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Book banning accelerated across the nation in the school year from 2021 to 2022, mostly because of coordinated efforts made by organized groups that called on public schools to remove more than 1,600 titles.  The […]

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The Manhattan district attorney’s office has seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art that the investigators believe to be looted, executing three search warrants. The spokesperson for the District […]

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Despite accusations that the school is targeting gay and transgender students and alleged death threats against school leaders, a private Christian school in Florida is sticking to its long-held policy that students do not partake […]

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The disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo has found himself in yet another scandal after the prosecutors in Argentina have linked him to a criminal gang in Buenos Aires that serves as a front for sexual […]

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The Nobel Peace Prize medal that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has put on auction sale to raise money for refugee children from Ukraine has shattered the old record for a Nobel and sold Monday night […]

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The Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra which earlier this month has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has raised over $900,000 (£712,000; €838,000) for the war in Ukraine by selling their trophy to raise money. The […]

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The head of U.S. Strategic Command warned Congress this week that Washington faces a heightened nuclear deterrence risk when it comes to Russia and China. The U.S. Strategic Command oversees the nuclear arsenal.  Adm. Charles […]

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Anne Frank, dressed in a blue dress with a blue and yellow ribbon around her neck, and with a candle in her hand burning the Z symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is the […]

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One of the greatest Soviet-born ballet dancers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, has made a plea for the world to not punish Russian performers, artists, and athletes for Russia’s war in Ukraine.  Baryshnikov is the leading male classical […]

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A street artist in Naples, Italy, has used his art to protest against the decision of a university in Milan to cancel a course on Fyodor Dostoevsky, painting a giant mural of the Russian author. […]

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The calls to demolish Russian sculptures or ban Russian exhibits as a reaction to the war in Ukraine are absurd, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has stressed, expressing hope that the […]

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Social media companies are restricting access to Russian state-backed media, as UK Ofcom launches investigation into Russian news channels, amid mass concerns about disinformation.  Facebook parent company Meta restricted access to both RT, formerly Russia […]

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Archaeologists discovered a 9,000-year-old shrine and ritual complex at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s desert, making it what is thought to be the earliest known large human-built structure to ever be uncovered. The ritual […]

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American cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus”, which was banned by a Tennessee school board a day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, has become number one on Amazon’s best-sellers list. The iconic story of a […]

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A day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Tennessee school board voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum.  The graphic novel “Maus” is about Polish Jews who survived […]

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Iraq foreign ministry announced on Tuesday it will receive back from the US authorities two stolen artifacts dating back more than 4,000 years this week, without providing more details about the pieces or how they […]

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Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first-ever Black woman to be featured on American currency. The US Treasury has now minted quarters featuring Angelou, who was the first Black woman to write and perform […]

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American publisher Merriam-Webster, well-known for its dictionaries, has declared “vaccine” as its word of the year, noting it expanded its definition to reflect the times since the promising medical solution has become a political argument […]

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Stephen Sondheim, the driving force behind some of Broadway’s most beloved and celebrated shows and the most revered and influential theater composer-lyricist of the second half of the 20th century, has died at the age […]

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