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British actress Glenda Jackson in April, 1974.(Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, after a brief illness, according to her agent, Lionel Larner."One of the world's greatest actresses has died, and one of my best friends has died as well," he told NPR.

Tori Bowie, who captured gold as a sprinter in the Olympics and the world championships, died at age 32 from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.Matthias Hangst/Getty Images She was once the fastest woman in the world.So when Tori Bowie was found dead last month at just 32 years old, it rocked the sport of track and field.

Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and Sybil is no exception.This tarnished classic the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities, to invoke the most carnival-barker of its various subtitles has since its 1973 publication been critically dismissed; wedged on the best-seller list between Lillian Hellman and Howard Cosell as if at some nightmare dinner party; made into two different television movies; workshopped as a musical; cited in psychiatric literature; debunked, dissected and defended.

Turning 50 is rarely easy for a woman, and Sybil is no exception.This tarnished classic the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities, to invoke the most carnival-barker of its various subtitles has since its 1973 publication been critically dismissed; wedged on the best-seller list between Lillian Hellman and Howard Cosell as if at some nightmare dinner party; made into two different television movies; workshopped as a musical; cited in psychiatric literature; debunked, dissected and defended.

Employees of the social media site said there wasn't enough preparation for the Twitter Spaces event.A photo illustration showing the account of Twitter owner Elon Musk, tweeting about a Twitter Spaces event he hosted with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on May 24, 2023.Scott Olson / Getty Images On Wednesday night, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced his 2024 bid for the GOP nomination for president in a Twitter livestream that was marred by glitches and technical difficulties.

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Malachi Moore's first season as a full-time major league umpire will be stressful enough, what with the bigger stadiums, higher stakes, hostile crowds, enhanced sticky stuff checks, travel demands, and the "Umpire Scorecards" website tracking every one of the 32-year-old's missed calls.

This essay is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: Who do you think you are?You can read more by visiting The Big Ideas series page.I'm not who you think I am.I'm from New Orleans that you probably already knew.But how did I get here?It's maybe assumed that I'm just some privileged guy, blessed with God-given musical gifts that I didn't have to work at; that as soon as I sat down at the piano as a young person and started to play, every door just opened for me and it was a water slide to success.

Nadine Dorries has claimed Rishi Sunak is a privileged posh boy who cruelly blocked her from a future in the House of Lords.Using an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV to launch a fresh attack on the Prime Minister, she claimed he'd used weasel words and sophistry in a meeting with Boris Johnson last week.

In 1956 Stanley Jones, who has died aged 89, joined the Atelier Patris, the lithography workshop set up in Paris by the eventual film director Gerard Patris.There Stanley deepened his understanding of not only the technical skills involved, but also the skill of collaborating with artists to realise their ideas in print.

This photo released by the Union Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), shows jewelry on display at a room of Latchford family in London on Feb. 14, 2023.AP PHNOM PENH, Cambodia A spectacular collection of centuries-old Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Southeast Asian country, the latest treasures to be retrieved from the estate of well-known antiquities collector and dealer Douglas Latchford, who was accused of buying and selling looted artifacts.

A fresh inquest has been ordered into the death of a teenager who was stabbed after a row with an ex-public schoolboy in upmarket Cheshire village Hale Barns.Yousef Makki, 17, was stabbed after rowing with his friend, Joshua Molnar, also 17 at the time, on the evening of March 2, 2019.Yousef, from a one-parent family, who won a scholarship to attend 12,000-a-year Manchester Grammar School, died soon afterwards.

Celtics Brown attended Wakefield high school before transferring to Vermont Academy.Dorchester native and now NBA champion Bruce Brown will try to bring the Larry O'Brien Trophy on a visit to Boston.Following his victory in the NBA Finals with the Denver Nuggets on Monday night, Brown told The Boston Globe's Gary Washburn that he wants to bring the trophy home.

