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The FBI is urging people to report health care providers who may be assisting transgender minors with gender-affirming care, as part of the Trump administration’s mission to “protect children.” “As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care,” the FBI’s official account wrote on the social platform X on Monday, urging followers to “report tips of any hospitals, clinics or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children” to its phone and web tip lines. According to the independent KFF policy tracker, youth gender-affirming care…

It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy within 10 billion years. While scientists have previously reported that a convergence was certain, an analysis of the latest data suggests the odds are only about 50 percent, researchers report June 2 in Nature Astronomy. The Milky Way’s largest satellite system — the Large Magellanic Cloud — may be our galaxy’s saving grace, the study shows. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week’s scientific breakthroughs every Thursday. “What stands out is the role of the Large Magellanic Cloud,” says…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed filmmaker D.J. Caruso for representation in all areas. Caruso launched his career directing standout episodes of television including The Shield, Steven Spielberg’s High Incident, and James Cameron’s Dark Angel, before making his feature debut with The Salton Sea, a critically acclaimed crime thriller starring Val Kilmer. He went on to deliver a string of box office hits including Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf; Eagle Eye, featuring LaBeouf alongside Michelle Monaghan; and I Am Number Four — all of which opened at No. 1. In 2017, Caruso revived the xXx action franchise with The Return of Xander Cage,…

It’s been a long wait, but Outfit7 has revealed My Talking Tom Friends 2, a new mobile game that will bring the Talking Tom & Friends crew back in a new mobile game. Outfit7 is launching the single-player game this July as a sequel to My Talking Tom Friends, which debuted in 2020. Both games are related to Talking Friends, the original hit title that introduced Tom the talking cat to the world in 2012. The game will be coming in July, and it already has a million people who have pre-registered. This game gathers Tom’s friends in a neighborhood group. Players can jump into a…

On June 1, Mexico will become the only country in the world to elect all of its judges and magistrates. Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, a New York Times reporter based in Mexico City, breaks down why this new approach is so controversial. Source link

Billy Ray Moves on With FireroseBilly Ray quietly got engaged to Australian singer Firerose, who’s 27 years his junior, in August 2022 but waited to confirm the news until that November. “Growing up in Australia, my love of music was predominant over everything,” Firerose told People. “I’ve known his music since forever.” What started as a friendship turned into more during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. “All of the sudden, the life that I’ve always known as a touring artist didn’t exist anymore,” Billy Ray said. “A moment of so much change. And at the same time, Firerose,…

Why it matters: It’s somewhat ironic that arguably the biggest piracy enabler today is a device that comes from Amazon, a $2 trillion tech giant with a streaming service. According to a new report, jailbroken Amazon Fire Sticks are used to watch billions of dollars worth of pirated streams, and Google, Meta and Microsoft are exacerbating the situation. A report from Enders Analysis, titled “Video piracy: Big tech is clearly unwilling to address the problem,” looks at the issue of illegal streams. Driving the piracy epidemic, particularly in Europe, is the sports broadcasting industry. The BBC reports that the overall…

Russia has confirmed it will send a delegation to Istanbul, but Kyiv has not yet accepted the proposal.Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have killed at least two people, according to officials, as Ukraine ordered the evacuation of 11 more villages in its Sumy region bordering Russia. Russian troops launched an estimated 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine on Friday and overnight, the Ukrainian air force said on Saturday, adding that three of the missiles and 42 drones were destroyed and another 30 drones failed to reach their targets without causing damage. The attacks came amid uncertainty over…

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I have the pleasure of living in the big, busy, diverse, and very diasporic city of Atlanta, where the summertime lituations are about to get very real. There are a ton of great DJs in town spinning all sorts of Afropop and adjacent genres all year long – Afrobeats, amapiano, African, Caribbean, and Brazilian dance music and more – but nationally, it feels like there’s always been this idea that these sounds are especially suited for the summer. I’ve worried this can pigeonhole African artists, stereotype their music, and stifle the success of their crossover, but I’ve also had a…