The incident adds to concerns about an institution that’s increasingly seen as partisan and lacking strict ethical guidelines.
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Video appears to show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs beating singer Cassie in hotel hallway in 2016
The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protege and longtime girlfriend at the time.
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Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters rally in Washington to mark a painful present and past
Protesters focused their anger on President Biden, whom they accuse of feigning concern over the death toll in Gaza.
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For decades, states have taken foster children’s federal benefits. That’s starting to change.
States have for decades been using foster children’s federal Social Security benefits to help cover the costs of state services.
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Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92
The mustachioed character actor was best known for roles as smarmy villains, like the chauvinist boss in ‘9 to 5’ and the nasty TV director in ‘Tootsie.’
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After decisive loss at Alabama Mercedes plants, powerful auto union vows to return and win
Workers at two Mercedes factories in Alabama voted decisively against unionizing.
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A college puts the ‘cat’ into ‘education’ by giving tabby honorary ‘doctor of litter-ature’ degree
The popular tabby lives in a house with his human family on the street that leads to the main entrance to campus.
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Some of the Catholic Church’s best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary
The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral
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Vatican moves to adapt to hoaxes, Internet and overhauls its process for evaluating visions of Mary
Pope Francis has expressed skepticism about more recent events, including claims of repeated messages from Mary to “seers” at the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Some of the Catholic Church’s best-known approved, and not approved, reports of apparitions of Mary
Previously approved apparitions have turned these sites into major pilgrimage destinations, drawing millions of people to them each year.