The Junior White Sox softball team's journey began with a more than 10-hour flight from New Zealand to Los Angeles and ended with a second flight landing in Kansas City late Saturday night.The next morning, around 30 young softball standouts - most visiting America for the first time - and their coaches traveled to Iowa for two days of scrimmages before a return to Kansas City on Tuesday.

The NHL has revealed more finalists for end-of-season awards.The league announced on Wednesday the three players up for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, awarded to the player "who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community."

Apr. 29-Twin Valley grad A.J. Alexy, a right-handed pitcher, has been outrighted off the Chicago White Sox's 40-man roster.Alexy, who has been with Triple-A Charlotte, will remain with the Knights.The 25-year-old is 0-3 with a 15.30 ERA in 10 innings over four starts with Charlotte.He has allowed seven hits, walked 18 and struck out 10.

Kaivalya: What inspired you to write about Black Tudors?It was the subject of my PhD research.I was interested in history from an early age.But when I learned about the Tudors at school and at university, there was no mention of anyone that wasn't white in the story.I came across this fact, by accident when a lecturer mentioned that the Tudors started trading to Africa in the middle of the 16th century.

Last month, "After nearly two years of my resistance," wrote a University of Houston Downtown professor, his department published an "anti-racist statement" on its website.Adam Ellwanger, a tenured English professor, wrote this on Campus Reform, a conservative website where he's a higher education fellow.

Ama Ata Aidoo, a Ghanaian playwright, author and activist who was hailed as one of Africa's leading literary lights as well as one of its most influential feminists, died on Wednesday.She was 81.Her family said in a statement that she died after a brief illness.The statement did not specify the cause or where she died.

Malik Gant, a former defensive back for the New England Patriots, has passed away at the age of 25.According to a statement released by his family, he was found dead on May 25 in Miami.No cause of death has been announced yet.A walk-on at Marshall in 2015, Gant appeared in 37 games for the Thundering Herd.

Patriots "For my whole career, I never felt like a first-rounder, never felt like a top guy.I always carried that mentality."At one point, Devin McCourty's NFL dreams seemed so far off that he would joke about representing his twin brother Jason and their friends as an agent.One moment that stuck out and gave McCourty an extra dose of motivation was when Boston College came to his house on a recruiting visit.

On May 18, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of famed rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.'s (AWF),[1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act.The opinion written by Justice Sotomayor, in which Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Jackson joined, held that the "purpose and character" of AWF's commercial use of Warhol's portraits of Prince shared the same commercial purpose of the original photograph taken by Ms. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use.[2] The Court's decision affirmed the ruling of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the Warhol work was derivative of the original, and noted that "the new expression may be relevant to whether a copying use has a sufficiently distinct purpose or character" but that factor was not dispositive by itself.[3]

Student Visionaries of the Year (SVOY) is a seven-week, philanthropic leadership development program where students foster professional skills such as entrepreneurship, marketing, and project management to raise funds for the mission of LLS: to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma and improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

The Smithsonian's American Women's History Museum may not have a permanent home yet, but it does has a founding director: Nancy Yao, the current president of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in New York City.As director of an entirely brand new museum, Yao will unsurprisingly have a lot on her plate as she oversees both conception and development.

When South Elgin High School student Stephanie Pedroza earned a scholarship from the Elgin Hispanic Network, she received a stole to wear around her neck at graduation."It was something I was really excited to wear.I earned it.I was the top recipient.I was super proud," Pedroza said.But it was an honor she was denied when a school dean told her remove it prior to the May 27 ceremony, she said.

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the early days of COVID-19.Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House all sued the nonprofit after they offered a National Emergency Library, a temporary book collection created from thousands of ebooks that ran from March 24, 2020 to June 16, 2020.

The Chicago White Sox have difficult choices ahead as they build their opening-day roster.That's the way manager Pedro Grifol prefers."It's not going to be an easy decision, which is a good thing for us as an organization," Grifol said Wednesday."Easy decisions are not good for any organization.

