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Magic’s Son E.J. in First Interview Since Coming Out

• April 17, 2013 • Comments Off

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Black Chicagoan Edward Clemons Survived Japan Quake and Tsunami After Days Without Food or Water; Finally Able to Talk With Anxious Mom Back Home

• March 19, 2011 • Comments Off

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Michael Jackson’s Final Months: Anonymous Gay Sex and Drugging?

• June 30, 2009 • 25 Comments

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For Many Women, Roe Was About More Than Abortion. It Was About Freedom. June 29, 2022
After the reversal of Roe v. Wade, some women are reconsidering their plans, including where they live, and wondering how best to channel their anger.
‘Ghost Flights’? The Facts Behind Transporting Migrant Children June 24, 2022
Government flights carrying undocumented children from the border to federally licensed shelters around the country are being criticized by conservative politicians in an election year.
State Battles Are Defining the Shifting Abortion Landscape June 28, 2022
An absolute abortion ban that Texas wrote before Roe v. Wade is on hold while a long-ago ban in Wisconsin reaches the courts. A previously blocked six-week ban in Tennessee has taken effect.
Indictments in Flint Water Crisis Are Invalid, Michigan Supreme Court Finds June 28, 2022
The cases against former Gov. Rick Snyder and other top officials were thrown into doubt by the ruling.
Yellowstone Flooding Is a Sign of What’s to Come for National Parks June 16, 2022
Record rainfall and mudslides forced closures just as tourism season ramped up. Virtually none of America’s national parks are untouched by extreme weather and climate change.
A Decade After DACA, a New Generation of Undocumented Students Rises June 16, 2022
A vast majority of undocumented teenagers are graduating high school this year without protection from deportation and the ability to legally work.
Photos of Flooding Damage in Yellowstone June 16, 2022
Flooding and mudslides from recent storms have collapsed bridges and washed away roads in the national park.
Southern Baptists, Battling Divisions, Elect Bart Barber as President June 15, 2022
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a bellwether for conservative Christianity, chose a rural Texas pastor and approved actions to address its sex abuse crisis.

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‘It’s a sham’: Egypt accused of restricting protest in run-up to Cop27 June 29, 2022
Climate activists say plight of jailed Alaa Abd El Fattah shows protesters’ voices will be ignored at Sharm el-Sheikh summitFive months before a pivotal UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, one of Egypt’s most prominent political prisoners remains behind bars. Now on his 89th day of a hunger strike, Alaa Abd El Fattah is subsisting on just a hundred calorie […]
Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought June 28, 2022
Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relativesThe fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African relatives like the famous “Lucy”, according to new research […]
Cop15: lack of political leadership leaves crucial nature summit ‘in peril’, warn NGOs June 28, 2022
Nairobi biodiversity talks end in stalemate, prompting open letter to world leaders calling for action before Montreal conferenceUN biodiversity negotiations have reached crisis point due to a lack of engagement from governments, leading NGOs have warned, three years after experts revealed that Earth’s life-support systems are collapsing.Last week, countries […]
V&A to display its first African fashion exhibition June 28, 2022
Galleries will showcase designers who are often overlooked, in an effort to acknowledge colonial histories within the museumThe Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded.Featuring designers who have worked with names including Beyoncé and architect David Adjaye, Africa Fashio […]
Moroccan authorities accused of trying to cover up Melilla deaths June 27, 2022
Concern at apparent plan to bury victims without investigating cause of death or trying to identify themThere are growing calls for an investigation into the deaths of up to 37 people who died trying to scale a fence to enter Melilla, Spain’s enclave in north Africa.About 2,000 people stormed the heavily fortified border between the Moroccan region of Nador […]
Calls for investigation over deaths in Moroccan-Spanish border crossing June 26, 2022
NGOs say toll could be as high as 37 after hundreds of people break into border control area in attempt to reach Melilla enclaveHuman rights campaigners in Spain and Morocco have called for investigations to be launched in both countries after a mass attempt to scale the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 23 people […]
El Salvador to escalate its security crackdown after death of police officers June 29, 2022
President Nayib Bukele vowed to step up its ‘war on gangs’ even as 2% of the country’s population is jailedEl Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has vowed to escalate his controversial “war on gangs” after three police officers were killed in what appeared to be the first major reaction to a security crackdown that critics have called one of the most dramat […]
Jubilation and hope as convention puts final stamp on Chile’s new draft constitution June 29, 2022
Draft shifts country away from Pinochet-era document, enshrining cultural rights and laying out path of autonomy for Indigenous peoplesThe process of drafting Chile’s new constitution has come to an abrupt, jubilant end as the final votes were held quickly by the 154-member, gender-equal constitutional convention.Huddling between the colonnades at the former […]

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Jan 6 hearings: Ex-aide paints devastating picture of Trump June 29, 2022
New allegations emerge about what the former US president did during the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
Nato summit: Turkey pushes Finland and Sweden on extradition after deal June 29, 2022
It calls for the handover of 33 "terror" suspects after a deal to let Finland and Sweden join Nato.
R. Kelly: US singer faces decades in jail at sex trafficking sentencing June 29, 2022
The disgraced pop star will be sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of sex trafficking.
Bruce's Beach returned to family nearly a century after seizure June 29, 2022
A prime beachfront space in Manhattan Beach is given back to its black owners after its 1924 seizure.
Paris attacks trial: Verdicts due for 20 accused of mass murder June 29, 2022
The biggest trial in modern French history readies verdicts for 20 accused over the 2015 atrocity.
Japan swelters in worst heatwave ever recorded June 29, 2022
Unrelenting temperatures break records for June as officials warn of a looming power shortage.
Ukraine war: US to ramp up military presence across Europe June 29, 2022
President Biden announces a strengthening by "land, air and sea" over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Udaipur: India state on alert after Prophet Muhammad row beheading June 29, 2022
Two Muslim men in Rajasthan killed a Hindu tailor who backed controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad.