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Supercuts Pioneered a New Kind of Hair Salon
It started out as a modern, unisex alternative to both the barbershop and the beauty salon.
I Lost My High-Paying Job During the Pandemic. Now I Have $40,000 in Credit Card Debt.
I’m making half of my previous salary, and I’m depressed and embarrassed.
Murders Are Skyrocketing. Here’s How Democrats Should Respond.
They don’t have to act like Republicans to do it.
Top U.S. officials see booster shots as inevitable
The internal deliberations have stretched on for months as health officials watch for signs of waning immunity among high-risk groups.
FDA adds Guillain-Barre syndrome warning to J&J Covid shot
About 100 suspected cases of GBS — among 12.8 million people who have gotten the J&J shot — have been identified in the federal government’s database.
Utah governor admits mistake on vaccination milestone
“Welp. We screwed up. Because of a reporting error we have not yet hit 70% on our adult vaccinations,” Cox, a Republican, posted on Twitter Monday.
Few options for Biden as vaccination pace hits a wall
The administration is now strategizing over how to manage a nation with 68 percent of the population at least partially vaccinated.
Vaccines will get full FDA approval, Fauci predicts
“There’s no doubt in my mind that these vaccines are going to get full approval because of the extraordinary amount of positive data,” he said.
My Husband’s Sexual Fixation on His Favorite Actress Has Taken an Alarming Turn
I very much doubt she’d be OK with this.
Dear Care and Feeding: How Do I Know if I’m Really Done Having Kids?
Parenting advice on family size, race, and miscarriage.
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
“Fly So Far”: New Film Tells Stories of Women in El Salvador Jailed for Decades Under Abortion Ban
The award-winning documentary “Fly So Far” looks at the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador through the incredible story of Teodora Vásquez, a woman who in 2008 was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she had a stillbirth at nine months pregnant. Vásquez was released in 2018 after more than a decade behind bars.
Top General Feared Trump Would Use Military To Stay In Power, Compared Him To Nazis: Book
“This is a Reichstag moment,” Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, according to a forthcoming book.
News Roundup: New budget deal unveiled; Tennessee Republicans undermine vaccine efforts
In the news today: A new deal among Democrats may pave the way for a bold, huge American investment package of the sort that President Joe Biden had originally proposed. Tennessee Republicans have managed to sabotage not just COVID-19 vaccination efforts aimed at teenagers, but all vaccination efforts aimed at the state’s teens.
‘I pray that I will never have to use these practices’: Elderly Asian Americans learn to fight back
Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a string of attacks against the Asian American Pacific Islander community, especially the elderly. According to Stop AAPI Hate, the total number of anti-Asian incidents reported during the pandemic last year has doubled by March alone. In California, the increase is even higher. A new report from the state’s Department of Justice found that hate crimes against Asian Americans in California increased by over 100% in 2020.
One in four LGBTQ youth in the U.S. identify as nonbinary, according to new survey
Though June tends to get much of the attention because of Pride Month, holidays and days of recognition for LGBTQ+ people don’t begin and end in just one month. For example, on Wednesday, July 14, we celebrate International Nonbinary People’s Day, which honors and centers folks who are nonbinary. Nonbinary, as a basic definition, refers to people whose gender does not fit into the binary of male and female. Nonbinary refers to gender identity, not sexual orientation.
Does the Olympics chief watch Fox News? Both mistake Japan for China
Uh-oh, a slip of the tongue is never a good thing but it’s even worse when it’s in an international public announcement. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach made his already not so fond reputation in Japan worse by referring to Japanese people as “Chinese” Tuesday during his first public appearance in Tokyo.
‘We don’t feel like we’re respected,’ Frito-Lay workers say as they strike over pay and long hours
Around 600 workers at a Topeka, Kansas, Frito-Lay plant have been on strike for more than a week, citing low pay and brutal working hours that the company is fighting to preserve in contract negotiations.
“A lot of people here, they barely see their wives, they barely see their husbands, kids. Sometimes a few of us will get stuck here on holidays.
DOJ: FBI Made ‘Fundamental Errors’ While Investigating Larry Nassar Sex Abuse Case
A spokesperson for the FBI said the actions of its employees are “inexcusable and a discredit to this organization.
I Want to Cut Off My Stepson—and Give Money to the Woman He Had an Affair With
They had a child together. Their kid deserves my help more.
Matt Gaetz Speaks At Free Britney Rally, Perplexing Twitter Users
It’s the celebrity crossover no one saw coming.
Capitol Rioter Who Rappelled Into The Senate Chamber Takes A Plea Deal
Josiah Colt, 34, later bragged that he’d sat in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reserved seat, which is actually located in the House chamber.
Cash for Kids Comes to the United States
On a weekday evening in early July, Jim Lysen, a retired health-clinic director, and Ed Fallon, a grandfather and veteran, ignored the pouring summer rain as they knocked on the front door of a townhouse in an affordable-housing development on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Lewiston, Maine.“I am a volunteer with the Maine People’s Alliance, and we’re making sure people know about the child tax credit,” Lysen said.
The Real Reason Another Space Jam Movie Exists
Crucial to the upcoming family film Space Jam: A New Legacy is the premise that the historic Warner Bros. studios are built atop a supercomputer that algorithmically decides what movies should be made next. That detail is presented as a hilarious bit of sci-fi, but it also comes across as a guilty admission of the truth—that corporate cinema these days isn’t so much written as it is generated by passionless machines that recycle and smash together bits of intellectual property.
I Sensed Something Wrong, so I Read My Girlfriend’s Messages. I’m Devastated by What I Found.
I have no idea what to say.
Unions Gave Money To GOP Lawmakers Who Voted To Overturn The Election
Corporate political giving has drawn a lot of attention since Jan. 6.
We Could Have Changed the World
Gregory Halpern / Magnum
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, it was practically impossible to find hand sanitizer and toilet paper at stores around the United States. The upheaval had a dystopian feel: Some stores even ran out of sympathy cards, a reminder that we were—and still are—living in the valley of the shadow of death.