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Marc Ramirez
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Chronicler of Americana and issues of faith, identity and social justice, USA TODAY. Will brake for film festivals. Avid about food/drink culture and the people behind it. ❤️ in the Pacific NW
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Do you ever stop and wonder how many problems Jay-Z has now.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Love this obit to the humble penny by @typewriterninja.bsky.social for @usatoday.com Please read to the end!
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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"In the end, plagued by doubts about self-worth, it would finally fade from the spotlight, like a screen star of decades past whose phone had stopped ringing long ago."
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The penny, America's oldest and most iconic coin in circulation, dies at 232
The penny will be remembered by tycoons and panhandlers alike as an iconic piece of America that stayed in our pockets for over two centuries.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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He once made a pact with the devil. Now he's a Catholic saint. Go ahead and call it a comeback.
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He once dealt with the devil. Now he's one of seven new Catholic saints
An Italian lawyer who once sought refuge in the occult, Bartolo Longo ultimately felt called to build a shrine and promote praying of the rosary.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.
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"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...
Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’
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October 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A letter from war torn Portland Oregon, truly heartbreaking. Please pass along so others across the world can see how bad it is🤭

#DefendersOfDemocracy
October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The revelation comes amid widespread coarsening of broader political discourse as incendiary and racially offensive tropes from the right become increasingly common in public debate.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat politi.co/4onLnFu via
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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LDS Church officially ordains its new leader
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints names Dallin H. Oaks as new president
The new president has a formidable legacy to live up to, succeeding influential church leader Russell M. Nelson, who died Sept. 27 at age 101.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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'The building is a mess of our own doing,' said Reagan Rothenberger, a civic leader who hopes to save the site. 'The greatest historic buildings survive today because someone spoke out for them.' #dallascityhall
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After starring in sci-fi classic RoboCop, could Dallas City Hall's days be numbered?
Facing massive maintenance and repair costs, Dallas leaders consider abandoning a building designed to erase the stain of the JFK assassination.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The nation's third-largest city has become the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration's intensifying deportation campaign and crackdown on crime in Democratic-led cities.
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Trump threatens jail for Chicago mayor, Illinois gov. amid ICE, National Guard tension
President Donald Trump called for the arrests of Chicago's mayor and Illinois' governor as the city braced for the arrival of National Guard troops.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“To some people it’s a point of great pride, but to others it’s an evil symbol of the horrible things done to Native people," said Tom Lawrence, a 4th-generation South Dakotan, of the iconic landmark.

Steeped in controversy, Mount Rushmore marks 100th anniversary
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Steeped in controversy, Mount Rushmore marks 100th anniversary of its birth
Some have floated the idea of adding President Donald Trump’s head to Mount Rushmore despite such a feat's structural impracticality.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The parents called the plan 'unthinkable,' saying: "You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body."

Parents of girl missing in Camp Mystic flooding 'devastated' by reopening plan
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Parents of girl missing from Camp Mystic flooding 'devastated' by reopening plan
"You are preparing to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body," Cici and Will Steward wrote to camp owners.
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September 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“They’re acknowledging that this is a space that’s not optional," said Catholic influencer Angie Bosio. "We need to evangelize, and this is a space that people are occupying and we need to bring our Catholic culture into that space.”
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Don't call them influencers: 'Digital missionaries' earn Vatican's blessing
While other faiths have adapted to social media, the Catholic Church is unique in embracing its influencers, or what it calls 'digital missionaries.'
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September 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a Secret Service detail.
Trump Gifts Leavitt Own Secret Service After Axing Kamala’s
The move comes after Trump’s administration urged Congress to approve a $58 million increase in security.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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“There is absolutely no good reason that Donald Trump took away this specialized help for LGBTQ youth. Mental health does not see partisan lines or geography.” - Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the bill's co-sponsor

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Senators introduce bill to reinstate LGBTQ+ youth crisis lifeline eliminated by Trump
The 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Access Act would direct HHS to dedicate funding toward reviving the program, which the Trump administration scrapped in July.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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USA TODAY: Senators introduce bipartisan bill to reinstate LGBTQ youth crisis lifeline eliminated by Trump

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Senators introduce bill to reinstate LGBTQ+ youth crisis lifeline eliminated by Trump
The 988 LGBTQ+ Youth Access Act would direct HHS to dedicate funding toward reviving the program, which the Trump administration scrapped in July.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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'It will be important to determine if the Nebraska herd represents a new bird-to-cow infection, or if the virus was brought into the state by an already infected cow,' said U-Penn microbiology professor Scott Hensley.

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Nebraska confirms state's first case of bird flu in dairy herd as US outbreak persists
Bird flu cases have been confirmed in more than 1,000 herds nationwide since the virus was first found in dairy cows in March 2024.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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“They all believe... some people should be in charge and others are meant to be followers. That weaves in misogyny, because the people perceived to be appropriately at top are always men, so by definition women have a secondary position.” - UNF prof. Julie Ingersoll
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How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women
The rise of the manosphere, with its call for a return to traditional gender roles, reflects a backlash to power-shifting cultural changes.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“You get about an eight-minute window where you can try to give your congregation some consolation and remind them that good is ultimately stronger than evil," said Fr. Rich Miserendino of Virginia, preparing to deliver his Sunday homily.
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Evil showed its face at Minneapolis church. What can priests say to comfort the faithful?
While some pastors may want to craft homilies around calls for gun control or political criticism, others say focusing on faith may be more helpful.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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More Dems should have the courage to make this point. Trump officials conducting his unconstitutional orders should remember - every autocracy eventually falls. MAGA will be no different. Trump cannot shield them forever. Their participation in this blatant illegality is being thoroughly documented.
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker on potential National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"This is about Trump searching for every justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try intimidate his political rivals... to circumvent our democracy, militarise our cities and end elections."
August 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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With its newly released laser-engraved coin, “the Mint is trying to send a very public message by coming up with new technology that will thwart counterfeiters and set them back generations.”
-- Scott Travers of COINage magazine
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US Mint issues first laser-engraved coin. Some say it sends a message to counterfeiters
Numismatic experts say counterfeit coins are rampant. The US Mint says its new laser technology is a means to deter forgeries.
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August 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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'I haven’t seen so many Black girls in cowboy hats and boots, ever. We’ve had our rodeos, but city slickers were never in tune with it. Now, it’s like the floodgates opened.'
-- former bull riding champ Danell Tipton, citing Beyonce's influence on Black rodeo
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Why all-Black rodeo events are 'so hot right now'
The nation's longest running Black rodeo is among a handful of events some say have seen a boost due to Beyonce's groundbreaking 2024 country album.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM