Month: May 2023

Irby shares almost everything in her new book of essays, Quietly Hostile but, she says, “If I can’t have a conversation with a stranger about the thing that I wrote, I won’t put it in a book.”

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We’ve seen jealous, possessive friends and housewreckers with no boundaries before, though perhaps not quite so thoroughly, unapologetically unlikeable as in Ore Agbaje-Williams’s debut novel.

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Questions about the cognitive fitness of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have spurred a difficult conversation among Democrats about whether she is able to perform her duties as an elected official. The Onion spoke to the long-serving senator about judicial nominations, reports of her mental decline, and plans for her…

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TALLAHASSEE, FL—Inviting the assembled reporters to come closer for a better look, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference Tuesday to slurp custard off the ground. “Thank you all for coming,” DeSantis said as an aide dumped several bowls of butter pecan custard on the sidewalk next to the press gaggle, and…

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration paved the way for more gay and bisexual men to donate blood by finalizing new risk-based recommendations for blood donation, with prospective donors being asked the same set of questions regardless of their sex or sexual orientation. What do you think?

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STOCKTON, CA—Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo years of medical treatments and counseling to win at swimming. “It’s oh, so simple: several years of sweet-talking medical…

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The film, Strange World, tells the story of a family of explorers and includes a character who has a crush on another boy. The fifth-grade teacher says a student’s mother lodged a complaint.

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