The Chicago White Sox have difficult choices ahead as they build their opening-day roster.That's the way manager Pedro Grifol prefers."It's not going to be an easy decision, which is a good thing for us as an organization," Grifol said Wednesday."Easy decisions are not good for any organization.

The Chicago White Sox have difficult choices ahead as they build their opening-day roster.That's the way manager Pedro Grifol prefers."It's not going to be an easy decision, which is a good thing for us as an organization," Grifol said Wednesday."Easy decisions are not good for any organization.

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Former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, convicted on bribery and fraud charges, has asked a federal judge to discard the jury's guilty verdicts and grant him a new trial in the high-profile corruption case.Lawyers for Ridley-Thomas argued in a motion filed this week that prosecutorial misconduct, misstatements of the law, and inaccurate and "improper testimony" by the lead FBI agent on the case all deprived the longtime politician of a fair trial.

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Mark Ridley-Thomas, one of Los Angeles County's most prominent politicians, was found guiltyThursday of federal corruption charges related to special benefits his son received at USC.The verdict, which jurors reached in their fifth day of deliberations, marks a devastating fall for a man who for more than 30 years was a powerbroker in L.A. politics and a vocal advocate for civil rights and racial justice.

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann's firm Studio Other Spaces has designed five buildings and seven pavilions within the Meles Zenawi Memorial Park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Created in memory of the country's former prime minister, the buildings in the 65-hectare park, located directly to the north of the city, were developed over a decade by Studio Other Spaces.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's gifts from a billionaire far surpass the level of bribes that for decades have sparked U.S. calls for judicial reforms overseas.Applying the U.S.'s blueprints for judicial reforms, which scholarship shows helps nations prosper and democratize, to its own high court could clean up its mess.

Image Anna Cathcart stars in XO, Kitty.Credit...Park Young-Sol/Netflix XO, Kitty' When to watch: Now, on Netflix.This bubbly 10-episode spinoff of the To All the Boys I've Loved Before movies turns its attention to Kitty (Anna Cathcart), the matchmaking little sister in the saga.Now a junior in high school, she has landed a scholarship to an international academy in Seoul the same school her late mother attended, and also the school her long-distance Korean boyfriend goes to, so maybe she'll just surprise him.

Patrick Mahomes' family started a fundraiser to honor Mahomes' late grandmother, and the money hasn't exactly been flooding in.On the spectrum of successful fundraisers, the GoFundMe campaign started by Patrick Mahomes' mother falls somewhere in the middle.Randi Mahomes started a fundraiser with a goal of raising $15,000 for her mother, Debbie, who passed away last April.

More than 600 people gathered at the Barrie waterfront on Saturday for the inaugural Greg Pierzchala memorial run in honour of Const.Grzegorz Pierzchala, an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer killed in the line of duty on Dec. 27.The memorial run organized by Pierzchala's family and the OPP was preceded by an opening ceremony, which was attended by the slain officer's mother and father and other members of his family.

Amid all of the partisan wrangling that characterizes lawmaking in Springfield, there are examples of bipartisan teamwork that yield resounding successes.The Invest in Kids scholarship program is one of them.The program's worth is undeniable.Enacted in 2017, the initiative gives low-income and working-class parents who cannot otherwise afford to send their children to private and parochial schools the means to do so.

Riding the so-called parental rights movement, more Republican-led states are changing the way they fund K-12 education, making it easier for families to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private schools.All families in Iowa, Utah, Arkansas and Florida regardless of their income will soon be eligible for thousands of state dollars each year to send their children to private K-12 schools after new legislation was passed during the first three months of this year.

Believe it or not, summer plans are already being made.Summer camps are always the highlight of the summer for kids, but when it comes to kids with celiac, summer camp isn't always an option.Summer camps normally don't cater to dietary restrictions, excluding kids with food allergies from all the fun.

