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“Auggie wanted to make changes in the world,” Amy Santiago said Tuesday, standing in the East Wing rotunda of the Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “He made people feel like they belonged. He built people up, always. He’s such a special person.”

Russell Brand is going to prison. The British comedian and actor reinvented himself as a MAGA-friendly Christian influencer while retaining, well, his talent for making a spectacle of himself. He was sentenced to 10½ years after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.

Democrats in the Montana House made history by electing a nonbinary lawmaker to lead their caucus.

This story first appeared on The Buckeye Flame. Ohio lawmakers held a first hearing on Tuesday for a bill that would ban the discredited practice of conversion therapy.

Reps. Robert Garcia and Sarah McBride outlined plans Saturday for Democrats’ incoming House majority, promising investigations into the Trump administration and a push to reverse healthcare cuts during appearances at Crooked Con in Washington, D.C.

The suspect in a shooting that killed one person and injured four others at and around a gay-owned Washington, D.C., gym is dead, CBS News reported, citing multiple sources familiar with the incident. The report followed a standoff Thursday morning in an apartment above VIDA Fitness in Logan Circle, where police negotiators had spent more …

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A Thursday morning shooting at and around VIDA Fitness, a gay-owned gym in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood, left one person dead and four others injured as police confronted a suspect barricaded in an apartment building above the business. D.C. NBC affiliate WRC-TV reported the casualties, citing police, while D.C. Councilmember Brooke Pinto identified the …

Avec Carcaça, Marco da Silva Ferreira fait de la danse un geste de résistance. Porté par dix interprètes et une musique galvanisante, ce spectacle fait dialoguer traditions et contre-cultures pour opposer au fascisme la force du collectif. L’article «Carcaça», la danse résolument antifasciste de Marco da Silva Ferreira est apparu en premier sur 360°.

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