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Women's rights activists in Honduras are celebrating a major victory, after President Xiomara Castro

Texas prosecutors downgraded charges filed against a group of Greenpeace activists on Wednesday, def

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Nashville, TENN. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill banning drag shows in public spaces, a

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