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An investigation by the state’s attorney general found decades of sex abuse of nearly 1,000 children over a century across three Massachusetts dioceses.

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A woman, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members in 2024 and accuses Cornell University of failing to protect her.

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

A new “propaganda playbook” aims to demystify common techniques used to target Black Americans, long a powerful voting bloc, with election-related disinformation.

A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.

On the novel’s 50th anniversary, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the story behind the story.

Thousands of Asians and Pacific Islanders have already been swept into the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign. In this blog, we look beyond the numbers to understand wh...

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The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.

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His sequined gowns and outrageous costumes threw clouds of glitter at American fashion for over half a century.

Debi V. Smith The shitshow I mentioned in the last post continued through the end of the month & I've spent several weeks restoring order little by little because chronic pain. In the midst of all of it, I finally looked into the intermittent screeching our vacuum cleaner was doing when the roller brush was engaged. I did all the troubleshooting I could before finding a shop to see if they could fix it.

The president shared a provocative new look for the next-gen Space Force ’fit.

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Peter Cullen, a voice actor who starred as Optimus Prime in "Transformers" and as Eeyore in "Winnie the Pooh," has died at the age of 85.

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