Grace Bumbry, in a 1963 portrait.Erich Auerbach/Getty Images Opera star Grace Bumbry has died at the age of 86.The celebrated singer, who led an illustrious, jet-setting career, broke the color barrier as the first Black artist to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival.Bumbry died May 7 in a Vienna hospital, according to her publicist.

Binaries be damned: What if God is genderless?What if God is trans?In the new memoir Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H takes what Leslie Feinberg started in 1993 with Stone Butch Blues a complex depiction of gender and labor politics in 1970s-era America and makes it true and holy.To Lamya, God isn't a man or a woman.

Using artificial intelligence and archival news articles, a teenager in Northern Virginia created a program to measure media biases and in researching older news articles, she found that Black homicide victims were less likely to be humanized in news coverage.Emily Ocasio, an 18-year-old from Falls Church, Virginia, created an AI program that analyzed FBI homicide records between 1976 and 1984 and their corresponding coverage published in The Boston Globe to determine whether victims were presented in a humanizing or impersonal way.

New York University announced Wednesday that its new president would be Linda G. Mills, a professor and administrator at the university for more than 20 years.The selection of Dr. Mills, the first woman to head the institution, based in Manhattan and one of the country's largest private universities, follows the recent appointments of women to lead other top schools, like Columbia, Harvard, M.I.T., George Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Linda King Newell, whose pioneering work on the history of women in the Mormon faith won her acclaim as the leading feminist scholar in her field, but also led leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to blacklist her for undermining traditional views about the religion's founding era, died on Feb. 12 at a hospice facility in Salt Lake City.

Jesse Trevino, a lauded Mexican American artist who lost the use of his dominant right arm in a land mine explosion as a soldier in the Vietnam War, but who went on to conjure vast murals and dramatic paintings with his left arm that were displayed in three presidential libraries and the Smithsonian Institution, died on Feb. 13 in San Antonio.

When the headmistress at the North London Collegiate School told Lilian Lindsay that she should become a teacher, and that she would block her from finding any other type of work, Lindsay shot back: You cannot prevent me from being a dentist.I knew nothing of dentistry, Lindsay wrote in her unpublished autobiography, but having stated boldly that I was to be a dentist, there was nothing else to be done.

Five years ago, Duangphet Promthep survived a harrowing test of human endurance under rock and in darkness the 13-year-old captain of a Thai soccer team that had been trapped before being rescued from a flooded cave in an effort that became a global drama.He moved to England last year after securing a scholarship to a soccer academy that promoted its high-level program and international student population.

When Boris Johnson needed help in his battle with the Commons privileges committee over Partygate, he turned to the terrific and punchy advocate Lord Pannick KC.The esteemed barrister boasts an illustrious career, having represented a number of high profile clients including Queen Elizabeth, former BBC director-general Mark Thompson, Shamima Begum and an ally of Vladimir Putin.

Home Office plans to uproot Afghan refugees from a London hotel and move them hundreds of miles from their children's schools could result in a court battle, a lawyer has warned.About 40 families with 150 children have been told by the government that they must move from Kensington to a hotel in Yorkshire despite no guarantee of school places or jobs.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.When the Houston Cougars trudged to the locker room at halftime of their second-round game in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament, their shoulders weren't all that was sagging.So were their national championship hopes.On Friday night, they watched as Purdue, a No. 1 seed, was taken down by Fairleigh Dickinson.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa What is the weight of history?For Stephanie Wright, it's as slight as the thinnest of books, a 259-page volume that has upended her life for months and set her on an unusual and determined quest for recognition.She appealed to the Justice Department and some of the highest-ranking officials and judges in the federal court system in the Midwest.

The fate of President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program that would impact scores of borrowers from a wide array of colleges and socioeconomic backgrounds lies in the hands of nine relatively wealthy people who graduated from a short list of elite private schools.When the Biden administration goes before the Supreme Court Tuesday to defend the program, which would offer up to $20,000 of federal student debt forgiveness to millions of qualified borrowers, they'll be making their arguments to a small group of jurists who are far from being representative of the borrowers that could benefit from the relief.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Artists Gilbert & George are opening a free permanent exhibition centre for their personal and confrontational work in keeping with their art for all ethos.

