Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship
May 21, 2024
Barbie dolls will honor tennis champion Venus Williams and eight other athletes as part of a project announced by Mattel
May 22, 2024
The independent bookstore boom continues
May 23, 2024
NBA great Dwyane Wade has launched Translatable, a nonprofit online community dedicated to supporting transgender youth
May 23, 2024
Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an homage to one of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterpieces
May 23, 2024
In the heart of Peru’s Amazon region, a poor neighborhood put aside the trials and tribulations of everyday life and celebrated an international film festival with works from countries with tropical forests
May 26, 2024
Dairy-loving daredevils have thrown caution to the wind for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling
May 27, 2024
Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers
May 28, 2024
Colombia’s congress has voted to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired songs and novels but has become increasingly controversial in the countries where it is still practiced
May 28, 2024
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May 30, 2024
Pride Month is kicking off around the world with parades and festivals in cities large and small
June 01, 2024
Rainbow flags filled the streets of Bangkok on Saturday at the start of Pride Month as Thailand inches closer to recognising same-sex marriages.
July 02, 2024
The once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station — for decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline — has new life following a massive six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation to create a hub for mobility projects in the rebirth of the Motor City
June 03, 2024
Romania’s minister of culture says she will ask French luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton to acknowledge that a traditional Romanian blouse directly inspired items in one of its 2024 collections
June 04, 2024
Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria are the next family set to star in their own reality series
June 04, 2024
Some of Detroit’s greatest musical exports performed at a concert celebrating the historic reopening of an 18-story structure that long symbolized their hometown’s decline
June 07, 2024
Prince William has served as an usher at the wedding of his friend Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster
June 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has celebrated the Juneteenth holiday early with a concert on the White House South Lawn
June 10, 2024
First lady Jill Biden is kicking off her husband’s outreach to older voters, an effort blending rallies and phone banks with social events bingo nights and pickleball games
June 12, 2024
Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
June 13, 2024
The Princess of Wales says she is “making good progress” in her cancer treatment and will attend Saturday’s royal Trooping the Color ceremony, Kate’s first public appearance since her diagnosis
June 14, 2024
Milan Fashion Week of mostly menswear previews has opened with two co-ed collections, underlining that the old calendar rules no longer apply
June 14, 2024
Britain has put on a display of birthday pageantry for King Charles III with a military parade that marked the Princess of Wales’ first appearance at a public event since her cancer diagnosis early this year
June 15, 2024
On Father’s Day, Kansas residents Jen and Whitney Wilson will pack up their three young children and head to the home of a childhood friend for a picnic to celebrate the man who helped make their family possible
June 15, 2024
Masses of pilgrims have embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia, marking the final days of Hajj pilgrimage and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world
June 16, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
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Separatist rebels release New Zealand pilot after 19 months in Indonesia's Papua region
Japan's Icom: highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title
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