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Anti-LGBT hate group leader rang the NYSE opening bell.

Mat Staver, head of the anti-LGBTQ hate group Liberty Counsel, helped ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell to celebrate the listings of “biblically responsible” funds. The fund actively avoids investing in companies that “support non-scriptural lifestyles” and “anti-family entertainment.”…

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1 in 5 LGBT Americans lives in poverty.

About one in five LGBTQ people in America (21.6%) lives in poverty, compared to an estimated 15.7% poverty rate among their cisgender straight counterparts, according to new research from the Williams Institute, a UCLA Law think tank that researches sexual orientation, gender identity and…

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Russian trolls are back. And they’re here to meddle with 2020.

People linked to the Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin-backed troll group indicted by the United States for its alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election, are laying the groundwork to do the same in 2020, new information released by Facebook on Monday suggests…