Travis Co. Clerk’s Office offering free wedding ceremonies to celebrate Pride, Marriage Equality The clerk’s office is holding a Marriage Equality Week Celebration and offering free wedding ceremonies on June 22, 24, 26, and 28. 06/6/2024 - 4:16 am | View Link
Public support for same-sex marriage keeps increasing. But pastor attitudes have flatlined, study finds In the 2010s, Protestant pastors grew more likely to support same-sex marriage, but in recent years that support has flagged, according to survey results published Tuesday by Lifeway Research. 06/4/2024 - 2:06 pm | View Link
Former Mass. Supreme Court Justice reflects on legalization of same sex marriage I wrote many hundreds of opinions, but there is one decision that comes up every 20 years and it’s this one,” says former Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice, Margaret Marshall. In ... 06/4/2024 - 1:25 pm | View Link
Biden threatens VA budget veto over abortion, gender-affirming care President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to veto the House’s $360 billion appropriations plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs next year over restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care ... 06/4/2024 - 8:02 am | View Link
Biden to veto House GOP military funding bill over abortion, gay rights, and DEI provisions President Joe Biden will veto House Republicans‘ pitch for funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal 2025. The White House Office of Management and Budget ... 06/3/2024 - 2:57 am | View Link
St. Petersburg, Fla. — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf.
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza.
A World War II Navy veteran was being mourned Thursday following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a trip friends said he’d talked excitedly about making.
Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York fell ill during a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital, his longtime priest and friend, the Rev.
Washington — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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There was something special about this horse: It had a genetic mutation that changed the shape of its back, likely making it easier to ride.
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study.
As Russia’s war grinds on, the Biden Administration is now taking on bigger risks to support Ukraine. The latest example is a White House decision to allow Ukrainian forces to use U. S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia. We may also soon see NATO personnel on the ground in Ukraine to train fighters.
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Six months ago, Western leaders weren’t ready to discuss either of these changes—at least not publicly.
TOKYO — Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new initiative is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone.
While a site offering counsel and general information for potential lovebirds is online, a dating app is also in development.