Before I forget…
Poland’s president vetoed a bill that would have made emergency contraceptive pills available without prescription to people over the age of 15, a move that one politician called a win for “superstitions and conservative ideology.”
Georgia’s ruling party wants to ban sex changes, adoptions by same-sex couples and “gatherings aimed at popularizing same-sex family or intimate relationships.”
Old and in the way: Chinese adults 30 and up are bemoaning their difficulties in finding a job as the government fights high youth unemployment.
The U.S. is seeking to forfeit two New York City apartments that a former Mongolian prime minister bought for $14 million with stolen mining funds, prosecutors said.
Fact Check: ‘Public hanging’ is not a punishment for treason listed in the U.S. Code.
Louis Gossett Jr. died at 87. He was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best supporting actor. “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Enemy Mine” and “Iron Eagle” were mainstays in my moviegoing childhood, but I urge you to watch Hal Ashby’s all-but-forgotten “The Landlord,” in which he plays a substantial role opposite Beau Bridges.
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