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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, …

After Whitney Wolfe Herd, a vice president of Tinder, left the company in 2014, she founded Bumble as a women-focused alternative to the popular dating app. With an interface that required its female users to send the first message to their matches — in theory cutting down on spammy or …

AriGameplays always knew she wanted to be a performer. The Mexican streamer, who has amassed over 7 million subscribers on Twitch playing everything from Fortnite to Roblox, remembers being a young girl performing for her family at holidays and wanting to be a star. “It was an idea that was …

When Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was first revealed during Xbox Games Showcase 2024, it instantly caught the attention of role-playing game fans. Here was an RPG from a brand new IP that mixed the turn-based combat of Japanese games like Metaphor Refantazio with a more realistic aesthetic akin to Western …

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 …

It’s time again to return to Tamriel. After a full week of speculation stemming from an alleged leak of screenshots and key art, Bethesda has confirmed that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is both real and will arrive very soon. Following the details that popped up online, Bethesda 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 …

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly hitting and killing her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, returned to court Tuesday, April 22, as her second murder trial got underway. Read previously stood trial last year on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, with the case gaining significant viral attention …

Pope Francis, who made history as the first Latin American papal leader and was considered to have a more progressive approach than his conservative predecessors, died Monday, the Vatican confirmed. He was 88. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father,” Cardinal …

Martin Scorsese, Patti Smith, King Charles, and J.D. Vance are among those reacting to the death of Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88. Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced his death in a statement noting that the pope “taught us to live the values of the …