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The blame game and the making of a congressional con man

On Saturday November 18, George Santos, newly elected as congressman representing a district covering northern Long Island and northwestern Queens, spoke at a summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition. He was a valued guest at the event as one…

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The Russian coverup that the ‘Nutcracker’ composer was gay

The coverup began before the body had grown cold. With Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, once-in-a-generation musical genius, laying dead in the guest bedroom at just 53, his brother Modeste penned the lie later upheld by decades of historians. Modeste claimed, simply…

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Religious police in Nigeria arrest 19 at a same-sex wedding

Members of Islamic police enforcing sharia law in the northern Nigerian state of Kano arrested 19 men and women yesterday, accusing them of attending a same-sex marriage. A spokesperson for the religious police, known locally at the hisbah, said they…