What was it like at the Stonewall Columbus Pride March? Stonewall Columbus estimated the weekend festivities would draw over 700,000 people.
Dispatch photographer Brooke LaValley caught these scenes throughout Saturday.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Scenes from the 2023 Stonewall Columbus Pride March
Donald Trump, who returned to Washington this weekend before his inauguration, is staying at the historic residence Blair House before moving back into the White House on Monday. Democratic president-elect Barack Obama arrived from Chicago with his family and hoped to move into Blair House early while preparing for the mammoth celebration around his historic January 20 inauguration.
The popular social media app started to go dark for its 170 million American users late on Jan. 18. But by Sunday afternoon, fans were suddenly able to reaccess videos.
Some 300 people including two millionaires protested in Davos Sunday ahead of next week's gathering of the global elite at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss Alps."The WEF symbolises how much power wealthy people like me hold," she told AFPTV. "Because just because we are born millionaires, or because we got lucky once -- and call that self-made -- we now get to influence politicians worldwide with our political preferences," she added.
Exhausted Los Angeles firefighters on Sunday braced for the return of yet more dangerously strong gusts, as California's governor slammed "hurricane-force winds of misinformation" surrounding blazes that have killed 27 people. That fire has killed at least 10 people.
Trump's former chief strategist told ABC Sunday he believes the billionaires' inauguration attendance is an "official surrender" to the next administration.
The first three hostages were released Sunday after the ceasefire officially began. A total of 33 hostages will be released in the first phase of the deal.
"We've reached the point today because of the pressure Israel built on Hamas backed by the United States," Biden said.
TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. But it is also rife with disinformation, and its Chinese ownership has long spurred national security fears, internationally as well as in the United States.
Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.
The women are the first three hostages to be released under the newly implemented ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas
President-elect Donald Trump and his team have drafted a slate of pardons for people convicted for their role in the January 6 Capitol attack to be issued on Day 1, shortly after Trump is sworn in as president, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN.
Trump’s proposal exerted pressure on the entire tech ecosystem that makes TikTok available to U.S. users, including app store operators and service providers like Oracle which hosts its servers.
A fresh outbreak of guerrilla violence amid a faltering peace process in conflict-riddled Colombia has left more than 80 people dead in just over three days, officials reported Sunday.Villamizar said about two dozen people had been injured and some 5,000 displaced in the fresh outbreak of violence, and described the resulting humanitarian situation as "alarming.
Prejudice can have a significant impact on a country’s economic growth, and with the incoming administration, many LGBTQ people in the US are worried not only about their rights but also their finances.
Emily Damari, 28, is a British-Israeli dual national who was one of the three women released on Sunday under a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Emily Damari's release, alongside two other Israeli women, was "wonderful and long-overdue news after months of agony for them and their families.
U.S. TikTok users hoping to find a workaround to access the banned app are finding that virtual private networks are no help, hinting that the company has taken extra precautions to ensure Americans are not able to avoid the ban.
The economy and the markets are complex, and the only way to understand them is to consider more than a few metrics as you piece together the mosaic of crosscurrents that define them.
Three hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and returned to Israel on Sunday, as a highly anticipated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect.
While the winds have lessened over the last few days across Southern California, allowing for ample progress to be made in terms of containment of existing wildfires, AccuWeather meteorologists warn that windy conditions are projected to ramp back up at the start of the workweek. A strong zone of high pressure will build across the Rocky Mountains early this week. As this feature rotates clockwise across the region, it will support strong offshore winds across Southern California and help to spa
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned Sunday. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of dwindling financial support for nongovernmental groups and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. Last year, the aid agency helped 216,501 people.
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