Gang leader rapes woman, collects 200,000 ransom

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  201 words  |  Martina Birk

The suspects were all nabbed for kidnapping a woman, robbing, and raping her in the Ariaria area of Aba in Abia State. The victim was robbed of her Infinix Hot 3 phone and raped at gunpoint by the gang leader. She was released the following day after her parents paid a ransom of ₦200,000. ADVERTISEMENT The detectives under the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) swiftly traced the suspects to their hideout in Umungbede village, located in the Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area. [Read More]

Gloria Steinem Reflects on Women's Liberation 50 Years Later

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2594 words  |  Billy Koelling

In the half-century since I wrote the essay below, as part of a cover story on “The Politics of Sex,” there has been some definite progress. “Women’s issues” are no longer in a silo but are understood as fundamental to everything. For instance, the single biggest determinant of whether a country is violent, or will use military violence against another country, is not poverty, natural resources, religion or even degree of democracy; it is violence against women. [Read More]

Guide to the U.S. Soccer Team in the 2023 Women's World Cup

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1919 words  |  Patria Henriques

Generational behaviors often confound the members of the 2023 U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT). In that sense, the USWNT locker room is not unlike most modern-day American workplaces. While older players scoff at the habits of the near-teenagers on the squad, with their TikToks and uses of phrases like “rizz”—that’s Gen Z shorthand for charisma—the young guns find the oldheads just as baffling. “Some of the songs they’re all listening to, I have no idea what they are,” says U. [Read More]

Handshake Meme Unites Twitter Users on Common Ground

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  216 words  |  Tandra Barner

August 21, 2018 3:25 PM EDT Every day, memes are created, laughed at, mimicked and ultimately forgotten. But luckily sometimes, some come along that perfectly combine funny and sweet sentiments that people from many different walks of life can get in on the fun. In the last week alone, Twitter users have come up with some hilarious memes like the absent stars from the MTV Music Video Awards pink carpet, or theories surrounding Rihanna’s recent trip to Cuba with Donald Glover. [Read More]

Happy 10th Birthday Ellen: The Shows Top 11 Moments

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  38 words  |  Kelle Repass

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Ellen tries to get Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon to say the show’s secret word “jacuzzi.” But it’s pretty hard to say anything when you’re wearing fake teeth.

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Here's What Would Happen If Animals Could Talk

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1337 words  |  Tandra Barner

One century ago in the 1915 trenches of World War I, a young engineer named Hugh Lofting was moved by the sufferings of innocent horses and mules drafted into the horrifying vortex of human destruction. Needing something to say in letters home to his small children, he invented a certain doctor to minister to the beasts. This remarkable man could, Lofting explained to his children, talk with animals. He would name his doctor “Dolittle” and place him in Victorian England amidst all that period’s rich discoveries of the living world. [Read More]

How a Lynching in New York 130 Years Ago Reverberates Today

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1722 words  |  Billy Koelling

On June 2nd a gathering in Port Jervis, New York will witness the unveiling of a plaque memorializing the lynching 130 years ago, on June 2, 1892, of Robert Lewis, a local Black citizen. Though scantly remembered for most of the 20th century, the horrific incident was infamous in its time, seen as a portent that lynching, then surging uncontrollably below the Mason-Dixon Line, was about to extend its tendrils northward. [Read More]

How to Start a Breathwork Practice

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1792 words  |  Kelle Repass

Ilana Nankin loved being a pre-K teacher, but she and her colleagues often felt stressed by their jobs. So when Nankin noticed a fellow teacher “looking absolutely blissed-out,” she tagged along to the teacher’s new yoga and breathwork class. “I haven’t looked back since,” Nankin says. She felt so calmed by the mindful movement and breathing techniques she learned that Nankin brought them into her classroom—and marveled as her students calmed down after a round of “bear belly breathing. [Read More]

Julie and John Gottman's Advice for Fighting With a Partner

 Posted on August 27, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1209 words  |  Kelle Repass

Julie and John Gottman are among the OGs of marriage therapy and research. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, one of John's early works, is among the bestselling marriage books of all time. And the Gottman Institute, which houses the research facility known as "The Love Lab," is considered the gold standard for relationship research. The Gottmans, who have been married to each other since 1987 (he's 81 and she's 72), have a new book, Fight Right, about how couples can learn to disagree in a loving way. [Read More]