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The family of a 16-year-old boy shot twice in the head by a white man last week has labeled the act a hate crime after saying the teenager was just trying to pick up his younger siblings from a friend’s house.

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Pope Francis on Sunday weighed into a decades-old scandal that has rocked the Vatican, defending Pope John Paul II after the brother of a missing teen raised allegations that the former pope sought out underage girls to molest.

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Universal Studios revealed its first look at its live-action adaptation of Wicked on Sunday, showing glimpses of stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo fully decked out as Glinda and Elphaba—dresses, green skin, broomstick and all.

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Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Kearney descended—literally—into the Weekend Update guest seat on Saturday, where they bashed multiple anti-trans bills being considered in Republican state legislatures.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a lengthy interview with Meet the Press on Sunday to evade criticism of his proposed judicial reforms, deflect from the staunch conservatism of his government, and diminish the perception that his public approval has tanked—despite multiple polls indicating otherwise.

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A beloved high school football player was tragically shot dead at his sister’s Sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama Saturday night, reports said. The teen, who was committed to play Division 1 college ball next season, was one of four killed and 28 injured as a result of the incident.

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Making random strangers cry is all in a day’s work for Donald Trump, if the former president is to be believed, and Colin Jost just doesn’t get it.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) hasn’t been in the Senate since February.

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When the news broke that a boat with the bodies of more than a dozen African refugees washed up on the shores of Tobago, only miles away from my home, my family believed it was an ominous sign. It was May 2021, only two years after we had left America to escape the racism that made our lives there unlivable. We settled in Tobago, the sister island of Trinidad, a tiny island in the southernmost Caribbean with white sand and aquamarine oceans.

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San Diego, CA — When I think of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—and what inspired the program more than a decade ago, namely the sketchy legal status of Dreamers (undocumented young people who came to the United States as children)—my mind goes to seesaws.

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My grandfather died six years ago this September. At the time, I lived in a grungy, musty, dimly lit two-bedroom apartment in the heart of East Lansing, Michigan. It was about 500 square feet large on a good day. The lone window in the “living room” only saw about two hours of sunlight from dawn till dusk—before the sun would rise and fall respectively below the four-story parking garage cosplaying as a makeshift horizon—and it made the days feel especially short.

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It’s “just” a civil case, no felonies for undermining democracy, but the trial centered on former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll suing Donald Trump for battery is scheduled to begin on April 25. The charge of battery includes any unwanted assault or touching.

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The Cardcaptor Sakura anime premiered more than 25 years ago this month, and my insides are turning to dust just thinking about it. Based on the beloved manga by artist collective CLAMP and animated by the well-known studio Madhouse (Death Note, Monster), the TV adaptation debuted in Japan on April 7, 1998. It would go on to be dubbed into English, then renamed Cardcaptors in the West.

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“I hope you’ll make black holes,” Stephen said with a broad smile. We exited the cargo lift that had taken us underground into the five-story cavern housing the ATLAS experiment at the CERN lab, the legendary European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva. CERN’s director general, Rolf Heuer, shuffled his feet uneasily. This was 2009, and someone had filed a lawsuit in the United States, concerned that CERN’s newly constructed Large Hadron Collider... Читать дальше...

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Kanye West named Donda Academy after his late mother. But according to one of its recently fired teachers, the deeply troubled school is an insult to her legacy. And the problems go much deeper than sushi.

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For the first time ever, there are simultaneous separate outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a highly lethal pathogen that’s closely related to the Ebola virus.