On Tuesday, February 5th, Pope Francis offered his first public comments on what the Associated Press called a “global and pervasive” scandal that has quietly plagued the Roman Catholic Church for decades — the sexual abuse of nuns by bishops and priests. Last year, the Vatican refused to comment on …
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Update April 8, 3:38 p.m.Gadsby has announced a new four-week limited engagement run of Douglas in New York, July 23rd to August 17th at the Daryl Roth Theater. Tickets go on sale Sunday, April 14th at 10:00 a.m. Hannah Gadsby will follow her 2018 breakout Netflix stand-up special, Nanette, with …
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Jussie Smollett issued a statement Friday, the Empire actor’s first public comments since he was the attack victim in a possible hate crime earlier this week in Chicago. “Let me start by saying that I’m OK,” Smollett said in a statement to Essence. “My body is strong but my soul …
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Customs and Border Protection agents discovered 254 pounds of fentanyl in a truck this weekend, NBC reports. It was the largest seizure of the synthetic opioid, which has caused countless overdose deaths, in U.S. history. The bust took place Saturday when a tractor-trailer was stopped trying to enter the U.S. …
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The wife of Joquín “El Chapo” Guzmán played a key role in successful plot to break the accused drug lord out of a maximum-security prison in 2015, according to a former high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Emma Coronel Aispuro, Guzmán’s American-born wife who is more than 30 years his …
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