Voting With Feet

Almost 23 years ago, heavily armed federal agents wearing body armor seized five-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami and returned him to his father, ultimately to be taken back to Cuba. The photo of the incident was a painful reminder of the fraught...

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Welcome, Peace

The Ethiopian parliament agreed Wednesday to remove the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step to advancing a peace process following the two-year civil conflict in the country’s north that killed hundreds of thousands, Bloomberg reported. Lawmakers approved...

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Scrapping the Bottom

Lebanese riot police clashed with protesters in the capital Wednesday, the latest unrest to grip the beleaguered nation amid an economic collapse and a plummeting local currency, the Associated Press reported. Authorities fired tear gas at demonstrators – many of them retired soldiers and police officials...

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Don’t Tell

Uganda passed a law on this week making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence, NBC News reported. While more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations, the new law...

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Birds of a Feather …

A 2020 study discovered that flamingos can form close “friendships” with other birds in their flock and avoid those they don’t like. Now, a research team found that the pink-feathered birds are actually very picky about whom they hang with, and tend to form cliques with...

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