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Jaylen Clark is making room for it in his mind.Alongside the trophies, medals, plaques, certificates and awards the UCLA guard has accumulated over a career spanning numerous youth and high school championships plus a trip to the Final Four will soon reside one improbable basketball memento.A 2-foot-by-6-inch rawhide dog bone.

It's Dec. 17, 2022, at 9:17 a.m. at the Paris house in Westwood.Jack Paris, wearing green pajama bottoms and a blue Loyola High T-shirt, is sitting at a granite kitchen table staring at his laptop computer as family members gather around to see if he has been accepted to MIT.
"I'm nervous," Paris says.

Given that I was born in 2000, Alex Rodríguez permeates every single one of my childhood Yankees memories.I remember seeing him at my first live game, a Yankees- Red Sox bout in '04, though I was admittedly more invested in the "caveman" on the opposing squad (a bearded and long-haired Johnny Damon).

A little over three decades ago, the Yankees were doing something rather rare for this organization, picking pretty high in the MLB Draft - the sixth overall spot, to be specific.With their choice, the team selected the first high schooler off the board, a shortstop by the name of Derek Jeter, and the rest was history.

Thoughtful, artistic and driven, Geddes Ulinskas has been making his mark as an architect in the Bay Area, and beyond, since starting his own firm in 2005.He's participated in the San Francisco Decorator's Showcase multiple times, and he's collaborated with major developers like Troon Pacific on multimillion dollar projects.

Musicians JD Beck, left, and DOMi.(Tehillah De Castro/Universal Music Group/AFP/Getty Images)DOMi and JD BECK (as they stylize their names) issued their debut album, 2022's "Not Tight," on Blue Note Records, jazz's most storied label.Among its featured guests are two of jazz's brightest stars: pianist Herbie Hancock and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel.

By Eduardo Morales, Ph.D.-
Friday, February 7, 2023, marked the passing of Dr. Michael I. Loewy, a beloved member of the psychology community and advocate for LGBTQ+ individuals.He was known for his warmth, generosity, and dedication to social justice and equity.He made significant contributions as a scholar, activist, advocate, and educator.

When we found out the pregnancy was ectopic and life-threatening, my husband vowed to never ask me to have children again.It had been a 12-year negotiation.He wanted children; I didn't.When we met in college, two foreign students in dizzying New York City for the first time, I never thought that a decade later, he would be lying next to me in bed monitoring my breathing in case my fallopian tube ruptured and he had to rush me to the emergency room, afraid I would hemorrhage to death.

Portland Dining Month may be a relic of the pre-pandemic past, but several of the city's breweries have adopted the prix fixe model and started Portland Brewery Dining Month, offering three-course meals for $35 during March.Diners can head to the nine participating breweries - Ecliptic Brewing, Backwoods Brewing, Gigantic Brewing (Hawthorne location only), Grand Fir Brewing, Migration Brewing, Old Town Brewing (Northeast location only), Steeplejack Brewing, Stormbreaker Brewing (North Beech Street location only), and Von Ebert Brewing - all month long to enjoy menus which include an appetizer, entree, dessert, and beverage (select beers, wine, or nonalcoholic drink).

What my high school director was actually reflecting was society's gender-based expectations of parental roles at the time (and perhaps still now), and the sentiment comes in such a slick package that it rings true even if it's not.Conversely, there is no neat categorization or adage for the single mother experience, but there sure is a lot of judgment.

Books A new biography places the poet Phillis Wheatley in her own time - and in the middle of the current hot debate about the American Revolution and slavery.Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called "On Being Brought From Africa to America," which began with praise for the "mercy" that brought her from "my Pagan land" into Christian redemption.