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A Prayer To Let August Be The Beginning Of Something Beautiful
Finding peace starts with surrendering our worries to the universe and trusting that God’s guidance will meet us in the middle of our uncertainty. Best-selling author of Finding God Every Day, Rebecca Simon, reminds us to trust God’s timing, embrace patience, and lean on His presence through every season of life. You don’t need August to…
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John Leguizamo Says Voicing Sid the Sloth in ‘Ice Age’ Paid for a New York Brownstone, a Hamptons Beach House, and Both His Kids’ College Tuition
The role that let John Leguizamo do his silliest work also built his real estate portfolio. The paycheck that changed things came from the third film, 2009’s ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.’ By then Leguizamo had leverage the first movie never gave him, and he told Page Six that installment “got me a brownstone.…
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Renée Richards Sued the USTA for the Right to Play as a Woman in 1977. Now, at 91, She Argues Trans Women Shouldn’t
Renée Richards sued for the right to play as a woman and won, becoming professional tennis’s first openly transgender player. Fifty years later, she thinks trans women and girls mostly shouldn’t compete in women’s sports. The woman who won the legal fight to compete has spent her later years arguing that most athletes like her…
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Courageous or Criminal? a Texas Father Pulled a Gun in the ICU to Stop Doctors from Taking His Son Off Life Support
Doctors said George Pickering III was brain dead and started withdrawing life support. During the standoff his father forced, the son squeezed his hand on command, and he’s alive today to tell it. George Pickering III squeezes his father’s hand on command three or four times, and that was supposed to be impossible. Doctors at…
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Radical Realities Your Zodiac Must Learn (Before August)
ARIES Ask for what you want. Human beings are strange creatures. We communicate through subtle hints, body language, little digs, and sometimes, even through silence. Your life chapter is teaching you how to leave behind those childish approaches and effectively communicate what you want to others. You’re done walking on eggshells or waiting for prince…
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3 Birth Months That Need Reassurance From The Universe Right Now
April April souls, you’re usually all about charging ahead, full of fire and purpose, but right now, it feels like you’re stuck at a crossroads with no clear direction. It’s like you’re revving your engine, but the GPS is glitching, and you’re not sure which way to go. The usual spark that drives you feels…
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God Is Light: In Him There Is No Darkness At All (1 John 1:5)
Walking in the presence of God means inviting His pure light to expose, heal, and transform every area of our lives, a profound reality unveiled by Karin Hadadan. Mirroring this, Rebecca Simon’s Stay Single helps you recognize the small, daily opportunities to reflect His light while navigating your own unique season. Read on below. This…
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A Podcast Won a GLAAD Award, Then Called Homeschooling “Child Abuse” and “Weird As F—” but the Evidence Suggests Something Different
Peer-reviewed research says homeschoolers outscore their public school peers by 15 to 25 points on standardized tests. Among Black homeschoolers, the gap runs as high as 42 points. Homeschoolers score at least 15 to 25 points higher than public school students on standardized tests, and among Black homeschoolers the gap runs as high as 42…
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4 Zodiacs About To Reach New Heights In July
VIRGO It’s rare for you to be caught off guard, Virgo, but this is the one instance in life where you haven’t been asking for more. More responsibility, more visibility, more recognition, more reward. You’re always the one with your hand held high when it comes time to pick someone for the promotion but for…
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There Are an Estimated 350,000 Unsolved Homicides in the US Dating Back to 1965, and Experts Say the Thing That Cracks Them Open Isn’t DNA
Most cold cases don’t break because of a lab breakthrough. They break because the people protecting a killer eventually stop. Here’s how investigators say decades-old homicides actually get solved — and why the tools that crack them can’t promise families the one thing they’re told to hope for. Decades after a killer thinks he’s gotten…
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Date These 4 Zodiacs If You Want To Be Wined and Dined
SAGITTARIUS Dating a Sagittarius immediately elevates your street cred, but also means every place you’ll ever want to be will always be linked to them. It doesn’t matter what it is: late night tacos, dive bars, omakase, hand-made pasta, beef tartare, caviar service; Sagittarius knows the best place to find it, all the hidden gems,…
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Sydney Sweeney Just Took Underwear-As-Outerwear Past the Y2K Whale Tail and Pulled a Thong on Over Her Jeans
The whale tail peeked. Sweeney’s SYRN shoot skips the peek and wears the thong on the outside of the denim. Underwear as outerwear is not new. Madonna’s 1990 Blond Ambition tour put Jean Paul Gaultier’s cone bras and corsets on stage as clothing. The 1990s slip dress kept blurring the line. The early 2000s pushed…
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Which Zodiac Sign Will Most Likely Break Your Heart (Ranked)
1. SCORPIO Worst of the worst. Falling in love with a Scorpio is like falling through a trapdoor. They will sting your heart in a million little places and let it slowly bleed out. They are the type that will laugh in your face as you cry. As you start crying harder, they will start…
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Diddy Landed in Solitary After a Prison Fight, and His Friends Are Leaking the It to the Press to Help Spin His Bad Boy Image Back in the Press
A fight with another inmate landed Diddy in solitary, and the leaked version says he “held his own.” One insider put it plainly: “He wasn’t afraid of bad press. He was terrified of being forgotten.” Solitary confinement is a disciplinary measure, not a badge of honor, but the leaked account of Diddy’s prison fight frames…
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6 Birth Months Who Are Mentally Tough
June June natives are a fountain of knowledge. No matter the adversity they face, they can always rely on what they know to get them through. They take care of their mental health. June-born individuals must always be mentally stimulated. They have one of the sharpest minds of the year and are tough cookies to…
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AOC Dismissed Trump’s Communist Takeover Warning as ‘Very Silly,’ Citing the Frozen $7.25 Minimum Wage
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is brushing off Trump’s warnings of a communist takeover as “very silly,” pointing out that the U.S. can’t even manage to raise its long-frozen minimum wage — and casting the fear-mongering as a distraction from issues like health care. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, and…
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Tom Holland Is Playing Fred Astaire, and He Says He’ll Do All His Own Dancing with No Doubles and Every Routine Shot in a Single Take
Holland got his start dancing in “Billy Elliot the Musical” in the West End, then walked away from dance the day he finished. Now he’s returning to the same London studio where it began, this time to become Fred Astaire.
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Anya Taylor-Joy Got Bullied for the Exact Eyes That Made Her a Star
The distinctive wide-set eyes that helped make Anya Taylor-Joy a star were once the very feature that made her a target for bullies.