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The country’s only all-male historically black college will begin admitting transgender men next year, marking a major shift for the school at a time when higher education institutions around the nation are adopting more welcoming policies toward LGBT students. Leaders of Morehouse College told The Associated Press that its board of trustees approved the policy on…

While seeing an alligator is never too much of a surprise in Florida, the number of close encounters has jumped in recent days and it’s likely due to a combination of hunger and lust.  A family in Fort Meyers was awoken by an eight-foot gator in their lanai in the middle of the night last…

Friends! Foes! Spouses! Siblings! “Game of Thrones” characters who haven’t seen one another since, in some cases, the very first season met face-to-face in Sunday night’s long, long awaited Season 8 premiere. We’ve had a lot of time to imagine these moments, playing them out and pondering their significance to each of the characters involved….

Childish Gambino, the musician alter ego of actor Donald Glover, urged fans at Friday night’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to live in the moment during an emotional speech about his father and rappers Nipsey Hussle and Mac Miller, all of whom died in the past eight months. Speaking during his Friday set, Glover…

A few feet from the Rio Grande, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, delighting audiences and advocating for unity in border cities Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.  Ma has been on a two-year, multi-continent tour called “The Bach Project,” in which he’s been performing Johann Sebastian…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) warned Sunday that President Donald Trump’s “hateful” rhetoric toward Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) creates “real danger,” days after some Democrats claimed she wasn’t taking a strong enough stance against the president’s anti-Muslim actions. “The president’s words weigh a ton, and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger,” Pelosi said…

MAPUTO, April 15 (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people are still in need of aid after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in March. More than 1,000 people have been reported killed by the storm, the flooding it caused and heavy rains before it hit. The World Bank estimates the affected countries will…

John Oliver is trying to taunt the Sackler family into coming out of hiding. The “Last Week Tonight” host said the family loves to use the wealth it has reaped from Purdue Pharma, a major opioid manufacturer, to put its name on things including museums and galleries.  “Not bad for a family whose very name…

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said she has seen a significant increase in threats to her life since President Donald Trump tweeted a misleading video about comments she made about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  “Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in direct threats on my life ― many directly referencing or…

Amid growing public concern for Julian Assange’s cat in the face of the WikiLeaks’ founder’s arrest, the organization has provided video evidence that the feline is alive and well. “We can confirm that Assange’s cat is safe,” WikiLeaks tweeted Saturday. “Assange asked his lawyers to rescue him from embassy threats in mid-October. They will be…