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Since March 5, Ash Wednesday, Black congregations around the nation have stopped patronizing Target for Lent. The 40-day fast, led by Dr. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, was in response to Target’s compliance with President Donald Trump’s orders to get rid of diversity, equity, …

In 2020, Dan’s wife lost a pregnancy. When Dan, a 41-year-old from Minnesota, told his parents about the loss, his mother said that the Covid vaccine was responsible for the miscarriage (though multiple studies found that it did not increase risk). In the months leading up to that, she had …

Will the Great Lakes, one of the natural wonders of the United States, be allowed to go to court to defend their rights to exist on equal terms with the human race? Last month, a bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly granting them and all other bodies …

“I didn’t get double chins because they ran in my family. I got double chins cause nobody ran in my family.” This quip is just one example of the teachings of Toni Fine, 34, a TikTok influencer known for her no-nonsense approach to weight loss. Fine has become recognizable to …

TikTok users have been in full panic mode in the midst of President Donald Trump’s ongoing game of chicken with tariffs and the U.S. economy. Now, the conversation has finally reached a boiling point over … handbags? Trump’s tariffs mean an astronomical consumer burden on everything from wedding dresses to …

I first learned about Aimee Semple McPherson while in divinity school. “Sister Aimee,” as she was known to her adoring followers, was an early Pentecostal preacher, the founder of America’s first megachurch, and a pioneer of Christian mass media. She was also an unpredictable impresario who infuriated her critics with …

O n Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the zodiac had reached their most southerly point — light was dimming on the Summer of Love. In an unassuming pad at 69 La Espiral St. in Orinda, California, just east of Berkeley, a half …

Rosemary Woodruff Leary was once a one-named media heroine married to one of the most infamous men of all time, the ex-Harvard psychologist and high priest of LSD, Timothy Leary. Now she’s a footnote — barely acknowledged if mentioned at all in the history of the counterculture and psychedelic renaissance …

As Donald Trump makes headlines by threatening to send more legal U.S. residents (and even citizens) to a gulag in El Salvador, his crypto fortune continues to grow. And his family is doing business with some decidedly suspect investors who may see unlimited upside in cozying up to the man …

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — unless you complain about it on social media. That’s what a disappointed group of MrBeast fans did when they realized a Sin City event advertised under his brand wasn’t going to happen, and they were each out $1,000. Avid followers of the …