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A Ryanair Flight Carrying An Opposition Journalist Is Forced To Land In Belarus

The passenger flight carrying Roman Protasevich, the former editor of an opposition social media channel, made an emergency landing after reports of a bomb on board. No explosives were found.

Florida High School Edited Girls' Yearbook Photos To Cover More Of Their Chests

Dozens of female students at the school were surprised to see that their yearbook photos had been digitally edited without their consent to add more clothing.

Biden Administration Extends Temporary Protected Status For Haitians In U.S.

Eligible Haitians in the U.S. can apply for a new 18-month designation. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cited security concerns, human rights abuses and poverty for the decision.

New York Extends Expiration Date For COVID-19 Excelsior Pass

Governor Cuomo also announced that more than 1 million Excelsior Passes have been issued since New York began the program in March.

Experts Urge Vigilance In Fighting Tick Bites

“Ticks are part of our landscape now, and they’re part of our lives, so if we like to be outside and enjoy all of what the outdoors has to offer, we need to be prepared to protect ourselves."

Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way, by Caseen Gaines

100 Hundred Years Ago, 'Shuffle Along' Changed Broadway

Though much of it is unwatchable today — it contains blackface and other minstrelsy — Shuffle Along brought jazz to Broadway and was the first African American show to be a smash hit.

The Metropolitan Correctional Center, which is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, stands in lower Manhattan. A proposed deal would allow two guards to avoid incarceration for allegedly falsifying documents to conceal that they did not make the required checks on Jeffrey Epstein the night he died.

In A New Deal With Prosecutors, Jeffrey Epstein Guards Would Avoid Jail

Noel and Thomas have admitted to lying about their failure to make rounds while they were assigned to monitor the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender the night he killed himself.

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, center, arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Impeachment Witness Gordon Sondland Is Suing Mike Pompeo And U.S. For $1.8 Million

Sondland, who testified about a "quid pro quo" between Trump and Ukraine, says the former secretary of state reneged on an agreement to pay his impeachment-related legal fees.

Hanford Mills Museum

The old water-powered mill on Kortright Creek in East Meredith has been in operation since 1846. Named after David Josiah Hanford, who purchased the mill…

Protesters hold images of Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko (L), Belarus opposition activist Roman Protasevich (C) and Protasevich's Russian girlfriend Sofia Sapega (R) during a demonstration of Belarusians living in Poland and Poles supporting them in front of European Commission office in Warsaw on May 24, 2021 a day after a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying the dissident journalist was diverted while in Belarusian airspace. - The Belarus Interior Ministry said on May 24 that opposition activist Roman Protasevich, who was aboard the diverted Ryanair flight, is being held in the capital Minsk and dismissed unconfirmed reports that he was hospitalised. The passenger flight from Athens to Vilnius was diverted while in Belarusian airspace on May 23 over a supposed bomb threat, prompting a global outcry to Minsk's forced landing of the aircraft. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

EU Asks All EU-Based Airlines To Avoid Belarusian Airspace After Forced Landing

The move comes a day after Belarus ordered a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing in Minsk due to reports of a bomb aboard, in a ruse to apprehend an opposition activist.

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