ATLANTA (AP) — Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend, with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and Virginia. A protest against […]
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PARIS — Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104. Havilland, the […]
In addition to their interest in children, the two also had in common that both had parents who had immigrated from West Africa, both grew up in Northern California, both liked basketball and both were drawn to social justice issues. “Things he thought were important were things that I also […]
Bruktaweit Addis and Tif Slama were feeling pretty good about their second date, after having met on the dating app Bumble in March 2016. They had spent their first date chatting about Ms. Addis’s fear of earthquakes and Mr. Slama’s love of Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock, and were planning […]
Donald Trump has said that he is ‘sending people in to New York’ in the same way he has sent federal forces to Chicago and Portland. Trump made his announcement the day after Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said he had received reassurances from Trump that federal agents […]
Zhao, 33, was a professional poker player who most recently lived in Los Angeles, but came back to Oakland County, Michigan, where her mother and stepfather live on June 9, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ in Detroit. The body was discovered at a parking area near the Pontiac Lake Trail […]
Police in Michigan this week identified the charred remains discovered in a remote parking lot earlier in July as professional poker player Susie Zhao. The FBI has joined the investigation into the ‘mysterious death’ of the 33-year old, who was described as a ‘national talent’ on the competitive poker circuit, where […]
Brontez Purnell, Oakland, Calif.-based writer and artist We kind of take Tom of Finland for granted, because, let’s be honest, as gay men, do we really need any more images of super muscular white dudes? No, of course not. But, also, he was an excellent portraitist, probably the last of […]