CrypticFawn

joined 2 years ago
 

When fire engulfed the Paris landmark in 2019, the intricate maze of medieval beams supporting the roof fell to the cathedral floor. Experts are working to restore the church by the end of 2024.

 

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — For years, Orden David was persecuted in his native Antigua and Barbuda — a frequent complaint by many LGBTQ people who fear for their safety across the conservative and mostly Christian Caribbean, where anti-gay hostility is widespread.

[–] CrypticFawn@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Everyone I know uses Discord, even my 59 year old mother. It makes sharing stuff with her, including streams, super easy. I can't imagine trying to convince her or anyone else to swap to Matrix. Plus I'm part of multiple art communities on Discord.

 

A national chain known for its food and aesthetic that drips in southern comfort is the next business facing backlash over its support of Pride Month and the LGBTQ+ community. The Texas Family Project called on supporters to boycott Cracker Barrel on Thursday, June 8, stating "a once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob."

 

China has been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence collection facilities there in 2019, a Biden administration official said on Saturday, following a report about a new spying effort underway on the island.

 

French judges have handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park. The suspect is a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with permanent residency in Sweden who has a 3-year-old daughter. His name was not released. The lead prosecutor said he was presented to investigating judges in the Alps town of Annecy on Saturday and handed the charges. He is in custody pending further investigation. Witnesses said he mentioned his daughter, wife and Jesus Christ during the attack. The prosecutor says the victims are no longer in life-threatening condition after Thursday’s stabbing.

 

As fighting in Sudan's capital continues to rage, experts say it's spilling over into the Darfur region and risks fully reigniting a conflict from the early 2000s that left hundreds of thousands dead.

 

Military progress on both sides of the Ukraine counteroffensive has been "mixed" in the last two days, the UK MoD said in a statement on Saturday.

 

The Messages app on your iPhone is getting some new features with iOS 17

 

The iPhone 15 line could cost more than their iPhone 14 counterparts

 

It was the early 1990s in Atlanta when Malcolm Reid first felt the lymph nodes on his neck seemed swollen. “And I read an article in Ebony Magazine. That’s when […]

 

The biggest Pride parade in New England has returned to Boston for the first time since 2019. Organizers say this year's focus was less on corporate backing and more on social justice and inclusion. The hiatus was due only in part to COVID-19 restrictions. The organization that used to run the event dissolved in 2021 amid criticism that it excluded racial minorities and transgender people. Pride celebrations were also held Saturday at the White House, in Rome and in New Mexico, among other sites around the globe. More are planned in other places through the remainder of June.

 

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81. A spokesperson for a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, tells The Associated Press that the man branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.

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