House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to retire in 2027 and recently spoke about her decades-long career advocating for LGBTQ+ rights. “Anything that we accomplished, whether it was fighting HIV and AIDS, ending discrimination, passing hate crimes legislation, or ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ would never have happened without outside mobilization,” she humbly
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Hot summer sun, charming flights of fancy and a juicy red watermelon add up to superb summer fun in Bonsoir Lune’s Watermelon Pool, translated from Korean by Frances Cha.   In this lushly illustrated fantastical tale of “opening day at the watermelon pool” (rumor has it that “the coconut pool in the next town is
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As one of the world’s most popular superheroes, it should come as no surprise that Batman has been the star of many different games at this point. From the popular Batman: Arkham series, to the LEGO Batman games, to tabletop experiences like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, there are plenty of ways to suit up
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Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Be Mine Forever by Kennedy Ryan Get This Deal $1.99 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erica L. Sanchez Get This Deal $0.99 The Baby Dragon Cafe by A.T. Qureshi Get This Deal $2.99 Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross Get This Deal $2.99 How to Age Disgracefully by
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Dave Olsen and Jarnette Olsen Dave Olsen never expected daughters Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen to enter show business. “I didn’t even want to be bothered with it,” the golfer-turned-real-estate-professional shared in 1991 with The Washington Post—which noted his then-wife, former ballerina Jarnette Olsen, gave a talent agency a photo of their twins at the
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The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) together with NSW Government and Austrade announced it will deliver its most significant international trade mission to date, establishing a dedicated Australian showroom at Paris Fashion Week Womenswear SS27 (28 September – 6 October 2026) as the next milestone in its Global Gateways export program. The announcement follows a landmark
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Ethel Just, a fluent German speaker, earned degrees from Ohio and Boston universities, then taught languages at Howard University and Washington, D.C., public schools for many years before ultimately becoming a college administrator. But when she was laid off at 59 during an economic downturn, the U.S. government only grudgingly hired her into a job
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Luxury handbags don’t often come with budget-friendly price tags, which is why Amazon’s hidden Michael Kors sale is worth paying attention to. Ahead of Prime Day, the retailer is offering major discounts on some of the brand’s bestselling totes and crossbody bags, with select styles marked down by hundreds of dollars and prices starting under
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The Latest Release in the Addicted to Classics Series Is Now Available Worldwide Electronic music visionary Avohee Avoher continues to redefine the boundaries between classical music and contemporary dance culture with the release of his newest single, “Avohee Meets Bach,” now available on streaming platforms worldwide. The third installment in Avoher’s acclaimed Addicted to Classics series, the track takes
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A fundamental right for U.S. public library users is that of privacy. This means no one is monitoring what a patron is perusing, what they’re borrowing, or their library use history. It means that authorities cannot walk into a library and demand another user’s records; in many cases, library borrowing records are purged upon the
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) suspended tenured art therapy professor Savneet Talwar after a student complained about her assignment asking students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer, Muslim woman living in the United States, The Guardian reported. The two-page assignment mentioned the hypothetical woman’s case study, her
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