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The shooting that killed five people and wounded 17 others at Club Q has profoundly shaken the small LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs. Among the victims were two recent transplants to Colorado, who came to the state seeking new opportunities.

In mid-November, several striking monuments rose out of the earth in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. One paid tribute to Gaspar Yanga, a slave-turned-liberator who led a successful uprising against Spanish colonizers in the 16th century. Yanga doesn’t appear

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New York has issued the state’s first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal and lucrative marketplace for recreational marijuana.

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The former first lady responds to an NPR listener who says that COVID has left them feeling lost and isolated. Her suggestion? ‘Take a risk’ and ‘put yourself out there.’ (Image credit: Photograph by Yiu Yu Hoi/Getty; Collage by NPR)

The former first lady responds to an NPR listener who says that COVID has left them feeling lost and isolated. Her suggestion? ‘Take a risk’ and ‘put yourself out there.’ (Image credit: Photograph by Yiu Yu Hoi/Getty; Collage by NPR)

The suspect in the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb last year. Yet despite that scare, there’s no public record that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law.

If there’s a risk to having the second-youngest squad at the 2022 World Cup, Team USA showed why at Doha’s Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on Monday night, when Gregg Berhalter’s team fought hard but ultimately folded under late pressure to