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Tennessee’s Republican-held House of Representatives managed to oust two of the three Democratic lawmakers who led chants for gun control at the podium of the state House last week—both of them Black—but narrowly failed to expel a third, despite the Republican House Speaker likening their protest to an “insurrection.”

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Humans have used modern technology to invent many new ways to find comfort and push our life experiences into new directions. But there is one method that has stood the test of time for thousands of years: drugs. Indeed, there is widespread archeological evidence for human use of mind-altering substances, including an 1,000-year-old plant bundle with chemical traces of cocaine and 14th-century ceramic jugs containing opium. Unearthed ancient drug paraphernalia build out... Читать дальше...

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Model and activist Sara Ziff filed a suit in New York civil court Thursday, alleging that she was raped as a teen by Fabrizio Lombardo, a former Miramax executive once described as Harvey Weinstein’s “hustler.”

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A male model and Instagram influencer who allegedly was in a romantic relationship with conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, and who died in March in a suspected suicide, was devastated by a messy confrontation with Thiel’s husband at a New Year’s Eve party in the weeks leading up to his death, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

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A few weeks ago, The Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey riled up the internet when she revealed that her version of Ariel would have bigger aspirations than “wanting to leave the ocean for a boy.” Now, we have another update about the upcoming live-action Disney film that has fans of the original movie, once again, scratching their heads.

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A legion of New York-based writers, most of whom have contributed to The New York Times, have fired off the latest letter in their battle with the Times over its coverage of trans issues—this time sending it directly to the paper’s publisher.

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A California teacher is under fire after being filmed repeatedly using the N-word during a class lesson and allegedly trying to “force” a student into saying the slur.

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Being Black in America is hard. Being Jewish in America is also hard. When you combine the two you get me, a 31-year-old Black Jewish woman living in Harlem.

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