionaire T. Denny Sanford pledged an additional $350 million to a South Dakota health system that already bears his name. The gift will be used to establish “virtual care centers” for patients in rural and underserved areas across the region.

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The Washington Post’s Tokyo bureau chief is leaving the paper just one month after it was revealed that he continued to cover stories about sexual harassment despite being accused of misconduct several years ago—an ordeal that raised newsroom concerns about managerial hypocrisy.

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The harrowing reality of Mississippi’s COVID-19 crisis was on full display this week as health officials announced the deaths of eight pregnant women, a surge in pediatric deaths, and the first death of an infant since the pandemic began.

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The Taliban interim government has given approval for around 200 people—of whom as many as 150 are American citizens—along with other foreign nationals to finally depart on a commercial Qatari flight to Doha on Thursday, according to the Associated Press. The surprise clearance comes just two days after the ruling militant group named its interim government, made up of old-guard ethnic Pashtun men who have a proven history of violence and misogyny.

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During the coronavirus pandemic, Scottish comedian Janey Godley was lauded in several glowing profiles for keeping the country laughing through tough times. So much so, in fact, that the Scottish government recently paid her a reported £12,000 ($16,500) to become the star of its new public health campaign to “stop the spike” as case numbers rose again.

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A volunteer crossing guard for a California middle school has been killed—a split-second after he managed to push a group of kids out of the path of an oncoming SUV, according to local reports.

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Corporate backlash to the Texas abortion ban has so far been narrow and targeted, but one notably quiet sector has plenty of room—and money—to work with: Big Tech.

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It’s funny that people were worried about John Mulaney’s sobriety after he appeared on Late Night last year, the comedian said upon his return to the NBC show Tuesday night. “I had been under the influence the day before—and the day after, I was probably under the influence,” he told Seth Meyers. “But on the show… at your insistence, I was more sober than not.”

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Now that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter, reduced to crashing the occasional Mar-a-Lago wedding and delivering color commentary on stunt boxing matches along with the occasional Fox News hit, there are a host of thirsty governors and senators competing for attention—all of them happy to kill their constituents if that’s what it takes to be the new face of the zombie Republican party.

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The 20th anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11 has coincided with the supposed end of America’s longest war and haphazard withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, raising fresh questions of how we got here in the first place.

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Even though President Joe Biden has finally extracted the United States from the forever war in Afghanistan, another uncomfortable legacy remains: the dozens of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

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Brett Eagleson was a sophomore in high school when he lost his father on Sept. 11, 2001.