Tag: humor

Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn’t respond to most treatments. She likens the itchiness to a car alarm: “You can’t stop thinking about it.”

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Congress reconvenes this week with a top priority: electing the leaders of each chamber. Here’s a look at the contenders. And, top priorities for Trump’s Justice Department.

The Capitol is breached. Security cameras catch Senator Josh Hawley running in fear from a passel of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ activists attempting to garland him in Pride bunting.

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.

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From Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to your favorite homemaking TikTok influencers, the women of the Church of Latter Day Saints have been gaining mass audiences via social media for over a decade. This week, Brittany is joined by Jana Riess, senior columnist at Religious News Service and author of The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church, to discuss how Mormon culture provides some of TikTok’s most powerful influencers with heavenly tools for success.

An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand’s foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades

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In 1976, Betsy Cornwell’s key broke off as she tried to start her car. It was late at night, and she was in an empty parking lot. Someone stepped in.

This Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who undergoes gender-affirming surgery won two big prizes at Cannes, including a shared best actress award for its four women leads.

Essayist Phil Klay says Trump tried to use the military to push his partisan agenda before, and may further erode norms around the military as he looks for those willing to “go with his whims.”

Jamison was a dance star who led the famed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to new heights.

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