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Italy’s moves to ban surrogacy would make it hard for gay couples to become parents

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ERCOLANO, Italy — “Mamma mia!” exclaimed Luca Capuano, feigning surprise as his rotund infant, Paola, slurped another spoonful of her favorite mush, a concoction of rabbit and fennel home-cooked by her other dad, Salvatore Scarpa. Soon, they hoped, they’d be cooking for more in this kitchen, where Mount Vesuvius looms outside a rear window. The … Read more

Jenna Ortega oversized ‘ego’ too hard to handle on ‘Beetlejuice 2’?

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Jenna Ortega oversized ‘ego’ too hard to handle on ‘Beetlejuice 2’? Wednesday famed actress Jenna Ortega’s reported bloated ego had somewhat caused a stir on the set of Beetlejuice 2. Well-placed sources told RadarOnline the 21-year-old attitude on the film’s shooting couldn’t be called professional. “Jenna is cocky, confident, and born to do this kind of … Read more

CrowdStrike CEO explains why Russian hackers are hard to beat

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In a Monday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz discussed Microsoft’s high-profile security breach by a Russian intelligence group, saying these adversaries have a determined “low and slow” approach to hacking that’s especially tough to beat. Microsoft announced on Friday that the group, known as Nobelium, carried out the attack and was … Read more

Phoenix starts hard, long journey to reach PBA’s Promised Land

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Jason Perkins (with ball) and the Fuel Masters refused to be held down by the Bolts despite a slight bump at the start. Phoenix will now be shooting to get to uncharted waters and hopefully go all the way. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ The revelries inside the Phoenix Super LPG locker room came in short bursts … Read more

‘It’s been so hard.’ Family, witness mourn Texas man beaten to death while delivering wood

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To Kacey DeLeon, her father, 51-year-old Scotty Jackson, was a hard-working man who loved his grandchildren more than anything. He enjoyed being a father and he was the kind of person who could get a laugh out of anybody. Now, DeLeon and her family are learning to cope with the loss of Jackson. He was … Read more

Rare footage shows teens sentenced to hard labour over K-drama

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Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas. The footage, which appears to have been filmed in 2022, shows two 16-year-old boys handcuffed in front of hundreds of students at an outdoor stadium. It also shows uniformed officers reprimanding the … Read more

Belgorod, in west Russia, hit hard as Ukraine retaliates for airstrikes

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A mother and her 6-year-old child, cut down while ice-skating on the city’s central square. A promising engineering student who had planned to marry his girlfriend this year, hit while waiting for the bus. A young couple and their baby, all killed as the parents pushed their … Read more

Paris mint melts 27 million coins after E.U. said stars were hard to read

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Un sou est un sou (every cent counts) goes the French idiom — just not when the European Commission disagrees, as the Paris mint found out in a recent blunder. The Monnaie de Paris was forced to remelt and remake 27 million coins after failing to ask … Read more

Echo review: Marvel Studios’ first TV-MA series hits hard

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Disney Plus’ Hawkeye miniseries purposefully kept its violence bloodless in order to secure the same family-friendly TV-14 rating that’s shaped all of Marvel Studios’ internally produced streaming projects. But with characters like Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez, and her squad of tracksuit-wearing mercenaries, Hawkeye also foregrounded a kind of brutality that felt distinctly out of place … Read more