As people in the audience cheered, Santana invoked comedian Dave Chappelle, who has compared being transgender to wearing blackface. He called Chappelle ‘my brother.’
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Posted inNew England
Boston announces new plan to rid city of encampment, get residents help
The plan includes giving police the power to remove tents and other makeshift shelters at an intersection where a sprawling encampment for unhoused people has sprung up.
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Posted inNew England
Former residents of New Hampshire’s youth center demand federal investigation into abuse claims
Close to 1,000 men and women have sued the state alleging physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
A french-fry boomtown emerges as a climate winner – as long as it has water
Irrigation experts say the region’s wells are on track to run dry by 2028.
Posted inNation & World, Obituaries
Prominent Lebanese journalist Talal Salman dies at age 85 after long illness
Salman founded one of his country’s largest Arabic-language independent newspapers.
Posted inMaine, News
Navy warship named for Maine’s capital to be commissioned in Eastport
Augusta officials will travel Down East to see the ship put into service in September.
Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
World Wrestling Entertainment star Bray Wyatt dies at 36
World Wrestling Entertainment star Bray Wyatt died Thursday, WWE announced. He was 36. Wyatt, whose real name was Windham Rotunda, died “unexpectedly,” according to an article on the WWE website that did not mention a cause of death. “WWE is saddened to learn that Windham Rotunda, also known as Bray Wyatt, passed away on Thursday, […]
Posted inSports
Injury proves even Shohei Ohtani has limitations
Ohtani’s exploits as a two-way player are unmatched in baseball history, but it’s possible those days are over.
Posted inNation & World, News
Niger’s junta invites Mali and Burkina Faso to aid its defense, asks French ambassador to leave
The move further escalates the international crisis in the West African nation stemming from a coup that ousted the West African nation’s democratically elected president.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Prosecutors to appeal judge’s decision to vacate Portland man’s manslaughter conviction
Mark Cardilli Jr., who admitted to shooting his sister’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Isahak Muse, in 2019, was freed on $20,000 cash bail Friday and will get a new trial if the state’s appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court is rejected.