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Baltimore Orioles head trainer Brian Ebel, left, helps home plate umpire Scott Barry get relief with a wet towel around his head after the sixth inning of a baseball game between the Orioles and the New York Yankees, Sunday, July 24, 2022, in Baltimore. The Yankees won 5-0. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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As heat records fall in Northeast, some city dwellers flee
By JEFF MCMILLAN - Associated Press
Sun,07/24/22-11:39AM , 752 Reads
PROMISED LAND, Pa. (AP) — It's not exactly flowing with milk and honey — just ask the area's struggling black bears — but Promised Land offered respite Sunday for city folks in the Northeast trying to escape a nearly weeklong hot spell that only threatened to intensify.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, left, stands next to 16-year-old Aspen Morris at the Rainbow Pride flag raising Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. Democratic political candidates who otherwise support the civil rights, safety and visibility of LGBTQ adults and children are finding it difficult to respond to a Republican vote-getting offensive targeting such people. The Republicans' use of LGBTQ people as a “wedge issue” seeks to appeal to the general public’s emotions and misunderstandings about transgender people in particular. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP File)

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LGBTQ people urge Democrats to forcefully reject GOP attacks
By JEFF MCMILLAN - Associated Press
Fri,06/03/22-11:59PM , 281 Reads
"The T stands for transgender,” a teacher explains in a video on a Maine Department of Education website launched during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Wynonna Judd, left, and her mother, Naomi Judd, of The Judds, perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXVIII in Atlanta on Jan. 30, 1994. Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born matriarch of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died, her family announced Saturday, April 30, 2022. She was 76. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)

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ESSAY: For a gay country boy, Naomi Judd did build a bridge
By JEFF MCMILLAN - Associated Press
Sat,04/30/22-11:06PM , 446 Reads
Somewhere in Michigan in the early 1990s, a teenage farm boy clings to a chain-link fence at the edge of the county fairgrounds. He is angling for a distant, and free, glimpse of Naomi and Wynonna Judd.
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